A Wee Christmas Post

So with New Year past now, I thought I would wish everyone a very belated Merry Christmas, I want to do a proper post, but I am waiting on a package. Mostly cause I need to go pick it up from Dixon's parents house, but also because the Royal Mail are not very nice. So to tied you all over, here are a couple of my gifts, we already polished off all the starbucks coffee I got with the coffee maker,

Also a very Happy New Year to everyone, I had a blast and I hope you all did too!

A Little of This....

Sorry about the rubbish photo sometimes my phone takes good ones and other times....

I don't know who else is very excited for Christmas but I am! I am currently watching How the Grinch stole Christmas, I had no idea that Boris Karloff was the voice of the Narrator and the Grinch. It is definately my favorite Christmas movie, as well as mine and Dixon's tradition of watching Die Hard as well, it is one of the few Christmas films I can get Dixon to watch!


Here's How the Grinch Stole Christmas Parts One and Two!!

I am excited to say that a whole bunch of my painting that I have never put up here before should be going up, I am in the process of getting them scanned properly as before the scanner was always too small for my paintings but I can give you a wee sneak preview with a cheeky wee photo before we go. I will show you what I have in the works.

And a few Drawings I have been working on!

Also a friend of mine knows how to work my Grandmas camera that I got so I will hopefully be able to learn how to use that as well! Which will be very cool! There is also a film in there that we should be able to try to get developed, so when I get paid at the begining of the month, I really want to do that!

I know you should try to keep one idea to blog post but I have been well lazy and should really post more. Me and Mackenzie went for tea the other day at the recently refurbished National Museum of Scotland and it looks amazing, we had a great pot of tea and a giant piece of carrot cake! You should have seen the size of the tea bag, well you will cause I took a photo cause it was huge!!

Thats one big bag!!! hH

s

Edinburgh

So Daniel and I were walking about Edinburgh on the weekend, we had left the house with every intention of opening up a joint bank account on the Saturday.  Unfortunately we didn't make it to the bank on time for us to do anything. So we were extremely early for us to go to his parents house, we were going out for dinner for his parents birthdays.  So we decided to walk along the water of leith and head to theirs that way. It was a lovely walk, its one of my favorite ways to spend the day with Dixon.

Look a Stork, or perhaps an egret, I am not to sure, I am afraid all of these photos are from my mobile as my camera is not working, which is quite upsetting, Other than the rubbish quality of the photos, it was a lovely day for a walk.

Home...

So I have been very absent from here, mostly because I have been very very focused on obtaining my visa to go home, and now after a long wait, I have been accepted!
I am so happy to be back in Scotland and home with my husband and can't wait to start my life here again. I have missed here so much, but I also want to thank my dad, my brother and sisters and my mom for all the help and support that they provided me.  I am so lucky to have the people around me that have encouraged and supported me to get where I am. So happy to have found Dixon and excited to be a part of his family. Life is exciting and full of possibilites.

Its good to be back.

I also did a wee bit of drawing C: heres a sketch

I'm practicing doing new was of drawing roses I like that one, do need to work on the leaves though, I hate drawing leaves though but I like how they look when I get them right, grrr. Something to work on anyway.

Andy Warhol Exhibit

The Andy Warhol exhibit, it was amzing, I wish I could have takin photos of the whole exhibit, it was so fun in the Silver Clouds Exhibit. Makes you feel little all over agian.

For Cammi

With the new Winnie the Pooh movie coming up I thought it would be fun to do something like this and Camille Said she loved Winnie the Pooh as the little black rain cloud and I pretty well love all of the old movies. It was a bunch of fun. C:

I am so excited that this looks good.

Painting Spree!

Maore painting than you can shake a fist at! Since getting my new wee paintbrush I have wanted to paint every day and I will have to thank Caryn for the inspiration! She  said she wanted this C:

Hehe painting and Beer nothin better

New Painting...

So Marshy came up this weekend which really nice! I was working but only in the mornings, so it wasn't so bad, and we went to see X-men! they did a really good job of connecting to the old movies while making it a really good stand alone film. Before the movie we stoped at the Paint Spot, I finally found an art supply store. And I got some new art supplies! So excited.

 The next day we went to the record store, but I'm afraid nothing good came out of there, but we went to the comic book store later! I found Maus in the original two part version, and if you haven't read it I recomend it thouroughly! It is brilliant. Its about the authors fathers, journey through nazi occupied Europe and his life now.

So after Marsha left, I decided to do a painting, I started it at about 8 30 and didn't go to bed until 2:30 in the morning. And finally finished off relining it this afternoon.

A Few Wee Drawings

So last week I had a few days off and I was surprisingly productive, I have decided to include photos that have my references in with some of the drawings, and I think it looks pretty good.

My black shading pencil has run out and I have no idea where to get a new one in Edmonton, so that kind of sucks, that is why it is not shaded.

Holy Friday the 13 Batman!

As you know it was Friday the 13th the other day, and Strange City Tattoo in Edmonton did $13 tattoos, on a first come first serve basis. Their plan was to open at noon, and this was the lineup!

Amazingly I ran into my friend Jay and Sarah, and their friend Mike, or I would never have made it through that line. Sarah and Jay got into the line at around 11:45 and I came along around 12:00 so we were only about 20 feet from the door and it still took until 7:00 to get into the shop! I got my first sunburn of the season, my shoulders were so red! It was crazy hot outside.

Mike, me, Sarah, and Jay.

Once we were inside there were stil about ten people in front of us so it was around 8:00 when I got tattoo, I wish I had a photo of all the designs you could have picked frombut I'm afraid I don't. |However the Tattooist took a photo of mine and put it on their facebook, so if you click the link above it will take you to their facebook and you can have a look later. 

It was an awesome day, who would have though sitting in a line forever would be such a good time I have to say thank you to Mike, Sarah, and Jay for that!

Plus I did a fun little sketchy yesterday. C:

Can't Trust No One

So I was so excited my passport was coming in and I found a company that seemed eager and experienced in getting visas. That was before I got a fairly strange email and so i just thought I would check out some reviews of the company and all I could find were these horrible reviews on how they take your money and never speak to you again.  That is something that I can't afford to let happen, so now I have a lot of research to do again to figure out how I am going to get my visaack to the UK. So back to square one it feels like. Strange how something slightly odd in an email tips ya off and makes ya feel so suspicious.

On a much happier note I made more lego! Check out my amazing shelf of lego!

Lego!

So I have been feeling kind of down lately since I found out how much my visa is going to cost and I just do not have then money right now, so I have been feeling rather melancholy is the best word for it. I also haven't been sleeping at all, I have been falling asleep on the couch every day at about 4-6 min the morning. So that isn't helping. I have been cheerful every once in a while, but I really miss Scotland and Dixon. Its hard being away for so long.. So I think Caryn was trying to cheer me up! So we built some of her lego collection!! I was so excited, it has been ages since I have built lego, let alone a proper set, and this was a big set!!!

 Hagrid's hut anyone?

You might be able to tell that i am slightly more excited about the one I built, but there was so much stuff all over this thing it was crazy!

 And this was Caryn's that she built last night, the cannon actually fires! So that is almst as exciting as the crocodile.

So that definately helped cheer me up and I am probably going to build some more tonight cause thats how I roll. Plus there is more Harry Potter Lego to be built. I may start on some soon.doing pretty well gonna hopefully paint a painting for my sisters work, and will perhaps get drwing that soon too.

So other than being quite moany I am doing pretty well.

Metryoshka

So it was Hayley's birthday a couple days go and I unfortunately missed it so I am sending a birthday card now, I knw it is belated as well, but I wanted to paint a picture for her as well. So i got down to business today, and got the painting done! I should start remembering to take a photo of the whole process but here is the finished product.

So yay for productivity!!!

Changes...

So it has been a while, and my reason for not updating was because I figured not much was happening I was reading more than drawing.  I do not really review books so it wasn't too much excitement going on to shout about. But now so much has happened.Starting first off I had to come back to Canada and leave my husband behind so I can apply for a new visa to stay in Scotland.

 So right now I am in Canada trying to get back. I have loads of paperwork to sort out, but a lot of it is done already! So that is an exciting thing, I am a few steps into the process of getting back to Scotland!! It is freezzing here as well! It was just starting to be really nice in Scotland jsut before I left and now I am droppeed into twwo feet of snow and minus a billion temperatures!!

I got a new haircut which I really like I was worried about it for a while but I like it now again! Needs to be trimmed again but I am going to wait for a real hairdresser to do it this time cause when I do it I mostly wreck it so we will wait this time haha.
I have done a bit of drawing since being here, just a couple sketches, one of a chameleon skull and one of nikola tesla, they are tuning out ok need more work though but thought I would post a bit.

So ya work is still beeded but getting back into drawing and painting is important right now but I am readinng loads! That helps me when i wasnt to draw as well!

I also went to see Rango! It was unexpectantly funny!! I really wnated to see it cause I like chameleons, but it was even better than I thought it would be, best bit all I can say is holy Fear and Loathing reference!

Hehehe funny stuff keeps me happy while I am here missin my home and Dixon