3 Weeks Down

And we are back with 7 more happy days, its been a pretty great week this week! We had Burns Night, which I will hopefully talk more about in my next post, and I had got my pictures back from the printers. So even with January feeling like the longest month ever, I have had a lot of ups! So lets bring on the final week of January!

1. Getting my film back from the printers

2. Playing with negatives on my Lomo Scanner

3. The cutest Oilers fans ever

4. No cavities, painless dental checkup

5. Catching the early bus, 20 mins extra time at home

6. Burns Night Supper, yum!

7. Free Coffee, thanks O2!

That about sums up my week!

Birthday

I made it just in time to talk about 2013, its been a crazy couple weeks and I should have had about eight posts up here, but unfortunately work and loads of fun has kept me away. So I have a few things to cover but mainly today I wanted to talk about my birthday!

It actually kind of started the day before, Dixon had a gig with the Cyanide Pills, and it turned out to be an awesome night, they were brilliant. And at 12 people sang me happy birthday, it was excellent! Dixon had drank half the singers bottle of brandy though so he was pretty pished and we left pretty shortly after that. But Still an amazing night, Dixon got a record and a T Shirt and they gave me a bag and some badges! So that was really cool of them.

Now the plan of action for the next day was that Hayley was taking me on a Ghost Bus Tour, that I was really excited about, it was an old style double decker bus with lamps and stuff on the tables. And Dixon was going to go out for a drink with Shaun and maybe meet us after. But on the way he showed me a reservation for David Bann, I was so surprised and excited, I have wanted to go their since being a vegetarian. And it did not disappoint. Everything I had was brilliant from the cocktails to the dinner to the atmosphere, it was perfect and I could not stop smiling. Hayley evev went a step further and brought cupcakes down to the restaurant and they lit them with a 25 on them and brought them over. It was a brilliant night.

So if that wasn't enough I also was spoiled with presents, Dixon got me an amazing new set of Creepers, and a build it yourself SLR Camera, which as you can see below, I didn't wait one second to open it and start building! Hayley got me some of my favorites, pajamas and socks, the best of gifts as well as the Jelly Bellys and Candle which smells amazing. Gail and Gordon we awesome and got me a new hairdryer and straighteners because both of my old ones were old and dying and perhaps a bit dangerous!

Plus I got to have amazing phone calls from Camille Caryn Mom and Marsha, and messages from James Tina and Payton.

and Lea, giving me the Stink Eye, for my birthday.

So best Birthday yet all around. Bring on 2014.

Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey.... Stuff

It is my pal Sarahs birthday this month and I got her a signed 50th anniversary book of Doctor Who and when I saw the Doctor Who stamps I knew it was going to be a very Doctor Who themed gift. Which was great because it got me out of this painting slump I have been in. Even when I bring everything through and sit down and get ready to paint, I just haven't been doing it I am not sure what it is but whatever it is, its not good. So whooo! New painting as well. I hope she likes it. I usually struggle with persective and geometric things and this time was no different. But it was still a lot of fun. The picture of it is on a slight angle that I didn't notice til now and its been posted away so there is no going back now. Now I just need to watch more Doctor Who so I know whats going on! But where do you start?!

Now I have been having a painting slump I have been in baking mode, which has been super! This is a loaf made from a recipe on Paul Hollywood's program on the BBC, and I can say I haven't made as good of bread as this since high school, so I am pretty chuffed! Its a filled loaf with roasted veg pesto and mozzarella.

I also do not say enough about my niece and she is awesome so here is my niece with her mom (my sister) and my Grandma! Isn't she awesome. 

And an obligatory instagram of Edinburgh

New Years Eve

So December as been a pretty amazing and eventful month and as such I should have posted way more on here than I have because I have loads of cool things to share but for some reason every time I sat down to blog about something I just couldn't get a decent page out of me. So that's been no good. I have had concerts and my birthday and not to mention Christmas to share all about and perhaps it has been overwhelming but that is still no excuse for the lack of posts especially when I have interesting things to talk about.

So today be New Years Eve I was thinking I better get some stuff down but I will definitely have to give proper attention to everything later.

So for now another sneak peak,

 

 

I only have a few pages left but I am struggling a bit for the harder letters, why does the end of the alphabet have to contain v, w, x, y, and z. Hopefully it will all come together soon, I am hoping for a stroke of brilliance later today for most of those letters.

 

 

 

K and L

A few more sneak peaks at the new painting for A is For, can you guess what they are?

 

 

Perhaps I will get some more done before the day is over!

Lea Pearl Smith

 

My sister and her husband had their baby the other day, a beautiful baby girl, they called Lea Pearl Smith after both of their Grandmas. She was in fact born on the same day as Tyler's Grandma, Pearl, and Pearl would have been 100 years old that day!

So a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Camille and Tyler!

So it is very exciting to be an Aunty and that is what the Secret Paintings have all been about!

I didn't take the best photos of the paintings but perhaps I will get better ones another day, but they are now with Camille and Tyler!!