Meet Able

“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Last Saturday, we had the pleasure of adding a new member to our little family unit…a little ginger kitten. He’s a rather special kitten because he only has one eye. He was found abandoned in a cardboard box with his brother (who sadly did not survive) and he had a severely ulcerated eye which had to be removed. My youngest, Callum, chose him and named him.

Able and Callum

Here are a few pictures of him during his first week with us.

Watching and being watched…

Watching and Being Watched

Playing…

Playing

Being cute…

Being cute

And if you live in the Colchester/Chelmsford area (or even further) and are looking to adopt a rescue kitten, please, please, please consider contacting the lovely Brenda (at Tendring Kitten and Feral Rescue): 01206 826968 (we have had four kittens from her). She has a FaceBook page here: https://www.facebook.com/TendringKittenAndFeralRescue

A Weekend Away

A couple of weekends ago, I took a little journey to visit some of my family who live around the Salisbury area. My family are going through a very difficult time – I’m not the only one who has cancer – I wanted to lend my support and visit while I was reasonably healthy. Although the purpose of the trip wasn’t to take photos, unsurprisingly, I did take some – here are some rather random photos – taken with the E-PL1, iPhone and Fujifilm Instax Mini 25!

150 years of the London UndergroundA

Around Salisbury
Around Salisbury

Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral

Billy
Billy

Travelling Home
Travelling home

365 Project – April

April was a frustrating month for me…bogged down with fatigue and medication side effects…but I persevered with my art projects and spring finally arrived. You can see the individual pictures here.

April

Some of my art tools and materials

Fibre mesh sheets

Art pads
Artpads

Paint
Paint

Brushes
Brushes

Pens
Pens and pencils

Adhesives
Glue

Acrylic Mediums
Medium, Gels and Pastes

Photos taken with Nikon D7000

Instax at Hylands

I spent a lovely afternoon at Hylands today. There was a family event on (a dragon hunt) so lots of people and activity, plus the sun was out. I also met a 13 week old puppy called Bomber (see below), and I really wanted to take him home with me. Here are some pictures (scanned), taken with the Fujifilm Instax Mini 25.

Hylands instax

Hylands instax

And now my little Instax are in my home made Instax album (I followed the instructions here – thank you Lemon & Raspberry)

Instax album

Flower Collages

I have been rather tired lately due to my medications so I’ve not been able to get out much, or at least anywhere that warrants taking photographs. Instead I’ve kept myself busy with various art projects – collaging has been one of these projects and I have been preoccupied with making little flower type ones for cards, which I thought I’d share with you today.

Flower collages

Green, red and purple flowers…

Green, red and purple flowers

and some hippy styled flowers.

Hippy flowers

The Big Egg Hunt 2013

I was very excited to find out that there was going to be another Big Egg Hunt this year. The first Big Egg Hunt was last year and it took place in London, where over 200 decorated eggs were scattered across the city (you can see some of my photographs from last year on the Click Collective blog). This time, 101 decorated eggs would be travelling across the UK, starting in Covent Garden, London, then Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, and then back down to London. I wasn’t able to follow them all over the country, but I did manage to see them in Covent Garden (twice) and Liverpool.

Booklets

Similar to last year, the eggs were a variety of colours, patterns, textures and shapes…some were instantly recognisable; some were funny or quirky; and some were thought-provoking or controversial. Here are some of my favourite eggs – I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Cartoon characters

A Squash and a Squeeze

Black and white eggs

The Beatles

Quirky eggs

Rabbit eggs

Adventure Time

Eggs featuring people

Red eggs

Blue

Interesting eggs

Egg Regrets

Toys

All photos taken with the Olympus E-PL1

Squiggles and blobs

I have never seen myself as an artist in the traditional sense of the word, but I have always enjoyed playing around with pens and paint, especially at school and then when my children were small. Although I’ve never really stopped making things, since last Christmas, I have increasingly been incorporating some form of “artwork” into my daily life.

Collage

Initially this began with black and white doodles in my writing journals and then onto more colourful work using pencils and paint.

Doodles

Trees

Very recently I have re-discovered collaging….I say “re-discovered”, I don’t think I’ve done any form of collaging since I was at primary school (and that’s a rather long time ago). I am finding it very therapeutic, as well as very addictive. I do a large collage or art piece every couple of days in my art journal, usually as a way of experimenting and trying new things out. I’m also doing a series of mini collages that I use to make into cards.

Love letters
Trees and flowers

365 Project – March

Ahhh…March has been a weird month weather-wise…spring is definitely dragging her heels this year…we have had mostly snow this month! Here’s my collage of the March pictures…the individual ones can be seen here.
March

Love and Laughter in Liverpool

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”
Audrey Hepburn

I Love Liverpool

A couple of weekends ago, I went up to Liverpool to meet up with some of the girls in the Click Collective. This was rather a special meet up for me, because many of them I hadn’t met before and it also meant visiting a fantastic city. Indeed, I had a wonderful time: I had high tea at the Adelphi Hotel, I had coffee at the Bluecoat, I saw the Big Egg Hunt in the city centre, I wandered around the Albert Dock, I drank in the Cavern Club, I dallied with Gormley’s men at Crosby Beach and I dined in Southport!

Most of all, I met some lovely, lovely people and had some real belly laughs! I want to do it again! Many, many thanks to Aly for letting me stay in her lovely flat :)

(Images taken with the Olympus E-PL1 and iPhone)

Around Liverpool

Around Liverpool

Albert Dock and the Cavern

Albert Dock and The Cavern

Crosby Beach

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P.S. You can also see a selection of photos from the weekend from all of us here on the CC blog. And I will be doing a separate blog post about the Big Egg Hunt soon!

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