Holiday

Just after the last blog post way way back in March I began to pack my bags to jet off on a well-needed holiday to Florida with my sister Linda. We both love Orlando, the theme parks and of course all the rides but there was another more exciting reason I wanted to go......

I am such a Harry Potter geek and have been desperate to visit the Wizarding World at Universal Studios since it opened in June last year and it happened! We went, we saw, we shopped, we drank Butterbeer and we went inside Hogwarts! It was amazing and we had so much fun, even after the traumas - our flight being overbooked, having to go via New York and some pretty wild tornadoes and storms for the first and last day's we were there.

The whole Wizarding World was amazing, the attention to detail was superb (you can even hear Moaning Myrtle in the restrooms!). Hogwarts towers above the whole park and whilst in the line for the Harry Potter and The Forbidden Journey ride you get to go through Dumbledore's study, the Defence Against The Dark Arts Classroom and the Gryffindor Common Room, they have thought of everything.

I want to go back so badly!

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Sorry

Sorry, life has taken over and it's shameful that I haven't blogged since the 13th of March - oops!

Keep your eyes peeled and hopefully I will have some pics, blethering and lovely things to share with you soon, I have actually been doing some bits worth talking about over the past few months - promise!

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Wow

What can I say apart from WOW!

I have seen these images around on various blogs, Pintrest etc and just had to share. All the credit goes to this blog. Narineh first received these images in an email doing the rounds and just had to find out a bit more about the artist. After doing some research Narineh found that the artist's name is Dalton Ghetti. He creates all of these tiny pieces of artwork without even using a magnifying glass which is pretty amazing. Born in Brazil, 49 year old Ghetti says he has been carving since he was a schoolboy - things ranging from stones, large piece of wood, soap, broom hands - until he found this way of working. Don't think I'll be giving it a go soon!

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Illustration Rally

I spent a few hours today drawing this submission for the Illustration Rally blogspot. Throughout March they are looking for portrait illustrations and put a call out on Twitter for people to draw Nick Cave and Bjork amongst others. Here is my drawing of Bjork, admittedly i am no portrait artist and it doesn't look too much like her but hey ho i quite like it anyway.

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Lori Brooches

I am so glad we have managed to get these beautiful Lori brooches in stock on RLR.

I have seen them around for a while now and really wanted one but just never got round to ordering one for myself. I met up with some good friends a couple of weeks ago for my birthday and one of them had bought me the Teardrop Bird Brooch, she didn't know that I loved them and that I had wanted one (pretty good choice in prezzies, thanks katie, you did well!). What is even stranger is that the next day I received an email from Lori asking if I would be interested in stocking the brooches on RLR, of course I jumped at the chance and they are here now and available to buy here and here. Some things are just meant to be.

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Need to Finish

I started this drawing a couple of weeks ago in an attempt to develop the old drawing skills and to try to do some things on a slightly larger scale. As is normally the case with me I got off to a good start, threw myself into it big time and drew every night after work for a few days - then put it on hold! I posted this photo on Facebook and got some quite good feedback about it so I should really just get going and bring it to some sort of conclusion, but not tonight....maybe tomorrow.

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