Painting with Wool ~ Happy PPF!

Hello!

Sharing this week's entry for Paint Party Friday...

I'm painting with Wool this week.  Its fun to select a colour (or, intuitively, the colour seems to select itself!) and use my felting needle as a paintbrush to create my version of a Nest... many nests in fact.

Felting has been my latest go-to activity and making Nests has become an obsession!

Nests with eggs:

Nests with hearts:

Am looking very purpley in my comfy chair and surrounds but I do love that colour and all the shades of and around it!
Thank you to my Dear Hubby for taking that shot of moi... I gave him attitude all the way through lol 💑

Some random shots of others.
I enjoy taking photos of them as well as creating:

As such, when my obsessions hit, I've been known on occasion to suggest, encourage, ok, force some dear family members to make Nests too:

...and it was a lovely shared time together recently

My previous post on Needle Felting is Here... and its where my obsession began 😊

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Pretties on a Sunday

Quietly sharing the pretties in our waterbowl...

Here's to the simple things in life!

~ Have a lovely Sunday and a beautiful week ahead ~

Sue xx

Bonsai ~ Happy PPF!

Hello !

Its Paint Party Friday and I've completed a recycled artwork/collage card as my entry:

Thought I'd include the process too.  It became a bit tedious, only because I didn't do very much forward planning... however, it was fun and distracting and that's why I love to paint.

Firstly, I cut up lots of shapes from an old card that I'd previously made but never used.

... pasted the shapes on to another spare piece of half a card and painted in my version of bonsai

Trim the edges to match the size of usable card stock

I usually use pva glue but this time I thought I'd try gel medium.
Was pretty happy with it, as it didn't buckle too much

(sorry for blurry pic)  I thought I was finished at this stage but on a second glance those darn pots were hovering in mid-air lol!

A rummage around in my bits n pieces box and I found a good solution.
A raised spine from goodness knows what that I'd saved and there, with a bit of a trim, it sat nicely between the pots and the gold trim.

I then started second guessing the bonsai foliage ... hate it when I do that.
Out comes the brush and paint and a while later I insist to myself that its done and to put the brush down and walk away ha ha! 

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To Da Lat in the Central Highlands (Post # 4 Vietnam Travels 2019)

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Well... the time since I last posted went by in a flash.  Nice to be back.

This must be the longest series of travel posts but back into it.  

Onwards from Hanoi we flew to Da Lat which is in the Central Highlands.  Da Lat was developed as a resort by the French in the 1900s because, in part, of its year-round temperate climate. 

Minimal packing - hubby had a backpack.  We were always asked "is that all the luggage you have?" 

Neither of us had visited Da Lat before so it was exciting to see what would unfold.  Our hotel was out of the city and in the surrounding hills.  Our taxi ride from the airport took quite a while so I put together a collage of shots I took through the window (when I remembered that is... we both loved the adventure of a new destination):

...and arrived at our hotel:

Our suite is on the top left of this photo

From the balcony

I always love to check out the bathroom... loved that we each had our basins - oooh luxury

A walk around the gardens:

This photo is from the internet.  It was better than mine and showed the surrounds so beautifully.

Breakfasts were veritable feasts:

The spaghetti in the middle lower photo was a big hit with the younger teenage guests.
There was so much choice and the chef always came out to check if we wanted anything different!
One morning I opted for chicken broth - and my favourite vietnamese roll (pic lower right) which was so tasty and comforting for an overworked tummy 😉 

Visiting the Flower Gardens was an absolute must, so off we went:

Here's a close-up of the structure of that entrance ... its made up of hundreds of individual pots of flowers:

I'm probably overdoing the collages a bit, but I'm having trouble deciding what to include!

It was warmer there than we thought, so we both treated ourselves to hats.
Mine a pretty yellow one... I felt like I was blending with the flowers quite well!

...and Hubby in his smart new hat

 We'd both noticed the lovely hanging wooden planters and so I took extra pics and have placed an order for next time Hubby is in his shed with not a lot to do! 

Some more orchids - just in case you hadn't seen enough (wicked laugh)

A few more shots around the gardens:

We each did our lovey-dovey stuff at this heart prop...well, we were on our Anniversary Trip eh!
I think I was trying to show "50" but got a bit mixed up ... lots of laughs though 💝💝

Heaps of amazing bonsai

The umbrella had lots of little bells that were tinkling in the breeze, it caught my attention and, aw well, what's one more photo.  Such a lovely place to visit!

Think I've kind of got to the end and I hope you enjoyed the visit.  Thanks for popping in  xx