What a fantastic (and busy!) weekend! We’ve just arrived home after spending 8 months travelling in Australia, New Zealand and Asia so we were really looking forward to seeing all of our family and friends. After a whole day of waiting around and flying on Thursday, we arrived at Heathrow at 4am on Friday and haven’t stopped since. This was Thursday:
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| Homeward bound! |
The drawing I did on the plane to Singapore was meant to be for Illustration Friday, but I didn’t finish the picture and missed the deadline! The topic was ‘children’, what do you think?
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| My head was still at the seaside when I drew this! |
Despite arriving at 4am, we weren’t able to leave Heathrow until 8.30 when the first National Express bus to Newton Abbot left. Friday was a very long day!
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| A very long Friday |
It was so good to see all of our friends, it seems like we’ve never been away! It was quite a struggle to stay awake until bedtime though. It was a gloriously sunny day on Saturday, but a bit chillier than where we’ve been used to!
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| Weekend edition, house in Newquay |
I found this little egg when we went for a walk on Saturday morning. The chick must have been tiny to fit through that small hole! I was happy to be able to put nail varnish on for the first time in 8 months!
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| What a lovely coloured egg too! |
This weekend reminded me how beautiful our part of the world is too. This is Newquay seafront in Cornwall, it was breezy and the air was crisp and cold, makes you feel good to be alive!
Now I’m back home and back into ‘normal’ every day life I won’t have as much time as I would like to write my blog, therefore I am going to cut back to posting every few days to give me time for crafting and drawing too! Please follow my blog using one on the buttons on the top right-hand-side so that you can pop back when I’ve added new posts 🙂
Today I’m linking up at the following lovely linky parties: Knotted Cotton, Sumo’s Sweet Stuff, Craft-O-Maniac, Manon Popje’s Illustrations, Sunny Simple Life, Sugar Bee Crafts and Handmade Harbour.
Comments
Nice meeting you Clare! Your art is wonderful and refreshing I love that idea of keeping a comic journal about just daily life.
ManonX
I too love the comic diary. A really lovely way to keep a diary.
Your drawings are very clever and I love the comic style of them. I’m sure it’ll be a great thing to look back on.
Fantastic pics! I know from experience how nice, but odd, it is to be home again.
I love your drawing, especially the one with children at the beach. It is really poetic, inspiring to look at.
Fabulous drawings – they must take ages! Have a good week, Jo x
Sounds like a tiring trip home (I remember it well after my travelling stint in Oz, NZ & South East Asia) but bet you’re glad to be back seeing everyone! I love, love, love the seaside children pic – it’s brilliant! Can’t wait to see more of your comic strip pics 🙂 Simmi x