what katie did next...

Good times on our family holiday!

I've just returned from our family holiday to Camber Sands on the south coast; this was our first holiday as a family of four and we all enjoyed it so much! There's something about really spending time with each other, just 'doing' isn't there? without the distractions of home and the feeling that you should be doing something.

I thought I'd share with you a few of my favourite times, I hope you don't mind!

We stayed here... a lovely three bedroomed house just a few minutes walk from the beach

 
and, whoever said our beaches don't compare to others?

This was George exploring the beach, and Oscar (below) had his first taste of sand, literally...

And on one of our many visits to Rye... one of my favourite towns in the whole world!

I find so much inspiration there, you find new little nooks and cranny's each time you go, and there's something so lovely about the cobbled streets, although we didn't say this whilst pushing the buggy up the steep hills.

I will blog later in the week about the inspirational things we saw whilst away, and some of the ideas I've had for the future!

Have a great day!
 
 

A parting gift for a special friend who is going travelling...

A lovely friend is going travelling very soon, so I wanted to make her something to take, although I was very conscious that it would have to be small and light.

In the end, I decided to make her a mirror; and because I've got a bit of a 'thing' about paper at the moment I decided on that medium.  I had a couple of trials that I wasn't happy with, but then a group of us went out for a meal in the week, and another friend had wrapped her gifts with a gorgeous animal skin wrapping paper. Suddenly, I had my inspiration.

Green is her favourite colour, and she likes birds in an art context; I used a map in the background, but of course I couldn't use a traditional green because the bird would be lost. So I looked through an old world atlas that I use for art projects and found a temperature map - perfect!

All I needed to do was to personalise it a bit more, so I cut out words I felt summed up why she was going travelling, and what I am absolutely sure she is going to get out of it!

I wish her well on her way, but I will miss her!

Have a great day!