There's a Starman waiting in the sky.....

or actually waiting on our record player.

Good morning world, hope you are all fab on this incredibly warm Monday morning. It's hot here in England, and we are just not really used to it.

Breena - The Makers Medley Challenge for May

Morning all you internet lovelies.

Last week was the May reveal for the Makers Medley Challenge (it's on the 16th of each month) and the challenge was Spring/Forests, which is lovely. I really love spring, as the weather warms and the blossoms appear everywhere, I can easily imagine little fairies everywhere too.

Experiment with a doll face

Good morning all you lovely internet bods,

Firstly let me apologise for misleading anyone. When I posted this little snippet on Instagram yesterday, I was just showing that is was an old head and that is why it had a neck hole instead of a mouth, it never occurred to me that people might think I was making a two headed doll. My bad.

Spring Cleaning the Honey Pot

Good morning all you internet beauties.

I hope you are all well and those of you based in the UK are enjoying the long weekend.

Today I have switched the Beeskneesartdolls.co.uk to the Honey-Pot-Creations.co.uk website, to tighten up on marketing and make things more streamlined. It is a work in progress, with a fair way to go, but just don't be surprised that if you type in Beeskneesartdolls.co.uk you end up in the honey pot. All the information has been transferred over too.  I'm hoping that it will be easier to manage and there will be more continuity.

Scotland and Mediating Angels

Good morning internet lovelies

Hope you all had a fantastic Easter break, and didn’t eat too much chocolate. I’m more of a Haribo fan myself, yummy.

But on with the blog. As you will know if you read my last blog, myself and the good Dr. J. were off to bonny Scotland for our Easter break, and we had such a wonderful time there. 

 Trying to take a photo of the dog was tricky, she runs ever so fast.

The weather was surprisingly good for us, considering the forecast before we set of was for rain the whole week. We had rain, yes, but we also had sun and warmth. There was only one morning of heavy consistent rain, but as it happened that was the day we had pre-decided we would stay in one place and we used it to recharge our batteries so to speak and stayed in and read and I worked on my newsletter plans. (I’m afraid the only bit of business related organisation I did, so much for big plans to come back organised. haha). The rest of the rain was dramatic and heavy but over in 5 minutes, like somebody was turning on and off a switch.

As for Scotland it was beautiful, dramatic and wonderful. I hope some of these pictures do it justice. We pottered around, Loch Lomond, on to see the Highlands a little, Ben Nevis from a distance, towards the coast at Glenuig, and back via Inverarey. I attempted to keep up to date with my sketch book but to be honest we walked so much there wasn’t time. (The dog loved it.)

I had hoped to find somewhere dramatic to do a photo-shoot with my angel for the Makers Medley April Challenge, but I was spoilt for choice, everywhere was gorgeous and dramatic. 

In the end, I decided on the hills above Glenuig, a woody mysterious area, covered in moss of every description, dripping from trees and covering everything on the floor, to such a depth your hand could almost disappear inside. 

We found some remains of old tumbled down stone cottages up there too, which made a perfect backdrop. The whole place was fairy-like and ethereal, just perfect for a meditating angel.

So, in conclusion, I love Scotland and hope to go back soon and see more.

And if you should get the chance I’d advise the same.

Don’t forget to follow The Makers Medley for more photos and details from the other artists on their angels and all the dolls from the challenges, there’s some serious talent. Next is Spring Time/Forest, exciting…

Until next week.

 

Hugs and Kisses

Ally

The Maker Medley - March Challenge - Strange and Unusual

Good Morning all you internet lovelies,

I do hope you had wonderful weekends.

Today I thought I’d show you the doll I made for The Makers Medley Challenge for March, which was titled ‘Strange and Unusual’.

The Makers Medley

Hello lovely internet people.

I do hope you had a fantastic weekend. I’m writing this in the new Monday morning timeslot, which feels much better for me at least. A whole new week spreads before me with lots of time to do everything. Instead of the end of the week when you realise that you have no hope in finishing half those tasks and your to-do list was too long and everything is a bit of a rush. Well to write a better blog I’m now doing it on a Monday. I’m sure you’ll all appreciate a better written blog.

Anyway, by not writing this post last week I have some incredibly exciting news to tell you all about.

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