Author: Jax Blunt
Sketching.
I’ve a little moleskine book I’ve been drawing in for some time now. It’s easy to look back and see how much I’ve improved. Noses are still difficult, but I’m getting proportions of faces better I think. There’s starting to be expression in the eyes – or am I looking at it too hard? If…
I think
I need to do daily blogging in the morning rather than the evening. Art in the morning probably a plan too. And exercise. Anything other than sinking into social media and frittering days away. Today has been fairly busy, local shopping, work, dentist, big town shopping with Big. It was really lovely to spend some…
Christmas cinnamon buns with a new ricotta cheese icing
As I’ve written a number of times, we’re gradually building up our stock of Christmas traditions buns, and that includes a special home baked breakfast of big, yeasty cinnamon buns. Now, the ones you can buy from bakeries usually have a quite gooey icing on them, and I’ve never quite cracked that before. This year…
Hope, a work in progress
Watercolour. I think I need to find my heavier paper, and maybe borrow Big’s hairdryer, but I’ve very much enjoyed trying something a little more challenging tonight.
A walk in the woods
Yesterday my exercise stroll was to the beach. Which wasn’t terribly scenic tbh, what will the heavy fog and edge of the world vibe it had going. Although I did quite like the lights reflecting on the water. Today I went to the woods instead. I was feeling achy and a bit sorry for myself…
Saturday snippets 17th December 2016
{reading} The Dry, which I’ll be reviewing in January. Well, I’ll probably review it tomorrow actually, but I’ll be publishing the review as part of a blog tour in January 🙂 Quite impressed with myself – started it yesterday on the train beach from London, and have devoured it in a couple of extra sessions…
Conversations with strangers
Today I took Tigerboy to London. I’ll write more about that when I’m at a keyboard and have access to the pictures, right now I want to just make a note about an odd little happening. We were outside the Natural History Museum, taking pictures by a bench. There was an older woman sitting with…
Where the day went
Yesterday I misplaced most of the day. So today I’m going to make some notes as I go to make sure that it doesn’t happen again. First alarm 7.30 – ignored. Ahem. Second alarm 8.00. Got up and spent a minute or two staring at social media, then staggered into kitchen – kettle on and…
