Lilies, drawing three.

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
At the moment I'm playing the game of drawing these same lilies my husband got me, every day until they wilt.
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Lillys project drawing two

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, just for the art of it.

This is yesterday's.

I'm going to draw these lillys my husband got me everyday until they perish. The final collection of drawings should be interesting.

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Lillys still as buds

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, just for the art of it.
Today's is some Lillys my husband bought me, still in buds, I could draw them every day at different stages untill they wilt and start to perish, in different styles and media, what do you think?
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Crazy orange sacky things!

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, just for the art of it.
Today's is these lovely plants. The sun is shining, my son is sleeping and my daughter is backing berry pie with my mum, it was so nice to sit in the garden and draw, from life, that I nearly over worked my picture, just to be there longer!

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Bye bye Winter, Europe in a campervan

Europe by Campervan:

I'm lying on an air mattress surrounded by so much stuff. How can we still have so much when I've been giving it away every day single day for a month? It's been sneaking off and multiplying clearly. After 22 hours of intensive cleaning, and I know not how many sorting and giving away stuff I've given back my house keys, we are rent and council tax free and homeless, on my mum's floor.

So the news is good, we have sold our previous camper "Winter Dolphin Magic" (I have a romantic streak as wide as the Nile and a nine year old) and got a fair price for her! Few! Turns out I could have got more if I was an arse. The whole thing was a roller coaster of raw emotion.

She was no good to us because the law has changed and you can't add rear seatbelts any more (I'm a researcher but I tripped up here, I can't stress enough, don't just do research, do ACCURATE research!) but the list of jobs was getting a bit daunting too - she needs some love.

Well we listed her and got a storm of interest, cool surfer dude turns up first, I pull up at the same time as him and the radiator starts leaking down the street!!! Cool surfer dude heard me swear, those who know me will know I hardly ever swear! So we get a quote to fix it, bring down the price, get a temporary fix and edit all the listings to include the new problem.

The camper garage told me it's worth £5,000 but I get a series of calls saying it's worth nothing from chancers, and offers for £900. I start to freak out, I've spent a lot of Tim's money on it and then my step dad got it serviced and four new tyres, what if I've wasted their hard earned money. Just when I've taken to waking at 4 in the morning and making contingency plans, we get a good offer and say yes. Then I get lots more interest! Several people say "I'll give you the asking price and come get it today." I told them I had to keep my word. I'm happy it's defiantly worth what I've sold it for. I phone the people who have bought it, they are coming in a few days. They are perfect because they are a couple (no seatbelt problem) and he was once a mechanics apprentice, he's still friends with them and can get her fixed up, I'm very straight with him about what needs doing and what's good too. I tell him I'm getting higher offers now, but I'm keeping my word. We get on. After the phone chat he put the rest of the money in Tim's account!!! They don't have any van, paper or keys!! They just trusted me! Goes to show - you get the treatment you dish out!

Now what? Well I've fallen in love with an American Beast that Jasmine wants to call "Sparkle!!"

It has four seat belts (built with four). I say beast as it's a 5L engine, my pervious camper was a 2L engine for a two ton vehicle, this is smiler and more than double, it beasts along!

Remember the A Team? It's their van but longer. In fact it's the one used in the new movie but not the original series. Now we have to re-edit our stuff to fit a smaller van, oh! Help!

However, we will be able to get closer in to cities, cover more ground faster, it's not so high top, so it's less rock-like-a-boat to drive. It's also totally un-rusted and apart from a service sound enough to take on a two or three thousand mile trip tomorrow. Oh and it's right hand drive? Left hand drive? Europe way around!!

I have a question, so you have heard of a learning curve right? Why is it all my life I seem to set myself up to go up the learning CLIFF, straight up? Please can someone point out my comfort zone on the horizon so I can at least head that way one day? In the meantime, wish me luck driving a wrong way round van all the way home on Friday! :)

Three plant studies in pen and marker

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, just for the art of it.
I've just moved out of my house and got very behind.
These are the drawings for the 8th, 9th and 10th September.
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Swan and reflection

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, just for the art of it.
Today's is a swan and reflection.
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Bird of prey.

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, just for the art of it. Two awesome artists are doing it with me! Ros and Shirley.
Today's (yesterday's) is a bird of prey.
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Van

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, just for the art of it.
This is the day before yesterday's drawing, oh! The behindness of me!! And I keep drawing vans, sorry!
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Horse and more "van cab bedroom designs"

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it, today's and yesterday's are an horse and van cab bedroom designs. These designs are for a little removable bed and curtains in the cab of a camper for my daughter if we have to get a van with no "upstairs" over cab bed. I like inventing things, I've done it all my life, only about 10% of them work really well. My mum invents things too, and both my Grandfathers perhaps it's a learned behaviour. I used to tease my mum for making crazy "Heath Robinson" things, I wanted everything manufactured and sleek. Since having my first child I imbraced the inventing things gene, the day I realised she would be safer sleeping on my bed with the bedguard I invented than the flimsy-too-short things you can get in the shops. I've included a Heath Robinson drawing so you can see what the joke is about.

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Heart doodle and campervan hammock designs!

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years, today's is day 611!
This is a doodle and some designs to create a hammock"bedroom for my daughter if we buy a campervan that doesn't actually have
A bed for her! There isn't all that much choice in our price range and she wants something really amazing to replace the map ceilings in her above cab bed space in the camper we are selling. Sad to sell but it needs a little love, and we are out of time to do it.

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