Birthday Celebrations

This week I saw in another birthday and a lovely quiet one it was. I got some beautiful gifts...

Considering I said I didn't want to do anything for my birthday I did lots of things to celebrate and despite being ill I had a lovely time.

OH provided me with a treasure hunt for my presents :)

We had lovely food and lots of friends over for drinks the night after and regardless of my fear of a red wine and beige carpet combination, there were no alcohol induced accidents.

Then today my family came round which was a lovely way to spend the last of my few days off.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

My goodness it has come round quickly and this week has flown by as I've been so busy and unfortunately really rather unwell :(

Monday I spent the day with my Mum and we had lunch at Captain America's, which is this lovely little (one off and not a chain) American Style Dinner Restaurant

I had a tasty Chilli Burger YUM YUM YUM!

The evening brought friends, more decorations, getting pretty and partying :)

This picture makes me giggle :P

Today I spent a lovely Christmas Eve at my parents (sadly with no pictures) but there was lots of chocolate and goodies, good coffee (the type with Baileys in it hehe) and a fantastic Chinese Takeaway to finish. I hope they like their presents!

The snow has pretty much all disappeared now so it was a white Christmas just a touch early.

After a lot of thought and diligence and a small amount of shouting to Amazon on the phone this morning I did manage to get all the presents I planned to buy but sadly, yet not surprisingly, I have not finished the jumper, damn being ill, but it can be a New Year present!

Gingerbread Latte; The Taste of Christmas

Yes today I finally got to try the Gingerbread Latte from Starbucks













And even better, the lovely happy American Barista gave it to me for free Bingo :)

Thought I would include a picture of this little guy who accompanied me this morning with his Mummy round the shops and for coffee.
























Think I'm going to spend the rest of the afternoon/evening sorting out the studio and working on Christmas presents so I have some new work to show you guys!

Neglect

I know I know, I have said before, I shall stop taking unexpected blog brakes, but I shall this time, now I have sorted everything out with the new job and may actually spend some time at home on my day off, I can put things back to they're rightful ways with my Etsy shop, blog and my studio haha.

Today I went out shopping for supplies with my Mum. I didn't really but anything interesting, but I did get some cotton canvas which I have been wanting to print my art prints onto as I have read great things about it and it made the prints look fabulous, I think I shall revert over to this medium, if not entirely, it will definitely be available for all prints.

We also had coffee in such a strange, quaint, slightly cheap and nasty coffee shop

I got to visit the lovely little dolls house shop too and go into a partly old fashioned sweet shop and get some lovely sweets.

A new piece in my shop tonight too, a piece I painted a while ago but have only just listed:

Look Into My Eye Print