My Garage Sale find

Hi to everyone

We've had perfect weather here this weekend. Very grateful to have a rain free day for our market today, although I forgot my sunscreen and got a little bit burnt.

I just wanted to show you this sweet little vintage table I bought yesterday at a garage sale, love the genuine chippy colour all those under layers of paint peeping through, the timber top is weathered and silvery, it needs clamping and gluing, I'll do it myself, if I give it to Tony to do I fear I'll never see the table again - I know him, he'll sell it!!

I decided to put it in the bathroom, with towels and a jug full of beautiful Pink Roses I bought at the market today, really didn't need to be moving furniture around after loading our market goodies into the van today, but you know how it gets - I must warn everyone not to sit on my little treasure to dry their toes until I've done some repairs on it - could turn out to be disastrous!!

Hope your weekend was enjoyable

Thanks for coming over

~Gail~

It's creeping up

Hi all!
Like everyone, I just can't believe Christmas is so close, I guess I'm feeling it even more as we only have a few markets left before Christmas. For anyone living in Victoria the other indication that the big day is nearly upon us, is when Melbourne Cup Day has come and gone. Speaking of Ellie our daughter didn't get to go to the Melbourne Cup, but went to our "Peninsula Cup" which was held on the Sunday at Mornington Racecourse, of course I took loads of photos, not realising when I positioned her in front of our "Rose Blooms" her Fascinator would be lost in amongst the blooms...goodness me our garden needs some attention, it's so overgrown, how did that happen?

So I've confused myself trying to paint an assortment of subjects for the Christmas Markets and of course for our Website....not sure where I'm headed at the moment, I bet many of you out there know the feeling.....or is it just me?

Here's just a few of my newies

Thats's about me for now....

Thanks for coming over and I hope you all have a great week

~Gail~

What's New

Hi everyone

Just thought I'd report in and quickly load my just very latest, still wet, Christmas painting on to this blog post



I decided to put Monday aside for a bit of Home Revamping


I've been wanting to paint the wall behind our little stairway up to our Loft bedroom for ages, Yah!! it happened!! Once again my camera isn't the best, but it does look so, so much better. I've hung some of my originals up on the walls - for the time being anyway, they are up for sale on our website, but why not enjoy them for now.

Below

The before photos, really not so bad, but I've decided I want something a little more stream line, all one colour, uncluttered but then again not too clinical, still love my roses and pinks, just cause you go for uncluttered doesn't mean you have to part with your roses, favourite china, etc. etc......, our house is very, very....hmm what would you say???.....oldish, newish in some parts

Guss has a special couch under the stairs, it's his nightime bed, he seems quite happy with the wall colour



I thought too, I'd like to share with you a gorgeous new shop on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland Australia.

"Marsel on Seaside" has only just opened it's doors - I know Margaret has been working so hard to have her dream come true shop open for Christmas

If you're lucky enough to be in the area, please pop in and say Hi, even the name and address sound fascinating!

Marsel on Seaside
4 Merchants Parade...
Town of Seaside
Marcoola, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Have a great week and an enjoyable long weekend to those living in Victoria

~Gail~

Our Pink Market Day

Hi there and thanks for coming over!
We're just back from doing our Special Pink Market Day. I believe most of the Pink Ribbon Merchandise sold out, which was wonderful. The stall holders were encouraged to dress in Pink, there's Tony below, I kinda think pink suits him?




I hadn't realised until yesterday we were encouraged to dress up in pink, which was my own fault, I should have read the news letters properly! I luckily had a pink tee shirt which I printed red shoes on from a scan I'd taken from one of my original paintings, of course I had pink beads, belt and jacket in my wardrobe - as you do!

Tony specialy made a pink bench for the occasion, doesn't he do a wonderful display!

A little hard to see in my photos, but there were pink balloons and streamers everywhere, quite a few of the customers wore pink too

I have been badly negelecting my website over the past few weeks, with no markets this weekend, I'll be restocking the website over the next few days.

That's about be for now, I'm so tired after today I can hardly walk, we're out for dinner tonight, hopefully I'll pep up by then.

Hope your weekend has been a good one, bye for now

~ Gail ~

Pink Market for Charity

Hi everyone

Just thought I'd quickly mention our special market this Sunday 25th October

from 10 am - 3pm

at Mornington Racecourse

In support of PINK RIBBON DAY

The stalls are encouraged to go with PINK themed products for sale - hmm ... don't think we'll have any trouble hunting items up for this one!

It sounds like loads of fun, if you're in the area please pop in for a visit, I will be taking my camera and taking lots of photos

You can click here for market details

I've been working on the original painting below for Sunday, hope it fits the PINK criteria for the market

I've just added a new "Christmas '09" section to my website ~ although it needs to be stocked up a little more, so please pop back every now and again , click on the Merry Christmas sign for details

I've somehow managed to flood the house with fresh flowers, herbs, foliage - I've run out of containers and vases - love taking photos of the roses and filing them away for inspiration when I'm painting

Thanks for coming over

have a great week

~Gail ~

My dreadful camera

sold - thankyou

Hi there and thanks for coming over
Just thought I'd share with you my frustrations over my dreadful camera - then I thought, really it's been a wonderful camera considering its age - hate to think how old it is, it certainly is way better than my other newer one.

Here's what I have to do to take a photo which will hopefully turn out to be close to a true colour of my original artwork I'm photographing

I use a white Styrofoam fruit box, probably not the perfect thing to use, but I can't see myself making one of those photo cubes - so this was my substitute. If the weather is bad I have to be really fast taking my photos, a sudden gust of wind can destroy my little setup!

Once the photos are taken, I then have to edit them in photo shop, re size etc. etc....all part of it isn't it, I must say I do enjoy the process, just wish one day soon I can upgrade to a more up to date camera

Here's another one I've just finished, I've put this one on the fence to take the photo, just prayed the wind didn't blow up all of a sudden, before I clicked on the camera, I would hate to see that beautiful vintage frame shatter to pieces - all good though

sold - thankyou

Thanks for coming over

Enjoy the rest of your week

~Gail ~

Assorted Lavender on a Shelf

I've been working on something a little different today - it was a treat to paint this one, I'd bought a beautiful little bunch of lavender from our local Farmer's Market on Saturday morning, the scent was lovely as I was painting.

I've had the recycled timber frame for a little while, humming and harring (is that how you spell harring, come to think of it is harring a word??) on what to paint in it, thought the colour of the lavender in my painting and the lovely old paint layers of the recycled timber used to make the frame would work well together

In the photo below the frame looks very Yellow looking, it's not really it's quite creamy, just the light where I had to take the photo, it's started pouring with rain here, barely any natural light left

Notice the recycled timber has slight hints of lavender appearing

Thanks so much for coming over

have a great week!!

~Gail~