Artful blogging from Glenda Waterworth

Back at the cottage, I got engrossed in some Zentangle doodling. It’s still a work in progress, but I thought I’d show you where I’m up to. This is an A4 sketchbook, so it’s quite big. In the background the circles you see are textured fabric on a footstool which is what inspired me to start doodling this morning.

I’m out of practice, but I don’t care, the act of putting paint to paper has captured something of the view and it makes me smile to look at it. I’ve started another, slightly larger one using PanPastels – it needs some detail added, but it’s been fun to use them just like paints, mixing and blending colours and using the palette knife tools to draw with.

I managed to get a very quick bit of playtime with the new Spring Distress inkpads.  I used all three colours and I do like the palette.  I started by inking the top with squeezed lemonade and the bottom with shaded lilac, then I stamped a couple of different lace stamps top and bottom with [...]

I suddenly realised earlier this week that on Sunday 1st April, it is the first anniversary of the launch of Chocolate Baroque.  Our baby is a year old! It has crept up on me a bit – I should be planning fireworks and celebrations, but instead I’m blinking and thinking, “huh, where did that year [...]

One of our customers, Beth who runs a shop in Yeovil called Stamp ‘n’ Craft, is raising funds for Cancer Research by running an event called The Woolly Car Project. Click here to read more about it on the Design Team blog.  

I have one of my online classes starting today Rubber Stamping: Terrific Techniques and there’s still time to sign up (enrollment will close in about a week’s time), so I thought I’d tell you a bit about it. The five week course will cover the following topics: Week one is all about resist techniques. You [...]

I came downstairs this morning to find Trillian had gone into mental hypercat mode.  I didn’t sweep the kitchen floor after cooking last night and she had found a little bit of red onion skin which she was batting around and pouncing on in a very kittenish way.  So I grabbed the video camera and [...]

I am getting better at scheduling playtime into my life. As always, I have lots more started bits than finished, but here is a finished painting which I did on a small wooden block (actually a stamp handle). She looks very serious, I need to practise mouths and get my figures to smile and laugh [...]

Note to self: when applying Versamark to a painted chalkboard heart prior to triple embossing, the word you have just stamped may not be quite dry yet…

I don’t have much in the way of finished projects to share at the moment.  This is the state of my studio this morning: Yesterday we had a delivery which included a whole load of new Crafter’s Workshop stencils.  Well, much as I love stamping, I’ve been feeling the call of doing some mixed media [...]

I don’t know what it is about the start of a new year, but I do tend to find I have a burst of energy for clearing, tidying and re-organising at this time of year. We have been in our new warehouse for a year and it has always been a little cramped in there.  [...]

I’m not a great one for posting photos of myself online, but I am celebrating. I am celebrating the fact that I have got rid of 34 pounds of excess weight since April.  That’s one pound short of two and a half stone – nearly 16 kilos, or the average weight of a 3 year [...]