Friday Catch Up - 17th April 2026

9. Kayak

Doodlewash Art Challenge / Friday face Off

10. Shells, 11. Grape Hyacinth

17. Bonnet

This wasn't a prompt, I decided to do my own thing. Quite a lot of the prompts are repeated and I didn't want to to do the same subject again. I'd been watching Big Cats 24/7 which inspired me to do this.

Photo Challenges

Monday Window, Thursday Doors, Pull up a Seat

In March we spent a couple of days in Edinburgh, It's a nice place if you ever get a chance to go.

Closed as a church in 1952 this church is now Tron Kirk Market for local artists and crafters.

Love this little door and window

Seats in our hotel room, we were upgraded because it was my husband's birthday

Picture Consequences Drawing game which I played with the grandkids [sorry the photo is a bit rubbish] It's played by drawing a section (head, torso, legs), folding the paper, and passing it on

Flower of the Week

 A shrub [Darwin's Barberry] in the garden which flowers at this time of the year

The weeks are flying by, hope you enjoy the coming  one

 

Friday Catch Up - 10th April 2026

5. Coloured Eggs, 6. Picket Fence

Doodlewash Art Challenge / Friday Face Off

3. Palm Tree, 4. Shadow

7. Strawberry Shortcake

8. Miniature Golf

Photo Challenges

Monday Window, Thursday Doors, Pull Up a Seat

The chair is for when he gets tired standing 😃

Fairy Houses

I started making this fairy house in January but there were a lot of things I didn't like about it so I never finished it. It is made from DAS clay on top of glass jars and bottles, cardboard, foil etc

Flower of the Week

My son bought me the vase, I think it looks cute with a single daffodil in it. That was in February, it's now got a spider plant in it.

That's all for today, enjoy the coming week.

 

Friday Catch Up - 3rd April 2026

April 1. Robin, 2. Breakfast

Doodlewash Art Challenge and Friday Face Off

March 31. Macaw

30. Clematis

29. Pyramids

27. Deer, 28. Castle

Photo Challenges

More from Seaton Delaval Hall {Details}

Thursday Doors, Monday Window, Pull up a Seat

What is in the cupboard across the passageway?

And in this cupboard [hard to tell from the photo] is a very tall wig with a ship on the top, inspired by the wigs of  Marie Antoinette

There is a window reflected on it too

The two windows on the right are on the inside of the house.

Flower of the Week

I have quite a few grape hyacinths around the garden this year.

The flowers look pretty but what looks awful is the sooty mould on a lot of my shrubs, its a fungus that grows on the sugary sticky waste excreted by sap-sucking insects like aphids. It doesn't directly infect the plants but it can block sunlight, reducing photosynthesis. One is supposed to get rid of the insects first, but I've never seen them. Hosing is supposed to remove the mould but it seems to want to cling to my shrubs, and it seems to be spreading to more shrubs.

Hope you have a fun week, bye for now.

Friday Catch Up - 27th March 2026

21. Olive Oil, 22. Pasta, 23. Insect

Doodlewash Art Challenge / Friday Face Off

24. Popcorn, 25. Aeroplane, 26. Cookies

Photo Challenges

Monday Window, Pull up a Seat

In the Grand Cinema at the Beamish 50's village. The original cinema was built in Ryhope in 1912 which later became a bingo hall, then a car garage and was demolished in 2020. It has been reconstructed, using a mix of new and original bricks. As some of the ornate plasterwork was in a bad condition it had to be recreated from relief casts, detailed drawings and photographs. Luckily the stained glass windows were saved and are the originals.

and close up of the windows [I'm afraid the quality is not very good as they are extracts from the above photos]

There are two stained glass windows at the front of the cinema and the windows below are where the projectors are.

Flower of the Week

My orchid is in flower again, it seems to like living in my bathroom. The last one I had liked the conservatory but I think it is too hot for this one.

It grew another flower very quickly

I got another type of orchid as a gift from my son, this one is called Dendrobium

That's it for today, enjoy your week.