Back from UK {and a little bit about journaling}

I´m back from a wonderful vacation in the UK

and a wonderful fair too.

Thank you so much to everyone who

came to see me and the bears at the fair.

Lots of bears found new homes and I had such a great catching up

with friend and fellow bearmakers.

This is me at my table.

The photo was taken by Margit who was so kind to spend

her sunday with me at the fair. I´ve gotten to know Margit through

some of Mary Anns classes. It was so great to finally meet her

and we had such a great time together.

The weather were with us in London

despite the dark clouds

This wonderful old bread wagon

is from Jamie Olivers new store Recipease in London.

A very cool and great store.

After London we had a little stop on the way to the Lakes

in Liverpool 

and got to see some Beatles Story.

Arriving at the lakes on a beautiful sunny saturday

we went straigh out on a drive with our hosts

Marianne and Graeme.

They showed us the most beautiful places

and we enjoyed it so much.

it turned out saturday was the only day with sun.

After that we had showers on and off the rest of the time.

but that´s okay

everything up there is still so beautiful.

The only art suppliers I brought with me on the trip was

my moleskine journal and a little watercolor set.

I´ve been wanting to learn journaling, drawing and painting for a while

and in between walks 

I got to practice a little

Here´s some of the drawings in my journal

I´m only just beginning to learn a little bit

about this and back home I´ve expanded my workroom to the

the dining room table to experimenting with some journaling.

working on my first page.

I´m very curious about where this new adventure will lead me.

Even though I´ve started working with drawings and journaling

I´ll still be making bears - no worries about that.

A few bears came home with me from the fair

and they will be listed on my website later this week.

I haven´t decided  when, so you´ll have to sign up on my

mailing list if you need to be notified straigh away.

I will be doing a post here too, when they are up.

Thank you so much for stopping by today.

I hope to post more about my journaling adventure

as it goes along.

Wishing you all a wonderful fall day

Tina ♥♥♥

  

my first finished journal page

inspired by Roben-Marie Smith