House of Cards

Its January and the House of Cards will soon be on....

As the Discovery centre in Craven Arms puts it......

"House of Cards

30 January until 19 March
This exhibition is our annual showcase of miniature masterpieces. Strung throughout the cafe and gallery are hundreds of works of art that everyone can afford, in the shape of handcrafted greetings cards."

I've been making a few cards for it, using some of the images I printed before Christmas,

together with my little lino-cut bird....

Apart from that I've been doing some drawings, to be revealed at a later date and last night I went to a beekeeping meeting which made me pine for the summer when my bees looked like this...........

But I think at the moment they look more like this....

.(at least I would if I were a bee in these temperatures) As you might guess daily temperature readings have taken quite a dive since my last post! Beekeeping paranoia is beginning to set in......will they survive? Aargh! Let you know in the spring.......

Happy New Warm Year!

The weather has been abnormally lovely the past couple of days here... there's been sun, (!) and light (!) and warm enough temperatures to clean out the greenhouse! Lovely!

After weathering the last couple of weeks I feel the need to do some work! ( which doesn't involve any sort of food preparation ) I was thinking of doing some sort of animal inspired pen and ink type something or other. Back in the summer I made a picture of the mutts doing what they like to do....

 

and I thought I might do a few bits following on from that.  

WARNING for those of you without a whippet pre-disposition look away now!

                               Poor Mitty whippet has been suffering with a corn now for some time and has endured 3 operations and now even that hasn't worked so if there's any whippet gurus reading this please email me and advise, many thanks! Email is of course on my website connected to this blog :-                     

katy@katy-alston.co.uk

WARNING OVER!