When you look outside and see this...........

...careening down your road like something out of Mad Max...

...you really do crave a little colour in your life. James very kindly hung these two 'mandalas' of mine one atop the other and they make for a colourful pair. I LOVE geometric design..it is so contemplative laying it out and then once you have the groundwork done you can 'mindlessly' fill in the colours, just like Paint by Numbers, which I was a little obsessive about when I was a kid.
The only problem with the 'mindless' aspect is that many a time you end up running out of colours and the final spaces are surrounded by all the colours you've already used...ooops!!

Now what is this little treasure.....don't you love the way the cubes look hanging like this? James is creating a new maquette for a presentation in a couple of weeks...and he's heading off in a colourful direction too......

How cool are these?

And then of course it warms the cockles of your little cotton socks to see Eleanor and Harry sleeping toasty like pickles by the fire...Eleanor cautiously keeping an eyeball in Harry's direction .......just in case!!

Hey...this is my 1ooth post...who knew I had so much to type about!!

Blast of colour on a drear Maine day!

On this day of mists (it really is misty out there) and mellow fruitfulness (our neighbour, Tom, did indeed just bring us a pumpkin he had grown) as I look out the window at the occasional dredging downpours from Kyle, is he a tropical storm or a hurricane...THEY haven't decided yet, I felt I needed an eyeball awakening BLAST OF COLOUR! So I put together some pots of paint I am using at the moment, and a few design layouts I have done as small acrylic paintings, to jolly myself along amidst the sogginess of a house with three damp dogs, sticky floors and steamy windows. Here are the photographic results. Hope it's drier where you are! Anyone for tea?