The Oxfam shop in Stroud has some great bargains! I picked up an interesting book last week called "Jolie Brise - A Tall Ship's tal...

Noah's Ark - my latest stamp collage - is still a work in progress and proving quite challenging in so many ways.   Faced with a pile of...

One of the most irritating things that happens when I'm making my stamp collages is losing the stamps! I have to be careful not to wear ...

During last year's week in Rome, we found these attractive postcards featuring cats wearing elaborate theatrical costumes.  There are po...

Last Summer I spent time outside sketching cats.  Not real cats, although around here there is plenty of opportunity! No, these were ornamen...

Committing ideas to a blog post is a good way of keeping myself on track with a project. I've finally completed my stamp collage tin o...

Tulips are some of my favourite Spring flowers so I was thrilled to find a Tulip Museum on a recent trip to Amsterdam!  We were there in Sep...