Grandchildren day

I had a lovely day with my grandchildren last Sunday. Marc and Sam had both been on nights so I took my three adorable grandchildren up to my little craft studio where they spent several hours painting and playing. I bought some ceramic pieces for them to paint from the chap in the next unit and they loved it.
Livvy painted a little pink elephant but unfortunately there was more paint on Livvy than there was on on the elephant but she enjoyed it.
Tom wanted to do a green dinosaur and must have used a whole pot full of green paint but he was happy and did a lovely job. We then added shades of a lighter green and he wanted to add red paint to the dinosaurs nails and eyes.
Ben was in his element painting a dragon he had named Merlin. He did it in shades of green and then painted silver on the dragons wings and gave him red eyes too.
They were so well behaved. We did a drive through MacDonalds for lunch and took it back to the studio.
Unfortunately I can't seem to get the photos off my mobile for some reason but I'll post them up as soon as I can sort out why.

Take a look over at my Honeycomb Crafts section and see the piece I enamelled today at a workshop in Shrewsbury it was mam and me and I like the way it turned out.

Marsden Rock

After a day of torrential rain it was nice to see this picture of Marsden Rock and it brought back memories of warm summer days spent at the beach. This impressive structure was a favourite place to visit when I was younger. At one time it had an archway that connected to another piece of rock but erosion took it's toll and it collapsed a few years ago and then the remaining rock stack had to be demolished for safety reasons so this is all that is left of the rock. When the weather is nice it is a sun trap on the sands. It is some years now since I've been to Marsden, the climb down to the rock doesn't seem too bad but there's a lot of steps to climb back up. I'm not so sure that I'd manage it these days. I'm visiting mam in a few weeks times so maybe I'll take a trip out there.

Here's Livvy li'l sis

There is only one word for her ... cute, oo and beautiful, gorgeous, adorable - OK I used more than one word but she really is a cutey. This is Livvy just before her 2nd birthday trying on a bracelet. With 2 brothers around she seems at times to be turning into a tom boy but at others she is just a sweet little girl playing with her dolls and trying on some jewellery.
I'm not quite getting into this one photo every day but I am trying ... yes some will say very trying ... but when I get a new camera that I can download pics from easily it will be a lot better and I'm certainly putting it on the birthday list.
It's been really warm this last week but the rain came today and it has cooled down somewhat - I think we can expect more rain at the weekend and possibly thunder storms tomorrow so I'm not looking forward to that.

Another pic

I used to be able to email pics from my phone but for some reason it is not working so I'm forced to look for old ones on my computer as already I've missed the one a day pic challenge I gave myself but hey ho I'll just have to buy myself a new camera and get some up to date pics goings. Here's a one of my cute grandson Tom. I have to say it was taken a couple of years ago, he's 4 now but it's the only one on my pc. He's just been in hospital recently as he has asthma quite bad and needs to be on a nebulizer but we're praying he grows out of it as he managed to get through the winter quite well. He'd been eating cake in this photo and yes still eats cake these day, I think he is probably a cake-aholic.

Ben

Well the next few days will be spent in looking at grandchildren pictures, that's if I can find any of Tom and Livvy. I have lots of Ben when he was younger as I had a decent camera then and I adore this one of him but I don't seem to have many of my other two grandchildren on my computer but I'm sure I'll find some. Ben would have been about 3 when this was taken so it was quite a few years ago but he is still just as handsome.

A paramedic visit that didn't lead to hospital

My sweet mam has had her fair share of visits to hospital over the last few years but thankfully when this paramedic paid her a visit it wasn't to take her off to hospital. It was taken back in 2005 when mam was visiting and my son Marc hadn't long qualified as a paramedic. He called in to see his Nana before he started work.

My own picture challenge

Well it's not often I get to blog these days and I keep telling myself I'm gonna get back into it and then time just seems to fly by, what with work and babysitting and youth club at church and the list goes on but I liked seeing my li'l sis's pics of the 30 days picture challenge on her blog so even though it's not really part of the challenge I thought I'd make a start by digging out some pics of my own and trying to add one a day - so this will be my own picture challenge.

I'm starting with this one taken a few years ago when I was visiting my mam and my other sister Nenna and I went out for a meal. We had a lovely night, it was really warm and we went to a little tapas bar in Gateshead. First time I'd been to one and it was yummy. We got to try several different dishes and while I can't remember what we had I do know I enjoyed it all. This pic was taken just before we crossed over to the other side of the river where the tapas bar was.