Pip! Pip!

Dear Everyone,  I had high hopes of keeping you updated and carrying on the Life of Leaf unphased whilst moving to The Shed,  but it seems this is not to be.   I have moved alot of stuff but there is alot more to go.  The computer Gods are about to take away my internet and I don't know when they will give it back?   I will be away for a little while whilst I attempt to sort it all out and transfer everything to Little Grey Rabbit's House.    

I'll be back soon. 

Shedworking

Hip Hooray I now have electricity,  and two out of three ceilings up.  I also have a pot of chalk by the door,  and strange messages keep appearing...

Happy Easter

At the moment the only artycraftiness going on in this house is that of my salty seagirl.   

The Shed is coming on nicely though...

I am sawing and drilling and sanding and painting and cutting and filling and nailing and screwing and mixing and scrubbing and sweeping and scraping and sticking and wishing you a happy Easter.

Drascombe Lugger

This is not just a drascombe lugger,  it's also a family portrait.

And Another One.

It all began around Christmas time when everything was frozen solid.  Now it is nearly Easter and I am STILL battling with insulation and pieces of timber in the Shed.  You will have to bear with me, dear readers, and make do with old boat pictures while I build my house.

I am thinking you might be wanting house pictures, not boat pictures?  In fear of disappointing you I will see if I can rustle something up.

Scrutinizing the lovely Boadi in the post below,  the peak halyard looks a bit wonky and wrong. Why oh why did I do it like that?  I don't know what I was thinking?

This watercolour is of Our Boys,  a mighty Rowhedge smack.  She's enormous (whereas Boadi is sweet and small) and her gaff is held up by magic...  I haven't given her any rigging at all.

Another Smack

This one is two hundred and two and she is still sailing.

Smack

This is Kate CK52 (oil on canvas) chomping through an east coast chop.  She's had a makeover since this portrait and is now a beautiful cream with duckegg bulwarks.  I'd better paint her again.

Postscript addendum for the shed-building fraternity...  No more mushrooms. I am very happy today because the raingods answered my prayers and so did the roofer.   I have a brand new(but-not-quite-finished) ironingboard-smooth perfectly-angled watertight-hopefully flat roof on the south side of the shed.  All I need now is some rain so I can test it out...