Christmas Is Beautiful

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts

This is the message of Christmas. We are never alone.

A Christmas Quote

Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of ties, if only one remembers to turn on the light.

Magical Waterfall

Beautiful Disaster

Rocky Reflections

A Rural Starbucks

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that

If you can dream it, you can do it

A Quote From J.M.Barrie

Change The Way You Look At Things And The Things You Look At Change

Writing inspired canvas

I created this canvas (excuse the terrible picture) because I wanted to relate it to writing and use words but not a quote, I wanted to do something different this time but inspiring too and what's more inspiring than nature? So I made a silhouette of a bird in flight out of newspaper and then rolled up newspaper sheets for the stem of the flower and created the flower out of circles of newspaper and screwed up inside the flower is a brightly coloured piece of paper-even though it isn't visible to an outsider, I like the idea of the contrast, it appears to be black and white but inside is a little ball of colour-hope.

Ways To Spend A Sunday

Coke Fashion

MK Gallery

Today, I visited MK Gallery as part of the research section for my Arts Award. Yesterday I decided I would 'go for Gold' rather than do the silver award and so I visited the gallery for some inspiration. It wasn't my typical interest, I like art with deep emotional meaning whether that be through words or images and the majority of the work was portrait based, however I did get some inspiration from a car they were exhibiting. Art is not always a canvas on a wall, cars are art as are rooms and gardens, people once designed these things on paper and the result is 3D art with a use, this has inspired me to perhaps get people to read my written pieces using 3D art.
I've returned home with a head full of ideas.

Passenger Inspired Art

Just another quote

A Morning Stroll

This morning I decided to fight my mental illness head on, I was not going to sit in silence in a dark room again-no I was going to eat breakfast and go for a walk. These were the photographs-such a beautiful place.

Staying Strong Update

I have been doing artwork in my scrapbook to accompany Demi Lovato's book 'staying strong 365 days a year', recently with being unwell I haven't managed to keep it up but it will be back, I haven't stopped, as soon as I have the time and energy I will post more :)

Silver Arts Award

At the art group I go to at BYHP, we've been working towards getting an Arts award, I'm working towards the silver Arts award and this is some of my work:

Title page

Setting the arts challenge

Starter activity from week one

Using Stencils

Quotes For Byhp

(all images are my own work)

Day Hospital

I bought this beauty of a book ready for day hospital, and in case things get really bad and I end up inpatient. I assume there will be lots of sitting about and hopefully as I begin to feel better I will have more motivation to do things, like writing and sketching.