I think I'll call it.. 'Bunting for Boys'

Good name?... What do you think?

Bunting 'commission'.. Designed and made for a new bike cafe opening this week in Colchester... One of my son's friends is taking the plunge and opening a new coffee and bike repair shop in town this week it's called the 'Bike Guru Cafe .  I wish them all the very best for their new venture. Bunting will be on sale at the cafe..

...At the same time.. 2 new collagraph plates of the River Colne at low water.... I'm still busy varnishing.. Hoping to print them before open studio's this Saturday.

 Here he is, finally got to print this little fellow... 

Tried mixing a 'vintage green'... I'm not too sure of the colour...

First finished bunting hanging up in my overgrown... I'll re-phrase....Natural garden.

I'm off .......On an urgent mission..... 'Big knickers'

...... For my dear mother in law,  Yesterday we visitied Frances, she is 83, and has been in a nursing home with altzeimers for almost 4 years steadily getting worse....She has no idea who we are, or who she is, .......We have to smile... (That's how we cope). 

Frances get's upto 'tricks' (career's words, not mine) as her illness deteriorates, she constantly folds tissues, and tucks them in all maner of places, hundreds of them, draws full, cupboards full....  She also wanders around the nursing home and picking up books or anything that's shiney.... And hids them..  

The latest development with her illness is that she has accidents... Several times a day,  somewhere in her mind she knows that she shouldn't, but of course she doesn't understand.... So she hids the evidence.... We can't find her knickers, or trousers for that matter, she should have lots and lots.... Yesterday I couln't find a single pair..... So I'm off to town to buy big knickers..  I shall need strong arms... We need lots... There will be a shortage of big pants in Essex...

On a brigher note.. A sailor went to sea, sea, sea..

 

I'm hooked on bunting, haven't printed this one yet but having fun making the plates.

B stands for...

...Bunting, Buttons and Beachuts

Bunting in the garden

Bunting in the Kitchen

I just love bunting, it is such a summer party thing, it decorates an area in a matter of seconds and looks so sweet.

Close up of one of the little flags

'Buttons and Beach huts'  was inspired by the beach huts that are part of the local sea-side villages where I live here in Essex.

This is my bunting handmade of course with quilter's calico, vintage buttons and paint, sanded and painted again finished with matt varnish.