Prepare To Be Jealous

Oooooh, just look at this little treasure trove of goodies I received from Serena Lewis this morning as part of the Pay It Forward project.

Lots of gorgeous little things with such sweet sentiment and a pencil box with my name on painted by Serena's own hand!

Can you tell I'm excited?

THANK YOU SERENA...I love everything and have already filled the box with pens!

Gifts

I decided to stick with the 'Spring' theme for all my PIF gifts.


Leslie Brasher
I'm sending Leslie this 5x7" 'daily painting' of tulips in ink and watercolour.

Jeanne Grant

I know that Jeanne collects ACEO's so I decided to send her this set of watercolour daffodil cards painted on watercolour paper.

Margaret Storer-Roche

I sent Margaret a TAB full of spring daffodils and tulips which you can read about HERE.

I posted Margaret's last week and will be taking the other two gifts into the post office in the morning, hope you like them!

I also donated my second TAB containing Benwick village scenes to the webmaster of the Lilyholt Road website. Adam kindly created a page to display my artwork and links on the website last year and has worked very hard to make the website an important part of Benwick village life.

He plans to create some kind of competition around my donation to raise funds to benefit the people of Benwick.

Presenting...T.A.B.'s

Oooh, I can't tell you how excited I am about my latest project idea - T.A.B.'s
- AKA: Tiny Art Books.
Informally known as TABBAD's: Tiny Art Books By Anita Davies.

Entirely handmade, hand sketched and hand painted by Moi!...AKA: Me.

This book, my first, is just 2.5 x 3.5 inches and holds an accordion style 4 page layout of HP watercolour paper. A wonderful addition to any ACEO collection (Art Card Editions & Originals), for all you collectors out there!

Each page measures just 85 x 60 millimetres / 8.5 x 6 centimetres.
The cover was painted in acrylic and is decorated with a hand painted design using acrylic paints and Sharpie marker pens.

This particular T.A.B is entitled 'Spring' and was created for Margaret Storer-Roche as my Pay It Forward Project gift to her.

The Daffodils and Tulips were sketched from life using a bunch of flowers I purchased earlier this week.
Two of the back pages are glued to the cover and the remaining, centre two pages display paint splashes and 'Handmade by Anita Davies' and the date it was made.

The book is held closed with a strand of cream satin ribbon, tied into a pretty bow.

I absolutely loved making this book so much, I started my second today.

Giving and Receiving

My new purse...All the way from Bangkok!
In shades of cream and brown leather and embellished with gems and studs...I love it!



Thank you to all those who emailed me interested in taking part in Pay It Forward.

I am happy to announce that the first 3 emails I received, therefore my 3 recipients, are:

Leslie Brasher

Jeanne Grant

Margaret Storer-Roche

Please remember to post about PIF on your own blog and select 3 recipients of your own.

My apologies to those who emailed and missed out, perhaps you could stalk the 3 blogs above and try your luck on their PIF post?


To collect your award, click on image and then select 'save as'

Sherry at Late B(l)oomer kindly gifted me this award and in return I am supposed to list 5 blogs I love to visit. However, I have used a litle artistic licence and decided to list just 3 blogs that are NEW to me that I love to visit:

Starrgirl's World - A blog I only came across quite recently. I love Starr's journal pages, they bulge with a loose and interesting mixture of text and sketches.

Joan Sandford-Cook - A relatively new blog that I myself set up for Joan. I love to visit Joan's blog and see her wonderful work but mostly I like to visit and read about her days because it makes me feel a little closer to her. Joan moved to Coltishall late last year and, although I try to visit when I can, the distance for two such good friends can prove difficult to adjust to.

Water Blossoms - A brand new blog created by Margaret Storer-Roche is fast becoming a favourite place to visit for me. Her enthusiasm for life and art is contagious and very uplifting.

The participation rules are simple:
1. If you get tagged (and want to play along), write a post with links to blogs that you love2.
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme, created by Emila.

Lastly, I just had to share this postcard with that arrived yesterday all the way from India. Our life model from my sessions in Whittlesey last year mentioned that she would be spending the beginning of this year travelling through India before moving onto Africa. So, being he cheeky monkey I am, I quickly jotted down my land address and asked if she would send me a postcard...and she did!


In times of super size, tower blocks and huge price tags...It's still the little things that make us smile!

Acts Of Kindness

I have pledged to take part it a Pay It Forward exchange, brought to my attention recently by Serena of Searen Art & Design.

It is based on the concept from the movie 'Pay it forward' where three acts of kindness are carried out without expecting anything in return. Each recipient from those 'acts of kindness' must then select three different people who they, in turn, do an 'act of kindness' for and the process repeats over and over sending one huge wash of kindness around the world.

Interested?

Here's how it works:

Email me you land mail address, typing PAY IT FORWARD in the subject line.

*Please remember that you must be prepared to send three acts of kindness on to other people when you do this.

I promise to create a small gift for the first three people who email me requesting to join in on the Pay It Forward exchange.

I will announce the three people here on my blog.

The three people must then post on their own blogs promising three different people an act of kindness gift.

Sorry, you must have your own blog to be able to participate.

Please allow 4 - 6 weeks for me to make and send my gifts to you.

Gifts can be anything that is handmade or painted by your own hand.

EMAIL ME