A New Year and a New Blog!

Happy New Year, I can't believe it's 2010 already, doesn't seem that long ago we were celebrating the Millenium!

I've got my daughter and grandson staying with us for the weekend, which is lovely as I haven't seen them since August! We had a nice evening yesterday and got to bed about 2.30 this morning! Max our Scotty dog woke us up about 7.30 but I shooed him back to bed and he let us sleep in until 8.15! Thought we'd find Kieran, my 6 yr old grandson downstairs before us watching TV but it's 9.30 now and still no sign , so it's lovely and peaceful :-)

The weather here at the moment is lovely with blue skies and sun, although very cold, which is very cheering, especially as the weather has been pretty grotty most of the week. We will just be chilling for the rest of the day here, although Ian will be cooking us a lovely leg of lamb for our New Year lunch which I'm looking forward to.

I've started a new blog, Free Patterns 4 U, to showcase some of my designs and help promote my website Kaleidoscope Kreations. these are tileable repeating patterns which are free to use however you like. With each pattern image there is another panel showing an example of the pattern tiled.

Wishing you all Happy New Year for 2010!

An Arty Christmas!

Hope you all had a great Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year. Mine was very quiet, just me and Hubby, our PC's and the TV! We just had Pepsi and Max for company, a large Christmas tree (which I really go to town on) and a rose garland intertwined with twinkling lights along the mantelpiece. Will see if I can post some shots or video before the week's end. Hubby excelled himself with the food, cooking a duck with cherry sauce for Christmas Day lunch, and today did the most delicious baked ham, which he hadn't done before and was a triumph. Also been working our way through a huge raspberry, amaretto, sherry and cream trifle, which is divine! So I expect I'll get a nasty shock when I climb on the scales again come the 4th Jan! Hardtack and water from then on mefears :-)

Anyway when not watching the old goggle box, Hubby mainly entertained himself with his Flight Sim program, while I concentrated on my digital art, enjoying myself creating some more panels of kaleidoscopic designs. I am in the process of uploading them to my Imagekind store, where they are available for sale as prints, posters, canvases, cards etc. I've added a few examples of my latest creations below. Prices at Imagekind start at about $10 for a small print.

I've started getting ready for my daughter and grandson's visit, they are coming up from Devon on Thursday and staying until Sunday, and then I'm back to work on Monday (boo hoo!). Looking forward to seeing them and giving them their presents and seeing in the New Year together. We will be visiting Hubby's daughter and grandson sometime after that, don't know when yet, but hope it's not too long!


Fractal Art 935 by Charmaine Zoe


Fractal Art 936 by Charmaine Zoe


Fractal Art 934 by Charmaine Zoe