BOOKS ON THE MOVE AGAIN

Just a quick note to say I’ve done my pages for Carol and Anita and the books should be with Vivien by the end of the week.

Well, allowing for the vagaries of the postal system…

I assumed, silly me, that our international mail left the country from Townsville, since that’s just “up the road” and is an international airport. But, no…apparently, it goes to Sydney and clears our shores from there. Can’t see what seems odd about this? Have a look at the map, folks. Sydney is TWO DAYS away by road carrier.

Oh, well, they’re on the way to Leicester. (Via Sydney.)

What’s that? You think I should show you what I did? No fair! It has to be “fresh” for Vivien.

It’s Happy Hour here. Goodbye!

Dinah

SOME PICTURES!

As promised, here is some of the art that will soon be winging its way Vivien…

From Anita’s  book…

Alison’s islands…

Brigitte’s abstract…

Carol’s fish…

Frankie’s cups…

Kate’s garden…

Sylvia’s island abstract

Anita’s theme is postcards and she asks that we send her some with the book. Well, Kate says there are no “nice” views available in her neck of the words so she’s printed  a photo of a Cincinnati fountain. Good idea, kate…I may have to “borrow” that, especially as Alison got in first with Mackay views!  And Brigitte has sent an original, too, with an explanation .

I’ve scanned some of the pages for Carol’s book, but I’m hesitant to try to do all of them as they don’t sit flat on the scanner and Carol knows how I feel about “bending pages.”

Brizi’s crab…

Kate’s collage…

Sylvia’s patterns…

And that’s it for the moment, folks! It’s lunchtime here and, besides, the man-over-the-fence is bashing the dickens out of some iron.

Dinah

TWO BOOKS ON THE MOVE!

Woohoo! The mail courier has just pulled into my driveway with a package from Sylvia.

I’ve had a sneak peek at the pages in Carol’s and Anita’s books. I might manage a scan of some later.

But right now? Well, I may be wearing one of those “I’m silly!” hats, but I’m washing the floor. Why silly? Another dust storm is forecast for tomorrow…

More later…

Di

A shameless plug for my friend, Andrea, who is having a giveaway over at her small art site. Pop across and have a look.

FROM ALISON (via Di!)

This was posted in  comments on Anita’s entry, but I’ve moved to here as it may not been seen down there

Diane

Hello fellow sketchbookers. I have recieved my second book and I am just so thrilled with the results from everybody. Dear Di thank you so much for this great idea and inviting me to participate. It has been great and I just love all the individual pieces of artwork from around the globe.
The talents of so many artists will be mine to enjoy into my old age and will help to keep the dream alive. I can honestly say that there isn’t a favourite piece as they are all so different with a great array of artistic skills and originality. Once again thank you everyone. Happy sketching for the future. Alison.

I’m holding things up!

I apologise for my slowness in sending on the two books I have here. Having another of those mental blocks and fear of putting pencil to paper. Now that I’ve made this confession I know I will be spurred on by sheer guilt so something should be happening soon.

FRANKIE’S BACK!

Poor Frankie has been confined to her cot, but is, she assures me, “wonderfully well again!” and is working on the Travelling Sketchbooks.

This arrived at my place the other day and I’ll be handing it over to Brigitte this morning.

For those who, perhaps, don’t know, Brigitte, Alison and I are all up to our oxters in exhibition stuff. (And stuffed is pretty much how we feel!)

But it’s all good and beats being couch potatoes watching TV re-runs, yes?

This is the little gem Frankie has given Ali. Maybe she should have sent it to Vivien’s Tree Challenge?

Now…some paperwork to deliver to the Gallery and then I think I’ll head to the pool.

Cheers, all!

Dinah

Just wanted to let you all know that I have finished my page for Alison’s book. I did a little watercolor of the North Carolina shore, one of my favorite places on this continent. I will be sending this on to Frankie sometime this week. I also have Carol’s and Anita’s books and I am thinking hard about what I want to do for them.

The Dunes

Apologies

I’ve been very very slow – I have finally finished two books and will get them in the post tomorrow – been suffering with lack of inspiration for anything artistic. I should be sending pictures from these two books but it is too dark now for photos. I will try to remember to take some tomrrow before I put them in the mail.
That puts me at a third of the way through these nine.
Vivien I need to warn you that I am going to get rather complicated with my mailing addresses.  We leave here in early August and for a month will be out of touch.  From early July I will send you a new address for about 6 weeks and then another new address after that as we move to our new posting.  I hope this isn’t going to get too complicated!!!

A BELATED UPDATE

This is not really about the current round of books featured here, but because some of us are “overlapping” from Round#1 I thought this would be the quickest way to give you an update.

I’ve just received an email from Frankie. This is part of it:

 

Have received 3 books from Heather & will post away before we go down to Sydney on Wed.
SO THRILLING TO GET MY BOOK – NOW I WILL MAKE THE COVERS AND TREASURE IT.
I AM BLOWN AWAY BY THE PAGES IN THE 3 BOOKS – SO CLEVER & THOUGHTFUL. WISH I COULD KEEP THEM,TOO!
CONGRATS TO ALL OF US!

Frankie

KATE’S BOOK HAS LEFT THE BUILDING!

I’m sorry for the delay, but I have completed my page for Katiejane and it’s winging its way to Vivien. 

 

And Anita’s has just arrived from Melanie so I’ll send that on to Carol.

 

OK…I have to go…sky is dark, thunder is rolling and I don’t need another fried mother board! ;-(