New line!

This is the first of a new line I have created; a Greetings card with a pin brooch.
Click for further details.

A small outing

The plumber had to mend my shower. He sat in his van outside my house doing his paperwork and I went off to the bus stop. Here he is, in the first van.

I took 2 buses. This one is going through Portsmouth city center where we have some pretty good flower displays.

Now I am at the museum. Built in 1897 this amazing building was initially used as Army Barracks.

First stop - a sandwich lunch at the Tea Rooms!
The first display was:

The Game of Life: A new exhibition exploring family life in Portsmouth between 1920 and 2009.

Here's a pushchair from the 1950s


A nursing bra from the 1970s

And a shroud made by a newly married wife in the early 1900s.It was not found until after her burial, many years later.

Seeing so many different items switched on my creative brain cell and I have more ideas for my Etsy shops!

How about grouping prints?

I did these graphite drawings and I have them for sale in my Etsy shop. I also have prints of these three shells for sale.
Prints are $6 each, but, buy these three as a group, and they are $15.

Similar pieces of artwork grouped together can look most effective.

How to do Altered art

First, you need the base. I use postcards, pictures I find in charity shops (thrift stores) and old photographs.
Then you need a collection of a variety of pictures. I save cards, magazines, otherwise ruined story picture books again from charity shops or jumble sales.

The third stage is thinking outside the box. Look at the base, look at your pictures, change your mind about what the base picture is about. Free up your thinking to accept Something Different.

The top two are altered postcards. Click to see further details.

This is an altered photograph.

After it was sold I was amazed and thrilled to have this feedback from the buyer:
I can only sing the praises of Linda Caterpillar...her work is: eye-catching, entrancing, beckoning and beautiful. She takes the time and effort to make sure her customers are informed and pleased. All in all...a wonderful experience!

Visit to the fracture department

I've been more or less sitting here for a week, reading, watching the birds, resting.

Here's the brand new entrance to our Hospital., Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth UK.

Waiting in the fracture department, with leg up, as advised.

X Ray of my elbow. I am beautiful! There was also one of my knee but my camera died. Amd the good news is that the elbow was not broken. The compression bandage, sling and my crutch were removed and I walked out, free!