Original Art for the Socially Isolated
I was interested to learn about this new initiative from the charity Paintings in Hospitals. Launching in November, the OASIS project...


Tree dressing
St Mary’s community Christmas tree festival asked us to provide " a small piece (75 -100 words) about yourselves, your tree and your...


Santa hats
Lymm has had a tradition for some years now of gathering on Christmas Eve to sing carols around the cross. A large proportion of the...
Boundaries
This week's challenge from 64 Million Artists is to think about boundaries -"Boundaries are a positive thing and so important in our...


Knitting
The knitted model of Lymm Cross has now been installed in Lymm library. On the whole it has survived its trips to Warrington well, thanks...


Experimenting with Brusho, pen and ink
To create these Christmas baubles, I had drawn the circles on watercolour paper using lids of two different sizes and a watercoloour...


Remembrance Sunday
The first ever Poppy Day was held on 11 November, 1921, the third anniversary of Armistice Day. It was the idea of Madame Guerin, a...


Walking with a purpose
It was a sunny afternoon after days of rain, lighting up the trees and their few remaining leaves, and creating dramatic silhouettes as...


Brusho
There were seven of us in the Community room at the Sanctuary hub today. We experimented with Brusho crystals.


Jean Greenhowe
I've just finished these two little scarecrows, following Jean Greenhowe's Poppets pattern. Jean Greenhowe died this summer at the age of...