A bit of a stroll and adding to the wip* pile!

It was lovely and sunny this morning so we caught the bus up to New Brighton to have a bit of a stroll and a coffee in Morrisons.

 
I love the big blue skies we get here when it's sunny. The ferris wheel is new, it was put up last week, and it looks like it may be there for the summer. It has little open baskets, unlike the bigger one in Liverpool that has little pods. I don't think I'll be having a go on it, but if I did I definitely wouldn't do it on a windy day! The wind comes in straight off the sea and it will shake those little baskets really hard!

Your saw this piece in the hoop in my last wip video and I've added some flowers etc to it since then.

The first two photos above are new collages that I started this weekend (rather than working on the stuff on the go already)! I blame it on the fabric! I came across some little scraps of fabric in my sewing tin that I thought would go well with a birds image that I'd printed onto fabric (the first photo). Most of my work starts this way, rather than doing a sketch first, but that does mean I need to start it when I get the idea! 

The second one happended because I started another button top (the photo above) that I didn't need it for my last #our52weekproject post so I was thinking of what I could use it for and decided on another collage using the button as a starting point  (see the middle photo above). Plus I had another bird image that I could use with it.

I'll be back on Thursday with my button tutorial.

TTFN
Louise

*wip - work in progress

Sunny Sunday

We had a little stroll along the prom yesterday.  The sun was out and lots of other people had had the same idea.

 There was the Liverpool skyline, Vale Park and beautiful houses to look at.

 A shadow selfie!

There were lots of children playing on the Black Pearl, a piece of art cum plaything created by some local artists (you can see the full story of the Black Pearl on their Facebook page).

At the mouth of the Mersey, they are busy building a new riverside dock for container ships, which will mean ships will no longer have to squeeze themselves through locks. That will also mean larger ships could be unloaded too . Another plus will be that cargo will be able to be loaded onto smaller ships that can go up the Manchester Ship Canal, which will mean less lorries on the roads.

A quick look at the Fort.

Ray managed to get himself into this picture of the old Chelsea Reach club - now an apartment block.

I hope you enjoyed your Sunday too.

TTFN
Louise

Last week's phone photos

The weather last week was gorgeous and it looks like being the same this week.

So for last week's photos we have my presents from a swap, the marine lake at West Kirby,  plants and flowers in my sister and brother-in-law's garden and cheap, but prized, books on textile and embroidery were acquired,

I hope this week treats you well.

TTFN
Louise