Sarah Bell's Watercolour Workshops

Sarah's Blog: The Innkeeper's Wife

13 May: On the Painting Chickens and Ducks Workshop
"Yes, here are my beautiful chicken girls, first thing the yesterday morning, deciding whether to venture out or have a lie in for a bit longer. We've moved them into new luxury accommodation, that is, Eliza's old Wendy House. I had to brief them before breakfast with some modelling tips, as it was the third day of teaching my watercolour workshops, and yesterday was Painting Chickens and Ducks. After a few pointers on deportment, holding a pose for as long as possible and keeping hydrated with lots of water, I left them to it."

4th May, after buying lots of vintage fabric:
"I think my blog could be very useful in that if I tell you what I'm planning to do with my purchases, I may feel obliged to actually do that thing, rather than put it in the airing cupboard for the next ten years."

3 May, on making scrapbooks:
"There I was, sitting at my mum's dining table by a big window, sorting through photo's, stamp pads and ribbons, my daughter curled up in a chair, engrossed in a book, and hearing the squeak of the rocking chair and the gentle click of knitting needles as my mum soldiered on with making a cardigan for her friend Janet. How lovely and homely. Time spent with my mum is very precious..."
"The plans are to make a scrapbook called A Year at Sampsons Farm, to show the visitors to our B&B a little bit about our life here; another one about the Watercolour Workshops I teach here, with lots of photos of students' paintings; and the third one, well I suspect that one will hang around in a carrier bag in a corner for a while. Probably for a couple of years, on previous form..."

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