Ruby Tuesdays

While we were in America we visited Ruby Tuesdays (warning - music if you click on the link) a couple of times as the food there was delicious!

The fruit tea was delicious and had free refills!

These are avocado Quesedillas - yum

These Southwestern spring rolls were also delicious.

As was, according to Matt, the steak and lobster.

And so was the Chicken Bella although the cheesy mash it came with was a bit too much after a while.

Apologies for the slightly dodgy photographs - they were taken with Matt's mobile with little natural light!

Treasury

I am in a treasury - whoo hooo!!

I love the title DO NOT EAT! Good advice as I really don't think that paisley Cheeky Chicken would want to be eaten!

Number 6

When we were little my dad made a shed play den for me and my sister that we absolutely loved called Number 6 - he even put a number up on the door for us! In anticipation of the girls coming to stay while we were in the US, he cleared out one of his sheds and turned it into a Number 6 for them :)

Extra points from me for salvaging all of the furniture :) Good recycling/reusing Dad!

Mum made the curtains with fabric given to her by a friend

And Anya added a touch of decoration with this picture of a rainbow dragon with its rainbow egg sitting in its nest.

Mum and Dad also found the prams that me and Sarah used to play with when we were little - mine was the blue one. The dolls were also there too :)

I loved my Tiny Tears doll and now so does Anya!

Giveaway winner!

Sorry for the delay - I have been out in the garden in the rain doing some weeding!


The number was 28 which is the lovely Twiggypeasticks!! Congratulations Twiggy :) I will contact you soon to see which colour chicken you would like.

Update on the number of churches!

As I know some of you are dying to know :) We saw a grand total of 298 churches (we were hoping to reach the magic 300 but didn't) which when averaged out over the mileage we did makes a church every 2 miles or so! And to say that we did the last 80 miles or so on the motorway then that is an astonishing amount of churches!

Back tomorrow with details on who won the giveaway - you still have time to enter as I will draw the giveaway at midday (GMT) on Wednesday 29th July :)

Creative at the airport

Having 6 hours at the airport while you wait for your flight isn't often seen as being creative but when a chance remark is overheard and it sparks something in your head then it can be, especially if you have your ideas book with you!

This is my ideas book - a posh Paperchase notebook bought from a jumble sale for 30p and decorated by me :) Can you spot the chickens?? Also note my white vintage cherry dress in the bottom right - the perfect dress for traveling in.

This is an idea for a card

As you may be able to tell I am not much of a draw-er (drawer? sketcher?) I can't draw to save my life - that arrow thing on the bottom photograph - the Eiffel Tower! What do you mean you couldn't tell!! I'm much more of a bad and (very) quick sketcher with lots of scruffy notes detailing what I want to appear in the work.

Often there are no pictures - just words.

Our flight back to the UK leaves in the next couple of hours so I am going to entertain myself with writing down some more ideas and maybe trying to perfect that picture of the Eiffel Tower :)

Books

Uh oh - I found a Barnes and Noble book shop!

I bought only two magazines - I could have bought many many more but set myself a 2 magazine limit. I'm going to drool over these on the plane.

This book called out to me - handmade books made using recycled, reclaimed and upcycled materials. Very me!

Mmmmmmm - this book has lots of great ideas for mixed media work and in particular collaborative art journals which I must admit, have intrigued me for a while. I'm going to read a little more about them and then in a few weeks (or months!) I will see if I can get something organised - feel free to let me know if anyone would be interested in this :)

And I was very pleased to get my hands on this. I have scoured book stores in the UK to no avail and was on the verge of ordering it through Amazon - I'm glad I waited.

Funny signs

I love taking photographs of signs I find amusing whilst I am on holiday - here are some of the ones I have spotted so far.

Catfish Cabin - just love the huge sign with the catfish. Not really amusing but I like it anyway :)

One I spotted whilst driving through roadworks

Fillies - need I say more!

Golden Rule Bible school - just because!

A stark warning that you really should listen to - don't make meth your reality!

And this one was my favourite - whoremongers and all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire :) I like the fact that divorce and television is included on the board too. Matt says I'm going to Hell for mocking - good job I don't believe in Hell then isn't it!

Church spotting

Matt and I hadn't planned on spotting lots of churches whilst driving through this part of the States but once we had seen about 20 in the space of 15 minutes we thought that it would be fun to see how many we could spot. So far we have spotted 225 in the space of about 300 miles - thats a lot of churches :) And we still have the drive back to Atlanta on Saturday!

Rainy rain rain!

We woke up yesterday to pouring rain - it felt like being at home!

Apart from the fact that it was very warm and I was wearing a vest top which doesn't happen too often at home! We visited some great sites yesterday but as I can only upload one photograph at a time while we are here, the posts about them will have to wait until we get home :)