Heatwave on WOYWW

It's wednesday again and that means

we get to take a look at what people

have on their desks

all around the world.

The Stamping Ground is where
you can find many others.

Not much has been done in my room this week

in fact the only time I came in here

was last saturday when little miss went to the movies with dad

and I had four blissful hours to myself.

I came straight in here and did a little cherry picture in my journal.

First, here is my desk today

not much to see.

There is a very good reason for not doing much, 

we are in the middle of a heatwave (temps in the mid 30's C & 36C today)

and although my room is airconditioned it isn't fair for me to be enjoying the cool air while the others are out in the heat.

We usually get this heat in february when the kids and hubby ( he's a teacher) are back at school and I can sit here happily creating, but we still have 1 1/2 weeks of holidays to go.

The only thing to do in this heat is spend the day in the pool and we are doing exactly that, only getting out to eat on the patio. 

I am a prune with terrible pool hair, wearing an oversized sunshirt of my hubbies, a floppy hat and have pink zinc on my lips.  It's really quite a sight! 

I promise I won't supply a photo.

I have a few photos of the process I went through to make the cherry pic and yes I know I have done cherries before, 

but they are a summer fruit and I love painting them, 

actually I prefer eating them more.

The cherries are in watercolour, which I have built up in layers to get more effect.

While waiting for the layers of watercolour to dry, 

I started to colour in the border with water colour pencils. 

The border is hand drawn and nothing matches exactly,

makes it more interesting.

Then I decided that it needed something on the left page so I wrote a little ditty and printed it out on my new printer :) and coloured it with paint, then stuck it to the page.

That looked a little boring, so I decided to play with the circle a bit

and finish off the cherries stems.

I was just going to finish off the cherry with the ditty, when they came home,

so this is it so far.

I'm off to the pool.