Painted Stones & Postcards presented by Paul Howes

Upon her early morning cooler dog walk our ten yearold little Bella, helps leave a footsy stone of thanks and scripture, at the watering station on Moore Avenue Norwich. Mrs B,took the photograph,as I am always saying to Her," Please take pictures upon your travels". Upon resent early'er hotter burning days it gave a real warm feeling to our figuritive hearts knowing that people from all walks of life be they adult or child alike,really care for animals in this easy kind way.                                                                                       

Above is the Full Moon Post Card actually made for posting via The Royal Mail

Our Home

Upon the very edge of the beautiful woodland that is Fiddle Wood,where we live the real Owls like for instance now,keep me company during the long nights that see me typing away in storyland style,or writing tutorials covering scratch-building for posting on Line. However this presentation is for anothers hobby-style run that has taken place  for nearly 3 years now.                                                                                                                   

                               

            whooo - whooo- whooo, I imagine them all asking in a most curious way.

                       Which is another post card made from the photograph Mrs B took.

                                                            The Cute Factor!

                                                                       Tiny Mice

Along with myself ,since 2019 my Dearest Mrs B,has been writing friendly letters to our unknown neighbours here there and everywhere around the City of Norwich, giving them a witness of Bible truths! She also has been painting Stones.                                                                                                                   

As She walks over 8 miles a day with Bella,or loyal dog,she often leave one or two of her painted stones along the way. So much so that adults and children are upon their daily quest to find them. As always there is chapter and verse taken from the Bible painted upon the underside of each stone along with an address of  www. jw. org  A comfy place where worldwide lots of topics and film can be viewed for free.                                                                                                                                                              

 It is and has been a novel way of giving a witness of the Bibles truthful messages especially like now and in those frantic days of Covid19 Lockdowns.   As the heat-waves have bleached hot many a grass verge dry like straw stubble we,and others have put out fresh water supply daily so dogs can refresh themselves along their walks. Many others here in Old Catton and Norwich have also thought of other dogs too during these hot blistering days.  So Proverbs Chapter 12: verse 10 in part reads," The righteous one takes care of his domestic animals." An apt scripture indeed.

It being an Offence to take stones off beaches,We bought a bag of stone pebbles from a licenced company that under law is able to sell them. These were delivered to our door. Magic!

I must mention that i find painting stones a bit out of my comfort zone. So i stick to other arts and craft topics where I am more able and a lot more confidant to proceed.

So here is  Mrs Susan Fitch Howes, tray of painted assorted  stones, 

for her pebble trail leading to many a collector.              

                                         

                                        May you all have a nice safe day. Paul Howes

Angel and the Badman | COLORIZED | Western Movie in Full Length | John W...

 

The Lone Ranger Books, plus Another Curved Book Case. A Comic Style of Making Props for my Fantasy Library presented by BB

 

It was a sunny morning and it saw me finishing off another larger curved book shelf for the library.

As the day wore on i was busy making book props! No need to make paper-craft book cases if i cannot fill them with something.  i formulated a system that i will show now,and it concerned The Lone Ranger Comics of yesteryear. One of my favorite reads of my youth,although usually it was the Annuals that came my way year in year out. 

                                   With such a sun the shadows came in for free, so why waste it?

i trolled the internet for all sorts of great comics and these are just a few, where i took a slice of each front cover and added it between two covers thus making an open ended book cover that would fold around some paper strip's. Then they were all glued onto  paper card,and left to dry out before cutting each individual book off the sprue with a very sharp pointed blade, in my craft knife that is working overtime these days and nights too.  And each little prop book settled down into my empty yogurt pot which tends to get to reaching over filling point in no time at all.

A water mark above i will explain a little way to solve this picture collecting problem. Here in this case the books will be so tiny i doubt if anyone would notice it anyway.

i use the smaller strip of pictures in way of repetition to create strips of books of those i wish to print out,

The backing board will be quite curvy indeed and after using thick pva glue it will soon stick tight into place after a few minutes, as if it has been sleeping there since the done and dusted times of The Great War.

A great project to keep one busy as each day with its  wayward  climbs pass away.

Now it is the case that some pictures bear a water mark,but by searching by way of google you can and will find the same picture but without those darn water marks stamped onto them. So they can then be copied. 

The inner toilet roll i used again for the backing as it comes in sort of free,but of course not without cost.

 Where would the world be without toilet paper? Right up the swanny as the old boys of my youth would often say.                                                                                                                                                       

Above the chaos theory shot, it shows the rough and tumble of other books i printed off,but this is an illustration only to show that there is allowance for lots of loose individual books to be slotted in. Yes loose,for this is a game i devised for little hands and finger to pass perhaps a stormy rainy day inside their own home just having lots of patient fun without the need to get annoyed or over anxious!

i enhanced the colours of these old things just to  present them as they once looked like back in the day.

                           As they get smaller it is just a matter of printing out the sizes i need. 

These shelving units of which there are to be many,will be painted and varnished,and the way i paint they will look very soiled lumpy and aged indeed.                                                                                           

And so it is i can print out sheets of books for the fantasy library

imagine a young child looking up at all those books, perhaps like you yourself for the very first time?

                               Well thanks for stopping by,you are always welcome.  BB