Easy Like Sunday Morning

Hello! It’s been a little while! My excuses for not posting on time are: school holidays, it was my birthday, and I was on holiday! I hope everyone is having a nice summer so far!

We just got back from a lovely week in Tenerife relaxing and enjoying the pool and sea. We also visited Siam Park which was amazing! Definitely earnt its status as the best waterpark in Europe for me!

Also, cats. Because it’s totally normal to photograph every cat you see on holiday, right?

Sadly none of them happened to make it into my suitcase on the way home.

Technically not actually from my studio, but I did a bit of drawing in my teeny tiny sketchbook while on holiday! It was really nice to get a change of scenery and draw people doing something other than walking to and from cafés!

I’ve also been enjoying my new pens (pink and orange are Tombow dual brush pens and the green and blue are Ecoline brush pens).

I’m fully booked up with client work from now until December so I won’t have as much time for personal stuff, but I’m determined to keep up my sketchbook practice as it’s such a lovely escape from digital work!

Lots of nice holiday food this month! We had a lovely birthday meal at one of my favourite Cambridge restaurants - Limoncello. They do the best tiramisu!

I don’t know if it’s just me who finds this, but post holiday I always feel the need to eat much more healthily for a while. Very few vegetables were consumed in the past week or so! As such, food has been much more back to normal with some regulars like this Salmon Pesto Traybake or Quorn Bolognese. These are pretty easy so I’d recommend them if you’re looking for midweek dinner inspiration!

• I did lots of reading on holiday and worked my way through Dungeon Crawler Carl books 2 & 3 (Carl’s Doomsday Scenario and The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook) by Matt Dinniman. They are such enjoyable reads I could have gone straight onto the next one but I decided to take a little break and catch up on some Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells - currently reading number 5, Network Effect.

• We’ve been catching up on series 3 of Resident Alien which is now on Netflix!

• I get through a lot of podcasts while doing client work, and I was feeling a bit fed up of my regular ones so I started Midnight Burger - an audio drama about a trans-dimensional, time travelling diner. I’m enjoying it so far! It has a very chill vibe so very easy to have on in the background.

Have a great Sunday everyone!

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