laconic
adjective
UK pronunciation /ləˈkɒn.ɪk/ US pronunciation /-ˈkɑː.nɪk/ (click the link below to listen to the word)
>using very few words to express what you mean: She had a laconic wit.
laconically UK /ləˈkɒn.ɪ.kəl.i/ US /-ˈkɑː.nɪ-/ adverb
Ref: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/laconic?q=laconically
lugubrious
adjective
UK and US pronunciation /luːˈɡuː.bri.əs/ (click the link below to listen to the word).
›sad and serious: a lugubrious face
lugubriously /-li/ adverb
lugubriousness /-nəs/ noun
Ref: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/lugubrious?q=lugubrious
I have become a little addicted to carving my own stamps recently!
Just messing around, trying a few things out. I love Promarkers! I think I need to tweak the composition a bit, but it’s given me some ideas for my art journal.
I fancied doing a little bit of stamp carving yesterday, as a break between job applications (although I probably ended up doing job applications between goes at stamping with it!) I was inspired by a tag that came with some wrapping paper I bought.
I repeated the process I used for the new home cards, stamping on different papers and cutting out the shapes to collage together. I also coloured some areas with Promarkers. The colours work well on bright white paper.
I then tried stamping onto brown paper, stamping patterns and colouring with Promarkers. Quite different, bit interesting I think.
Not sure what I’m going to do with all these balloons as yet, but fun to experiment.
I learnt needle felting at a recent craft show I went to, so I wanted to try something quite ambitious for my first proper project. Attaching the limbs and the eyes was definitely the hardest part!
Spindle Tree Studio 