A trip down to sunny Devon...

I spent the last week in South Devon with my family, our annual pilgrimage, and every year see the trip as a wonderful time to take photos of the beautiful scenery, the sea, quirky boats and lobster pots, as well as a chance to get the watercolours out, and I spent a lovely few hours drawing boats, painting their sails and doing smaller, quicker sketches of boats and yachts using pen. 

It made a lovely change to use pencils, paint and paper, as I spend the majority of my time 'drawing' with my sewing machine, so it was great to be creative using a completely different medium to my usual fabric and thread.

Our holiday breakfast's were made complete with one of our coffee cosies, and we spent time wandering around the pretty coastal towns, walking around the beautiful Devon coastline, and stopping for well-deserved coffee and cake, or treating ourselves to delicious cream teas!

my Devon escapades...

Here are some little snaps from my few days in Devon... a lovely lighthouse, a delicious Devonshire cream tea (I supplied the wheat-free scones!), a pretty awful picture of boats at the Dartmouth Regatta (but felt the sight needed recording!), and some lovely coastline. I had a fantastic few days walking, eating, and relaxing with my family, and getting some great inspiration whilst I was there. There's something very rejuvenating about getting away to the coast, perhaps it's purely and simply the fresh sea air? Whatever it is it lures us back in year after year, happy Sunday everyone x