Boodles and Drawing Challenges (by sarah)

A few years ago I created Boodles - initially as a thing just for us in our extended hell scape of lock down and on going medical emergencies afterwards. Last year I decided I would share them after a friend said they found Inktober and the draw a whole thing every day too intense and another had said how they alwasy wanted to draw some more inovlved than most people did for the prompts but struggled with what to draw.

So the Boodles are too specific a prompt for many and there are only ten of them at a time but I think they work well for those they were designed for! They can also be used as writing prompts and general creative challenges.

Jean helped put them together and we hope you all find them useful - they will have a perminent page over on Salaric Craft incase you want to find them at a glance all year round!

And just incase it was not obvious they are BOO...dles as in ghosty spooky halloween themed doodles

BOOdles 2025

1) Fox Hole

2) Toad Racing like Pin Ball

3) Mountains of the Moon

4) Star Scape

5) Witch's Kitchen

6) Troll Bridge

7) Puss in Boots Salon

8) Apocathery

9) The Devils Disco

10) Wizarding Ways

Be Inspired to draw when you can, how you can and as much as you want!

BOOdles 2024

1) Space Dragon

2) Snake + Skull

3) Space wreck with mushrooms

4) Ghost Tea Party

5) Zombie Titan

6) Hades and Persephone

7) Hellhound

8) Demon Daycare

9) Pirates of Penance

10) Eyeball

Be inspired and draw when you can!

InkWell (by sarah)

This year thanks to the sponsorship of the Gloucestershire Poetry Society I am running a monthly workshop called InkWell at The Folk of Gloucester. The sponsorship pays for room hire allowing me to offer the 2 hr sessions at an affordable rate (or more affordable than they would have been without it). £10 fall price and £5 concession and I am happy to include low wage, benifits, retired, college student, blue badge holders, blue light discount and so on.

The workshops are 1-3 pm on the first Thursday of every month except January - they will cover subjects such as scrapbooking, visual poetry, journalling, dairy keeping, creative writing, zines, chapbooks, junk journals, ugly sketchbooks, illustration, zentangles, card making, ink work and so on.

There will be a theme for each month starting with Sakura or Cherry Blossom for the first session Feb 6th 2025. We will cover making your own blossom themed note books using binding combs or fabric and ribbons. There will be themed paper, tape and stickers plus other little accessories. There will also be writing inspiration and room for people to work on their own projects using the resources I provide.

The name is a triple word play as The Folk is a 500 yr old timber frame building or rather buildings built in the Tudor era and like a lot of older buildings it has its own well which since the renovations is now viewable.

(backblogged from social media posts to keep a record of InkWell)

Protected: Steampunk Drawing Resources (by sarah)

Illuminated Fragments (by sarah)

Currently it is the Gloucester History Festival - happening very differently to previous year in the restrictions on numbers and the shift to more outside pre booked things and mostly online talks and interactive virtual tours. Even if I'd been well enough there is no way Cuddly Science/History could have done it's normal activities with sand pit digs and cloth puppets 0.o

I am seeing past events popping up on Facebook memories and they are awesome but do you know what? So is this year... there is a festival that had to completely start from scratch and reorganise some great stuff and they managed it and on their big year too! 10yrs of the Festival and 25yrs for the Heritage Open Days!

And it's not like I am completely devoid of involvement - back in the spring an art and archaeology project that I was very excited to be a part of obviously had to go on hold but now the exhibition is there for anyone who wanders over to see! They are asking people to pre book free tickets and wear face masks when in the building as well as doing track and trace.

It's at Llanthony Secunda Priory and called Illuminated Fragments. There were 15 of us lead by Jacqui Grange of Creative Solutions with access to the archaeological finds from the area thanks to Cotswold Archaeology, and tutorials on calligraphy as well as researching the history and stories of the area.

I really enjoyed the parts of it I managed to get to and the work produced is truly spectacular - it is only up until the 14th of Sept 2020. Including the Heritage Open Day.

Protected: Llanthony Remains (by sarah)