Friday 16 March 2018

Afternoon Tea with Folksy Friday

I sat in front of the computer and thought "what shall I do for today's Folksy Friday Post",  there are so many lovely things to choose from sometimes it's difficult to come up with a theme. While pondering this dilemma I popped into the kitchen to make myself a cuppa and maybe add a biscuit or two... naughty I know. Then it hit me... tea, no the tea didn't hit me, the idea did! afternoon tea would be my theme.

First I need tea

 a selection of teas from

or should I have coffee, with or without sugar?

choose your label from

then a nice big mug to put it in

a great choice of mug from

Should I have a Jammy Dodger

Choose your favorite biscuit to wear from

or should I have cake

there are no calories in this pincushion cake by


What would you have?


While you enjoy your cuppa why not pop over to Folksy, a great UK online market place

Jan x 



Monday 12 March 2018

A walk down the Woodland Pathway

Are you a fan of woodland pathways? I am, I love going for walks through the forest or around the Country Parks local to me, there is always lots to see.

Beautiful pathways
Hanging Catkins


 Strange mosses

 and pretty flowers

Surrounded by all this loveliness and having inspiration on the doorstop makes painting that bit easier.

Here are 2 of my latest canvases influenced by my walks.



 These are both acrylic paintings on 8 x8 inch box canvas


My work can be found in my online shops (links in side bar) or you can message me via any of my outlets.

Wishing you lots of happy woodland walks.

Jan x

How to put a LARGE clickable picture on the Folksy Forum

Folksy is an online marketplace for British designers and makers, it has it's own Forum where you can chat and showcase your items, here is a quick guide to how I put a picture onto the Forum, and like anything else... it's easy when you know how.

Doing a small thumbnail of an item is easy peasy, you just go to the item you want to show and copy the url at the top of the page, then go to the forum and past the url into the REPLY box, this gives a small thumbnail of the item you want to showcase.


If you want to show a larger image on that will take you direct to the image in your shop, there's a little bit more you have to do.
I've done a few screenshots of me putting a picture on, I hope this will make it easier to follow.

I find it easier to have two tabs open, one of my shop and the other of the forum page.

On the forum go to the Reply Box and click on the 'upload icon' (the line with an up arrow)


 A new box will open, choose 'From the Web' and click on 'Show More' this will give you 2 boxes. 


Go to the image you want to show and right click 'Copy Image Location' and paste it into the top box.



 Next copy your image url and paste it into the bottom box.

Click on the 'Upload' button and hey presto your image is on the forum post, press 'Reply' and you're done.
It's a clickable pic and it will take you directly to the image in your shop.


You can use this same process if you want to show a picture from elsewhere on the web, for example, a blog or twitter etc.

I hope this has been helpful to you.

Jan x