Papier-Mâché

3.4C (at 9am) dropping to 0.3C during the day. Starting wet, then heavy wet snow through the morning. Clearing from noon onwards with some sleety showers and bright spells between. Light breeze.

Grocery shopping this morning at Sainsburys then we drove to M&S at City Quay/Gallagher Retail Park in Dundee through heavy wet snow. All thoughts of outdoor photography were abandoned. From there we went to the craft shop in one of the other retail parks in Dundee and the snow got quite deep before starting to get wetter and begin to clear on the roads as we drove home. Back in Carnoustie there was little sign of any snow but there had clearly been a lot of rain.

After lunch I watched the last F1 race of the year on telly.

Before 3pm Apothecary7 and I took Maeve the Deerhound for a walk between the showers. Just a 2 mile loop down to the shore road and round the main road and back home. The road down to the shore road was running deep with water on one side for a couple of hundred metres from about halfway down with runoff coming pouring off the field. The drains were struggling to cope.

Apothecary7 and I decided that our pictures for today would be the craft/art things we have been making recently. Inspired by a book Apothecary7 found in the Oxfam shop in Dundee we have been tying our hand at Paper Mache (papier-mâché). I made a small container, a Christmas bauble, and a bowl. Paper Mache, gesso, acrylic paint and acrylic ink, with spray varnish to finish.

DMC-LX7 f/2 1/125 sec. ISO-80 5mm (35mm focal length 29mm)