Good effort! Really great thing for supported homes when everyone can get together and of course for the charity. I’ve lived in supported accommodation in the past and found it very isolating so it cheers me to hear about people coming together.
A few months - helped lockdown #2 go more calmly :) I’m also nearing the end of another project, again a 3’ x 4’ canvas, I’ve finished the written word element (in circles this time) and I’ve just got a figure I need to paint in in oils. How are yours coming along?
I’ve worked with collage a lot. I also like mixing collage and then working over them with paint, plaster or basically anything that will stick together, lots of fun. Most recently I’ve created a maze layout collage using particular words that I’ve chosen using the small text out of newspapers. I work on a large scale and 4’ x 3’ and it took approximately 37,000 individual words. It was very calming.
We held the event in the supported home's living area. It was great getting a lot of the residents involved, seeing them happy, meet new faces and be a part of something. I brought along a cake that I made with my neighbours, it was a typical victorian sponge cake and staff supporting the event brought some store-brought cakes to have enough to go around. The most amazing thing was some of the residents baked some beautiful cakes, one cake with a blue, red and icing droplet pattern right around it. It was a lovely event and having that time with the residents.
We raised something around 300+ pounds and was my first Macmillan.
