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Hi everyone, I foolishly thought I would get a bit of time to recover from my second Scotland retreat this week. That was quickly turned upside down when I received an email from Bloomberg News (while still in Scotland) to see if I would be interviewed about my experience as a small business in the UK! Of course I said YES but that meant a camera crew at the house all day on Monday - when we usually film all our content for the week. The experience was amazing but had me playing catch up for the rest of the week, trying to launch Christmas products, restock books and stay afloat with the rest of my workload. Which is funny because a lot of these photos are off the lovely non work things I did this week. I might just have a time machine as I cant believe I did it all while also feeling a bit rundown!

Here is Eugen, filming out the door of our studio to get the perfect shot for Bloomberg news!

I had to 'do some painting' for B roll footage so I painted this carnation!

We enjoyed a watercolour hang out this week with lots of new faces, hooray! We had great fun tackling this challenging piece but the great thing about the watercolour hang out is you've already won by just turning up! Painting for the process and not fixating on a finished piece is such an important part of creative development. I hope you enjoy the chats too! I'm looking forward to seeing you all in October. If you've not felt brave enough to come to one before, why not try it. You can have your video off and be on mute and just soak it all in. (the recording is also available on Patreon) x

I had to get a quick photo of the famous Foliage Cafe - that we all painted in the Watercolour challenge last year - on my visit to Bristol this Saturday. I was stuck behind a bit of scaffolding over the road. It was bustling and busy, looking just like our paintings!

I was in Bristol to celebrate my friend's birthday and we went to a cute little private screening of Practical Magic at 20th Century Flicks - a vintage video rental store that has little cinema rooms to rent. It was a perfect Autumn activity - strong recommend to any Bristolian patrons.

I came home to a mountain of apples. Today has been a lot of chopping, coring, peeling, juicing, baking, freezing, ANYTHING to get these apples used up!

I need some help with what to do with this massive bottle of cloudy apple juice we made. It is SO TART! I dont really want to add a load of sugar to make it a palatable juice. What else I can I do with it? Comments below please!

October is full of fun little tutorials on social media (I feel like I was painting these forever this week), keep an eye out for fun autumn postcards and more technique tutorials on Instagram, Facebook and Youtube shorts in October.

This week on Youtube

I'm alternating one halloween and one autumn project on Youtube each week in October. First up is a simple haunted house moon design and a gorgeous autumn flower arrangement.

This week on Patreon

We have a brand new watercolour challenge, as requested by you: A Scottish Castle reflected in a loch. This is Castle Kilchurn on Loch Awe. The project is in two parts. Sign up to the Sweet Pea tier to have a go at this!