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Daphne Bennett

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  • Weekly Journal 2023
  • A day like this

    A day like this

    If you are looking for advice, you are at the wrong place. I write this blog not because I am an expert of parenting, but because I haven’t a clue, because I am so busy yet so bored. Don’t take this as a hint and tell me what I should do, what I should try,…

    Daphne Bennett

    January 10, 2022
    diary, life lessons, motherhood, Uncategorized
    diary, mother, motherhood, parenthood, toddler life
  • Sketchbook log

    Sketchbook log

    Hi guys. This is going to be a quick one. A few things that I am working on, or I shouldn’t be working on. It’s been really difficult this week and involves a lot of crying. She could be one minute very excited to go to the park, next minute have a meltdown and we…

    Daphne Bennett

    January 9, 2022
    diary, motherhood, Uncategorized, updates
    art, artwork, derwent, illustration, knitting, motherhood, parenting, pencil sketch, pencilcolour, sketchbook, visual diary
  • I have done it! (at least the easy part)

    I have done it! (at least the easy part)

    I have bought the domain! Part of my new year resolutions, get back on blogging regularly and consume less. I am hoping blog at least once a week to record my kids’ growth and my life in general, things that I am working on, other blogs, movies and books that I enjoy, things I treasure.…

    Daphne Bennett

    January 8, 2022
    Uncategorized
    blogging, diary, new beginnings, new year resolution, newblog
  • On blogging and diary keeping

    I know blogging isn’t popular at all. Although there are a few diligent bloggers, many have dropped out years ago when social media takes over. I have started blogging since my teenage, on and off, more off than on. And every now and then, I wish I had a consistent blog of 5 years, 10…

    Daphne Bennett

    January 5, 2022
    diary
    blogging, growing up, journal, newyearresolution, reflection, social media, social media detox
  • Happy new year

    Happy new year

    不知不覺已經是2022年! (非常cliché) 新的一年我沒有什麼大志,一年到尾每天也要湊仔,洗衫煮飯陪玩陪瞓,lego火車執完又執,到晚上兩個小朋友睡了我才開始catch up大學的功課,然後又嘗試早兩個小時起身繼續做功課,還有時間沖涼已很有ambition,所以我真的有心無力keep up with the social media game。在2021年下半年我完成了一本sketch journal,那是我很自豪的一件事。其他的,隨緣了。 這張畫是今年第一張在新的sketchbook畫起的畫,是一天早上我看到bertie 早起床還有半小時才要換衫上學的放空時間,看他的關於宇宙的書, 那一頁的標題是《The Life Cycle of Stars》。juno看著窗外太陽升起陽光照在小鎮的教堂外牆。太陽是恒星,相比起渺小的我們,和我們的悲喜,是永恒的,;教堂大概百年前在這裡,百年後仍屹立此地,但相對他們這個年紀,胖胖的臉龐,甚麼也笑大半天的幼稚氣,就像影射在教堂的日光,在各種家務和沉悶煩鎖事匆匆忙忙中,一轉身就不會再見了。 It’s 2022 before you know it! (What a cliché) I am not able to have much new year resolutions, every day is the same: same old laundry, cooking, breastfeeding the 2-year-old, changing nappies, teaching my 8-year-old everyday,…

    Daphne Bennett

    January 2, 2022
    Uncategorized
    artist, artwork, motherhood, parenthood, parenting, pencilcolours, watercolour
  • Autumn settling in

    Busy busy busy with kids still. Juno has just turned two and maybe it’s me or maybe it’s the two year old curse, she has been a bit difficult, to put it mildly, and I am more overwhelmed than anytime last 2 years. Still easier than the days when I went solo with Bertie and…

    Daphne Bennett

    October 2, 2021
    breastfeeding, diary, illustration, motherhood
    drawings, sketches, visual diary
  • My 3rd Artful box- Soft Pastel

    By the end of last month I have received an email from Artful revealing the new artful box’s content: soft pastel. I am still quite happy to pay £35 for this edition although soft pastel wasn’t on the list of things I am going to buy. Bring it on, consumerism! About 6 years ago I…

    Daphne Bennett

    September 22, 2021
    Uncategorized
    art material review, art subscription box, drawing, illustration
  • Memory of a time keeper

    That day I took my children and Penny to see the Flying Scotsman. We waited on the bridge for it to pass for a quarter of an hour. It’s a long 15 min when I had to carry the younger one and keep her emotionally stable, keep the dog under control, and answer Bertie’s endless…

    Daphne Bennett

    September 11, 2021
    Uncategorized
    drawing, illustration, parenting, social media, watercolour
  • End of summer

    The days with children are always long. Especially in the summer holidays. My son has gone back to school for 1.5 weeks already. Every morning feels like this. Knackered before the day started. One coffee after another. Recently I have finished one commission work and working on another one. I am not quite sure if…

    Daphne Bennett

    August 28, 2021
    Uncategorized
  • Before bedtime

    All join in! After dinner the kids were playing on the floor. I naively thought I could finally sit down and draw them quietly. But Juno stood up immediately and insisted drawing on my sketch book, then Bertie joins in to draw his sci-fi fantasy. So we sat together until bedtime. For the paint, I…

    Daphne Bennett

    August 16, 2021
    Uncategorized
    budget artist, derwent, drawing, gouache, illustration, love, motherhood, parenting, royal talens, watercolour
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