Transatlantic Adventure #2: Seattle, City of Coffee

Having arrived in (a rainy) Seattle, I quickly realised that all that coffee I drank on the plane was clearly wise acclimatisation. Seattle's pretty much made of coffee. Starbucks coffee, to be specific.

This was the tea and coffee selection in our hotel room.

And this is the first ever Starbucks. 

Starbucks. Everywhere.

At one point we thought we were being very cunning and had found  a non-Starbucks coffee shop. Turns out it was a Starbuck's 'concept store'. I think the concept was that they also served wine and beer.

We didn't spend the entire trip on a caffeine high. Other things were also consumed.

Pastries (with, um, coffee...)

A mint chocolate brownie sundae that was bigger than my head.

And alcohol, of course. Out of jars because we're super-hip.

Next post: things that aren't food!

Sunday Sketchblog #17

After all those endless pictures of me whilst we were jetsetting, this week you get my brave travel companion and husband-to-be doing what he does best.


Reading newspapers that are a good few weeks out of date...

and then falling asleep, exhausted by it all.

Week Word: Bird

Sally at Sow and Sew chose this week's word, bird.


This is a holiday sketch... he was eyeing up our picnic for ages, but then seem entirely unimpressed at any leftovers we offered him. A very shifty looking individual.

Pop and see Sally to see what everyone else has done with their birds.

Transatlantic Adventure #1: Travelling

So, we've returned and are only a teensy bit jetlagged still after the Queen kindly gave us two extra days off to recover before heading back to work...


Rather than just doing a massive image-dump, I'm going to jumble up my photos and sketches and do a few posts over the next few days. Tune out now if holiday pictures don't interest you!


We started off with a flight from Heathrow to Seattle. 

Thankfully Nick works for an airline (can you guess which one...?) so after a bit of waiting around and biting fingernails...

...we had nice seats.

Due to the time difference, we had a policy not to go to sleep on the plane. Nick watched a lot of films.

I drew what I could see (mostly Nick, and increasingly erratically following all the Champagne) and relied on coffee and sugar to stay awake.

Eventually Seattle hove into view.

Sunday Sketchblog #16

... and just some more of me I'm afraid. 

Pencil

Single-line drawing

Water colour

I promise I'll have some different subject matter for the next few Sundays!

CPSH May

Still posting from my phone, which is still very fiddly. So this will be short and sweet!

Emma at The Gift Shed picked this month's topics, so pop and see her for a round-up.

Inspiration: Properly bike-friendly cities.



Graffiti in Seattle



Urban: Seattle again.



Something I Made: Raccoon sketches



Transport: aeroplane!

Sunday Sketchblog #15

Whilst I'm off enjoying myself, this Sunday's sketchblog is just going to be some more of my self-portraits. I haven't been managing one a day, but a couple a week has been achievable.