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Melanie’s Monthly Journal – January Reflections
Melanie's Monthly Journal

Melanie’s Monthly Journal – January Reflections

Posted on: February 1, 2025April 8, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s monthly journal – January reflections. The New Year and January has been quite the whirlwind with lots of things happening here. Although we currently have taken a week or […]

Melanie’s December Delights
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Melanie’s December Delights

Posted on: December 22, 2024April 8, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s December Delights. It’s been a while! I have to say the weeks have slipped by so fast this year, I have been getting more and more behind with my […]

Melanie’s October Oracles
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Melanie’s October Oracles

Posted on: November 19, 2024April 8, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s October Oracles, which I have to admit is very late! It very nearly didn’t happen, but I have been doing a couple of website updates and artwork blog posts […]

Melanie’s September News Splash
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Melanie’s September News Splash

Posted on: September 29, 2024April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s September News Splash and you have caught us in full work mode in the studio! Nicholas has completed a beautiful horse portrait and I have created a pencil drawing […]

Melanie’s August Apologies
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Melanie’s August Apologies

Posted on: August 27, 2024April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s August Apologies, it has been the most unusual month we have had this year. First of all we have to hugely apologise to all of our clients and thank […]

Melanie’s July Jottings
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Melanie’s July Jottings

Posted on: August 3, 2024April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s July Jottings and what a month it has been! As some of our readers are aware, Nicholas was pretty poorly with Covid before any lockdowns began in March 2020. […]

Melanie’s June Journeys
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Melanie’s June Journeys

Posted on: July 3, 2024April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s June Journeys blog. And what a month! I thought we were busy last month, but this month has been pretty epic too. It began with a good friends hen […]

Aberaeron to Lampeter Walk
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Aberaeron to Lampeter Walk

Posted on: June 21, 2024April 9, 2025

Earlier this year Harvey (my running, walking and workout buddy) casually said to me that he would like to do the Aberaeron to Lampeter walk. He had joined a group challenge a […]

Melanie’s May Moments
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Melanie’s May Moments

Posted on: May 21, 2024April 9, 2025

Welcome to our latest Melanie’s monthly blog news and this month is very well titled being Melanie’s May Moments, as we certainly have had a few moments this month. I have taken […]

Melanie’s April Tales
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Melanie’s April Tales

Posted on: April 29, 2024April 9, 2025

Welcome to our Melanie’s April Tales blog post where we have actually been away this month AND had some days out!! Nicholas turned 50 this year, so we decided to book a […]

Melanie’s March Musings
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Melanie’s March Musings

Posted on: April 3, 2024April 9, 2025

Thank you all for visiting our blog and reading this months post about Melanie’s March Musings! Also a very Happy Easter to you all. I might be a little late with the […]

Melanie’s February Reflections
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Melanie’s February Reflections

Posted on: February 29, 2024April 9, 2025

Welcome to our latest blog post, Melanie’s February Reflections. It’s been a cold month here weather wise and pretty wet. Our garden has been almost reminiscent of a village pond. I’m surprised […]

Melanie’s January Journal
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Melanie’s January Journal

Posted on: January 25, 2024April 9, 2025

Welcome to our first months news for 2024. I am starting this year with a new title theme for my Melanie’s monthly blog posts. This year the titles will be a multitude […]

Melanie’s December Monthly News
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Melanie’s December Monthly News

Posted on: December 20, 2023April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s December monthly news and yet another crazy, busy month. I think this is the most unorganised we have ever been, we haven’t even started to send cards yet and […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in November
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Melanie’s Monthly News in November

Posted on: November 30, 2023March 18, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s Monthly News in November… and another month has flown by! We have been busy little bees working really hard on our portraits. Of course we will show them all […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in October
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Melanie’s Monthly News in October

Posted on: November 2, 2023April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s Monthly News in October and you could say it’s been quite the eventful month! As well as everything that has been happening (more about this below) we have been […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in September
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Melanie’s Monthly News in September

Posted on: October 4, 2023April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s monthly news in September and before we dive into our antics, we have had a bit of a poorly Lily. She went to the vets for routine vaccinations and […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in August
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Melanie’s Monthly News in August

Posted on: September 5, 2023April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s monthly news in August and I have to admit to being extremely behind on this months blog. There just seems to be something happening all the time. There is […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in July
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Melanie’s Monthly News in July

Posted on: August 1, 2023April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie ‘s Monthly News in July, where yet again time has flown. We have had a busy month, I haven’t taken any video this month, but I promise to try […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in June
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Melanie’s Monthly News in June

Posted on: July 2, 2023April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s monthly news in June, where another month has whizzed by! As you can see from our little video below, we have been away on a weeks holiday. We managed […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in May
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Melanie’s Monthly News in May

Posted on: June 4, 2023March 15, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s Monthly News in May. I thought i’d start the blog off this time with a video tour of our garden. It’s looking so lovely at the moment. The weather […]

Melanie’s April Monthly News
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Melanie’s April Monthly News

Posted on: April 28, 2023March 21, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s April monthly news and it is truly springtime in our cottage garden. The wood pigeons are cooing, the woodpecker has been tapping furiously, the Canada geese are flying over, […]

Melanie’s March Monthly News
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Melanie’s March Monthly News

Posted on: April 4, 2023April 9, 2025

Welcome to another Melanie’s March Monthly News. Thankfully things are a little happier here. Dad is home from Spain and recovering well, the car is still poorly (read last months blog post […]

Melanie’s January & February News
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Melanie’s January & February News

Posted on: February 23, 2023March 18, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s January & February News. Our Happy New Year 2023 blog post is long overdue this year. So much has happened in the last couple of months which is partly […]

Merry Christmas to Everyone!
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Merry Christmas to Everyone!

Posted on: December 17, 2022April 9, 2025

Merry Christmas to Everyone – all of our clients, followers and prospective clients in 2023! Welcome to our last blog post of the year. Lily and I did a little Christmas message […]

Melanie’s November Monthly News
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Melanie’s November Monthly News

Posted on: December 2, 2022March 21, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s November Monthly News…Christmas is just around the corner!! Both Nicholas and myself have been really busy in the studio this month and we are still beavering away! We have […]

Melanie’s October Monthly News
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Melanie’s October Monthly News

Posted on: October 30, 2022April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s October Monthly News with another update from here, both in and out of the studio. Nicholas and myself have been really busy finishing lots of portraits in pencils and […]

Melanie’s September Monthly News
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Melanie’s September Monthly News

Posted on: September 28, 2022April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s September Monthly News where another month has completely flown by! Nicholas has been working on a surprise portrait which will will be able to share in the not too […]

Melanie’s August Monthly News
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Melanie’s August Monthly News

Posted on: August 29, 2022April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s August Monthly News, where another month has flown by. We hope that all of our readers are well and enjoying their summer (or winter) wherever you may be! We […]

Melanie’s July Monthly News
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Melanie’s July Monthly News

Posted on: July 31, 2022March 22, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s July Monthly News! We hope this months ramblings find you well and having enjoyed July as much as we have! It’s been a busy month as per usual and […]

Melanie’s June Monthly News
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Melanie’s June Monthly News

Posted on: June 27, 2022April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s June Monthly News, and here we are in yet another month that has flown by. We have been busy in the studio, but have got out and about this […]

Melanie’s May Monthly News
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Melanie’s May Monthly News

Posted on: June 4, 2022April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s May Monthly News. Another month has flown by and we have been getting up to quite a lot this month, with a few days out, lots of running and […]

Melanie’s April Monthly News
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Melanie’s April Monthly News

Posted on: April 29, 2022April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s April Monthly News. I cant quite believe I’m slightly more organised this month and the blog is actually coming out on time! Considering it has been a busy time […]

Melanie’s March Monthly News
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Melanie’s March Monthly News

Posted on: March 31, 2022April 9, 2025

Welcome to our Melanie’s March Monthly News. We hope that everyone is keeping still safe and well. In some uncertain times, we hope our blog post this month will bring a smile. […]

Melanie’s February Monthly News
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Melanie’s February Monthly News

Posted on: March 7, 2022March 20, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s February Monthly News, we hope that all of our readers and followers are all keeping well! Spring is on its way! We start this blog off with some beautiful […]

Melanie’s January Monthly News
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Melanie’s January Monthly News

Posted on: January 30, 2022March 21, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s January Monthly News! This year is going as fast as the last one went! Other than the quick blog post showing our Christmas tree and decorated cottage, I haven’t […]

Happy Christmas & Happy New Year!
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Happy Christmas & Happy New Year!

Posted on: December 24, 2021April 6, 2025

Welcome to our festive blog post – a very Happy Christmas & Happy New Year to you all! We have had a busy couple of months with portraits and we are now […]

Melanie’s October Monthly News
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Melanie’s October Monthly News

Posted on: November 3, 2021April 9, 2025

Boo! Welcome to Melanie’s October Monthly News and Happy Halloween to all! Well it’s safe to say Lily LOVES pumpkin!! My friend Jo and I carved my dads pumpkins this year, which […]

Melanie’s September Monthly News
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Melanie’s September Monthly News

Posted on: October 1, 2021March 15, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s September Monthly News! We start off this month in a similar way to last month and talk about the Race For Life. I wanted to thank everyone for donating […]

Melanie’s August Monthly News
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Melanie’s August Monthly News

Posted on: August 31, 2021March 26, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s August Monthly News and this month we are starting things off a little differently. A very dear friend of ours passed away on Sunday from Cancer. I am doing […]

Melanie’s July Monthly News
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Melanie’s July Monthly News

Posted on: July 28, 2021April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s July monthly news, the latest instalment in what we have been getting up to this month. New Fence and Garden Renovations… As some fo our regular readers may know, […]

Melanie’s June Monthly News
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Melanie’s June Monthly News

Posted on: July 1, 2021April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s June Monthly News and yet another month has flown by again. It seems to be going so fast this year. We have been incredibly busy in the garden again […]

Melanie’s May Monthly News
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Melanie’s May Monthly News

Posted on: June 4, 2021April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s May Monthly News which will mostly comprise of the completion of our front garden renovations…at last! The photo below, even though a fairly old photo, shows the old stone […]

Melanie’s April Monthly News
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Melanie’s April Monthly News

Posted on: April 28, 2021April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s April Monthly News where we have been a little further afield this month. All thanks to the relaxing of restrictions, plus we have been pretty busy to boot too! […]

Melanie’s March Monthly News
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Melanie’s March Monthly News

Posted on: March 31, 2021March 21, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s March monthly news where we have still been in lockdown! No exciting photos as such this month as we haven’t been very far. The good news is thought we […]

Melanie’s February Monthly News
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Melanie’s February Monthly News

Posted on: February 28, 2021March 21, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s February Monthly News, in a month where we have had quite a lot of rain….! We had a deluge of about 3 days and nights of constant hard rain […]

Melanie’s January Monthly News
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Melanie’s January Monthly News

Posted on: January 23, 2021April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s January Monthly News and another month has whizzed by. Well I say whizzed, we are still in lockdown and so haven’t really been anywhere exciting….. well anywhere really! Our […]

Melanie’s December Monthly News
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Melanie’s December Monthly News

Posted on: December 31, 2020March 21, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s December Monthly News – the last blog of the year! I’m wring this on New Years Eve and I think if you ask most people today, they will surely […]

Melanie’s November Monthly News
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Melanie’s November Monthly News

Posted on: November 30, 2020March 21, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s November Monthly News. It has been a busy month, in fact the last 4 weeks have literally flown and it seems only a few days ago I sat down […]

Melanie’s October Monthly News
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Melanie’s October Monthly News

Posted on: October 31, 2020March 21, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s October Monthly News! I gave the game away a little with the feature image didn’t I! Yes, we have had babies! It has been a very ‘eggciting’ time. Consequently […]

Melanie’s September Monthly News
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Melanie’s September Monthly News

Posted on: September 29, 2020March 24, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s September monthly news with a little run down of whats been happening here this month. The first piece of news is quite sad, one of my hens died and […]

Melanie’s August Monthly News
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Melanie’s August Monthly News

Posted on: September 1, 2020April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s August Monthly News about what we have been up to this month. Often here in Wales we have beautiful weather all the way up to August and then it […]

Melanie’s July Monthly News
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Melanie’s July Monthly News

Posted on: July 31, 2020April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s July monthly news, another month has flown by again and here we are with lots more photos and news. Lily and myself have still been doing our early morning […]

Melanie’s June Monthly News
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Melanie’s June Monthly News

Posted on: June 27, 2020March 21, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s June Monthly News! We hope that all of our readers are being able to stay well and healthy across the globe. Nicholas and myself are both fine here and […]

Melanie’s May Monthly News
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Melanie’s May Monthly News

Posted on: June 12, 2020March 21, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s May Monthly News! And if there was ever a tongue twister that might be a good one! We are still in lockdown here in Wales. We can only go […]

Melanie’s April Monthly News
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Melanie’s April Monthly News

Posted on: May 1, 2020March 21, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s April Monthly News. We usually add photos of our little jaunts and expeditions with Lily, but like most people all over the world, we haven’t been anywhere! The weather […]

Melanie’s March Monthly News
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Melanie’s March Monthly News

Posted on: April 4, 2020March 21, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s March monthly news. Well all I can say is that this months news is nothing like any other month I have blogged about! What unprecedented times we are living […]

Melanie’s February Monthly News
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Melanie’s February Monthly News

Posted on: February 25, 2020April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s February Monthly News. Well, February has been a stormy one! We have had winds, rain, more winds, more rain, hail, thunder and a lot more winds and rain. How […]

Melanie’s January Monthly News
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Melanie’s January Monthly News

Posted on: January 30, 2020March 21, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s January Monthly News – Happy New Year 2020! We hope that you all had a lovely festive season and New Year. We are now in our 23rd year for […]

Melanie’s December Monthly News
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Melanie’s December Monthly News

Posted on: December 30, 2019April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s December Monthly News! Merry Christmas to everyone! As you may have noticed we haven’t posted any artwork in the last couple of months. Mainly as most of it has […]

Melanie’s November Monthly News
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Melanie’s November Monthly News

Posted on: November 30, 2019April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s November Monthly News. As you can probably imagine it has been very busy here in the studio with portraits for Christmas. However we did manage to get out and […]

Melanie’s October News
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Melanie’s October News

Posted on: October 30, 2019April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s October News! It has been a busy month with lots of things happening. At the start of the month I had an odd headache bug, then as soon as […]

Pencil Pet Portrait of Bramble
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Pencil Pet Portrait of Bramble

Posted on: October 28, 2019April 1, 2025

Welcome to my latest piece of artwork, a pencil pet portrait of Bramble. Commissioned by Richard for his wife birthday as a surprise. Framed using our Madison Slate frame. One of my […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in September
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Melanie’s Monthly News in September

Posted on: September 30, 2019April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s monthly news in September! Where has this month flow to?! I can’t believe it is October already. We are both pretty much fully booked for Christmas portraits, we haven’t […]

Melanie’s August News
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Melanie’s August News

Posted on: August 31, 2019April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s August News! We hope that you enjoyed our last months news all about our roof renovations. If you haven’t already taken a peak, you can do here – June […]

Melanie’s June & July News
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Melanie’s June & July News

Posted on: July 31, 2019April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s June & July News! It has been extremely busy here in the last couple of months, hence why we didn’t have a blog newsletter last month. As you can […]

Melanie’s May News
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Melanie’s May News

Posted on: June 1, 2019April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s May News which, this month has all been about ponds, frogs, toads, water snails, newts, bees and flowers! Oh and a naughty cat! The photo below shows what the […]

Melanie’s April News
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Melanie’s April News

Posted on: May 4, 2019April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s April News. What a difference 20 days makes! As you can see from the photo below of our front garden, at the start of April we had an unexpected […]

Melanie’s March News
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Melanie’s March News

Posted on: March 30, 2019April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s March News! We actually haven’t been anywhere of note this month. It’s all been about getting portraits completed for deadlines. However whilst we have been busy bees in our […]

Melanie’s February News
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Melanie’s February News

Posted on: February 24, 2019April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s February News! This month has flown by again. I cant quite believe we are at the end of February already. We have had a busy month, we have been […]

Melanie’s January News
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Melanie’s January News

Posted on: January 30, 2019April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s January News! Its been a busy month with work, however we did manage to go to a few places this month. Starting with a favourite place of ours called […]

Melanie’s December News
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Melanie’s December News

Posted on: December 31, 2018March 19, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s December News! Well, what a month. I literally can’t believe how much work we have completed in the month of December. I’m sure that you can see by the […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in November
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Melanie’s Monthly News in November

Posted on: December 1, 2018April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s monthly news in November! I can’t believe how quickly the months have been flying by. We really haven’t been out and about much at all this month, mainly due […]

Happy Halloween 2018!!
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Happy Halloween 2018!!

Posted on: October 31, 2018April 6, 2025

Happy Halloween 2018!! Welcome to our Halloween post of 2018. Every year we celebrate Halloween by carving pumpkins and also decorating our inglenook with them and different coloured lights. We started with […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in October
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Melanie’s Monthly News in October

Posted on: October 29, 2018March 14, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s Monthly News in October. Well, it’s definitely autumn! The leaves are falling fast and we took Lily to our favourite woodland walk in the forestry near us. It was full […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in September
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Melanie’s Monthly News in September

Posted on: September 30, 2018March 14, 2025

Welcome to my Melanie’s Monthly News in September! As usual, and I always say, it hasn’t the month flown! We have been busy with extra curricular activities in our downtime this month […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in August
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Melanie’s Monthly News in August

Posted on: August 30, 2018March 14, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s Monthly News in August! This month has flown by again. We haven’t been on many trips this month due to work being uber busy. We did manage to get […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in July
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Melanie’s Monthly News in July

Posted on: July 29, 2018March 14, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s Monthly news in July. Another month has flown by and we have been really busy in the studio painting and drawing portraits. However we have had time to get […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in June
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Melanie’s Monthly News in June

Posted on: June 30, 2018April 6, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s monthly news in June! It has been an extremely busy month here, which isn’t all that surprising as our lives are just generally busy all year around anyway, there […]

Melanie’s Monthly News in May!
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Melanie’s Monthly News in May!

Posted on: May 18, 2018April 6, 2025

Welcome to Melanie’s Monthly News in May! To go alongside our artwork posts, I thought I would do a little news of what’s been happening here each month. All about two pet […]

Introducing Lily Our Tibetan Terrier
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Introducing Lily Our Tibetan Terrier

Posted on: March 12, 2018March 14, 2025

Introducing Lily our Tibetan Terrier. We have had Lily since she was 8 weeks old and she was so tiny. Such a little bundle of joy. We loved her from the moment […]

Merry Christmas to all of our Readers!
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Merry Christmas to all of our Readers!

Posted on: December 23, 2017March 14, 2025

Nicholas and myself would like to wish our readers a very Merry Christmas! We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers who commissioned portraits from us […]

A Tiramisu Of Artists!
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A Tiramisu Of Artists!

Posted on: December 21, 2017March 14, 2025

You maybe wondering why this blog post is titled..A Tiramisu Of Artists! Funny story. We have some lovely friends which we head on out with each year for a special gathering. Karen […]

Snow!
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Snow!

Posted on: December 11, 2017March 14, 2025

We have had a very pretty fall of snow here in Wales. We thought we would share a few photos with everyone. The first photo is one of our studio nestled down […]

Day out at Mwnt
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Day out at Mwnt

Posted on: November 1, 2017March 14, 2025

The weather was beautiful at the weekend and so we decided to have a day out at Mwnt. We headed out to the local beauty spot on the coast I wish I […]

Pet Portraits Halloween!
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Pet Portraits Halloween!

Posted on: November 1, 2017March 14, 2025

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Halloween yesterday if you were celebrating. We had our very own Pet Portraits Halloween! Nicholas and I worked for most of the day on our […]

New Studio Sofa and Website Updates
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New Studio Sofa and Website Updates

Posted on: October 1, 2017March 14, 2025

Welcome to our New Studio Sofa and Website Updates post! We have a new studio sofa! It has actually been here for just over a month however with the build and getting […]

Lily Tibetan Terrier and her Rosette
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Lily Tibetan Terrier and her Rosette

Posted on: September 20, 2017March 14, 2025

Welcome to my blog post all about Lily Tibetan Terrier and her rosette. Amazingly Lily passed her Novice Certificate Test at our local dog club and we are so pleased! We had a […]

Bank Holiday Weekend at Cors Caron
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Bank Holiday Weekend at Cors Caron

Posted on: August 30, 2017April 6, 2025

We have spent a lovely bank holiday weekend at Cors Caron. Nicholas and myself had a friend to stay from the south of England for the long weekend. All of us visited a […]

Lily passed her KC Good Citizens Silver
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Lily passed her KC Good Citizens Silver

Posted on: June 3, 2017April 6, 2025

Lily passed her KC Good Citizens Silver! Lily and I have been training with our local dog club over the last couple of months. We have been studying the exercises for the […]

More Cottage Renovations
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More Cottage Renovations

Posted on: March 14, 2017March 13, 2025

Yes, we have been doing more cottage renovations! We have been living in our little cottage for 10 years this autumn. We have been doing renovations since we moved in. Some of […]

Sunday Squirrels
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Sunday Squirrels

Posted on: January 22, 2017March 13, 2025

Our post today is all about Sunday Squirrels. We have a pair of squirrel who live in the little woodland of trees just below our studio. It isnt really a woodland as […]

Happy New Year 2017! 
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Happy New Year 2017! 

Posted on: January 2, 2017April 6, 2025

Happy New Year 2017 to all of our readers! We hope that everyone reading our blog had a wonderful festive season! With all good intentions I had tried to get down to […]

Tree surgeons were here…
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Tree surgeons were here…

Posted on: November 30, 2016March 13, 2025

Tree surgeons were here recently to fell a large ash tree which is right next to our art studio. The tree was very tall and straight. It was an Ash tree, however […]

Chickens outside the studio
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Chickens outside the studio

Posted on: November 29, 2016March 13, 2025

Our chickens outside the studio today were sunning themselves and I thought it was a great photo opportunity. The chickens do have their own run, its quite large. They have a little […]

Studio and website news!
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Studio and website news!

Posted on: November 27, 2016March 13, 2025

Welcome to our latest art studio and website news! It’s amazing when, all of a sudden, you find new ways of using technology for blogging. It never ceases to amaze me how […]

Lily the Tibetan Terrier – We Passed our bronze!
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Lily the Tibetan Terrier – We Passed our bronze!

Posted on: October 19, 2016March 13, 2025

Lily the Tibetan Terrier has passed her Bronze Kennel Club Certificate. Lots of things have been happening here over the last few weeks. From doing lots of small jobs on our little […]

Tibetan Terrier – Our Lily!
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Tibetan Terrier – Our Lily!

Posted on: July 1, 2016March 13, 2025

As some of our regular readers will know we have a gorgeous and very lovable Tibetan Terrier called Lily. She is three years old this month. As any dog owner will know, time […]

In the Studio 2016…..
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In the Studio 2016…..

Posted on: January 27, 2016March 13, 2025

In the Studio 2016 wishing our readers a very happy, albeit a little belated, New Year. We hope that you had a lovely festive season and are now keeping well and happy […]

Merry Christmas 2015!
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Merry Christmas 2015!

Posted on: December 25, 2015April 6, 2025

Merry Christmas 2015 to all of our clients and readers of our blog! We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our clients who have commissioned us this year. […]

Happy Christmas!
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Happy Christmas!

Posted on: December 24, 2014March 11, 2025

Happy Christmas 2014 to you all! We would like to wish all of our clients a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We would also like to thank everyone who […]

Welcome to our NEW ART STUDIO!
Melanie's Monthly Journal

Welcome to our NEW ART STUDIO!

Posted on: July 17, 2014March 11, 2025

Welcome to our new art studio! The studio is DONE! Some of our regular followers and clients will know that we have been a little quiet on our blog in the last […]

Exciting news revealed…..
Melanie's Monthly Journal

Exciting news revealed…..

Posted on: May 27, 2014April 6, 2025

Exciting news revealed today!! Some of our clients may know we are currently working in a lovely studio in our cottage. We renovated the upstairs of our cottage a few years ago. We […]

Melanie & Nicholas ‘Behind The Scenes’ Blog
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Melanie & Nicholas ‘Behind The Scenes’ Blog

Posted on: January 25, 2014April 9, 2025

Welcome to Melanie & Nicholas’ ‘Behind The Scenes’ Art Studio Blog – 2014! We are thrilled to welcome you to our cosy corner of the internet!​ As you may already know we […]

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