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Tales from The Shire

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  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 5,723 Forumite
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    ❤❤❤❤❤ just love your ladybird & bumblebee Fortune!
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
    New projection - 14 YEARS 8 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 16 mths)
    Psst...I may have started a diary!
  • savingholmes
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    rtandon27 said:
    ❤❤❤❤❤ just love your ladybird & bumblebee Fortune!
    Me too - they look gorgeous. I can copy but haven't yet learned how to draw for myself...
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £174.8K Equity 32.77%
    2) £1.6K Net savings after CCs 14/8/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £25.3K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 31.1/£127.5K target 24.4% 15/8/25
    4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
    5) SIPP £4.8K updated 29/7/25
  • rtandon27 said:
    ❤❤❤❤❤ just love your ladybird & bumblebee Fortune!

    Thank you @rtandon27 - insects are how I started painting.  I bought a gorgeous pair of decoupage picture frames from a stall at the Ideal Home Exhibition which were crying out for entomology prints.  I looked into buying some and found they were too expensive so I painted some myself.  They are currently hanging in the hall.

    Fortune x

  • rtandon27 said:
    ❤❤❤❤❤ just love your ladybird & bumblebee Fortune!
    Me too - they look gorgeous. I can copy but haven't yet learned how to draw for myself...

    I think all drawing is copying @savingholmes - you copy from a picture, a photograph, real life or what you see in your imagination or dreams.  I copy from all sorts of sources so I think you are drawing for yourself by copying - and you have such a great eye for colour.

    Fortune x

  • savingholmes
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    rtandon27 said:
    ❤❤❤❤❤ just love your ladybird & bumblebee Fortune!
    Me too - they look gorgeous. I can copy but haven't yet learned how to draw for myself...

    I think all drawing is copying @savingholmes - you copy from a picture, a photograph, real life or what you see in your imagination or dreams.  I copy from all sorts of sources so I think you are drawing for yourself by copying - and you have such a great eye for colour.

    Fortune x

    That's a really nice way of looking at it. Thanks for the compliment too.
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £174.8K Equity 32.77%
    2) £1.6K Net savings after CCs 14/8/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £25.3K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 31.1/£127.5K target 24.4% 15/8/25
    4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
    5) SIPP £4.8K updated 29/7/25
  • ruby_eskimo
    ruby_eskimo Posts: 4,795 Forumite
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    Echoing what others have said re: the paintings, they look amazing 😍 Wishing I had some artistic talent but alas I think I missed out on that gene.  Loving the green walls too, looks like a very neat job that YD has done (not like our free-handing that DH has taken to over here 😏).   
    Emergency Fund - £8572.39 / £10,000 :: Mortgage OP 2025 - £
    LISA 24/25 - £3200 / £4000 :: NSD 2025 - 2 / 150 :: Books Read: 1 / 52 :: Decluttering - 4 / 1000
    Engaged 9th December 2010 :: Married 29th October 2015 :: Bought a House 13th January 2017
  • Echoing what others have said re: the paintings, they look amazing 😍 Wishing I had some artistic talent but alas I think I missed out on that gene.  Loving the green walls too, looks like a very neat job that YD has done (not like our free-handing that DH has taken to over here 😏).   

    Thank you @ruby_eskimo.  I've haven't been able to paint for ages due to all the upheaval of this year.  Need to get my hand in because I've promised my goddaughter a wedding portrait 😲

    Fortune x

  • savingholmes
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    Fab news on the premium bonds. 

    Impressive as ever on the batch cooking. 

    A wedding portrait? Have you done anything like that before?

    Glad the window situation is improving... 

    Enjoy WI
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £174.8K Equity 32.77%
    2) £1.6K Net savings after CCs 14/8/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £25.3K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 31.1/£127.5K target 24.4% 15/8/25
    4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
    5) SIPP £4.8K updated 29/7/25
  • Fab news on the premium bonds. 

    Impressive as ever on the batch cooking. 

    A wedding portrait? Have you done anything like that before?

    Glad the window situation is improving... 

    Enjoy WI

    Thank you @savingholmes.  Yes, I did a portrait of Harry & Meghan for the WI County Show competition one year.  Not my usual subject matter but our theme was 'A Grand Day Out' and we chose a street party for the wedding.  I still have it!  Not sure what to do with it really 😂


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