5 x ATC experimentals..

So on the weekend I decided to do a few things, one of which was as close to nothing as possible. I achieved that. Though I have drawn a heap of pages in my new sketchbook I haven’t actually done alot else that is worth showing. I think I am a little tired if incomplete [...]

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New sketchbook

After seeing alot of people posting thier sketches and sketchbooks and realising that I haven’t been drawing nearly as much as I used to or would like to and is something that is pretty important to my creative and general mental well being.  I gathered the materials and decided to make myself a very tome like one.. [...]

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I took a little down time..

I took a little down time recently to reflect a little on things. There isn’t alot going on other than thinking, about what inspires me, what motivates me.. what colors, symbols, motifs mean to me and what I want to be working on and how to do them and so on. A bit of overwhelming has [...]

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House on stilts

So on sunday I decided that I would finish up this, originally the box which I made from scrap pieces of mat board (the stuff you use when framing pieces) which I glued together with UHU glue, then painted with various shades of green, the roof was layered with mulberry papers and clear glaze medium.. [...]

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Wheee…

I have (a few days ago) come to the end of the book in which I was pasting the postcards. I have continued to do these now that the book is completed and will post images of the box I have made to house the cards I make as soon as the paint job is [...]

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Oh the days where you mess it all up!

So yesterday was one of those days, sure some things went fine, but when you finnish covering the covers for a book then go to punch the holes in them only to find out after you had punched them that yes somehow in the past 5 mins your hold punch decided to go off its [...]

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Unfinished is finished!

Hehe! I had knitted this blue mohair piece to use as a cushion cover.. however I tend to get itchy with it, and it was too small so here it has been turned into a project pouch which currently contains #2 doll quilt for a lovely patient swap partner.. the original got .. damaged when [...]

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New Notebook..

I have recently come to the conclusion that my favorite -organiser- type book are the ones I make myself. After brunch I decided that I was going to store some of my notebooks as I do when the time comes that I either don’t like the book or that there are too few pages left [...]

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Stuffed toys..

Usually I don’t post some of the more generic things that I make… Or often much of other peoples patterns. I don’t tend to like to use other peoples things as at times there have been people who have confused what I make from what I have made from a pattern. After telling them I [...]

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Wow, 19 or so Postcards…

So, I have actually been doing these daily, even if I haven’t been posting them.. or much of anything lately. Everything is all wrapped up and glorious and I am onto the new stuff.. Which actually gives me a little more time to work on things that I have been putting off while I finnish [...]

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