Caught up again

This week has been manic at work. I was also Beeston Festival and Beeston in Bloom had a stall selling plants. I'm afraid I wasn't much use as we were opposite one of the stages and I spent a lot of time dancing and not much serving!

I've made more quick cards this week but have no more photos of them so here are a couple of closer views of my configuration box.

Now I've got to dash - it's my birthday and I'm off for sunday lunch at my mums - and all my family are back from their holidays, I get to see my grandaughters - hurray.

Sara x

05/06/11

I'm nearly caught up now - that will teach me to go AWOL [and without a decent excuse either]

I didn't do a lot of crafting this week - although I did 2 working parties with Beeston in Bloom - so I thought I'd show you my bead embroidery, which is finally framed.

For some reason the photo is rotated - it looks ok if you turn your head lol.

Sara x

29/05/11

I went to art journalling at Art from the Heart this week and we did lettering. I forgot to take photos however so here is a catch up on my 365 pages.

April finished at last. It took me ages to decide on a character - even though we didn't have much rain I decided to use Dyans lady with her umbrella.

May - as soon as the stampotique owl arrived I wanted to use it so although the full moon in May is know as a hare moon my page has an owl in a tree.

June is still a pink and purple blotchy mess!

Sara x

22/05/11

After a working party with Beeston in Bloom yesterday I went to the range for some bits and stumbled across a docrafts demonstration. The lady kindly showed me [actually there were only 3 of us left at this point so it was more of a mini workshop as she got us to do the card] how to make an easel card [I have liked the look of them for a while but wasn't sure exactly how to do one - I'm very slow that way, everyone else has been making them for years]. I so enjoyed it that I've made loads of them.

In fact I got quite carried away with cut & stick card making and made lots using up papers I've bought or came with magazines and then not known what to do with. I also made some one layer cards inspired by Joanne Wardle. It has been fun mass making cards instead of getting bogged down inking & stamping each layer for one card as I needed one. Now I have stock!

Sara x

15/05/11 - Configuration Box

I went to Art from the Heart for a brilliant workshop decorating a Tim Holtz configuration box this week. It was great fun [although it's still not completely finished [and I'm typing this on 12/06/11] especially trying to find object to put in the box beforehand [Dyan supplied some bits but asked us to look for things to bring with us so the box would be more personal].

I made replicas of some of my favourite childhood books [CS Lewis' Narnia books and Enid Blytons set which featured Kiki the parrot] by downloading dustjacket images, re-sizing, printing and gluing round fun foam 'pages'. There are also print outs of Queen albums but you can't see them as they are on the floor of the box with the union jack flag [I know it's supposed to be union flag if it's not on a ship but that doesn't look right]. I also had to have owls, spiders, a gargoyle, stampotique figures [stamped on shrink plastic and coloured before shrinking] and an egyptian mummy. Although I have something in each box about 1/3 are still not glued in in case I think of a better idea.

Sara x

08/08/11 - BWG

I had a great time at the Beadworkers Guild Bead Show. I really enjoyed all my workshops [Treasure Pins and Steamer Necklace with Heather Kingsley Heath and Mosaic Cuff with Jill Devon] and all the other BWG people were really friendly. Sometimes I worry about going to these sort of things on my own, mostly it's fine, occasionally everyone else is in pairs or groups and you feel a little excluded, but this was the best I've ever been to.

I love the things I made in the workshops - although I only managed to finish one treasure pin there. The rest were finished once I got home from Daventry.

I did tweek the mosaic cuff slightly, it should be bright colours and go straight round the wrist but I wanted a gothic effect so worked with black, red and silver beads and made it point down the hand - it ends with a ring on the back of the lowest disc which goes round the middle finger.

Sara x