It's about time!!!

Well it's about time that I posted on my blog again!!! All I can say is that I have been very slack, and still not very motivated - but I'm trying to remedy the situation. How, is another matter!!?? Any suggestions welcome!!!!!!!!! We have 2 weeks school holidays here, so I've now found another excuse for not creating or posting - excuses are very easy to come by lately.......


Anyway, I've received a couple of lovely posts from Francoise. Firstly a gorgeous fabric page for our FAF Fabric Page Swap. I love the design. It was accompanied by some beautiful hand dyed fabric. Thankyou so much Francoise. Also, a gorgeous postcard for my October birthday. Thanks again Francoise! I admired these postcards on Francoise blog, and lo and behold, one was for me...... I have been waiting for October to come around all year - now it's my turn and I'm very excited!

































This gorgeous woolly sheep ATC, is from Anne in France. I love it -thanks Anne!



















Well I haven't been completely uncreative!! My wonderful friend Connie came over the other day and we spent a lovely afternoon making felted vessels. Mine is the purple/pink one (of course), and Connie's is the green one. We had a blast making these - chatting, rolling, chatting, rolling - took us about 4 hours, inbetween cups of tea, bickies and a quick drive to the bus stop to pick the kids up from school.

Postcards Sent/Received

I made these 2 postcards with fabric paper. Both have machine and hand stitching. They were posted yesteday - one to Australia and one to the U.S.A.

I also received 2 beautiful postcards!! The first one is from Dy. I admired her stitched bicycle on FlickR as I love to cycle, and asked her if she would like to do a swap. So, aren't I the lucky one - this is the end result. Me riding my bike in the forest with the wind blowing in my hair. I love it Dy!!! Thankyou.

The next is a birthday postcard from Helen of FAF group - a month early - but heck I don't care, especially when the card is so lovely. The background is from fabric paper (I think)with lots of things to look at, and added charms. It was a wonderful birthday surprise! Thanks Helen.

Pocket Book

Well, I finally got off my behind and made this Pocket Book, which was a Joggles online class by Janet Clark. The front cover is painted nappy liners, organza and chiffon with free motion embroidery - then zapped with the heat gun. I lined the cover with the paper towells that I had underneath the nappy liners when I painted them - which turned out this wonderful magenta with a mottled deep blue colour. The pockets inside are made from thick fusible pellon. The inside of the pellon is lined with coloured paper towell and the outside is painted vliesofix with snippets of fabric, covered with netting - which is then ironed and fused down. I'm really happy with how the book turned out - now just need to decide what treasures I'll store in the pockets.

Fabric ATC's

I'm in a "Snowball" ATC swap for an Australian/New Zealand group. When you receive your "Snowball", you then send one to someone else on the list without telling who it's going to - just a message to the group saying "snowball is on it's way". It's fun, as you never know when you're going to receive your ATC, or who from. Anyway, I'm posting a pic of the ATC I made (as no-one in this group comes to my blog) - and when you make one ATC, you also have to make another......

THANKS to my Cyberspace Buddies!!

Thankyou very much to my lovely cyberspace buddies who nominated me for this award - I feel very chuffed to be thought of!!! As for me nominating 7 people, I really can't, as everyone I would've nominated has already blogged about the award or already been nominated. But just in case there are some people who's blogs I read that haven't been nominated, then this award is for you!!!! Consider yourself nominated by me........ There are so many lovely, friendly, caring, sharing, thoughtful textile and mixed media artists and crafters out there and I think that they all deserve this. Congratulations to you all!!!!!

Not much of a blogger!!!

Not much of a blogger lately, but haven't really had anything much to blog about. Went to Bendigo to visit my Mum and Dad for 5 days, so that accounts for part of the time. But creatively - zip - until today. I made birthday postcards for the 2 ladies in the FAF group who are having August birthdays. Happy birthday ladies!!!

Here is my fantastic Art Nouveau page from Kim. It is sooooo fantastic - I have been ooohhing and aaahhhing quite a bit since receiving it. Thanks Kim!!

Francoise Fabric Page

How's this - I'm early for a change!! I've just finished Francoise page for our fabric book page swap on FAF. This is the Australian Aboriginal symbol depicting 2 people sitting around a campfire. I love our Australian Aboriginal art and the symbols so often found in their art work......