and then.....

Well my latest page for dear Martha, a member of the FABRIC GIRLZ, is finished and in the post to Magda in Germany. Martha's wonderful book had a theme of a secret garden with a wonderful gate that opened into the book on the front page,with a brick wall the other side for us all to use as a graffitti wall to sign-in , really FUN !

I painted felt with metalic paint and sewed images that I had stamped into air dry clay and rubbed with coloured rub and buff. Turned it all into a big pocket with treasure hidden inside.

So inspiring to work with earths grand colour scheme,the greens, golds and brown have a calming feel about them I think...

Added tags to encourage viewers to touch and look...

Really enjoyed this book so hope Martha will like it.

Now this little fella is only very small but gave me so much joy to create while visiting with a lovely friend. He stand just 1.5 inches tall, a shrine by COFFEE BREAK DESIGNS that ARTISTIC JOURNEY sell in their online shop. Love these little shrines that come in many different shapes and sizes and can be turned into a necklace or tiny earings.

VERY COOL !!!

Bit of this and that...

Thought I would share some things that have evolved over the last few months, things that have been works in progress for quite a while. These blue ladies are sisters, twins I say but not identical.They are finished (picture is pre-embellished) and now reside in the homes of two great gals that are lovely, wonderful, caring friends to me.

Thought I would share my latest fabric book page for Jo, a heart pocket that holds a secret.Once again I could have added so much more to each one as the ideas keep evolving and have a time frame that my brain isnt set to. Gotta stop overthinking my plan and be a girl of action to get it all how I want it to look in my head ! Each round I learn something new which is brilliant.This page taught me that I know nothing about tention while free motion stitching on my machine HA !!! Still have a romantic thing happening ,working in pinks and purples, but hey, thats the way it goes....


Had a lovely gift arrive from the ever loving, ever giving Dotee which was so awsome from the moment I laid eyes on the parcel. Dotee had decorated the package with little dotee doll stickers and spoilt me rotten with delightful dolls (miss Amelia was a favourite and thrilled she is mine) stickers, beautiful fabric and the most wonderful Dotee dolls for my two girls to create for themselves.A super inspiring gift and makes it so worth getting my gall bladder removed to be spoilt like this, so I thankyou dear Dot for caring about me. Hug you Dotee xxx

and this polymer clay will be heading to its new home very soon.

Love this stuff and so much fun...

Vampire Love...

Have read these books by Stephanie Meyer while was recovering a few weeks ago and just waiting for Breaking Dawn ,the fourth book,to come out on the 4th of August. If you like teen love stories (ahh, memories of your first love) with a little vampire love and suspence thrown in then these are a great weekend read just for you. Brought out the teenage girl in me !

Entertained me too ...but then so does watching popcorn pop, he-he...and I'm going to have to pull rank with miss teen to read the 4th one first.

I just love the images on the covers of these books, quite striking !

The movie TWILIGHT comes out in January 2009 .

The word 'cradle snatcher' comes to mind...

I'm a bad ,bad girl.

Time is ticking ...

Time has been ticking away and what do I have to show for it ? Very little in the creative aspect of my life I'm afraid .My Gall Bladder decided it was time we parted company, so Ive been in recovery mode .Many of my peeps gave support ( THANKYOU) and shared stories of painful gall bladders of their own. I'm hearing that I'm now part of a not so exclusive club !
Very Special INDEED!

Made this canvas for my dear and very loveable friend CARMEL (who creates awsome wire work so go check her out !) ,for a canvas niche swap run on a super yahoo group called INKredibly RT. Canvas niche covered in fabric and painted in various colours, sprayed in walnut and glimmer mists.Delight air dry clay for the face, texture paste piped on for the hair,which was coloured using glimmer mist, highlighted in gold paint.
Made her crown using a wire jig, then hammered and shaped it to fit her head.

Now back to my SEWING. Is there every to be a day that the word SEWING doesn't feel foreign in my mouth ! Hope so.....

Felting for FABRIC GIRLZ

It's been way too long since I updated and shared my latest adventures. Between work, family and doing the mum's taxi thing I really dont know where the time goes. Wish I was writing Ive been too busy socialising, shopping and REALLY ENJOYING MYSELF. Ok, well there has been a little of that creeping in between the other stuff . It certainly hasnt been all bad.

So thought I would share a few pics of my fabric book page for the super sweet gal JACKY,

who chose the fabulous arch shape for her book. Used my super CLOVER hand felter to attach some silk fibre but learnt that time frames and over thinking do not go hand in hand, as there was a few things I wanted to do before calling this finished.

With every round I'm hoping to learn something new and hope to create with a new technique .This Fabric Girlz group is just the best push Ive had to join the fabric world.

I'm still to learn the mastery of hand sewing, but there is hope for me yet !