Experiments

Never sure where these will end up but I still need to try

My monoprints…

… so Monday was Tom’s birthday and I decided to try making a monoprint birthday card for him. Erm. LESS than successful but I managed with what I had. I realized after the fact - and my apologies to those of you who tried this Challenge - that using a heavy-weight watercolour paper was NOT [...]

Happy New Year!

I sat down this morning and cracked my new 2008 journal pondering my goals for the New Year. A retrospective glance told me it was a pretty good year overall. I was given the "All Clear" from the doc for my DVT, did my first - and likely last - 14 day cleanse, visited Cuba, and [...]

Oops! Almost forgot…

Grabbed a photo as T was taking "Casa Stewart" out to the car. I saw this on Craftzine before Christmas and just knew I had to make one for ‘grandson’ Stewart. We have multiple monitors up in our shed so finding a suitable shell was a no-brainer. Taking out the innards is pretty easy then a [...]

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Regular studio work has pretty much subsided while I work on Christmas related *stuff*. And no I can’t show it, sorry, lest those being gifted y’know actually read this. The above is currently sitting on my table - work in progress - but likely won’t be touched for awhile. The second of three raven heads [...]

Final Metal…

I finished up my last project from the Metal Discovery Workshop, an altered Altoids tin, with a shrine to yard statues titled “Grass Menagerie”. I got the idea from a spread in a stock photo book where the line “Gnomes were just the beginning” created a spark along with a small plastic deer (reindeer actually) [...]