Ballarat 2012

Just had the most amazing week @Ballarat with Marjolein Dallinga.  (pronounced Mario line) Not only is she an amazing artist but she is a wonderful teacher and has a wonderful heart.  I was sad to say goodbye to her and my fellow classmates. We had such fun. I found the class really full on and along with a few others stayed back until after 9 each night (the security guard had to kick us out!) to catch up and be ready for the next day. We chatted, laughed and of course felted!  I have made some wonderful friends and a couple of them are acomplished artirsts in their own right. The quiet Pam who has been published in a book with Marjolein! and produced some beautiful work. She brought with her a beautiful felt and silk dress she had made, which fitted Marjolein perfectly. A photo of Marjolein wearing it should appear on Pam's site at some stage! Then there was the bubbly Gill who had a stall of amazing scraves at the traders nights. Marjolein took a fancy to one, so our class bought it for her as a present!

Merry Christmas to my arty_oz friend.....

Hope you like it, It will be in the post on Monday!  The top of the shrine is omitted as there is an initial and it might just give the game away :-)

It was a really fun project to do. I started last night and finished it today!  It is made from masonite and it fits together really nicely.  It's a coffee break design and I got got from Retro Cafe  Art...

Happy Birthday Lisa!

My friend Lisa turned 50 this week

I made her a scarf using beautiful multicoloured italian silk. I didn't put any decoration on the main part of the scarf as I didn't want to detract from the beautiful fabric.  The fabric wasn't quite wide enough to make my normal length scarf (and at $130.00 per meter I wasn't buying another 30 cms!) so I bought some plain white silk and dyed it using ordinary old fabric dye.  Perfect  colour match ;-) . I then felted the plain silk so the scarf had pretty ends.  I do hope she likes it.  (The presents remained unopened last night). Oh yeah and I made the card a few weeks before at my second last day at Scraptacular :-(

Lisa's birthday cake was to die for!!

Arty_oz Garden book swap

My page in the arty_oz swap inspired by a project by Nancy Maxwell James using the beautiful Paper Whimsy images.

In the Pink!

Now if I said put yellow, pink, purple and orange and red together you would think I was mad wouldn't you?

2011 Collab Book Page - 7 Deadly Sins

My colour was turquoise for GREED.  A lot of dying went on to ensure all my elements were turquoise (except for the image)

Easter Felting

I have been so slack over Easter, no exercise, eaten too much chocolate but I have made 2 scarves!

Hope you have had a nice break...

Last Tags for the swap

Well only mine left to go...

Donna's:

and Genevieve's: