I am so stupid !

Yes thats right stupid ! you will never guess what i did, i burnt my right hand on the stove. I just finished dishing out supper and saw some crumbs on the ceramic and silly me thought i would brush them over onto the counter top with my hand, i mean who in their right minds does that ! so this happened last night and i spent 7 hours soaking my fingers in a bowl of iced water. each end pad of my fingers just came up in a blister and the pain oh my goodness the pain it was excrutiating it made me feel quite ill !

So now this morning i have woke up with a flippin cold and a sore throat i think i shocked my body into it lol !!  and a very tender hand.  I hope it is ok for monday i start a week long course making art quiltlets. well now i have had another day of feeling sorry for myself i will go make myself a coffee and read my new book stitching the textured surface !! x

More wonderful mail !

Happy monday ! i just got back from a great weekend in the states shopping and dining with friends ! I feel like i gained 10 pounds after eating way to many lindor chocolates.... and i just had to sneak into the NewYork cheesecake factory for a slice of their delicious cheesecake boy it was good !!
Enough about the food goodies though look what came in my mail just before i left these two awesome postcards which were from the swaps from Robbi and Linda. The top felted one is from Robbi and the beautifully hand stitched one is from Linda.  How lucky am i ?

happy canada day ! and some of my postcards !

The sun is shining and i am chilling ! it was my 20th wedding anniversary yesterday i can't believe i have been with my hubby for 28 and half years i know we had a long engagement lol ! Anyhow today is Canada day and we are going to friends for a BBQ and fireworks so it should be fun ! I thought i would share some of my postcards now i know they have been received.
The first one was a needle felted card swap on stitchin fingers site and i was paired with a lady from Australia called Robbie and this is what i sent her

The next one was for Linda in the US who i previously did an atc swap with, i decided to make Linda a needle felted card too!

I do have some more but i will post them later !! thanks for looking !!

solar planet ! my little beaded art quilt

Well i am happy to share my little beaded project,  I wasn't quite sure how to finish it and i was deciding between quilting or framing. After auditioning tons of fabrics i decided on framing and i am so glad i did because i really like this piece. I may change the frame though yet lol !  I have also been busy making postcards which i will share with you soon ! I have already mailed two and i have a third almost ready to go so keep checking back to see them ! The little beaded quilt is 8" square.

My first cloth dolls

I have just finished my two little dolls which i started in a class last week, they are only small and i found them very fiddly to turn but i did have fun !  I have named one little miss sunshine and the other one little wild woman. i had a little problem with the crotch area on little miss sunshine but it made her leg kick back like a dancer so i was pleased with my mistake lol !!  i hope you like them !!

my wild woman !

and my little miss sunshine !!

Wonderful mail !!

Hi everyone,

look what i got in the mail the past week or so,  a gorgeous postcard and two atc cards from three very talented ladies that i have met through stitchin fingers site. 

The first one is a beautiful postcard from Linda and the picture does not do it justice this lady is super creative ! thankyou Linda ! to see Linda's other wonderful creations visit her blog  at

http://billabongs2bling.blogspot.com/

My next one to share  is a beautiful ATC card from another very creative Linda and i just love it ! again the picture does not show the true beauty of this little piece of art. Thankyou Linda !! To see  Linda's wonderful creations visit her blog at  http://www.llkdesigns.blogspot.com/

The last one to share is gorgeous and vibrant ATC which i received from the Jen  she is so creative and produces some very creative pieces of art!!  i love my atc Jen thankyou !! To see more of Jen's wonderful creations visit her blog at http://jennie61.blogspot.com/

water colour crayons, pencils and shiva paint sticks

I have had a morning of playing ! i am trying the http://www.threecreativestudios.com/ technique of the month which is playing with water colour crayons and paint sticks. I used stamps and masks to add patterns. My favourite technique was the shivas but i love anything shimmery ! I know i will be playing some more with these techniques as the possibilities are endless !! Here are my samples waiting to be made into something mmmm ?

It's so hot !

Another hot beautiful day ! the weather is fantastic and i just came back from a 9 mile walk down the trails. I am so lucky to be living next to the lake i saw rabbits a deer, chipmunks, bluejays a red cardinal a crane gosh i saw so many things. Of course i forgot to take my camera.
I have spent the weekend cleaning and opening the pool getting it ready, i hopefully will be swimming by wednesday. My yardwork is almost done but we always find more right ? Well going to peg my bed sheets out and then clean the deck, clean the windows do more laundry and finally chill with a glass of wine anyone care to join me !!

My postcards are finished yay ! and my first ATC cards

Hello everybody, glad you stopped by, i have a few things to share today, i finished my two postcards from my class i took with Donna Funnel, i created the backgrounds in class and finished the designs at home. They were fun to make and i do intend to make some more. The landscape one has both machine and hand embroidery, i added french knots as the blossom and i embroidered the fence.

The flower one is some fabric flowers cut from a floral piece and i laid organza on top of these added beads to the centres and then i embroidered some of the highlights of the petals with black floss.

My next little project was to make some ATC cards, i made one which has been posted to England for a swap with my friend Jennie and then i made three more hopefully to swap with whoever would like to ! The backgrounds on these are made from tissuetex which i crinkled and painted and adhered to timtex, The glitter is made from assorted fibres and threads caught between tulle and organza using a water soluble stabiliser and machine stitched before dissolving, i also have added some fine copper woven ribbon. Well thats about it i am working on another project which i hope i can share with you soon !

sea goddess

I have finally finished my sea goddess piece, this started life as a hand knitted square which i embellished onto a piece of painted wunder under, i added silk fibres, roving and angelina fibres. I embellished this then to a piece of creped backed satin and then to some felt. Next step was to add some machine embroidery and some hand embroidery and lots of beads, i made a molded face from paper clay and painted it and then after attaching it i layered a piece of painted mysty fuse over tthe top and heat blasted it in place while it was hot i added some foil highlights. i added some shell beads along the bottom edge.
I wasn't sure how to mount this piece so for now i painted a canvas to try and resemble water and mounted it to this !! Thanks for looking !

Postcard and postcard class !

I just received this wonderful fabric postcard from Sue Bleiweiss of  3 creative studios, I joined in the technique of the month which was the painted lace and my name was drawn to win a postcard . It is so pretty with wonderful colours .

Talking of postcards i took a fabric postcard class on friday at sewfest with Donna Funnel it was so much fun. Donna was a wonderful teacher and she had some wonderful ideas for making the postcards. I have a couple to finish off and then i can share them with you. Sew fest was great i bought more books, fibres, angelina, lutrador etc can't wait to play with my new stash.

I have had a crazy week and i am also trying to get my homework finished for my techniques class which is on monday and an atc for my friend Jennie and a felting piece which will be going on display with my treeman at Reichards quilt store in St Jacobs the middle of the month phew !! ( i'm excited about that ) !
So for now here is the lovely postcard i received from Sue

Felted treeman !

I have been working on this off and on for a few weeks and still don't know if i am fully finished with it yet but i am going to leave it alone for now. This started off with a piece of handmade green felt that reminded me of part of a treetrunk shape. I was going to try and get it done to put in a show here but then i didn't think it was good enough anyway so i slowed down on it .
I used different merino and silk fibres lots of yarns  chifon scarfs for most of the background. The leaves were made from drier sheets with added fibres aand wool then hand embroidered and beads were added. I free motioned the felted piece with swirls to get the feeling of the knots and contour lines of the tree trunk and i added some random beads and hand stitching and french knots.  I added some tree twigs i picked up from my garden wrapped in mixed fibres and hand stitched in place. The photo does not do it justice it has such great texture. Thanks for looking and please let me know what you think !

Painted lace and muslin

Hi everyone ! i decided to play along at the  http://threecreativestudios.com/  technique of the month it was so cool seeing the transformation. I fused different pieces of lace to some fabric, then i added copper foil, i painted it over with lumiere copper paint then dabbed a mix of blue and silver with some perfect pearls added to make the shade of blue i wanted. Then on top i dabbed more copper mixed with some pearls. i added a little bit of rub n buff in copper and turquoise and voila a really cool surface and piece of fabric which i think i am going to turn into a journal cover.
Not wanting to waste the paint mixed i painted a piece of muslin with the paints and when dry i stamped some swirls on it looks so nice in real life. so here or the pics !!

scrumptious surfaces !!

Hi everybody ! hope you all had a wonderful week, a few things to share today !! i have been taking a couple of local classes for my embellisher and we started a little art group to learn new techniques once a month. A friend of mine Judy Eckhardt has taken lots of classes and is well known in the quilting world, here in my county and is passing on her creativity with her own classes. I have tons of samples but today i wanted to share a couple i made in the last class plus two samples i made at home playing and i also want to share some samples of paper fused to quilt batting and inked/painted to look like leather that we created in our art group. i also played a little with my paints and alcohol inks perfect pearls etc.

first two made in the embellisher class felt silks, ribbons, sari ribbon, scarves embroidery

these two i made at home rovings silks, velvet, sheers, yarns

paper leather samples highlighted with treasure gold and the sunset looking one bottom left corner has painted wonder under and mysty fuse on top the two on the right or created using tissuetex and the top left was created using brown paper so cool !!

playing with my paints and ink etc on tissue, cheesecloth, scrim, paper towel and wonder under

Happy easter look what i got this week !!

Hi everyone ! first off hope your all having a fab weekend !! I also hope you all have a very blessed easter i cant wait to get my hands on my easter egg but have to wait till sunday !!

 I have really treated myself to some goodies this past week or so i just love shopping but funds don't always allow me to shop as much as i would like.  Well actually I sold some old stuff on kijiji so with the money i upgraded my embellisher machine to a babylock 12 needle plus i bought the acrylic extention table which i love !! I used one last week at a friends house and i was sold !! Its brilliant when you have lots of fibres and fabrics layered up to embellish nothing drops off  anymore.

I also bought transfer paints, golden acrylics, lumiere paints,  shiva paintsticks,  rub n buffs fabric markers, golden gel, gesso, gum arabic, a new journal  gosh what else oh yes lots of fibres meriono silks, books magazines and oh yes i bought a circle maker for my sewing machine. I bought a few other trinkets beads etc boy it was fun lol !! here is a few pics of some of my goodies !! so now i need to have a good play !!