Mixed Media Adventures

Good Monday Morning People (You know who you are ;o)  ) Pictures attached of two of my mixed media canvases.  The one on the bottom right  I did in a Finnabair class last December.  I flew down to Timaru and did the class at Artfull Crafts.  It was fantastic and something I had been wanting to get into for a long time but didn't know where to start. The lady in the photo is my Mum.  So now I felt I wanted to do one of my Husband's Mum too.  Both ladies died many years ago (see dates on the canvases) so quite an emotional journey making these.  I just finished the second one yesterday and I am happy with the finished result having had no guidance from anyone this time.  Just a beginner at this Mixed Media thing.  Only a few steps along the road but I am loving it.  I have learned a lovely saying( whilst watching many tutorials on line)  THERE ARE NO MISTAKES IN ART.  I am somewhat guilty of throwing away and starting over again but I am trying to incorporate the saying into my crafting life and turn mistakes into Happy Accidents :o) . Have a lovely week and thanks for looking.

I have just looked at my Blog for the first time in Forever and by coincidence it is EXACTLY one year ago today since my last post !!! A lot has happened in my life since then and since the only person who ever seemed to look at and certainly the only person to ever comment on my posts was my good friend Ali,with all the other things which needed attention my Blog fell into darkness. I often e-mail photos of my work to Ali so she is up with what's going on n my life. Today Ali told me she had met with her sister-in-law over the weekend and she was asking if I was alright as I hadn't posted anything on my blog for ages.  Ali explained and said that as no one else seemed interested in my Blog it had taken a back seat and as often happens gets forgotten altogether. Ali's sister-in-law said "Well I'm interested and I miss seeing her posts" How nice is that??  It certainly gave me the Warm Fuzzies.  So here I am dredging the depths of my brain to try to remember how to write a post and upload photos to my Blog. I think I have cracked the text part but am still searching how to do the photos.  So this post and the following photos of projects over the last months are for you Doreen and THANK YOU for caring :o)

August's Class sorted

As I go overseas at the beginning of June and don't get back until early August I needed to have my August class done and dusted early.  I'm pleased to report that I have finished this gift box today and even have the instructions drafted out ready to go.  Thanks to my friend Ali for pointing me in the direction of the box a wee while ago and thanks to the lady who generously posted the box on-line.  This is my version and I made it into a Christmas gift box because by the end of August we shall all need to be thinking hard about our Christmas craft schedule. How scary is that!!!

MARCH ing on

Well I've had a real battle with Blogger so I went away for a few hours and now come back to it.  Hope it works this time 'cos it's late and I might just get grumpy if it doesn't work first time

MARCH

APRIL/MAY

Almost forgotten how to . . . . . .

. . . . .create a blog post it is soooooooooooooo long since I did one.  In fact this is the first in 2015 how slack is that??? My good friend Ali will be saying Yeah too right it's slack.  That's after she's picked herself up from the floor where she fell in shock when she saw this post !!!  This is about my third attempt as I keep loosing my post partway through downloading/uploading pictures.  I think I will do them month by month.  Hope it works and I hope you enjoy looking.
JANUARY

 

FEBRUARY

 

Right I'm going to post these before I loose them again and then do MARCH etc in a separate post.