Wild Woman from Oz and other goodies.

Lovely things in the post this morning, I did a Wild Woman Swap with Doreen in Australia and got her lovely one this morning,she called it 'Flower Power', it's just my colours and also just in time to wear next week when I go to Crafts4crafters at Newark and see Sarah Lawrence the original Wild woman. I also got some beautiful fabrics from Connie, they are crying out to be mixed with vintage pictures as a post card or book page or both, think I'm beginning to get inspired again, the trouble is i want to do everything at once.

Work in Progress.

Not doing to much at the moment, can't seem to settle to anything with Mum still in hospital so am just posting a picture I transferred onto fabric using Maggie Grey's way with Bondaweb, you certainly get a much more pastel effect than with gel medium. I want this to become a mini quilt/picture inspired by one I've seen in Beryl Taylor's book 'Mixed Media Explorations' - will I be succesful, well that's anybodys guess.

Another Bad Day for Mum!

Poor Mum was found on the floor when her carer went in this morning so she has now ended up in hospital for a couple of days, I spent 8 hours with her at two different hospitals and at times felt that they had completely forgotten about her, she has been lucky so far that in all her years she has never had to stay in hospital so it was upsetting to leave her there looking so forlorn.
The picture is the ATC I made last night for this weeks MAMMA swap - theme 'Maps'.

What a Day!! so far.

Mum's lunchtime Carer sent for the paramedics as she couldn't use her hand to eat her lunch, carer thought she had had a stroke but after a thorough check over she was pronounced fit for 93 and the thinking is it could be part of her Parkinsons, I had just washed my hair and was in the middle of brewing a panful of Pumpkin soup when I got the call so droppped everything and went! Anyway a false alarm thankfully so after reorganising Mum's care package and doing some chores etc we got back and had lunch around 3pm - still have to make my hair look respectable. The picture is a 'rustic' piece I've been working on, the background is wool topps, felted on the Embellisher, with fabrics and fibres added, the picture is a photocopy transferred onto paper using Gel Medium.(size is 16 x 13 cms)

Couldn't Resist!

I couldn't resist giving one of the Gazanias the Dumpr treatment so here it is disguised as an egg.

A walk in the Garden.

Have done a partial tidy up in the craft room today but with no great enthusiasm altho it feels better in here already, do a bit more tomorrow unless I get side tracked. Took a walk around the garden yesterday with the camera, I really think that the best show of flowers is at the end of the summer in to Autumn. We have some beautiful Gazanias so have posted some pics of them.

At Last!

I have been worshipping Jan's wall hangings for weeks now, not at a distance but real up close and personal so tonight I got down to making one of my own. I transferred the picture onto fabric from a photocopy, using Golden Gel medium, then just added paper,lace and scrim as a background on a curtaining type fabric, the crochet bits are from a large rectangular mat I got in a charity shop today for a pound, it will have loads of life in it for future use. Thanks for the Inspiration Jan!!