...some wrinkles really ARE good!!

I really must apologise for being rather tardy with my blog-posts lately...

...but with Wonderwool just done...

...and the Empress Stitch Show coming up ...

..time has veritably flown!!


Today has been  one of "boring chores" mostly....

...like ironing two weeks' worth of school shirts before I go...

..and finally getting the website fully up-to-date...

...including all the current workshops.

YEY!!!!!

Now with all of THAT stuff out of the way, I can take a couple of days to do some NICE things...

...like some Lavender & Lace Art Journal pages.

I'll be working on these over the two days at Empress, so if anyone is coming, pop over to my stand and have a looky.

I'm hoping to add this to my other two workshops within the theme, but it'll have to be a two-day jobby as one will simply not be long enough. Oh Dear! Oh Dear! Oh Dear! .....

While the iron was out this morning, I took some of my dyed tissue and made some wrinkled papers to use on some journal pages...

See....

..as I said...


...some wrinkles really ARE good! :-)

All set....

...for whatever is going to happen in 2013!!!

The Christmas and New Year holidays were a bit of a wash-out here, to say the least.

Bloke came down with a bug and missed the last week of term....

...and then the nasty little critter hung around for the WHOLE of the two week holiday, scuppering all of our plans :-((

We didn't even have Christmas Dinner!!

The turkey is still in the freezer :-o

Ne'er mind....maybe we'll use it for Easter....

Anyways....

...the new year has started with forays into the dye pots.

Looky looky at these beauties!!

Tissue dyed in plastic beer glasses :-)

The colours are just glorious...

...and I'm now itching to get on and do some collage, printing and stitching on them.

This tissue has a high wet-strength and takes dye beautifully. It also adheres to itself when steam-ironed, and can then be folded, stitched or whatever.....

I'll be using these lovely sari-silk ribbons and Oliver Twists shiny threads too.

Ooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

And I'll be having an even BETTER time in the workroom this year.

Why?

Because when we were confined to quarters over the holiday period...

...I shifted myself and sorted out the dreadful MESS that was my workspace!

It had become so badly cluttered that I was finding it difficult to work in there. Stuff everywhere....couldn't find anything without major excavation.....get the picture?

Thank goodness for IKEA!...who do the most wonderful shelving!

...and ....Ta Da!!....organised workspace with room to move...

...for the first time in a couple of years :-o

...and I can SEE where everything is now!!

(There's still WAY TOO MUCH in there though :-))

Hope you all had a great holiday...

...and have settled down into your respective creative grooves already....

x C

Lavender & Lace Jewellery

Been experimenting with some of my dyed tissue....

...making a few samples for Harrogate...

...just to show what one can do around a theme...

The photos don't do them justice.

They have a lovely "dreamy" look that I'm very pleased with...

x C