Happy New Year!!

 I wanted to make sure that I did a blog-post on the very first day of 2016.....

.......and will try to post a bit more regularly than I did in 2015!! :-o


As I said back in December, I have had to make some decisions and choices....

...and, that being done, I can now look forward to the rest of the year without the stress that I would otherwise have had.

I have received some very supportive emails from some very dear friends both in the UK and further afield.You know who you are and I love you all!! X

I have made some plans too...

(for 2017)

...a new body of (exhibition) work to be accompanied by a book.

The subject area (very close to my heart) is, of course, OLD ....... and WEIRD!!

I will give snippets when I can....

Nuff said....

...here are the piccies I promised.

My latest finished tri-fold book....

...Laurel Burch Embracing Horses...

I have had these fabric panels in my stash for quite some time and it feels really good to have used them at last!

...and the colours make my heart glad :-)))))

Love to you all.....

x C

Let us spray.....

Working a little smaller at the minute....

...preparing some Vilene brooch backs to work on while I'm away.

Painted first, then sprayed with metallic Brusho sprays.

Those of you that read my ramblings regularly may remember these....

....made with the same Vilene base and collaged with beautiful Laurel Burch fabrics & gilding flakes.

Don't know yet what will go on the new bases.....

...depends on what takes my fancy I suppose :-)

x C

...another one...

...a little Aztek design again...

It's good to have little things to play with...

...when BIG things feel a bit too much to handle!! :-o

x C

...a lost week...

After picking up a bug and feeling pretty crappy for a few days...

...I did at least manage to get to Busy Bees and do my Magic Lantern workshop last Saturday.

But then...

...two days later....

...another little blighter attached itself and I've lost the whole of this week because of being so incapable that i've had to be in bed a lot of the time :-(

Damned thing has gone onto my chest and I'm rattling like a dice-cup.

Feeling crappy again too...

..especially because I've got so much to get done and time stops for no bug!

Been up in the workroom for the first time this morning...

Just a little gee-gee pendant to show for now...

 Hope you are all having a better time than I am at the minute....

See you in a couple of days (hopefully with a bit more done by then)

Laurel Burch and Vilene - the perfect partnership!!

Here are some new jewellery pieces...

...finished, ready for sale.

Vilene bases with painted Bondaweb, gilding flakes and fabric additions.

These remind me of neolithic "eye goddess" images (Marija Gimbutas)....

...and on this one too....


I just KNEW that I had to have those Laurel Burch fat quarters!!


Ha!! Another "frivolous" purchase is justified!!!!

(Well.....I think so......:-))))))