The count down's on

The count down is on  

21 Secrets goes live on the 1st of April. 

There's still time to join us, registration is open until October, but the earlier you start the longer you have to work on the classes

To join us go
HERE

In the mean time here's my latest journal that is now in it's new home. I have two more almost ready to head off to their homes.

Thanks for dropping by, looking forward to meeting some of you on-line in two days, depending where you live.

The Winner

Thanks so much everyone for entering my 21 SECRETS class give-away. I wish I could give you all a prize but unfortunately there can only be one winner and that's

HEATHER

I will email you Heather with details how you can receive your free workshops.

Thanks again everyone for participating, sorry there could only be one winner.

You can still enrol to take the 21 SECRETS workshops, details are HERE

They start next week on April the 1st

Here's another peek at the classes I'll be teaching

recycled envelopes

plastic plates

making and printing with foam stamps

You get these and 20 other classes from some fabulous artists ALL for $59

You can do them at your own pace and in whatever order you like, they'll all be there for you to pick and choose. Usually on-line classes start around $50 upwards each. This is $59 for the whole 21 workshops, that's great value.

I've nearly completed my commissioned journals and will have some more photos in my next post.

Thanks Again Everyone

21 Secrets Give-away

Connie from 21 SECRETS has kindly allowed all the teachers to give-away a free class. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and I will draw a name out on Saturday the 23rd March. The workshops open on April the 1st so don't be an April Fool and miss out.This is a great chance to participate in 21 different workshops.

Good Luck in the draw

I'm also very proud to announce that a piece of my work will be published in Seth Apter's new book 'The Mixed Media Artist: Art Tips, Tricks, Secrets and Dreams From over 40 Amazing Artists'. 

The book will be released in October 2013 and is available for pre-order on Amazon

Here's a view of the cover

Just a couple of pictures of what I've been doing, apart from filming three videos and setting up my pages on 21 Secrets. I'm still working on three journal commissions and hope to have them finished shortly. 

I taught a Junk Journal workshop from home last Saturday and think I might start this as an on-line workshop very soon.

this is the cover and spine, this journal has a hidden binding

the signatures

some of the pages

the pages before they have been worked on

and these pages after they've been altered

Thanks so much again to you all for visiting and your comments.

Thanks so much too for those of you who have signed up to the on-line workshop 21 SECRETS, it's still open, so click HERE if you would like more info or care to join us.

and the information for the workshop I will be teaching for the Calligraphy Society of Victoria in July is HERE

Don't forget to leave a comment to be entered into the draw to win a free place in the 21 SECRETS workshops

Summer School in Winter 2013

I feel extremely honoured to have been asked to teach a workshop for the 

Calligraphy Society of Victoria's Summer School in Winter 2013. 

I will be teaching an altered book with a difference. This book can be used as a place to record poetry or your sketching. It will make a unique book for adding calligraphy. We will be making simple stamps to decorate the pages and building up the pages with lots of layers. The workshop is over two days on July the 3rd and 4th

Bookings are now being taken.

Contact HERE

Below are just a few pages from my sample book.

I'd love to see you there if you can make it.

Thanks everyone for visiting and for your kind comments.

Where has the time gone

I can't believe it's two weeks since my last post. I'm working on three journals, getting ready for an exhibition, preparing work for my online class for 21 Secrets, planning a junk journal workshop from home, finalising details of a workshop I'm teaching for the Calligraphy Society of Victoria in July and getting ready to look after my three year old grandson, two days a week, while my daughter goes back to University again (this is her third time), ain't life grand. I love it all.

Here a few photos of some of the journal pages in the three that I'm working on.

I love making trees, this time I added some sheep and a stone wall

I hand painted the flower and the fabric

a print of one of my graphics and a felt flower I made

the houses are becoming an obsession like the trees

this is a patchwork page with lots of free motion stitching

I'll have details about the workshop I'm teaching for the Calligraphy Society of Victoria in my next post.

Thanks so much again to you all for visiting and your comments.

Thanks so much too for those of you who have signed up to the on-line workshop 21 Secrets, it's still open, so click on the link above if you would like more info or care to join us.