Found objects necklaces

We are still in a smoke haze, this photo was taken from our back deck this evening. The sun is like a ball of fire as it's slowly setting. The fires have been burning since before Christmas and with temperatures of 36C and 38C predicted for tomorrow and Thursday things are looking grim on the fire front.
I'm still busy making jewellery, these two necklaces go off to the gallery on the Peninsula at the weekend along with four more and ear rings and pins. I'm also in a charm swap with art-e-zine, I'm really looking forward to that, my charms are almost finished. Back now to my beading.

Found objects pins

I'm still on holiday so I'm busy assembling new jewellery, the pins above along with some necklaces and earrings are off to a new gallery, I'll have details on my contacts page on my web site after I've delivered them.
Wow it's been a warm day today the temperature's in the mid to high 30'sC and no chance of it letting up for a few days, my poor garden is suffering as we are on strict water restrictions due to the lack of rain. We're not as bad off as some parts of the State in the north, they haven't had rain for months, we really are a sunburnt country.

Found objects jewellery

We're back after a lovely New Year's Eve celebration in the country with family and friends, a great time was had by all. I'm now busy assembling jewellery for a new order, I'll have these on my web site shortly with the details of the gallery they are going to.

The photos are of pieces I've made from 'found objects' the top one was a rusty piece of metal I discovered in a car park. I've cleaned, decorated and polished it and added old African beads and wire details.
The second piece was again an old rusty bottle cap which I've cleaned and decorated, the beads I made to imitate amber and old African beads, from polymer clay, I also created the wire bead. Now, back to the assembly line.

Nature's artwork

Life is back to relative normality now the Christmas rush is over. On Christmas day my eighteen month old grand daughter started out dressed as a fairy princess but by lunch time my four year old grandson had traded her his tip truck and was now wearing the fairy costume, the most handsome fairy imagineable. By the end of the day he tired of the wand waving and retrieved his truck - oh for the innocence and simplicity of childhood.

Today we went to the beach and I took some interesting photos of sea weed, the colours were brilliant, the web images don't do the colours justice. After I had downloaded them into my computer I noticed this blue 'eye' shape on the image of the black weed, when I zoomed up on it I saw it was my reflection in a bubble on the weed, nature at work again.

Best Wishes from Down Under

It's Christmas Eve and at last we've had rain to help quell the fires. The temperature has dropped from the high thirties last week to the low twenties this week. Christmas day is predicted to be 16C our coldest Christmas day in over seventy years but we aren't complaining we can sit and eat our roasted turkey in comfort. The grandchildren have arrived, the house is decorated,
the food is being prepared for tomorrow, there is general chaos, I've just completed a necklace for my daughter and I'm about to wrap the presents - isn't Christmas wonderful. Best Wishes to everyone and have a safe, happy time and send love and peace to the less fortunate people around the world.

Altered books

Here are some more pages from my altered books. The bottom photo is of a heavy duty brown paper bag that I painted with Lumiere metallic paint. The stamp is one I carved from an eraser.
We are having very warm weather at the moment 36C which doesn't help the fires that are still burning out of control across the State. The forecast is for cooler weather and maybe some rain if we're lucky over Christmas.

More digital art

Another piece of digital art work using Photoshop and lots of layers. This is for a course I'll be teaching early next year in the basics of using Photoshop. The course will be run at Hann Made Studio Mentone. For details see the contacts details on my web site. I'll be producing more of these over the next few weeks and adding them to my blog as they progress.