What a busy time at present. Sorry I haven't posted for awhile, I will try and improve on this situation.
I had another great workshop at home yesterday, this was the Junk Journal class, I had a lovely group of students who produced some fabulous work, they went home with a new enthusiasm for junk mail. Unfortunately Norma couldn't attend as she had a dose of the dreaded flu that's around at the moment. I hope you're on the road to recovery now Norma if you read this post.
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My jewellery work table has lots of components waiting to be turned into another necklace.
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I received some wonderful gifts as shown in previous posts and so decided to make a 'tree' for my studio to display them. I pruned a branch of our apple tree then covered it with very colourful fabric. It makes a great place to display them as well as cards and jewellery. This bird was from the very creative and generous
Elizabeth.
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The goddess doll and flower were from the lovely talented
Nic and the Klimt doll from the very clever
Jacky.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifxRhmJMlvo6tVXRl-jGR3giuL1QdLku_nmcYAkrJFbALj1-2DN628iI2XVL_rRS1kkbNqLwuGXF2O5J9TGnQVrfoJd4bUIQiFqRRaMI0jpd0grkk_Vd2bvzE01QHJbplQ1QomABnCzhwa/s400/Sylvia's-pin.jpg)
This lovely piece arrived on Friday from Sylvia, one of my students, it's a fabulous journal pin. Sylvia makes these and sells them on her
etsy site.
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This was also a gift from
Samm, another lovely student. This is a brooch made from Samm's hand made felt and stitching.
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Pages from my junk journal, my 'onion roof houses'.
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My 'lollipop tree houses'
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This is the cover and spine of the finished journal, it's the largest journal I've ever made and is not the sort that I could just slip into my hand bag, but it looks good sitting on a coffee table.
This is the junk journal class and the fabulous array of 'stuff' on the tables.