Completed Journal

I finally completed one of my larger journals and it is now on my etsy. This one has sixty pages including fabric ones and is taller than my previous ones. There's lots of collage and original painted cut out pieces of my art. These journals are so time consuming, but I love working on them, it's hard to know when to stop.



This is the cover, the design is similar on the back but doesn't have stitching down the side.



A fabric page before the journal was assembled.



These two pages have small prints of my original canvases. I'm going to be adding some laser printed collage sheets of my paintings to my etsy shortly.




The remaining photos show pieces of my original art added to the pages. I haven't shown everything as there was were too many pages to fit in one post.












Finally these are the lovely people who attended my workshop last Saturday. They all went home with at least two fabulous canvases. Marthe even manage three. I forgot to take close up photos, sorry ladies.

More journals

I'm working on decorated papers and fabric pages for three new journals for my etsy store. I love making the journals, seeing them evolve. I find by working on a few at a time I can mix and match the pages.

I'm thinking of offering some of my paintings as prints on my etsy and also making laser prints using sections of my decorated papers, for use in art making.






This is a print of one of my canvases, reduced in size. It's printed on archival paper and stitched behind acetate. I enjoy the combination of fabric and paper.






I've also added another pack of decorated papers to my etsy

Canvas workshop

These are some of the stages of the development of the painted, collaged canvas that I'll be teaching in my next workshop from home on Saturday August 8th.




The colours aren't my usual choices, but I thought I would challenge myself.




They started to get warmer as the canvas progressed.





The finished canvas, I like to take the design around the edges of the frame too.


These are two new stamps I've added to my etsy site.

New journal

I've had another busy week making another journal and more jewellery. I've also found out I'm going to be a RoRo (grandma) again. Both of my daughters are pregnant so it's going to be a very hectic time in November and January.
I've also had a request from my three year old granddaughter for a 'princess' wall. I painted a mural for her featuring a scene from Nimo, but she's now moving into the bigger bedroom so hence a new painting.

About this time every year we have an abundance of these gorgeous 'red hot pokers', that's the only name I know them by. They used to be in another part of the garden and only had one or two insipid flowers so I moved them and look what's happened, a brilliant display that attracts the honey eaters especially as it's winter and there's not a lot of flowers for the birds.



This is the journal which is now on my Etsy















I'm holding a painted/collaged canvas workshop from home at the beginning of August, this is the type of thing we will be painting, so if anyone is interested please email me.











Finally I've been the lucky recipient of another award. Thank you to Lawendula, she has a wonderful blog and she awarded me the watermelon award, I have to name ten things I love so here goes

1. my family and friends
2. colour
3. making jewellery
4. journal making
5. all other forms of art
6. daffodils
7. the sea
8. chocolate
9. dogs
10. all you lovely bloggers out there

I pass this on to anyone who would like to compete.

New journal

I've just completed another hand made journal that I've added to my Etsy. There are 64 pages altogether, all decorated and some have my collage art on them. It measures 6 inches x 4 and 1/2 inches.



The cover is painted and then decorated using a similar technique to the one I learnt in DJ's class only I've added my own variation to it.



The following are pages showing some of the artwork and papers.












This is a necklace I completed over the weekend, it's now at Touchstone gallery in Olinda. I really have to get busy again with supplying the two galleries, they have very few pieces left.




I have also been colouring old lace doilies to use in my books and art, I love the vibrant mixture.



For a real treat visit Dneese and see what happened to all of the knitting we guerillas completed. She's amazing.