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New sketchbook- Lines and borders

I started a new sketchbook tonight on the theme of lines and borders. Hoping this gets me back into sewing! Need a mood board next!!!

Hope your all well, leave me a comment, missing my cyber textile friends.

Baby name bunting/ Christmas bunting

Orders being taken now! Baby name buntings all personalised prices between £10 and £30 depending on number of letters. Orders taken here : https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=105826931055&__user=624204288

Samples found and new things started

So grabbing the bull by the horns I decided to try out the sketchbook challenge after being very inspired by Jackie over at Stitchworks. This months theme is the moon and the stars so I dived right in with white crayon and black acrylic. Then worked in with biro taking inspiration from Van Goch. 

It needed something extra so I added some red biro

I am quite pleased with my first effort! I started working on a second spread now using crayon and acrylic to start but then using stencils to paint through, print with and the cut away to create a negative and so far it looks like this :

I'm having fun so far!!!! Enjoying playing and not worrying!!!! 

Lost

Hia all,
I have been so lost and work has been so mental. I don't quite know how to get back to blogging. My blog reader no longer exists so if anyone has ideas about a decent blog reader let me know. I want to get back to working on stuff but I have no idea where to begin, I haven't drawn, painted or stitched in so long it scares me a little. Any ideas or just stopping by to say hello would be greatly appreciated. Hate to do a post with out a pic! So here you go this is my fairly recent.

Hello I been MIA

I just realised how long it is since I posted here, really done a good job of hiding hey! I have nothing to report, I am working my butt off expecting inspection in school and have set up a new BTEC in Health. I am down 103lb now and train 6/7 times a week still. Ellie is 9 next month and life trundles on you know  - no textiles to report but when GCSE's end maybe I will. This is me now :

and we have had another addition - milly cat :)

Waaaa! It's my bloggyversary and I nearly didn't even notice!

I nearly missed my bloggyversary! I haven't been a good place sewing wise lately, not in the mood ? Done some bread and butter selling of buntings and bags but nothing much.

I have been dieting and exercising again, and re llost my last stone, to be at my lowest weight - 5 stone off!!!! so I thought I'd show you : (hate a post with no pics and as I have nothing to show!!!!)

Got pink hair while I am off school, going in tomorrow so preparing for the looks/bollocking!

Stripes

Been playing with laura's stripy challenges - keeping me sane since craig's op has been a tough one - about 5 days of nursing and I am glad he is partially on the mend cause I am tired!!! That coupled with wisdom tooth extraction leaves me very tired today :( anyway here they are


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New cut

New hair cut today and found hipstamatic for my phone!



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Devil's in the detail

Forgot to post details






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Developing work

So the embroidery I showed you has come on a pace since hub went to hospital and here it is now :



I am doing this for me :) I am going to mount it on canvas to have a piece of my work in my house. I was embarrassed when a friend came to my house and all the art on my walls were gifts, one tiny painted canvas of mine! So this is gonna be for me! Karyn of contemporary embroidery blog challenged me to work in whites - I managed neutrals! I am loving working on this :)

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Laura's challenge

Laura has given a set string this week and after a few weeks of being under pressure at work and home it was a joy to just play yesterday :)


Here are my 2 efforts but I can see more play on this this week as I have a week off ! Might try to catch up the ones I missed.


My hubby Craig has had a mega eye op this week in London - quite far from me in Swansea, my lovely mam looked after him as he wanted things normal for our baby! Who turned 8 last Saturday! He is doing really well sight seems good already and should prolong his sight we hope.

Ellie had a ball horse riding


And check out her Katie Perry California gurls inspired cake!!


Made by me of course!!! Don't look at the joins too close!!!!!


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I am alive honest!

Well I still have no laptop so am trying out mobile blogging. I have been working on this:


I based it on this drawing :


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my eggs

No laptop at the moment so done this quick from hubby's netbook

dumpr link

sorry should have linked dumpr - is a lovely tool :) have a go
http://www.dumpr.net/

Eggggggsellent

Playing around with dumpr :) for Laura's challenge

Ladies gorgeous design work

Here's me drawing ! Check out my lush scar, and why after all this dieting and loosing 5 stone do I still have sausage fingers!!!!!

I am not even going to try to remember who is who's have a look these are the collages they produced.




Love these last 2 especially. More later on the work they did with the envelopes.

Beautiful bills

As promised here are more of the pictures from my workshop last weekend. I stared out with using the windows of the envelopes to mono print, we used one to ink up and the other to take a print off leaving a good positive and negative.

Here are some of my finished as ATC's samples - the group asked me to do something on ATC's you see, they knew I had a stock of ones I had swapped.

These were the fist technique I taught, don't want to say too much as I am trying to protect my work a bit as I would like to do more workshops

This piece is so soft it is hard to believe it is paper, Craig my hubby is severely visually impaired and he couldn't tell what it was at all, thought it was weird cloth, not old envelopes!!!

This was the next technique and as it produces holes we backed onto denim (very cohesive with the envelopes) and we foiled it for a bit of bling!

After being so tight with colour and knowing that so many of my students LOVE colour I thought could I do this with magazine paper? Why it didn't occur to me before the day I am not sure, but it worked and we did some and they were delicious.
The 2 different techniques with magazine papers.
I love this last sample. I am hoping that something will come of this work, am going to try to work a little more on this and make some larger pieces. They will probably have to be pieced together. All I need is something to hang the work on now as I have not done too much drawing other than tangling since the Sketchbook project.

By the way my sketchbook finally arrived in Brooklyn, think it fancied the scenic route!!!!!!!