I have spent an inordinate amount of time this weekend on these atc's for a swap on the pipedreamink list. The background has been inspired by the wonderful Deb Lewis, http://vintagemoonstudio.typepad.com/ but I'm afraid I have a long way to go until I produce any backgrounds as beautiful as hers. Deb, when are you coming downunder to teach some classes?

I bought a new heater for ther craft room today, as I was working on the dinning room table again beacuse of the warmth in the lounge/dinning!

This is a collaborative project from arty_oz. Participants - Donna Taylor, Vanessa Henry, Sue Thiel, Amy Black,Teresa Abajo, Jane Norrish, Julian Buttenshaw and me.

I am thinking of framing it and adding it to my "PARIS" lounge dinning area :-)

Tiles are from Collections: http://members.westnet.com.au/collections/

Top: Greta, Donna,Teresa, Julian

2nd: Vanessa, Teresa,Jane,Amy

3rd: Sue, Greta,Sue,Vanessa

Bottom: Julian, Jane,Amy,Donna

I guess it shows that I love Paris......

AT LAST I have the dinning room table back.

I do have a craft room, but sometimes old habits die hard and the dinning table is so much bigger than my desk ;-)

This is my page in Lenna's latest swap project http://creativelenna.blogspot.com/

I can't wait to get 20 pages of varying colour in return!

A friend of mine (Otti) has an apartment in Albert Park. This is the

view from her lounge room.

Stunning isn't it!

Although it hasn't snowed in Melbourne,(it never snows here) it has been snowing close by as these pho

tos show! yesterday was the coldest day in 10 years!

Well what a great way to spend a Sunday. I had two lovely ladies come over today - Gail Smith and Kathy Thompson and

we played with canvases and wax. We all fell in love with the smell, the fun and the beauty of collage and wax. I think I was a bit close with the camera :-( but anyway you get the idea f our creations. We all managed to make a few atc's too, but those really didn't photograph well.

Thanks for coming over gals I had such a good time, and now I will finally get some use from my wax and clover iron!

Kathy T's canvas above and Gail Smiths on the left.

They look even better in the flesh or is that canvas?

I sat up till 2am doing this page last night. I used papers that I didn't like - each time I flicked through my papers and came to these I would wonder what possessed me to buy them. But with the photo in my hand these papers seemed to jump out and say USE ME. I really enjoyed working with them and they seem to suit those cute little girls.....

Well finally we have had some decent rain - as you can see from these photos - a lot of rain! These were taken yesterday at one of our factories. Our reservoirs are still only 30% full, it's a shame we couldn't harness some of this water! Still at least the Reservoirs have gone up instead of down for a change.

I haven't felt much like making cards lately, but I have made 2 this week! One of my work colleagues got engaged last week and one of the girls I work with from one of our factories is leaving. She is great fun and good at her job, so I am sad to see her go.

Thanks to my friend Teresa for the inspiration for this card!

Well I have spent all morning creating the back and front covers for my new AB. Rather bright isn't it???

Had a lovely surprise yesterday with Jenny Crossley coming to town! She had to go to Paper2 so Amy and I went along for the ride LOL.

Looking at these cards... anyone would think I had a shoe fettish. Just because I rarely buy 1 pair at a time and I had a section of my wardrobe devoted to shoes

does not mean...........

This week I received a package from the lovely Vanessa Henry with a framed collage and a small canvas collage. Either one would have been enough on it's own! Thank you Vanessa!

And from the lovely Pam, a beautiful handbag card. Thanks Pam!

I have just taken part in an altered book round robin on arty_oz. My book theme was Paris.

Here are the pages. I haven't put a cover on it as yet.....

Top to Bottom

My sign in Page

Teresa

Julian

Vanessa

Donna

I was TOTALLY spoilt on my birthday

Firstly there was the gorgeous Nina Bagley necklace, handmade candle and card from Debbie Larcombe. I was totally blown away by this beautiful necklace, then there is the beautiful sepia/cream tiles from Donna Taylor. Next is the pink arch card from Teresa and the green shoes from Amy. Everyone knows I love shoes! And last but by no means least - the mounted tiles and frame from Helen Franklin.

I also had a bag of goodees arrive from my sister with another shoe card.

Sorrry I missed everyone's phone calls yesterday. But THANK YOU to everyone who made my birthday so SPECIAL!

Two Gorgeous handmade cards! The pink one from Gail Smith and the caramel from Elaine Hannam.

Thank you Ladies!!! :-))

I had to go to the North tip of Tasmania this week for work. It was just a quick over nighter. I flew in to Wynyard airport, picked up a rental car, headed off 15 mins in the opposite direction to the factory, and did a little shopping at a craft store. Then drove the hour or so to our factory. It rained a lot while I was down there and the countryside seemed SO green. I had quite forgotten how green grass really is! Of course colours always seem more vibrant when it's raining. The roads were wonderful and I followed the coastline much of the way. It was truly a nice break away.

We are hiding under my bench today because there has been thunder and lightening!

I've had a new hot waterservice installed as the original one went on the weekend. Miss Jasmine wont be happy though as the air vent for the new one is on the side (not the top) so she wont have a cosy warm spot to sit any more!