Meet my first foster Miss Bella!

She is such a sweetie.  Will be hard to give back!

Tim's Tag for Feb!

Can't say I liked this one much, but Tim had been busy leading up to and at CHA and then took off to Germany which I guess didn't leave him much time or energy for tags!

Mine is pretty simple, but I like it's simplicity and I LOVE the SU Love die!

Tim's Tags 2014

Well I wonder how many I will make!

Collab Book 2013

Well it's done and dusted for another year. A lot of time has gone into the contents and the covers. Thanks to Gail Smith and Deb Larcombe for helping me put the 13 books together!  There is one book left over (as someone pulled out last minute).  So leave a comment on this blog if you are interested in purchasing it (all money to go to charity). The minimum price is $AU15.00 as this is the cost to the participants for the binding costs. I will donate this cost to the charity.  There are 11 beautiful pages bound into a Tim Holtz cover and decorated with lots of buttons and ice resin elements.

Gulliver

Gulliver continues to settle in and about a month ago I felt like he had really accepted me as his Mumma. A lot more Gulliver cuddles (not like Jasmine cuddles) and he acknowledges me entering the room. Such a cute boy.  His favourite food is yogurt and I find it is easier to serve him some first if I want any peace. The other night I thought he had a full tummy, having polished off the rest of his breakfast and his dinner. But oh no while I was eating my yogurt

he sat at attention watching every mouthful. He is obsessed with it!

Sydney

On the way home I spent a few days in Sydney.  No trip to Sydney is complete without a visit to the Rocks Button Shop and I found another fabulous shop in Newtown! I also went whale watching and we followed 2 young whales for about an hour. Caught up with a couple of friends too!

Donna Downey Workshops

I attended four Donna Downey Workshops in NSW earlier this month.  Donna is a great giving teacher and such a lovely warm character.  LOVE her to bits.  I am trying to get her to Melbourne next year so if you are interested please join my facebook group!

Well it's been about 9 weeks since I lost Jas, and to be honest it still doesnt seem real when I really think about it. I know I kissed her goodbye, and I have buried her ashes and she even has a headstone, but I still cant really comprehend that she is never coming back.

I am very lucky to have this beautiful boy "Gulliver" aka "The BIG Guy" come into my life. I don't know how I could have got through the last 2 months without him. He found himself homeless after a marriage breakdown. They had to downsize their pets and poor old Gulliver was the one they had to part with. I felt so sorry for his owner when I came to pick him up  and she had to say goodbye. I did say she could come and visit, but maybe that would be too hard as I haven't heard from her. The poor boy cried for the first 15 minutes or so. It was a long drive home - 3 hours - so I talked to him a lot so he would get used to the sound of my voice and hopefully feel that I was not a threat. He has settled in well, and seems quite happy! He cant climb fences which is good!
I do love him and each week I sneak in more cuddles!

Jasmine 6-Oct-1993 - 11-Feb-2013

Last night I lost my best friend in the world.

 

She has been the most consistent relationship in my whole life, I have lived with her longer than any one person – even my Mum. She has always been such a character I would talk to her and she would answer back. She would cuddle me like a small child, nestling under my chin, and the harder I squeezed her the louder she would purr.

She was always a very sweet natured and cuddly cat. Right up to the end she would be sitting beside me occasionally pawing at me for pats and remained to the end very headstrong and very determined if she wanted to do something or be somewhere! We had a very close relationship.

For a while now she has had a cancerous tumour growing in her nose. It became apparent a few weeks ago and her symptoms for the last 6-8 months now make some sense.

So yesterday I had to make THAT decision, the one I NEVER wanted to have to make - the decision to let her go. So many people told me “you’ll know when”. Well I didn’t really know when but I suspected she was in pain and I could not let that go on.

This was –so– not the way I wanted us to part - not that I would ever be ready to say goodbye. I would have another 19 years gladly.

I feel so empty inside, I feel like I have lost a limb.

It was such a privilege to have you in my life Miss J, I love you to the moon and back sweet girl and you will live on in my heart forever, XXX

Christmas

It's been a while......

I had a lovely time in NZ over Christmas.  The weather was FAB so I thought I would share a few photos from my sister's garden!

Happy 40th Teresa

This is what has been taking up a big part of my life for the last month or so. 10 awesome ladies contributed to this canvas. Thanks to Jen Crossley, Gail Smith, Joanne Hughes, Sue Gore, Deb Murray, Donna Taylor,  Ness Henry, Micky Choo, amd Geneieve Payne. OH MY GOD I can;t believe I left off Audrey Underwood!

Ballarat 2012

Just had the most amazing week @Ballarat with Marjolein Dallinga.  (pronounced Mario line) Not only is she an amazing artist but she is a wonderful teacher and has a wonderful heart.  I was sad to say goodbye to her and my fellow classmates. We had such fun. I found the class really full on and along with a few others stayed back until after 9 each night (the security guard had to kick us out!) to catch up and be ready for the next day. We chatted, laughed and of course felted!  I have made some wonderful friends and a couple of them are acomplished artirsts in their own right. The quiet Pam who has been published in a book with Marjolein! and produced some beautiful work. She brought with her a beautiful felt and silk dress she had made, which fitted Marjolein perfectly. A photo of Marjolein wearing it should appear on Pam's site at some stage! Then there was the bubbly Gill who had a stall of amazing scraves at the traders nights. Marjolein took a fancy to one, so our class bought it for her as a present!

Merry Christmas to my arty_oz friend.....

Hope you like it, It will be in the post on Monday!  The top of the shrine is omitted as there is an initial and it might just give the game away :-)

It was a really fun project to do. I started last night and finished it today!  It is made from masonite and it fits together really nicely.  It's a coffee break design and I got got from Retro Cafe  Art...

Happy Birthday Lisa!

My friend Lisa turned 50 this week

I made her a scarf using beautiful multicoloured italian silk. I didn't put any decoration on the main part of the scarf as I didn't want to detract from the beautiful fabric.  The fabric wasn't quite wide enough to make my normal length scarf (and at $130.00 per meter I wasn't buying another 30 cms!) so I bought some plain white silk and dyed it using ordinary old fabric dye.  Perfect  colour match ;-) . I then felted the plain silk so the scarf had pretty ends.  I do hope she likes it.  (The presents remained unopened last night). Oh yeah and I made the card a few weeks before at my second last day at Scraptacular :-(

Lisa's birthday cake was to die for!!

Arty_oz Garden book swap

My page in the arty_oz swap inspired by a project by Nancy Maxwell James using the beautiful Paper Whimsy images.

In the Pink!

Now if I said put yellow, pink, purple and orange and red together you would think I was mad wouldn't you?

2011 Collab Book Page - 7 Deadly Sins

My colour was turquoise for GREED.  A lot of dying went on to ensure all my elements were turquoise (except for the image)

Easter Felting

I have been so slack over Easter, no exercise, eaten too much chocolate but I have made 2 scarves!

Hope you have had a nice break...

Last Tags for the swap

Well only mine left to go...

Donna's:

and Genevieve's: