Easter Greetings

Hope everyone is having a good Easter weekend and not eating too many chocolate eggs.
Paul's school had a Easter Hat parade on Thursday, this is the hat that he and I made for him. He was so excited, it came home still in one piece but had some chocolate eggs in the nest part of the top.

Easter Hat for School parade.

Tori just out of slide

Tori loves slides and the bigger the better. On Good Friday we took the kids out to Yarra Valley Play ground, they have some awesome play equipment there for the children, roundabouts that you don't see in most play areas.

Paul was off climbing the web, so I didn't get many photos of him. I did get this one of him up on the web, he is as pleased as punch with himself, can you tell LOL. He needs a haircut too. :-)

Aren't I just too cool....

I have been doing some art work for some swaps, just need to scan and then I will post some pics here.

I AM SO EXCITED...

this time next week, The FFL or the Rusty Ramblers and two more will be well and truly relaxed on our weekend away on the NSW border with Vic...  Some laughs will have been had, some wine and food and a relaxing massage for some of us and some Arting on its way.. We are away from Friday am til Monday sometime
So watch this space for some updates on artwork. I know that Lucy's wonderful husband has made some more of the wooden houses for Barb and I to make ours too............ Yay!!! Check out Bevlea and Lucy's completed ones.

Sooooooooooo talk to you soon and hope to have lots of photos to put in here

Two Reasons why I don't post very much!

The slide show is just a peek at what happens round our household these days. Very busy times and the biggest reason I find it hard to post what I have been up to art wise. Those reasons Our darling Paul and Toria.   Will post some of what I have done shortly..

The first of these pics depict Geoff's and my weekend away while our Nephew and his wife looked after kids, we went down the coast, was too cold for swimming for us, but I dipped my toe in the Ocean, have not done that for so long.

The rest are when we went fishing, both of them caught a mountain trout, Excitement was at a high level. Then  Paul's 4th birthday, where he was so excited as his favourite Uncle Wayne ( our boss) gave him his bike. We were going to get him one, but Wayne and AK said they had that one for him, so we bought him a large remote control tractor instead. He had two parties, one on Saturday as Uncle Rhys and Aunty Ruth couldn't come on Sunday so they put on one for him at  their place with some mutual  kiwi friends, and Vegod and Ali who Geoff and I had met when we went to Florida, we then introduced them to Rhys and Ruth, 2 yrs ago..   Then at Easter we took them to the Zoo, It was a nice day, but I think even with the Kruger national park in South Africa in our memories that Auckland Zoo is a lot better.

See you soon with some art work.

Spooky Book

Well I finally did it, got the Slide show going of the fabulous work in the Spooky book from Paperarts. Bevlea, Lucy and Eliza came to my place a few weeks ago, amidst the chaos of my moving house and we made our covers and put our books together. You can read about the fun day in a previous post.

2nd December 2007

Wow, where does the time go...........Since last post Ive been down to Melbourne for the Melbourne Paperific Expo. I had a great time and again thank Joan McA for the bed and laughs amidst the car breaking down at an intersection on a dark wet Friday night, Thanks to her hubby Geoff for coming out to the rescue with the RACV rescue, and a lot of $$ later, now don't do what I did, the application to join Roadside Assist came a few days before the weekend and it was sitting on my desk waiting to log on and pay the join up, sure costs more when you have to join up whilst sitting in your car thats died totally at the traffic lights. Saturday saw us at the MPE again, I had met up with a few ladies for lunch on the Friday, Bevlea, Barb and Lucy and a few others, Saturday I met up with Lynette from NZStampers, great to put a face to the name....

We wandered the show together and then I booked into a few make n takes, for me and Joan, especially the Collections ones................Saturday night was the Stamphappy dinner, enjoyable and oh did those girls rag on, there was a Male belly dancer and he was very entertaining, beat the girl hands down. HE WAS GOOD...................shake rattle roll...................

Sunday I went off to Bevleas for a technique day with her and Barb T as tutors, what a great day. LOVED it................ I will load pic here, these are the techniques we did. Using, sheer heaven transfers, watercolour papers, gel medium transfers, gelmedium and pearlex bacground and that fantastic product Brite Shine, you know that stuff that is for polishing your cars and stuff.... It has taken on a new life...... Oh and we did beeswax too.
1: Beeswax, 2: GelMedium 3: Sheer Heaven and watercolor 4: Briteshine 4: Sheer Heaven and watercolor 5: Gel medium background with lumieres and pearlex.

Bevlea had invited me to stay the night, so we played again til quite late. Thank you Barb for being our cook........shes good, rustled up some scrumptious seafood for a very late dinner while we made our Alcohol Inks ATC's for Paperarts..........
Headed home on the Monday after a very lazy start to the day.

Since that weekend, Ive played a bit more with those techniques. Ive been making a few Skinny Book pages for a swap from New Zealand too.....size is 4 1/2inches by 8inches.

These are just two of the pics
Vintage Nature Under the Sea

I have enjoyed doing them. The other thing Ive been doing is getting into some bead making. I made some spiders, hoping it may cure my fear of them, no such luck, so sorry spiders your still destined to be sprayed, hit, squashed........Made lots of charms for a NZ Tartistry swap, will load some pics when they are back...........
And on the family side of things. The little fellow in the picture above is going to have a brother or sister next July........hey J&P, thats too soon you know...........
We are off home on 26th January for a wedding on the 2nd February, eldest niece is getting married. So looking forward to it. At long last Lulu (Rochelle) has found the right bloke.
It will be great to get home and visit with family and friends and to see that little fellow again who is growing up, he now is 8months old. boohoo......He's growing up without knowing his Nanny and Pa............ It will be great to see our daughter again too and J&P, parents of the little one...........When I get some uptodate pics of him I will put one here, no-one sends me any......
We have friends coming from New Zealand next week. I am so looking forward to that.

Oh well, must go, lets hope that posts are not as long between dates again , well pigs fly too don't they. LOL

30th July 2007

Goodness me, time sure flies when youre having fun.. The past month has gone really fast. Im not sure where it went, but Ive done lots of art work which Ive enjoyed, I will put some pics in honestly, I will LOL...........Ok heres a couple.

The canvas on the right is one I did for paperarts July 1-4-1 swap titled "Wares Sold Fortunes Told" the ATC on the left also for July in Paperarts and its tiltled "Metallica Metal Works" Im looking forward to doing the Joy Bathie Masters Backgrounds at the end of August. That should be fun and challenging.

Today I went to Melbourne and met up with one of the creative ladies from Paperarts group. Thanks for a lovely time HRH Eliza. Anyway, lets see if I get back to this site sooner rather than later with more stuff.