Happy New Year

Well, the New Year is in and dusted. My girlfriend came over from NZ and we had a great time, well I did anyway. We went to New Brighton beach, My friend dont like her picture took LOL............
Chadstone shopping centre, well spent about 2hours there, not enough even to do one corner, but I can now say I have been there, we went to Belgrave and came home via the Dandenongs and Sassafras (sp) spent a good time wondering the shops there. Ohh theres one I would love to replicate back in NZ eh!!Sandy.... Sandy spent her holiday pocket money on some nice things for her kitchen, hope you had no trouble at baggage Sands.
We also went on the Puffing Billy, would have been more enjoyable if the weather hadnt been so darn cold. We took Sands bush too. Now that was fun, apart from the leeches that decide they liked my legs oh yukkk..... we dont know how well off we are in NZ with no nasties like that.
anyway........... She went home on the 3rd. Will miss her. See ya in May Sands.

Play Day finished

Well, I have added my affirmations to my canvas made at Bevleas on Monday.
I am quite proud of it. Am I allowed to be LOL.
My DH said that knowledge made my neck grow and that Pinocchio was my boyfriend. LOL He is a shocker isn't he.

The technique was from Kelly Rae Roberts that was published in Cloth Paper Scissors issue 17. Bevlea is so clever and shared her wealth of knowledge on face painting, will I be able to do it again.hmmmmmmmmmmmm more lessons probably. Gosh, bubble wraps good stuff isn't it.... It sure make a good background.

Any comments on it will be gratefully received. :-)
Good, bad or indifferent LOL............

We are rushing up to Christmas time. We are having the week between Christmas and New Year off work. But looking after the business while the owners are away with family that are over from Germany. We have no family over so we will be Ma & Pa by ourselves. But my girlfriend Sandy is coming over on the 27th so we will celebrate a bit then. It really is quite hard to be here without family, especially the babies. They grow so fast.

Anyway, Hope everyone has a great Christmas and New Year. Check back soon, you won't know what I might get up to over the break.

Playing with Friends

Yesterday I went over to Bevleas to have a play day. Took a day off work......... Well it happened to be an enforced day anyway as I have been a bit unwell for a few days, so it was great to go and play. It was a great day. We played with some techniques from Kelly Rae Roberts Taking Flight book. Attendees were Bevlea, Lucy , Elizabeth and Barb from long distance.
Barb has hers on her blog already. Shes a clever GF.

Here is the first one of mine that we did. Almost identical to the book, but it was a practise run. I will do another soon with the stamps that I originally was going to use, but unanimous decision we decided to do the same as the book.

We then did another technique from CPS that I haven't quite finished yet. I will load it here when its done. But just to say that Bevlea is a fantastic tutor and I learnt heaps about doing faces :-)) Will I remember it for another time, probably not. But hey an email away or a phone call away and help is there.

2 IN ONE WEEK WOW.

Well here we are only 4 days after my previous post.
Not a lot happened at all. Have done a few more things artwise.
Sent a pennant series to a guy in New Zealand and it got lost in the post.
Heres the pics, sorry Denis. Will make you some more.






I enjoyed making them. I will do some more and hope that the firts lot turns up too, then he can arrange them across is new craft room wall.

I am going to visit Bevlea on Monday and we are going to do a page in a book that a few of us have. I am looking forward to it. We will be using Sculpy etc. Never done any baking clay seriously before, so a learning curve for me.
Ciow for now........... I will return :-)

Well I havent done so well yet in posting on this have I LOL.

My thanks to Bevlea for designing my Blog header. Shes good isn't she.

I will now upload a couple of things I have done in the last couple of weeks.
Ive been doing some house pages for a group I am in. The first one is Glass house for Nikki, the Architectural house for Lucy, next is Vintage house for Gail and along side is French house for Sarah. I cant wait fo my turn. My title is "My Mothers House" I have another one ( Greta's) in my camera to upload and another in progress on my desk. They are great to make..

Anyway. I am going to do my challenges, starting today, so will upload it ASAP, first I have to go into the challenge site and see what I am supposed to be doing.

WATCH THIS SPACE

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Ive been reading the book Artful Blogger and at first I thought the book was a bit blah, but on reading again I realise its time for me to do some serious stuff on here.

I like Michelle Wards Green Pepper Press Street Team idea from her pages(pages 24 and 25 in the book) and so I will try and do her Challenges so as to keep this blog more up-to-date. Its not a design team, so no tryouts, its about having fun and sharing your work. The challenges are called Crusades and are posted monthly. So.......... an updated look is on its way. When its done I will link to some very talented people.

I'm also going to Creative Soul Retreat organised by Bevlea Ross, being held in March 2009. I am so looking forward to it. Meeting lots of new faces to names and also some faces that I havent seen for a while. When I learn how I will link these things for you to follow and have a look at some awesome eyecandy.

Cheers
Glenda

Unto us a child is born.

Hey, people, I forgot to let you know that Victoria Rangi was born in Wanganui in New Zealand on July 26th, she is absolutely gorgeous and her parents and grandparents are very proud. I went over and stayed for two weeks. It was a precious time and I found it hard to leave the family behind. It was just wonderful to see the parents and also my number one grandson, mind you it was Papa he was looking for, but he certainly is a Nan-nans boy.

Anyway. It was so good to see Paul as they had stayed with us in Shepparton from early March to mid May. See his picture with his Dad, hasnt he grown. I Will update more later.

Tryptich

Hie everyone..............

This is a Triptych done for Paperarts March swap.This is the inside, the technique I used was from Bernie Berlins book and is the resist with paint, and an iron. Who said ironing wasnt good fun!! I need to learn to scan better. LOL I do like the color scheme. Unusual for me, who doesnt deviate too much from purple and more purple.

This is the outside of the tryptich, it folds into itself.

On the family side of life, we have the family Jared and Pauline here from New Zealand, so have our gorgeous grandson living with us for a time. The weather for the first week was unbearable for them, the power bill will be horrendous...... Not much art time at the moment. too busy having cuddles.

January 23rd

Well, we've had Christmas and New Year, quiet for us and a first to not have any family about.

But excitement, we are off to NZ on Saturday to visit the family and to attend a long awaited wedding. Congratulations Lulu (Rochelle) number 1 niece....We are so looking forward to that day......

This week a friend from NZ had my grandson visit, so she took

some up to date pictures of him. here is Paul at 9months, Isn't he in one word ""gorgeous""I cant wait to cuddle and spoil him. His Dad says hes even more gorgeous and cuddly in the flesh.

I have been busy in the craft room too and finally finished the canvas that I have been wanting to do for ages, Now it adorns the title space on this blog. I really must get into Photoshop and edit out the ironing board behind the pic, but thought you would like to see it anyway.

The pic was taken a couple of days before we left Maziotela in Northern Mozambique to return to NZ in 2001 and it is pics of the grandmother Amelia and the baby Nelia that I looked after while out there. She was crying because Geoff was taking the photo and she didn't like white men as they hurt her. She had to go to the clinic for treatment for her bad burns and Terry the Australian male nurse used to treat her. She had got used to me by this stage. We returned her and Amelia to the bush village the next day.

Anyway. I am going to enjoy my visit to NZ, catching up with a couple of friends and hopefully get a bit of craft work done too.......

See ya in February.

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