AND THE WINNER IS

1. Sue M
2. Marilyn Rock
3. Barb T
4. Loes
5. Hermine
6. Svetlana
7. Jen C
8. Margaret W

Timestamp: 2010-07-11 13:28:14 UTC

I used Random.org to choose the winner

So congratulations to Sue Maher.              I am sure I have your address Sue, so watch the post box. When I have sent the gift and it is received I will post on here what it was :-)

Ohhhhhhh this if fun, I must do it again..................

60 years plus 1 month GIVEAWAY

and this is my 61st post, how about that. hmmmmm might just have to find something to giveaway.

So please leave me a comment about the lovely birthday gift I received from the Lovely Lucy , she gave it to me yesterday at Evas. If you want to know how she made it please visit her blog. The top has the words. "THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING" I love it...  Thanks too for Pic Lucy

I felt a bit neglected for my 60th because we live over here in Australia now, altho the family here in Melbourne put on a surprise dinner at home for me. We should have gone to NZ to a family wedding  but too many things needed to be bought and replaced etc etc at the same time... never mind, next decade, maybe  I will jump from a plane tandem or something next time. LOL.....

Anyway, as well as receiving this lovely gift from Lucy we got together at Evas and learnt to do enamelling from a friend of Evas.  Pic of Lucy and I absolutely LURVING EACH OTHER LOL..... heeheehe...

Here are my samples at left, probably won't do to much of this as it requires either a kiln or a big gas torch, larger than the one I have got.

It was good fun though. The two discs were done by first preparing the copper disc, then putting the enamel on it and firing it, then adding a paper template and adding a different color of enamel and firing again. The S one was putting a color on the prepared copper disc firing, then another color and drawing in it with a toothpick and then firing it. The third was a different technique called swirling, which we put three or more colors on the brass and then melted it over the torch and then when it was a honey consistency I drew in it with a metal pick, (with a glove on, off course)

The picture of the kiln, I stole LOL...............

Anyway, look forward to your comments and I will choose a winner random.org style and send of a little something to the lovely winner.

Please Leave me a Comment

I have had to moderate my posts as there were some very unsavoury links on a few comments posted lately.
So please do leave me a comment. I love receiving them and will always try and get back to you to say thanks for visiting me.
Regards
Glenda

Another Alice Page

for Paperarts 2010 challenge book.
There has been a lot of talk on the group about how behind most of us are with our pages, that it inspired me to do a page to try and catch up. I think the fabulous Lucy is the only one who is up to date.

Anyway, here is THE WHITE RABBIT...
I am mostly doing Zetti style for my book, but this one is a bit dark as I used a fairly dark background, possibly will add a bit more color as I get more dissatisfied with it. LOL.....

Next I wll do Alice and then Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. As I sit here typing this my daughter in law is out in dining room actually watching a copy of Alice on my laptop that a friend gave me. If you didnt see the movie try and get to it as it was great. I went to a 3D viewing on the Gold Coast with Carol when we had finished our work conference we were up there for.

UPDATE ON JOURNAL

    COMMITTMENT...........

As previously posted Bevlea, Lucy and I are having fabulous play days, we are doing a journal of affirmations.

My card chosen from Bevlea's little box was Committment.

I did a face painting of which I am not very good at, at all.. LOL and I pasted it to the page. My committment is to practice to do better faces among other things... To learn and Grow in that area.
The page is dictionary paper that had committment on it and I then painted, glitzed and textured the page, then added the face I did on scrap paper :-)  and blended it in with rub-ons etc, then stamped a foam stamp with Lumiere. Did a bit of jornalling which is mostly the words from the affirmation card. I guess as we work at them I might add more to this page too........ I enjoyed it very much because it is just for me....

WOWEE WOWEE

Check this out..
""GIVEAWAY
Thanks to everybody who entered their name into my double book giveaway from the last meeting of The Book Guild. There were 94 entries and 2 winners. JeriAnn from Commuter's Journal won a copy of Digital Expressions. Glenda from Glenda's Artscapes won a copy of The Journal Junkies Workshop. Congratulations to you both! Please contact me via email with your mailing address. And keep visiting on Sundays for The Book Guild as there are many more giveaways to come! ""

Seth, thank you so much and to find it came so close to my birthday too.
I am so looking forward to it arriving, as you can see from a previous post "The Art Queens" namely Bevlea, Lucy and I have just embarked on a journalling journey, so this will come in handy. Again thanks so much and I will be back......
 
 
 
 
Now , I received two lovely cards from some lovely people too..

From Eva and Lucy.  Both cards open out as a stand up canvas. Fabulous and thank you so much to both of you. Bevlea sent me a lovely spiel about the 3/6 1950. Great too, I had no idea about all those things that happened etc on that day.
 
 
 
 

Linda Baldocks Give Away

Linda is giving away a piece of art. Go check it out. And good luck to all who leave her a comment.
I know I would love to win it. Its fabulous.

Beginnings of an Art Journal

Last week Bevlea, Lucy and I "The Art Queens" got together to start a Journal each. We have wanted to do journalling for quite a while and  so we decided to make our pages first. We all just slapped around, torn paper, paint, stamps, moon glows, stencils etc etc... to form the backgrounds. Bevlea is using an old "boring as she calls it" book. Lucy and I are making ours on chipboard and will bind them later. Bevlea is bringing along some wisdom words that her daughter Fiona gave her some time ago and we choose one each time to use on our page. We will decoreat the page to show the quote and at the end will have a lovely Inspiration Book. 

This is a sample of some of the pages that I have prepared, with torn scrapbook papers and dictionary pages etc. they still have to be stencilled, glitzed, painted etc etc.
We had a lovely interesting natter about all sorts of things and loads of laughs while we were together.................

Back to OZ and more

Well time flies when you are having fun, or are so busy because 2 children and the mum came back here with us to live with us. So we are a pretty busy household with a 22mth old and a 3yr old here to care for and teach Mum to be a Mum and house keeper etc.

I am glad to be back........................ Even though its winter I love this SUNBURN'T country. I found NZ green trees to be very bland and couldnt wait to get back to the differnt colors of the gum trees etc. Yeah I know Sad eh!!! But true.

Marions Beatle Swap has landed at my house and I want to thank from Left to Right

Marion Rock, Charlotte Fern and Katrin Pieschel

for the fabulous ATC's received. Thank you again to Marion for inviting me to join in again this year.



Freindly Plastic
On Saturday I had Jessie from New Zealand call in and have a play here and she introduced me to the delights of Freindly Plastic, whcih I must order from Petra in Christchurch NZ as I have no idea where to get it in Aussie.

More tomorrow night I hope see you there............

Family

Just a quick update to the previous post about family.
The Family Group Conference is cancelled and the children and the mother are coming to Australia to live with us. They come here on the 9th May. We are leaving early am , like in about 4 hours time for the airport and the flight to NZ. Will be good to catch up with some very good friends before we head up north to pick up our family.

I am feeling a bit better about it all, but disappointed that it came down to our Kerikeri family trying to keep them. I talked with the mother's sister and she is keen for them to be with us as is our son and the rest of the family who have been involved all along.
Thought I would celebrate by putting a picture of pansies here, my favourite flowers...............