
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Surreal Art in the Garden

Through The Eye Textile Exhibition




Three Gilded Mixed Media Cards

Gilded Flowers


Saturday, 11 June 2011
Gilded Flowers

Thursday, 9 June 2011
Little Abbey Farm


In my roll as a Norfolk Community Artist I was
called by Ben to come and visit
Little Abbey Farm at Pentney.
Ben and Dianne run a small mixed farm with
Bed and Breakfast.
Like a lot of different businesses they are looking to
extol their assets and best features.
Little Abbey Farm is a working Farm with a great
extended garden room, the light is wonderful.
I had a visit around the farm and it's inspiration.
The farm has great animals who are used to human contact.
Spike above was so lovely he let me stroke and rub his head,
and take his picture. He is an artist dream as he wasn't bothered at
all. I could have set up my easel and he wouldn't have
batted an eye!
The pigs were adorable with a little piglet squeaking around,
not bothered by us at all.
There was so much to inspire an artist with old milk churns
and farm machinery, horse drawn ploughs to an old
but huge combine harvester.
I would recommend it definitely for
Bed and Breakfasts, they have the Breakfast Award
and a Silver Award too!
Also a venue for future events like
Retreats for small groups to enjoy the
rural location and the first rate food.
I am looking into helping run a Quilting Retreat and
an Arts Weekend.
Visit their website
Heart Felt Crafts and Gifts
I next went on to Heart Felt Craft and Gifts in
Bennet House Dereham.
This is a wonderful shop and has a wonderful
website too!
I needed a gift that I hadn't made! and a funny card!
The shop is inspirational and always looks so beautiful.
Found the perfect card and had a chat with Heather,
to catch up on Norfolk craft events and news.
Visit her site
Bead This Craft That
After being inspired I went to
Bead This Craft that in Dereham and had a good
look round for and brought a flower punch,
some cosmic shimmer paints, (these are just beautiful and also
work on fabric!) and some trinkets for projects that I am working on
for future workshops in the Autumn.
It is always a shop to be inspired by and in
and if they haven't got it, they will try and order it in
for you!
Visit Bead This and Craft That at
Gilding
On Wednesday Kim showed carol and myself how to gild
cards with Gilding Flakes.
I watched and was thinking, well! embossing and
stamping bling normally works why spend the extra
on size and flakes.
How wrong I was,
When you follow the technique through and buff
the gilded area up, ooo, what a shine.
I can see me using this on many different medias.
Above is my practice piece ready to make cards later.
To see more of my card making click on the labels below
or visit the paper techniques on my website
Mixed Media Autumn bark

Mixed Media Autumn Backgrounds


Scissor Case


Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Gallery Day 7th June 2011


Sunday, 5 June 2011
Mixed Media Card Making





Jacks Quilt
On Friday morning I managed to finish quilting the borders
on jack's Quilt and placed the bias binding,
ready to hand sew it into place.
(There is 7m of it to hand finish!).
Michelle and Lexi came round to and
we had a cuppa and blew Bubbles!
Do remember Lexi is 16 months old.
See more of my Quilts on my website



