Purple Embellishment Day

Some of the purple embellishment items made this afternoon at The Gallery Dereham.

Visit my webpage for more on embellishments and "how to"

http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

I will be demonstrating different mixed media techniques every Tuesday 10 until 2.30pm and in March Workshops will be available to book in.

Visit http://www.thegallerydereham.co.uk/ for more information.

Purple Embellishment

The start of purple embellishment under the machine.
see my website for more embellishment ideas

http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

Purple Beads

Another taster of my beads before they are used for creativeness!

Gallery Camel

Paper machie morning at The Gallery Dereham. Putting a coat! on a camel.

Gallery Paper Machie

The SPLAT artclub at The Gallery Dereham had been making paper machie sculptures last Saturday and they had a Camel that needed a wooly fur coat so I applied a mixture of paper and glue mush to add the texture and give it time to dry ready for painting. Judy had a great laugh as the Camel became rather heavy for her legs so ended up sitting down. I'm sure it was because she was tired! baby camel got his fur coat too but was still standing!

The Splat Childrens Art Club is on Saturdays. see http://www.thegallerydereham.com/

8 Blue Moon ATC'S Finished

They are finished and ready to swap.
One for me as a keepsake.
One to Sheila in Australia and
One to Judy in America.

So that leaves 5 to swap with the best comments on what they are inspired by.

Finished Blue Moon ATC'S

I have really enjoyed making these.
See other collections of ATC's on my website www.art2inspire.co.uk

Scrumble Detail

These are added flowers and scrumble pots which are then added with extra crochet to form a textured edge.

Scrumbles!

I took a crochet hook and some different wools and threads and enjoyed, Scrumbling and adding on crochet flowers. Really free and enjoyable. I was ispired by Anneliese from Stichin Fingers network site.

Crazywork Detail

I've enjoyed working in these colours, Yvonne's going to have to close her eyes if she visits this post!

Crazywork Square

Went to Brightlingsea in Essex yesterday for a wonderful brunch with Mum and Dad in law and their friends. It was lovely meeting and catching up. In the evening I finished sewing on the lace motif and embellishing it with beads.
At Alveva's a quilt group which I belong to, eight of us are sharing in a round robin, crazywork challenge. We each made up a box of fabrics, trimmings,threads and beads which we make a block in our chosen idea and then pass it on to the other members each month. We don't see our box until the end so it will be a really exciting reveal at our garden party in the summer.

Shian's Fabric Scout Hut

You can see our pile of fabrics on the bolts ready to be cut on the right and Shian busy cutting wadding. The fabric is for a suprise quilt the group is making.
There were specials on jelly rolls and Moda packs aswell as Christmas fabrics. We liked the fat Quarter tub because they were all £1.
All in all a good retail experience beause we followed this with a spot of lunch in a Tea Shop!

Me Choosing Fabric

As you can see I was so cold!

Choosing Fabric

Jill Choosing!

Lola

Since Tuesday at the gallery I have tidied up in my studio because I kept taking things in the door and putting them on the table and eventually had no table left. My table is 6ft by 8ft so you can tell there was a 'little bit' to sort out!

See my table space under the studio heading on my website http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

Thursday I picked up my friend Jill, the treasurer of Alveva Quilt group and we went off to the coast to buy fabric!

Cold, Cold and very very wet! better than snow though!

When we got to Shian's at The Scout Hut, Hunstanton Lola was hugging the fire as you can see. She didn't even move to say hello. I don't blame her.