I'm really pleased with the way this turned out.

I was on the beach with my daughter & our dog

and saw a lovely piece of driftwood.

It almost looks like stone.

It's the perfect base for this little lady.

I tend to find images from old books to cut out.

I'm not very good at downloading & printing out images

but this year,

I've promised myself a new scanner / printer.

My husband gave me a new camera for my birthday

and I can already see the difference it makes.

Hope you like my little lady as much as I do.

I'm off to search for some more suitable pieces of driftwood

and if I find enough,

I just might do a giveaway......

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I must tell you about this..

My newly found dear  ( third ) cousin Sue
has recently started a Blog.
She is also researching our family tree
( the gent on the left is my Great Grandfather Eli )

Sue has a large amount of photos
she is willing to share for your artwork.
So if you are interested,
please visit her here:

http://theviewfromheresusan.blogspot.com/

I picked up a lovely book called

YESTERDAYS

The Way We Were

in the Charity shop

and loved this image

of a young girl

standing in shallow water.

I brushed some watered down Gesso

over the piece of brown card

my paper flowers

were attached to

then added some bits & pieces.

Idea for Sycamore seed pod wings from

LOVE STITCHING RED.

well it's a rainy day

what else am I going to do ?

Snippet rolls:

see previous post.

Thank you

Carole

for the inspiration

and

 Margaret

for the

encouragement.

 

There is a lovely group

known as the

Queen Bee Five

QB5

who regularly swap their lovely makes.

I love them all individually

and I love them as a group.

I saw their Christmas gift swaps

and decided to try to make what Carole had...

snippet rolls.

Carole ran the fabric journal tutorial

I did last year.

It seems that

many of us have been inspired to make a snippet roll too...

Mine is not finished yet

and will be different as I have no

sewing machine

but it's fun using up those scraps...

why not give it a try ?

Pop over to see:

http://kiwicarole.blogspot.com/



Spring ATCs

I've been making my ACTs for the

Spring themed swap

( look away if you are in the swap )

I haven't made anything for ages...

and managed to cut my thumb !

Please confirm that you are in the swap-

If you said yes to the swap

I've counted you in !

EMAIL

Pennysteel@talktalk.net

for my address

THANKS !!!

SPRING ATC SWAP

Swap now closed.

There are ten of us swapping.

Can you send me your Spring themed ATCs

 by the end of February please.

I'll mail them out the first week of March

for some Spring colour.

Email me at;

Pennysteel@talktalk.net

to get my address

and don't forget to add your return address.

Have fun !