On My Mind - Look What I Found!

Firstly sincere apologies to those who visited this blog when I put up a sneak peak of the goodies I had cut out ages ago. I couldn't quite decide how to finish this little friend off so I put it aside...and it was forgotten! I discovered it the other day and immediately knew what the face needed to be as I hadn't liked the options given in the original pattern. 


So here's my happy little friend! 

My little friend's current name is Cyndi as that's who the fabrics came from that it's made out of  :).

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Embracing the passion

I'm really enjoying this , run by Kerryanne English of Woodberry Designs, and I've used some items that have been sitting around, still in their purchase packets, that I haven't made time to try. I'm taking short periods everyday for 'me' time and one of the exercises we can do in the course is a collage page about ourselves using the prompt "What makes me, me?" I think the environment makes me so I took the positive aspects of mine and created a double A5 page using stamping, watercolour paints, fabric, adhesive stickers, rhinestones and paper/card collage - corrugated, punched, die-cut, wet and dry embossed and inked.

Hoping everyone is having a lovely day :D!

On My Mind......Swaps

Here's my practice dishcloth for the dishcloth swap that I'm involved in on down_to_earth. I need to work on the joining corner as it's a bit wonky. That's the corner in the bottom right of the photo.

Lucky the swaps don't need to arrive before 1 June as DD12 has borrowed the crochet hook and misplaced it and I don't have another anywhere near that size. Shopping day next Thursday though and a few hours of industrious crochet crochet whilst watching Dr Who and Inspector Morse should do it :).

This is the buckeye block I made for the Acorn Gatherer's swap with Linda on Our Craft Forum. I like the colouring better than the practice one and Linda likes it too.

This went together surprisingly easy and I only had to unstitch once or twice :O.

I'm in a private block swap with Mary though and I had to put the block aside or I would have set fire to it! I'm having trouble matching one of the sides to the centre square of a nine patch and after unpicking a few times and trying different ways of assembling I still can't make a half square triangle set meet the corners properly. Think I'll have to do this one again or at least redo the strip.

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On My Mind - Creativity

The title page for my art journal for the e-course mentioned in the previous post . Decorating your journal was optional but I didn't want mine to look like a school book! Hence the choice of the opaquey coloured cover and not plain black.

I didn't think to photograph it before I coloured in the grey shaded ferns and the base underneath the flower was just black with makers details printed on it before the flower strip was added. I liked the plastic cover as green is my favourite colour and it went with the garden theme of the fernery.

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