Hearts

With a few hours to spare and help from others I have the last three hearts. Heart fifty is a christmas card produced by a local charity. I love the simplicity of it.



Heart fifty-one is another christmas card that came in a swap that I did with a fellow blogger. Two hearts in one this time.



Heart fifty-two had to be made by me. I collected a few pieces from the drawer that contains items for mixed media. It includes pieces of commercial papers, the back of an envelope that a friend sent to me, part of an invoice from one of my favourite cafes in Bridport, a piece of an old map that my sister gave me to use, it is paper on linen and some lace also from my sister. I machined a heart from the back once all the other pieces had been machined together.




Finally a picture of all 52 hearts.



Wishing you all a very happy, peaceful and creative year.

Nature.....

......has had an effect on many a travel plan in recent days. I hope that you all get to where ever you wish to go. I am lucky that my brother who has a land rover managed to get to me yesterday and brought a lovely christmas tree with him. I was beginning to think how I could decorate a wicker wigwam.

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and a good new year.



This is my latest journal which is now packed up as a gift.




Two more hearts for weeks 48 and 49. I have used mainly sari silk ribbons and a little hand stitching along with beads. I need to get busy and make the last three.





When we were young my sister and I both had fairies for the christmas tree and had to take it in turn to have ours at the top. Mine which you can see is very 1960's and only has one leg, the other lost decades ago.



My sisters was a more tradition one rather like the one my grandparents had. When my grandmother died I had her fairy which still has it's original box. British made and the price was 4 shillings and 9 pence.






Wishing you all a peaceful and happy time.

10/12/10

Here are a few photographs that I took on Tuesday of the lake and the meadow.















Wishing you all a happy weekend.

Heart 47

Heart 47 is a cuff that has been made using some of the felt from Cameron as a base. I have free machined pieces of sari silk and other fabrics. The back is sari silk and finished of with a purple heart shaped button.





I have been experimenting with PSE after taking the free course that Kim Klassen offered. It has been very helpful, I know I have a lot more to learn. Here are a few images that I have created with my own photographs and the texture images from Boccacino, and Kim Klassen





This one uses a free texture from D J Pettitt as the base with a list of schools that one of my family members attended in the early 1900's and then a photograph of vintage lace.



This last one uses images from Boccacino and D J Pettitt as well as one of my photographs of roses.