Things are certainly getting interesting over here but that's what makes life interesting! Been doing a bit of painting - think I put the last one on and now doing - or trying to do - small cascades in a stream. Going to post this and then erase quite a bit of the painting and do it again! For some reason hate redoing a whole painting as do not like doing the same thing twice, but don't mind trying a little repair work. Mind you reason I took the pic now is that I might have to bin it after my attempts - although I have always loved tim Holtz philosophy - Embrace Imperfection! Do the same with my quilting -does it matter that it is not perfect - no, because it is handmade and that's what I love about handmade things. Anyway here is the latest effort!!!
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| Bridge over Troubled Water! Need to darken bridge, lighten tree, sort shadows, redo rock at front, sort rock at back!!!! |
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See what I mean! Also found a wonderful book for my journalling. Cant say where I got it in case I get into trouble!Have decided that however much I love Donna and Dy's wacky use of figures etc I just cant do it and although enjoy some journalling realised that what I love most is scrapbooking with a twist, using mixed media ideas, journalling, quilting etc all in one so think that is what I am going to concentrate on. The idea being that where I have taken pages out of the book I insert others that are made from handmade paper, material, hessian etc and this will be a scrapbook of events in our life - at least that's the idea!! Here are some pages from the book, not yet adulterated! But obviously I am going to leave the wonderful colour plates and skirt around the illustrations.
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| Lovely scroll - it looks silver here but is actually gold. |
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| One of the lovely colour illustrations. |
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| Every ballad starts with a lovely pen and ink illustration. |
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| Inside the front cover - think the date is 1936 but edge of pages ragged and lovely old, thick paper - yummy! |
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Right got to take dogs for their injections - we do it 2 at a time as less hassle!!! Have a great weekendxxxx
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