Fish

These fish I made for a Mixed Media UK swap. The background is painted lutrador and the fish made with glitter materials.
I see from the date of the posting before this its been sometime. What have I been doing I'm not quite sure but I ha vent been idle just bits and pieces. We went to Camden Lock Market in London a couple of weeks ago and saw all the fashion and did a lot of people watching. We were sitting outside a pub on the very busy Camden High Street and I couldn't believe my eyes a bloke on roller wheels or whatever you call them came skating down very fast in and out of the traffic I had to look away in case he fell. We sat there for some time and three other people came skating by so it wasn't unusual. Also there were more people on bikes than in the much quieter town where I live. I have a bike but haven't used it very much the excuses are its too cold its too windy its raining and now of course its toooo hot. These fish seem to be swimming around very confusing they started off together. I expect I will get the hang of this posting one day

Altered Book Page

A page for Iris the theme for her book is Wales. Ive only been to Wales once many years ago we went with the children when they were small. We stayed near Caenarfon camping so that immediately came to mind and of course the castle. Ive mixed up some history of Wales along with the Prince of Wales. I did some research on the net to come up with the names and dates I do hope I have spelt them right. I was going to do something about battles with the English but there were quite a lot of them and I got confused with all the Welsh names and places. I decided to simplify the story in case I got in wrong thats why its turned into the Prince of Wales. I hope you don't mind Iris that I have brought the English in.

Postcard in Stitch

I have just found out someone had to tell me my postcard for the swap in Stitch
has been published in the magazine I had to buy it didn't I. I had forgotten all about it and
wasn't quite sure when I was told what it was. I'm going to shout about it as its probable the
first and last time I will have anything printed. I had picked up the magazine a week ago but
put it back as it didn't contain anything I particularly wanted to make. Click on the title and it will take you to my blog page with the card. I did a swap with Amelia she has the second
postcard I made.

Altered Book

I have been quiet on my blog lately I have joined an altered book swap with mixedmediauk- see links. I have never made one before I always thought it was a mystical operation I wouldn't be able to do. Becky on the group explained all to the new ones and yes I have done it. There are eight of us in the swap and we post the book off to a new person every month so it wont be back to me

until next year. We all chose our own themes mine is The Lady and the Garden I like anything to do with flowers and gardens. Some of the themes are a bit more difficult than mine I will tell you about them as they come to me. I hope you will be able to follow my instruction for making the book and please leave me a comment I would love to know what you think.

Cutting a lot of the pages out with a sharp knife to reduce the thickness of the book to allow for any embellishments used and also to reduce the weight when posted. I cut the pages out about half to one inch away from the inside of the page. The cut out pages I kept and used the text for my spreads if you click on the photos you will be able to read them

The title page this was printed out on one of the pages I cut from the book the other page is the sign in page

pages sorted for each swap and clipped together. I will only glue my spreads together leaving others to glue and cut as they want