My new pictures

Its been a while since I have blogged so I thought I would start with the link to  Handmade Monday

These are the pictures I have been designing yesterday and Painting today. The 1st thing to do is stamp the silhouette onto the shiny card with a permanent black ink then the painting is done around the stamps
I have had a busy week lots of networking and baking cakes Had a lot of fun though
I have also secured a venue for the encaustic workshops Its going to be at Bursleden Brickworks in a beautiful little cottage the sessions are going to run during term time in sets of 5 weeks really looking forward to them They will start with a beginners guide to encaustic working up to using the iron then the stylus then lots of rubber stamping and working with fabric
Hope I get the time to do a blog next week may need a little poke from one of you so se you next week xxxx

Halloween and xmas earrings

Pop over to  Handmade Monday 41 and check out all the lovely blogs as usual I have left it to the last minute to write mine and its 11.30pm already
Thought I would add my Halloween photos they are so cool

The children did Two each

I have also been making Christmas earrings

I have some Snowmen too but didnt get round to taking the photos
I had some great news too I now have some of my jewellery in the local curves Its great they were collecting for cancer so I donated some pink jewellery for their tombola this lead to people asking about my products and so I was asked if I wanted to display some jewellery I was really pleased and I'm taking  a few things in tomorrow Yayyyyy!!!!!

The Fair wasnt very sucessful lack of people but I did meet a lovely lady that runs an art group and she asked me if I fancied teaching some encaustic skills I was over the moon She took my number and I will be paying her a visit very soon

I wont be doing very much crafting this week as my youngest is due in hospital for a knee op and I have to get my eldest's room thats downstairs ready for her return as she probably wont be able to do the stairs for a while so have a happy week crating and I will see you all soon xxxxx

Half Term

This week has been very hectic as usual
The first thing you need to do is go and check out Handmade Monday on Wendys blog so many fascinating people making some amazing things!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have managed to get to curves three times which is very good considering but haven't done a lot of crafting
We managed to paint some glass plates which looked amazing and Abi did a lovely picture using acrylic paint

We also had to buy this beautiful giant bunny whos name is now Shrek he is so cute he has been living in my conservatory since Tuesday but we have built a new giant run which is just finished so I will get some more pictures for next week xxx

The only crafting I managed to do are these draught excluders for a friend I was quite please with them I made them so the cover was tied on this means it can be removed to wash when necessary

I thought I would also take a lovely picture of my wood burner its the first time its been on this year and looks lovely

and my beautiful Christmas cactus as I know most of us have started crafting for Christmas

Thank you for reading and I will see you next monday I have a craft Fair coming up on wednesday so I need to get sewing as I have some gorgeous new cup-cake fabric xxxxxxxxxxxx