WELCOME TO THE NEW YEAR...

.... and as usual...

I'm Late! LOL

so where to start again with this poor neglected blog well ...

Christmas was good ...

we went down to Tuross Head with my mum and Dad
the 3 boys were happy Santa found them and they got spoilt!

That was the first week and a bit covered  then is was back to Wagga Wagga for ...

THE LONGEST SCHOOL HOLIDAYS OF MY LIFE!!!! LOL

Will never do the holiday at the start again !!!

So I may possibilly sound a little over enthusiastically joyfully when I say....

everyone is now happily back @ school!!!

Daniel is in year 9 at KOORINGAL HIGH

Connor in year 5 at STURT PRIMARY

& 

Jarred in year 3 at LAKE ALBERT PRIMARY

and mummy is just starting to play & is back smiling .... and making messes in her office !!!

I am going to be lazy and race though what I have been up to in the interim ...

 FORGIVE ME IF I POST UP A COUPLE YOU'VE SEEN 

SOME MAY HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN POSTED AS WORKS IN PROGRESS (WIP's )

I did this for a art journal page still a WIP atm...
 I love it a friend says it looks like she has intestines in her skull! LOL

I thought I might submit it to Cafe Press cause I looked for a an "art brain" shirt 

but couldnt find anything I liked  although I liked a shirt that described me to a T 

something along the line of " I do NOT Math therefore I ART!" 

but I bought one in white I am going to tie dye that says 

" EARTH WITHOUT ART is just...  EH!"

COOL AYE?!

so....

OUT OF MY ART BRAIN OOZED.....

 

A christmas card

 More ATC's and more pages for my tiny Art journal

 This very 3D Bo Bunny page just arrived before xmas in Scraptivate for display

Shop 1/21

 This is another WIP ( STILL ***GROAN***)

keep you eye on this space for an update and step x step on this one!

 Alot of these salads were summons'd 

when I couldnt get any time through the holidays  to be creative! LOL

 I finally finished my Art doll  for my friend Natalie on and off it took about 6 months! 

Shes made of  a real cotton reel, embossed foils, beads, metal embellishments organza bag, clay 

Twiddleybitz shadow box and German Scrap embossed borders and wings.

Oh and her ballet shoes are Fimo Oven bake clay from Scraptivate.

I used a gorgeous LaBlanche stamp from SCRAPTIVATE 

to emboss the sides of the shadow box

then used RubNbuff  and gold ink over the top to bring out the detail.

She has a Heart of Gold as does her new owner!!!

I made this layout for my friend Janet Murphy as its of her gorgous youngest child Darcy

They had a major fright just before christmas where a fire ruined three of the bedroom off the side of their house. I hoped this might cheer her up., it seems it did a little! :)

The colour scheme and componets used were influenced by the first challenge 

on a new challenge site called  CSI.

 This card was made for my Mum & Dads 40th wedding anniversary.

 A christening card featuring the

so thats about it for now I am working on 4 art journal pages and playing along with MILLANDE'S SEED JOURNAL I am still struggling to loose my careful meticulous nature despite the fact art journalling is meant to be a carefree organic freeing process... OH well old habits die hard and I am enjoying the challenge of creating my own version of milliandes journal prompts. I must have been doing okay I got my first page selected as a feature in the first week ...I consider that a huge honour which hasnt happened to me before in the 5 or 6 years I have been putting tprojects in the gallery so that was an AWESOME start to 2012!

 !

 I 'll show you all there is to show you about this art journal page in my next posts

becase as you can see Blogger is rebelling and not co opporating tonight! LOL

This post is too long anyway ...

I am probably typing to myself by now...

if you did make it this far...

CONGRATULATIONS

***YAWNNNNN****

Let me know do my long posts or do they annoy you ?

would you like smaller ones?

:)