Art Journal pages

I did these 4 pages in my art Journal on Saturday night. I have been wanting to do something with these photos I took of my tour around my favorite little town. see this post...
And so I started on these pages...had fun!


The weather was nice on Sunday, so I made a tent outside for the kids..thought to share since it looked so cute, got some cute photos of them inside of it to scrap with!


This is my sewing machine..it is ancient but I love the look of it-loving vintage things and it sews so beautifully, I took it out on the weekend to make two little bags I promised Laura's daughter's.

I made a whole lot of these a while ago and had a give-away on my blog. See this post about it.

And this is a box I bought-it is really beautiful...a birdy on the lid..I am sorry about the poor quality photos..but my camera is broken and I have to use my cell phone camera! Not the best quality...

Anyway that is it from me! Would love for you to leave a comment if you stop by!
Have a great day!

Round Robin photo's:spoiler warning!

Some of you have asked to see more of the Round robin pages I am doing.
So here is my book, which has now been sent off to Dede..

cover of my book
First page, the tag pulls out to reveal the participants and their details of the rr, and my note to them:likes, and dislikes...
The tag I made (decoupaged it)

Second page...image from an anthropologie catalog
third page..pocket to hold tags and some ATC's I received that fit the rose theme.
Then these are the pages I did for Dede's book:
Dede has a Marie Antoinette theme for her book, so I printed out the poppet from my
Princess of Rock kit.
Lace, music paper, feathers for the hat, roses on the dress.
second page: lot's of layers here. Used an image of Kirsten Dunst off the internet, made some
cool mask glasses for her, cut out swirls and leaves off some paper, vintage button, lace, glitter M on the corner.
Third page: Doiley, ribbon, more layers of paper: heart, swirls,a shoe pic touched up with lot's of glitter for glam. I hope she likes them!
Next few days I will be working on Victoria's and Lori's pages....
Show you when they are done...
Go check out their blogs if you like vintage eye-candy, they have both posted gorgeous photos the last two days!
Bye for now!

Round Robin preview...Dede's...

Dede here are the 3 pages I did in your gorgeous Round Robin book!
Thank you to everyone who helped with the feedback I asked for. I discovered some things:
* Most people like the one blog for all thing, even if they prefer digi over art or visa versa, most agree two blogs is too much work (for them and me-I agree!) And they say they just skip the parts that don't interest them and read the parts that do! fine by me! I do the same!
*Most people like images more than the reading...I am attracted to images on blogs too.
*the blog post title needs to be interesting for them to want to look at the contents

So thanks guys!

Freebie-Cluster...and your help please.

Hi there, I would appreciate it if you could take the time to read this post before you download the freebie and run off-lol! I need your help. Thanks so much, you're a star!
It's school holidays...so that means being crafty at home. I like to get the kids making thing's, baking, going outdoors when we can. Today we tried a bit of fun things: finger puppets, some type of toilet-roll person thingy *can't think of an appropriate name*.

I also spent a lot of time cleaning and re-arranging...this is a small shot of my DD's bedroom....
all cushion covers and bed quilts made by me.

I was wondering who still reads my blog? If you check whenever I make a blog entry or pop by at least once or twice a week..please let me know by leaving a comment today. I am feeling sad as I used to get a lot of comments and now I am lucky if I get two comments per post. I know...whinge..whine...but come on! A girl likes to feel loved! :) And if you would kindly answer the questions below....

1) why do you read my blog?
2) What sort of things interest you/draw you to a post: is it the title, the images...the content...
3) What sort of things do you like to read about or see on blogs? (incl mine)
4) What would make my blog more interesting?? Should I post more arty type stuff?
5) Do you think I should start a separate blog...as you know I love digital scrapping but I also have a strong arty/crafty side and am always busy with some or other project, swap, etc-Should I have two blogs? What do you think?

Thanks a lot!
appreciate the time you take to answer these questions.

It's a bright sunshiny day!

Well it was...lol.it is almost 7pm here now! But it was just such a beautiful day today....I didn't even switch on my PC until around 5pm! Quite a task for me! ha ha.
I baked some strawberry muffins this morning...then the we had lunch and the kids and I headed to the nature reserve for 3 hours. It was lovely. We went for long walks, fed the Geese...saw some lovely flowers, a huge tortoise, beautiful birds and played pooh sticks. (Read Winnie the pooh if you don't know what I am talking about! lol!)
Here are some pictures I thought I would share with you...the rest I am going to scrap with!! Yay! New photo's to scrap with!





Isn't this so sad? He was only 4 years old! So sad..I wonder what happened...

Been MIA...

It has been a hectic time here. I have had a migraine for 13 solid days, constant,no letup. The kids has measles but were back at school on Friday. Friday after school on the way home , Em started to throw up and was screaming with pain from a headache, so the two together are never good, I rushed her straight to the doctor. But she just said it was viral and should pass, nothing serious.
Monday morning I woke up in absolute agony. Nothing like a million drums beating in your head. I couldn't walk, see, move. Was in bed until 1pm. Hubby was at home recovering from flu, so he took care of me and the kids and later took me to our homeopath who prescribed pills, which I started taking right away. Today I am fine, a bit sore if I look up or to the extreme corners, but it is gone! Amazing! All those days of taking hard-core medication which did nothing and I take a natural remedy and it works almost immediately.
anyway....First of all I am in a matchbox swap...here is mine..

I hope Rosalyn-Sue likes it. It is amazing what you can squash into one!

I also wanted to quickly remind you that the CT application runs out in 2 days, if you'd like to apply you still have time. (see post below).

I also wanted to show you these cute snaps i took today....I got this little bird feeder a while ago and have been waiting for the birds to land on it so i could sneek a few pictures. Finally today my favorite little yellow bird came to gobble some seeds and I snuck outside as quietly as I could so as not to startle him...



Some ATC's I've made lately...

I'll be back tomorrow with more..till then!

My first Round Robin book/group!

Round Robin
I am thrilled to be in my first Round Robin participation hosted by the Elegant and talented Dede Warren.
The other ladies besides me and her doing it are:
Victoria from I-Think-I'm-an-Artist
Lori form Vintage Flair
Dawn from Oh So Pretty

I can't wait for this..I have done my cover, and the first couple of pages and am waiting now for Dede's book to arrive...

Here is my cover and a sneak peek at my pages....




So I will be keeping you posted as this journey unfolds...

I am speechless.....

I cannot believe it! Both my children have measles...so my dear dad went to the PO for me to collect a parcel awaiting there for me. He got back with it and I nearly fell over at the sheer size of it! Oh my goodness??!!
Take a look..
You can click on any image to view it full size.


I had to leave it unopened for about three hours though as it was bathtime, supper time etc...Finally after dinner and whilst watching Grey's Anatomy I couldn't wait any longer. Even DH wanted to see....I opened it and wow....
This is what came out..
Oh wait...before I show you..this package/gift/amazing parcel was from a swap I did with Nerissa.
It was her first swap....oh boy, was I the lucky one!!

The best things for me were a set of rubber stamps..here they are just so expensive...to give you an idea ..a medium sized stamp can cost R40 the same price as 4L milk, 2 loaves of bread and two slabs of chocolate... What do they cost there?
The other treat for me, and one of the best things I have gotten so far are these magazines. We get country living here, but not Romantic Homes nor Somerset life/studio. In fact I have seen these magazines mentioned on blog's and have been craving them for absolute ages!
I was THRILLED to get these....they are incredible!


Let me show a glimpse inside....
Just beautiful...
So thank you Dear Nerissa....I am totally thrilled and amazed!! I owe you! My box to you was nowhere as near as nice as this!

I have some more stuff to show you but will do it in another post.

More swapping goodies!

I am still here...I haven't been blogging the last few days cos my poor little boy has got measles and has really been under the weather. In fact I was house bound for two days! I hate that. It was so nice just to get in the car and drive today, the first sunny day we've had in about a week too! I just soaked up the view of the mountains and the ocean and all the green grass. (normally everything just looks grey with all the rain we've been having!).

My DH is away too and swiped my camera for work purposes, much to my dismay!!
My long-awaited parcel from Dede arrived. So fabulous. I love it all so much, Unfortunately I had to take the photo at night, so it is not that nice.


I've received a ton of ATC's in the last few weeks too, I really must show you some of them, they are gorgeous....the time....

I have a cat to let out of the bag...I am so excited and thrilled to announce that I am now partaking in my first round robin! The host is Dede, and the participants are:Dede, myself, Dawn, Victoria, Lori.
I can't wait to receive the books to work in and obviously to get mine back, these ladies create some amazing stuff! Go check out their blogs!

And finally today was my turn to host the blog at snap at scrap too, I did a piece about fabric painting if you want to check it out.

Will be back another day when I have my decent camera back!!

New favorites on Flickr!

A gift for my ATC arty friends...

I know there are those of you of my blogging friends who read this and make ATC's...some have been doing much longer than me, others are just starting out.
I have made some ATC backs for you to print and stick to the back of your ATC's.

Click on the image's to open up full size and right click and save as to your computer.
Depending on your printer settings, I can set it to choose to print 9 on a page and it comes out the right size, then I just cut them and stick on.





I hope you enjoy them!!

Using digital kit for art work

Hi there,
I do the blogging on a Wednesday-my theme "Altered arts and crafts" over at the Snap and scrap blog. Today I did a piece on using digital scrap booking kits in normal art work. Please go take a peek. In you click on this link, you will see my other tut's and posts.

NEW ATC's

Available for trade through flickr