Sky Mirrors

This week at school we are having a Science and Art week. We have done some amazing things and I just thought you might like to see what we have been up to! Some of you may have heard of Anish Kapoor and his work with mirrors all around the world. We decided to do our own version, about the school, using both small hand held concave and convex mirrors and then some large ones. Here are some of my favourite images...

Daffodils

An oak tree.

The Magnolia tree in the front garden.

Mother's Day

I did actually manage to get round to making a card for Mother's Day! I recently bought this stamp as I adore pansies. I coloured it with watercolour pencils and then joined it all together with a brad. I didn't have a black one so I coloured it with Stazon!

I cut a circle and embossed it and then just mounted it all up! Fairly simple but I wasn't feeling very creative! Survived Jess's birthday today and just got Hubby's tomorrow. And yes I have made him a card too!

A Birthday Cake.

So tomorrow my oldest baby will be 18! It has been a mad, mad day getting presents wrapped, balloons bought, cakes marzipanned and iced. And on top of that it is also Mother's Day and then on Monday it is hubbys birthday too! What a weekend! This is her cake; she wanted something "pretty".

I did buy the butterflies already made (cheat!) but the rest I did myself, cutting out the 18 and adding the glitter.

If I have time to blog tomorrow I will show the Mother's Day card I made and Jess's birthday card too. Might just be too busy partying!

Week 13..Unlucky?

Week 13 of the UKStampers Art Journal and this time, in view of the fact we are on the 13th week, we had to consider Superstition. "Are you? Why? Do you have any rituals? Include a charm". Well I wasn't really sure if I was or not so I have thought about this for a few days. And I reckon I am a bit. I don't like 13; I won't have 13 eggs on my rack, I won't eat or give the children 13 grapes/strawberries/cherries, I would re-name a house if it was No 13, I can't stop on 13 of something. So that's one, then I thought that I would never wear green to a wedding. I wear green a lot and it wouldn't bother me if someone else wore it, but I just couldn't. I think my final one is not walking under ladders...I call that common sense! So it looks like I am, but I am not obsessive about these things, I just prefer to avoid them!

A card

This is what I gave you a sneak peek of last week. I am hoping that the recipient has it now as I posted it last Wednesday! I treated myself to the Tim Holtz dress form die as I will use it lots for my sewing friends and I think it will be great for Jess's 18th birthday card too! So, the first use of my newly sorted buttons!

Buttons Galore!

So the task continues. Currently this is the state of play with there now being separate jars for blue, green, purple, pink, white, brown, black, grey, yellow and then a joint red/orange jar and one with metal/wooden/leather buttons in. There is also a jar of buckles and interesting, vintage, distressed (eg rusty!) hooks, suspender fastenings and poppers! I think the whole jar of white ones looks the best; which is your favourite?

And look.....I used three from the white jar! Can't show you any more just yet!

My tidy mind!

So this is the beginning of sorting out my button collection! This is the contents of one large cake tin, an ice cream tub and another small tin that I have collected from Mum, my Grandad (who was a tailor) some I have bought and some from Freecycle. Eliza helped me to sort this lot last night and we continued today with another HUGE tin that are much older. It was too dark to take a pic of them tonight and we still have lots to go, but many are very early vintage ones. I am a bit freaked out by the hairy, thready bits so Eliza is gradually snipping them off for me and adding them to the collection! Now I know I will use them much more as I can find exactly what I want with ease! Anyone know a good project for tons of beige/brown buttons?

This weeks Journal page is "Home... what does it mean to you, use a heart stamp and a picture of a house". Broke out the Distress Inks for this one. I used a brush for the BG and then watered them down to paint the houses. I am not really too bothered about the bricks and mortar of the building we live in as for me, home is wherever we happen to be, all together. Maybe that is a bonus of having a big family!