You know what? This business of being on holiday is really hard work. I have been with the kids in the Alps for ten days, and it has been an intense affair of watching Nicco climb high on old pine trees up on the Piccolo San Bernardo, helping Caterina ‘jump’ on the trampoline for the [...]
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When I was little, I had a pencil virtually glued to my hand. I made ‘art’ every day, several times a day, Even though I was no great talent, there was nothing I enjoyed as much as drawing, except reading.
Growing up, I fell in love with the written word, and, while I kept busy with [...]
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After the collage for my son’s teacher, I managed to complete one for the classroom assistant. I must admit I liked the first one better, but school is about to finish and I was running out of time. Nothing like a looming deadline to make you accept your work for what it is!
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Phew, what a week this has been. So much to do, so little time. Lots of work, lots of children to take care of, travelling, and the odd little extra thrown in.I am glad I survived it. Anyway, I did manage to squeeze in some collageing—I made a little end of the year present for [...]
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In the end, I opted to cut out the faces and collage them onto something else. I really wanted to incorporate the lovely green grass that came with the original picture, but it just didn’t work with the blue-green background I had created and the fruit imagery I wanted to use.
I gave the collage to [...]
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OK, I just couldn’t leave it alone. When I started experimenting with tags for a painted tag swap a while ago, I made a little tag that I wasn’t happy with. It wasn’t a big deal since it was just an experiment, but it bugged me.
I went on to make the tags for the swap, [...]
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After last week’s proof, here is the real deal—one of the tags that made it into the swap.
I used a different technique for this one. Basically, I painted the background, then painted another sheet of watercolour paper in a single wash of two colours (to obtain this bluish cream hue). Once dry, I drew [...]
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I had a flash of inspiration just before falling asleep on Saturday. An idea on how to finish that collage I had started on a whim. It was the three segments I had sort of found myself with that suggested it. Well, that and, I suppose, the fact that we were still celebrating my daughter’s [...]
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I started this on a whim. Not too sure where I am going with it, but I like it so far. Now I am toying with the idea of adding a couple of roses and, of course, a bird…
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It is crafting galore chez Leafdays. I’m getting ready for Easterand making chocolate eggs and mini chocolates (which were supposed to be mini eggs, but I don’t have the mould so, voilá, I made mini blobs instead). I am still not very good at tempering chocolate, but improving.
And of course, I am gearing up to [...]
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