Has it REALLY been that long?

I'd convinced myself I'd done a couple of posts since December, but as I look at my blogging history it seems that I haven't! How on earth has that happened?
Sorry folks, I actually don't know what happened! I took photo's, I'd set out my text but it looks like I never actually posted anything! So I will post a couple of photo heavy posts about my recent crafty creations in addition to this brief post in the coming week and I will hopefully be better at timing!

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Craft Fairs, Etsy Teams and New Directions

Well I realised that the post I thought I had written and published is still sitting on my desktop. The final fair of September was, for me, an unmitigated disaster. It was a vintage and vintage style fair which is generally well attended. The building we were in is a multi-use building housing a cafe, museum, small theatre, drama studio and a tiny cinema. I found myself in a large drama studio on the first floor with several vintage jewellery and accessory sellers, numerous clothing sellers and a couple of vinyl traders. Set up was awkward and to some extend ill thought out; because it was a drama studio, it was largely soundproof which affected everyone's card payment devices because they rely on good data signal (no reliable wi-fi either). Signs on the ground floor were few and far between - and having duplicate traders on the ground floor didn't really help either! Over the day there was, by my count about 30 people come in and look around. Few bough...

Creating Designs and inspiration

Sorry for my delay in this post, I'd had a plan for it but then Life got in the way and I found myself distracted and a month has gone by. So here it is. It's not so much as a "how to" but more my experience of trying to make creative designs on paper for my jewellery when I left Art as a subject behind when I completed my GSCE's and took a more science-based path (that's for another time though). When I started bead weaving and bead embroidery, I used printed patterns by other people, and I still do, but there is nothing like making something from your own design. But where to start... For me, I usually look at what beads I have and simply make it up as I go along as inspiration takes me, but that can give varying results and not always good! Beads!! Shapes, Sizes, Colour! A vague pattern in my head did not come out anything like how it should! I write poetry every now and then and I've got into the habit of keeping a notebook in almos...

Experimenting with splatters and distress oxide inks

I love stamping and by extension, ink pads. I particularly love the Distress Inks and Distress Oxide Inks by Tim Holtz and decided a couple of weeks ago to create a bit of an art journal page using two of my Oxide Ink colours, a chipboard word and some splattering. I'd cut down a piece of A3 multi-media paper into 4 (essentially four A5-ish sized) pieces and my plan was to make splatters and reveal a word un-splattered on the paper, but it didn't quite happen like that. First things first. I smushed some ink onto a piece of plastic packaging. I diluted the ink with water and used a cheap-y brush I've had for ages that flicks watercolour etc quite nicely onto a page. I used Iced Spruce and Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Inks SPLATTERS!!! First layer second layer I continued to build up layers of splatters until I was satisfied with the result. Then I removed the chipboard word. This is not an ink blot test - or is it? W...

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