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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A Little Holiday Journaling

Last week I was on holiday in the lovely Yorkshire Dales with my parents (and the dog!) in a cottage and I took with me a fair amount of crafty supplies including art journaling and bible journaling supplies. And before you ask, no I didn't lock myself in a cottage and just craft! We went walking a fair bit, took some time out at a nearby lake. As most of the days I had time either first thing in the morning or while tea was cooking to do some art journaling. I took my distress oxide inks to have a play and experiment with plus some stamps that I knew could give a look of texture. The weather was so amazing and such a blessing I decided to try out a bright distress oxide-based page to see how it turned out. Overall, I'm not that happy with it, but I enjoyed the process and learned a few things along the way. My art journal is really a scrapbook that I bought at an artisan market in Sydney, Australia a few years ago and I never scrapped in it! Because of that, it h...

Craft Fairs, Craft fairs and makers fairs

I originally set out to write this post about my experience of booking onto craft fairs when on a small, tight budget. However, at the time of writing this post, I have completed two craft fairs, both very different and with differing results, so the scope of this post has widened and hopefully you can pick up a few tips for future reference. September is turning out to be a particularly busy month for me. Somehow I managed to book myself onto three craft fairs across three weekends on the run. I’ve managed to get myself confused, unconfused and confused again. Two fairs I’ve had my eye on for ages and couldn’t get on an earlier fair either because it was fully booked or I was simply booked for something else. Signing up to email lists has been both a great help and a bit annoying. It has helped me stay ahead of the curve and book onto fairs early but for the weekends I am already booked up or simply skint I’m annoyed I can’t book on. So what happens when that does happen...

Bible Journaling Process- Matthew 8 verses 1-15

Weeks ago I ordered the rather lovely Illustrated Faith "Heart that Receives" bible journal kit from Ellie Beth Designs. I was following the devotional for a while, doing a few bible-art-journaling, but then my church began a short series of 1 John and I studied this quite deeply and instead I used parts of the kit - plus some Illustrated Faith "Fruit Punch" alpha stickers for this. My church is currently doing a series in Matthew and this week's teaching was surrounding the three accounts of healing at the beginning of Matthew 8. I was inspired by bible journaling process videos I have been watching to do a journal using elements from the "Heart that Receives" kit which I thought would fit quite well with my notes. Colours: Primary Red, Cadmium Orange Hue, Dioxazine Purple, Phthalocyanine Green, Titanium White So to start with, I picked some colours from my Liquitex Basics acrylic paint set and added the white because these colours can ...

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