end of summer

Sunday, 31 August 2008, 23:37 | Category : Arch
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is the wonderful theme over at G.A. this week chosen by Nancy Dooren, the talented hostess of the week.
The end of summer for me means the beginning of fall, relief from the sometimes oppressive heat and humidity we have at this time of year, leaves turning colours, although we don’t get a lot of colour [...]

forgive me

Saturday, 30 August 2008, 10:37 | Category : Uncategorized
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I like to shake things up every once in a while and that’s what I was trying to do this morning but discovered I’m missing an element in my layout. I hope to get this resolved soon. But in the mean time, please forgive my ‘in construction’ look!! LOL
Now, I don’t often speak about my [...]

I am flattered

Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 10:43 | Category : Uncategorized
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and pleased to have recieved another award. This time from a very dear friend and fantastic artist, Rob from Australia.
This is a total cop out but there are truly so many wonderful artist who have gorgeous blogs that I absolutely love, I wouldn’t be able to pick 7. So, if you’re reading this and you [...]

black and white and a hint of red

Monday, 25 August 2008, 23:55 | Category : Uncategorized
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is the theme at G.A. this weekend. A wonderful theme chosen by hostess Chrissie Rollins. It gave me a bit of trouble as most of my images are in colour or sepia coloured but not many are black and white and i think I only have the one with red. I’m so glad I found [...]

recycle/repurpose

Monday, 25 August 2008, 14:02 | Category : Uncategorized
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is the theme at mixed media mondays this week.
I had made this pendant for a very dear friend of mine using an old Scrabble tile, the back has her initial, some embroidery floss left over from my cross stitching days and wired beads and feathers. luckily my friend loved it and allowed me to [...]

Proud member of

Saturday, 23 August 2008, 8:57 | Category : Uncategorized
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View my page on Can-eh? Can-Artistry

mixed media monday

Tuesday, 19 August 2008, 8:13 | Category : Uncategorized
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it’s my 1st time doing this challenge but I really wanted to do something as

my friend Heather is the guest hostess this week! LOL
it deals with numbers, which I love along with letters and for which I have a great stamp that I don’t use often
and I have been itching to try to do some [...]

renaissance

Sunday, 17 August 2008, 17:48 | Category : Uncategorized
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is the theme at G.A. this week chosen by the hostess Tami, whose art is just gorgeous. I was a bit of an over achiever with this theme as I want to do something specifically with these arches and more if I get them made. LOL
I used more of that gorgeous paper from DCWV and [...]

bird arch

Sunday, 17 August 2008, 10:45 | Category : Uncategorized
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I liked my bird arch so much, I kept it and framed it in a shadow box frame I had hanging around for just such a use. You can’t tell from the picture but I used pieces of a thick foam tape to make the arch stand off the back of the box.

Yalpha for August

Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 15:21 | Category : Uncategorized
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on one of my groups we do a monthly alphabet mingle in a 4.5×4″ format, using any letter of the alphabet but designing it so the elements of the piece are reflective of the 3″ high, at least, letter we choose.
My letter for August is R with the words Royalty, Regal, Romanov, reality, romance, romantic, [...]

royalty/crowns

Monday, 11 August 2008, 15:04 | Category : Uncategorized
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is the theme that Kris Dickinson picked for this weeks G.A. I have always had a fascination for royalty and when I was a kid, I wanted to be a princess desperately. A wonderful daydream for me!!!
This is my take on Royalty/Crowns for the week. The paper is from the pack I picked up last [...]

shades of white

Monday, 4 August 2008, 16:04 | Category : Uncategorized
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is the theme on G.A. this week set by the wonderful artist Hermine Koster. Even tho this is one of my favourite themes, I had a really difficult time with it and although I tried not to I still managed to get a bit of colour in it. I scanned it 1st, then because the [...]

another award

Monday, 4 August 2008, 10:37 | Category : Uncategorized
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I was so surprised when Faye gave me this wonderful award.
Here are the rules.1. Only 5 people are allowed to receive this award.2. Four dedicated followers of your blog.3. One has to be new to your blog and live in another part of the world.4. You must link back to whoever gave you the award.I [...]

atc

Monday, 4 August 2008, 10:26 | Category : Uncategorized
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a bit on the serious side for the moment, I am a huge ’supporter’ of Breast Cancer research, having lost my mother to it 24 yrs ago and now getting to about the same age she was when it was discovered, and I wish I could do more to help.
On one of the Yahoo groups [...]