Monthly archive for ‘ May, 2009 ’

Foam Block Printing

29th May 2009 | 1 Comment

I saw a tutorial on a blog a few weeks ago about how to make scratch block mono prints using sheets of Styrofoam so this week K and I had a go at it. Of course we didn’t use ink and this was our first try but I think the results were ok considering those [...]


Newest Items

27th May 2009 | 1 Comment

I thought it was time I showed some new items that are in my Etsy store. I have made the last lot of mica shift into some earrings, pendants and rings and they will be listed soon. The most recent pieces I’ve listed include:

Feminine Florals Barrette

Aqua Necklace Set

Olive Green Elegance Earrings
and eventually I [...]


Snailblaizer Swap Sneak Peek

23rd May 2009 | 4 Comments

About a month ago I joined a swap which is being run by Cas over at Snailblazer. Its been a while since I’ve joined a swap so this should be fun. We had to send 10 items to Cas and she is going to organise them into even piles and distribute them. I can’t wait [...]


Stamp Carving and other Print Making Adventures

21st May 2009 | 6 Comments

For a while now I’ve been wanting to try out making my own stamps. Its something similar to linocut but the rubber is much softer to cut into which makes it faster. I would like to do linocut again, haven’t done that for a while. When I did lino and wood cut back in TAFE [...]


Remembering

18th May 2009 | 0 Comments

I was about 8 years old and my stationary addiction had already set in. Mum had bought me one of those fancy pens that has four different coloured inks when you press down each button and I couldn’t find it anywhere. I’d searched all through my bedroom and in all my drawers and still no [...]


Its Only Socks Mummy!

11th May 2009 | 0 Comments

As I mentioned in my previous post there was an interesting outcome from K getting paint on the front of my good shirt. This is how it went.
As I as attempting to get K to wash her hands (and arms and face and elbows) of all the paint in our little activity she reached out [...]


Potato Stamping

11th May 2009 | 3 Comments

Until I got a book out of the library with ideas for kids creativity I had forgotten all about potato stamps. I couldn’t resist having a go with K so last week thats what we did. The easy way to do it is to use tiny cookie cutters to create the image so we did [...]


I won

7th May 2009 | 3 Comments

A week or two ago I entered an online competition on Narelle’s blog Moments for Mum. Narelle is from Perth and she has written a short devotional book for busy Aussie Mums called ‘Moments For Mum’ (like her blog). She announced that I won in this post. I won a copy of her brand new [...]


Apple Pie

4th May 2009 | 7 Comments

Today K and I made an apple pie. This is the first time that I have ever done any sort of pastry from scratch and it turned out pretty good. I don’t think this has a lot to do with me but more to do with the recipe I used. I took some step by [...]


Little sticky beak

4th May 2009 | 6 Comments

Photographing some recent work the other day I was set up near the front door with my pieces on a plate. Within a few minutes of clicking a little head poked around the door to see what I was doing. Little L commando crawled her way over and as soon as she saw the shiny [...]