Mail....

I recieved this gorgeous atc from my friend the 'lovely les 'in Canada. I originally thought the dragonfly embellishment was a 'bought' one but on closer inspection, she made it!!

She sent me this link so you can see how its done. I have been checking my button box to see what else i can use! gotta love hot glue guns!

She also sent me some backgrounds. One of these is the bandana technique [seeing this around a lot lately] I love doodling so this looks like fun.

this next one she made using snowtex, which i think is bit like texture paste.

so i turned it into this....

using some lace scraps [sheer so you can see the background] and a bit of vintage lace from a collar across the bottom. I wanted to add some of my scrawly writing up the side but dont know if the pen will write cleanly so best to leave it as is, i guess!!!!

2 funny girls.....

Charlie and her friend had to make something from jeans for a recycle project at school...and look what they came up with ......



Matching Jean socks!!! I leg each..... and they wore them to the p/t interviews!!

[should've edited it first and chopped that dirty runner off!!!!]




she did tell me tho that she enjoyed using the schools embroidery machine.

Slack Blogger Award....

I nominate myself for the 'Slack Blogger Award'.....





I guess a 70hr work week will do that to you....


and then its taken me all week to start to feel normal......


and then when i am feeling happy and looking forward to Sunday off to do some sewing , on my way home from work, i trip [nothing there i might add just 2 left feet !!] and spend an interesting 2 mins lying on the concrete, gasping for air with interesting sounds coming out of my mouth!!!

NOT bad words but moans form my poor old lungs trying to reinflate themselves!!!!!

My cheek copped the brunt of it too and my right hand, so now sewing today, feel like i have been run over by truck!!!


And so the good news...


no more stocktake yey!!!


Lucy's dress went off to Elmore yey!!! FINISHED!!!!!! double Yey!!!


here's a sneak peak....







and i recieved some lovely mail [atc's] from the very nice Jan in England......



These are little origami Asian 'Dudes'!!




and i really love this one, its the packing tape transfer method, part of an image transfer swap we are doing in a Yahoo group. I can never get it to work, i end up peeling holes in the image!!

hope you all have good week ....... jenxo

busy week this.....

what a busy week its been ... first of all Charlz entered her tea towel dress in the Lead On Fashion Parade for the start of fashion week.
It was so hard getting decent pics because the girls were literally racing down the catwalk as they had a lot of models to get thru.
Her dress was based on the colors of the Northern Territory when we went on our trip in 2005. She dyed all the tea towels with coffee, tea and sun prints dyes. [not that there was any sun when she did them!!] The tulle was painted with acylic paint. The skirt has two layers of tulle under the frill.

Anyway i was a pretty proud mum!!






She made this wonderful mixed media necklace the inspiration which came a fairly recent edition of cloth paper scissors magazine.

Then today Luce had to have her hat done for the Fashions on the fields at Bendigo racecourse. The schools had entered and the girls looked gorgeous.
Luce raided my buttons and then beaded all the top of it before adding tulle and peacock feathers. Took her ages just to do the top and i was very proud of her patience. [anyone who knows Luce , knows that patience is NOT her middle name, but she does love to do tiny intricate things sometimes!]
Here's my girl.... looks pretty cute!!!



While we were there she wasn't interested in the fashions but the horses of course!
Naturally!!!

Last year we went to the Harness racing club for luce to get get an award for her Equine studies . While we there she studied the horses and got placings in the 5 or 6races that were on. I thought its just beginners luck although by the end of the night i was wondering???
Anyway today she studies the horses in the mounting yard , tells me which ones and blow me down , she gets placings again in all 4 races.

She has a theory but if i told you i'd have to kill you!!!!

And i am going to learn how to place bets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Fathers Day too, to all the dads out there.

My poor hubby had a bit of a lack lustre day but we love him to bits!!