2 new atc's...

So i should be cleaning out the fridge [got it half done!] and the shower but instead I am taking photos and blogging!!! i have a very short attention span when it comes to housework these days!!!

These two i am taking to Paperific for the atc trade there. Should be fun although i have never done any thing like that before!
The background is tissue paper scrunched and glued and then water soluble crayons to color. The images are from a Gaby Braun collage sheet. they are such beautiful colors and i printed them out on some vietnamese paper.
Can you see the brown flakes down the edge? i found a container on our fridge full of interesting stuff, looked like toffee flakes. Turned out it was Shellac! Bonus! So i flaked it some more and gelled it on.
I also couldnt find an embellishment for the sides but on my way to work , walked thru the these elm blossoms. They are all dry and papery and were perfect!

Anyhow, if they dont go they will be up for trade Friday night!!

the black around the edge of this pic is a scrap from the soot technique, using a weeties box!

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

Some asian Atc's.....

Spent a lovely Sunday afternoon making atc's yesterday! That was after the 3 loads of washing , ironing, vacuuming and tidying up!! At least i wasn't at work like last Sunday!!!

These came together fairly quickly ...I'd picked up this cute Geisha fabric and rich brocade in Heathcote.
I found a stash of cheapie asian printed papers and Merry had given me some Vietnamese paper that her hubby had picked up o/s. Don't know if its rice or what but its beautiful and so is the book that it comes in.
I also used this black/red material that has lots of teeny tiny script on it,
[picked it up at Big W. I often look at their fat 1/4's, they have some quite different ones sometimes....]







Traded to Tam xoxo



Choccy wrappers come in handy sometimes!!!





Used the other side of brocade for the background.
this one and the next one traded to Jan...jenxo




These fans were silver so i embossed them with black, gold and copper and i love how they came up.

Havent named them yet and I have one left for trade so ema me!!!