Look what gorgeousness came through the letterbox.... Butler & Wilson bracelet. As you know I have a thing for skulls, so seeing this delectable item I had to have it... the skulls are enamelled, covered with crystals and the crosses have crystals sent in the shape. Its divine, to die for. Butler & Wilson make the most exquisite jewellery and are collectors items. 
She's leaving home...... Lucinda is going on a journey. A blog friend of mine decided that she wants to have Lucinda join her and her family on a narrow boat to keep them company. So Lucinda will be parcelled up and sent on to her new family next week to embark on new and wondrous adventures... It's a thrill for me that someone actually wants a piece of my 'art', life is certainly interesting for me at the moment. Thank you so much Alice........(please visit Fanciful Alice blog on my side bar) 
This is what I found in Dunelm and had to have it! Its great for displaying works, items, stuff that gives me pleasure.......
Used a variety of inks/glimmer mists for the background... then took ages deciding what to do next. Found a book that used to belong to Sue Roddis (got it when she left for foreign parts) with birds stamped on, so I ripped them out, stuck the pages down, got out alphabet stencils used gesso for that, then just used paint for the border from another stencil. Needless to say I have to do more..... Ciao
Yes more books.... on journalling. When I was in America I saw "The Journey is the Destination" in Barnes & Noble but for some reason didn't purchase it... but reading so much about Dan Eldon and how his journals influenced others I bought a copy. Really worth it..... a young man who died tragically and so young. These books are feast for the eyes.
As always we had a blast at AFTH on Sunday... what would I do without those nutty ladies to see me through what has been a strange and difficult week (no change there then!) lots of laughs, chocolate cake (made by yours truly), buckets of tea. Our challenge was to pick a colour, find as many shades as we could from magazines, use paints and away we go. I picked yellow for a change, something really bright to cheer me up. Trying to find paints/inks in yellow is quite a challenge, so I used gold as well... can't really see much with this photo. Great day, pity the rain threw it down on the journey back home, but after such an enjoyable day who cares!
I was getting ready this morning to head out to Liverpool to be with my 'crafty' girlfriends, when my phone rang...... my life has now stalled again. My other half rang to let me know that he would be out of a job next week..... so the house we were going to move to will go to someone else, Mollie will not have a garden to sit out in and I won't have my Arbor to sit under and create... So now we are back where we were, no worse off in that we still have a roof over our heads, albeit not the one we liked and we will be kept again by our welfare state.... I was supposed to have gone for a job interview tomorrow but I got a phone call telling me that the job was being put on 'hold' I just laughed ... what can you do. I still went and met my lovely girls, had a great time, they gave me their support and we laughed at everything. Better things on the way do you think?? Ciao
Here is a great read... this book tells the stories of how colours came into being. Who would have thought that people would kill, steal and other terrible things to get their hands on precious minerals so that the world would have beautiful paintings to adorn homes, museums and galleries. I'm reading it for the 3rd time.. it is absolutely fascinating.... Hope you are all enjoying the summer.... wish we had air conditioning! Ciao