"You're supposed to be blonde!" they said.
What do you think, are they right? Should I go back to being blonde or stay a brunette?
Well that's really it for tonight!
Helen xx
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Two Posts in One Night!
Wonders will never cease, 2 posts in one night! No I'm not really putting off writing reports . . . I just forgot to add a photo of my new look. I went to the hairdressers tonight and came home with brown hair, the boys think it's not right!
"You're supposed to be blonde!" they said.
What do you think, are they right? Should I go back to being blonde or stay a brunette?
Well that's really it for tonight!
Helen xx
"You're supposed to be blonde!" they said.
What do you think, are they right? Should I go back to being blonde or stay a brunette?
Well that's really it for tonight!
Helen xx
Hello, hello, hello
Well long time no posting! What excuses do I have? Well the boys and I have moved house, we sold the family home and I have bought a new house to start the next phase of my life. The boys love the new house as do I, although my new craft room is only half the size I had before! Having said that it has a huge window that lets in lovely natural light. When the room is tidy I'll make a short video showing how I'm squeezing most things in (some not so often used supplies are now residing in the garage as I can't fit them in!).
Currently I am at home on sick leave recuperating after having foot surgery. I thought it would give me lots of time to craft but I didn't factor in how my foot would throb sitting at my desk so I have spent weeks watching tv with my foot up and not much time at my desk. Hopefully things will change soon!
Some projects I have worked on since my last post are as follows. Please ignore the bad photography as I took these images at night on my phone but I figured some photos were better than none!
This was my last art journalling class at my Made With Memories, I have been teaching this class for two years now. I have a core group of four ladies that come every month and over the months others join us for a lesson or two or ten!
Well that's it for now, I have to go and finish writing my reports for my Year 2 class, my work avoidance has gone on for long enough!
Take care and have fun crafting,
Helen xx
Currently I am at home on sick leave recuperating after having foot surgery. I thought it would give me lots of time to craft but I didn't factor in how my foot would throb sitting at my desk so I have spent weeks watching tv with my foot up and not much time at my desk. Hopefully things will change soon!
Some projects I have worked on since my last post are as follows. Please ignore the bad photography as I took these images at night on my phone but I figured some photos were better than none!
She is actually teal though!
I'm having fun drawing and painting faces.
Well that's it for now, I have to go and finish writing my reports for my Year 2 class, my work avoidance has gone on for long enough!
Take care and have fun crafting,
Helen xx
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
Life
Hi all,
We have had a long weekend here in WA and I managed to get some art time in. I completed another week of Life Book 2015, with my friend Pascale, and we painted our affirmation feathers. Here is my attempt:
I also watched a youtube video from a lady in Canada (Creationscece I think??) who looked at different ways of sealing Dylusions and one of the ways that worked, that I'm going to try, is by spraying Golden's Airbrush Medium through a mister.
The other big thing that happened this weekend was that I started packing! Our home, that we built 14 years ago has been sold and our settlement date is 8th April so I've got 5 weeks to pack everything up. I managed to pack 25 boxes yesterday but they were mainly my novels and scrapbook albums! Let the fun begin!
Well that's it for today. I hope you manage to find time to feed your creative soul,
take care,
Helen xx
We have had a long weekend here in WA and I managed to get some art time in. I completed another week of Life Book 2015, with my friend Pascale, and we painted our affirmation feathers. Here is my attempt:
I also watched a youtube video from a lady in Canada (Creationscece I think??) who looked at different ways of sealing Dylusions and one of the ways that worked, that I'm going to try, is by spraying Golden's Airbrush Medium through a mister.
The other big thing that happened this weekend was that I started packing! Our home, that we built 14 years ago has been sold and our settlement date is 8th April so I've got 5 weeks to pack everything up. I managed to pack 25 boxes yesterday but they were mainly my novels and scrapbook albums! Let the fun begin!
Well that's it for today. I hope you manage to find time to feed your creative soul,
take care,
Helen xx
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
Finally I'm Checking In
Hi all,
Boy have I been busy at work! I've forgotten how much talking I have to do down in the younger years. I finally found some time this past weekend to create some art. My friend came over for dinner and we did one of our lessons from Life Book 2015, I had a great time, thanks Marita. Here is my A3 size piece of artwork:
I did manage to teach my art journalling class at my local scrapbook shop two weeks ago plus prepare my April class, here is a sneak peek of April's page.
Well that's it for now, I hope you are all well and finding more time than myself to have some crafty fun.
Take care,
Helen
Boy have I been busy at work! I've forgotten how much talking I have to do down in the younger years. I finally found some time this past weekend to create some art. My friend came over for dinner and we did one of our lessons from Life Book 2015, I had a great time, thanks Marita. Here is my A3 size piece of artwork:
I did manage to teach my art journalling class at my local scrapbook shop two weeks ago plus prepare my April class, here is a sneak peek of April's page.
Well that's it for now, I hope you are all well and finding more time than myself to have some crafty fun.
Take care,
Helen
Monday, 26 January 2015
Door Sign
Hi all,
School holidays are almost over and I'm getting ready for my change of year grades, after 8 years of upper primary I'm heading down to Year 2. I haven't actually taught Year 2 for 20 years so it should be an interesting year! I spent a few hours making myself a really cute (well I think so) door sign, what do you all think?
I am taking part in Life Book 2015 and loving it so far. The first lesson "Beacon of Light" was the inspiration for this girl.
I've got a few last remaining hours before I go back to work so I think I just might go and play in my studio as I probably won't get a chance for a few weeks.
Happy crafting,
Helen xx
School holidays are almost over and I'm getting ready for my change of year grades, after 8 years of upper primary I'm heading down to Year 2. I haven't actually taught Year 2 for 20 years so it should be an interesting year! I spent a few hours making myself a really cute (well I think so) door sign, what do you all think?
I am taking part in Life Book 2015 and loving it so far. The first lesson "Beacon of Light" was the inspiration for this girl.
I've got a few last remaining hours before I go back to work so I think I just might go and play in my studio as I probably won't get a chance for a few weeks.
Happy crafting,
Helen xx
Saturday, 17 January 2015
Holiday Crafting
Hi all,
It's funny how you think seeing as you have 6 weeks of school holidays that you're going to get a lot of crafting done and then all of a sudden you have only 1 week left and you realise you haven't achieved as much as you thought! Mind you I still have managed to get a few things done although I can't share all of them as they are upcoming classes at Made With Memories.
This year for my art journaling class I teach once a month I've chosen the theme "Inspired by . . ." where each month I will highlight a well known artist and use her/his work as inspiration. For January I was inspired by Vicky Papaioannou from Clips-n-Cuts. This is the page we created.
You may be able to tell who the artists are that are
inspiring our February and March pages.
Today I went to my friends house for some art journaling fun and I painted this gorgeous girl, my inspiration was a picture by Tamara Laporte from Willowing. I had so much fun painting this girl.
Well that's about it for tonight. I must go and finish the cleaning that I started this morning as we have an open house tomorrow, I so hope that this house sells soon, I've got my fingers crossed and my toes!
Take care and happy crafting,
Helen xx
It's funny how you think seeing as you have 6 weeks of school holidays that you're going to get a lot of crafting done and then all of a sudden you have only 1 week left and you realise you haven't achieved as much as you thought! Mind you I still have managed to get a few things done although I can't share all of them as they are upcoming classes at Made With Memories.
This year for my art journaling class I teach once a month I've chosen the theme "Inspired by . . ." where each month I will highlight a well known artist and use her/his work as inspiration. For January I was inspired by Vicky Papaioannou from Clips-n-Cuts. This is the page we created.
You may be able to tell who the artists are that are
inspiring our February and March pages.
Today I went to my friends house for some art journaling fun and I painted this gorgeous girl, my inspiration was a picture by Tamara Laporte from Willowing. I had so much fun painting this girl.
I have also created a scrapbook layout but this is up in the shop already as it will run as a class in March, here's a sneak peek:
Sorry, you'll have to do the class to see the full double page!
Take care and happy crafting,
Helen xx
Friday, 2 January 2015
Happy New Year
Hi all,
I hope 2015 has started off very well for you all. It's been quiet around here, spent time with my boys and my mum in the garden getting ready for a home open. I'm sure hoping that 2015 brings some changes for the better around here.
In between the gardening and cleaning I have managed to finish a couple of pieces so I thought I would share them. One is in my large A3 sized journal and the other is the start of my 2015 journal where I want to write about my adventures this year, I'm hoping they're going to be amazing!
I hope 2015 has started off very well for you all. It's been quiet around here, spent time with my boys and my mum in the garden getting ready for a home open. I'm sure hoping that 2015 brings some changes for the better around here.
In between the gardening and cleaning I have managed to finish a couple of pieces so I thought I would share them. One is in my large A3 sized journal and the other is the start of my 2015 journal where I want to write about my adventures this year, I'm hoping they're going to be amazing!
Donna Downey inspired.
Close up!
Well that's it for tonight. I hope you find some time to get arty!
take care,
Helen
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