My Names Book and a Canvas.

I have been working on this little names book, it is ATC size and it is for holding all the names of my cyber friends, their names, blog addresses etc.
The cover is chipboard covered with craft resist paper, this I coloured with distress stains, the flowers are from Prima and are coated with UTTE, corners are metal painted to look rusty as is the book plate.

Inside the pages are alphabeticly ordered (tabs and domed stickers).

This 8x8 canvas used up sprayed tissue paper for the background, I added extra sprays for the drips and the bottom is stenciled, the trees are also scraps and the bird is hand drawn.

The words at the bottom say 'Lifes Pathway'.

Thanks for looking!

WOYWW

It's Wednesday! I have missed taking part in WOYWW, school hols bring lovely grandsons to play at Nana's 3 times a week, one of the days being Wednesday. Today they are in a quiet mood, so it gives me a chance to play a long this week!
Haven't done a lot of arting the last few weeks, have to catch up on chores when the boys aren't here!
Desk looks pretty tidy 'til you look at the next photo!

And then you see all the 'stuff' around the little tidy area!
The canvas is something I started yesterday so hopefully I can work on that tomorrow!

This is the first page in my journal, it is much brighter than this in real life! Lots of blue and browns and texture! These are a few of my favourite things!

I really need a few lessons in photo shop!

These pages are spritzed with colorwash, cosmic shimmer and then sprayed with white to make it 'dreamy'.

Lots of orange and yellow sprays on this one I don't usually use these colours so it was a challenge for me! It was then stamped in rusty hinge all over with lots of different stamps!

The 'balloons' are world stamps on tissue, the baskets are hand drawn on tissue, the TH birds were around the wrong way so they are stamped on tissue too!

More spritzed pages, masked and stamped. The images are pieced together using various collage images.

All these pages are gessoed before sprays are added and are in various stages of completion.

If you want to see more desks join in the fun at Julia's place HERE.

Hope to see you next week too!

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Here is my desk this week! Not a lot on it as I have had to knit more chickens (for my 2 grandsons and my daughter), I did make the white canvas and cut out a template.

Here is the canvas, this was so hard to photogragh! It has lots of Rock Candy crackle paint and silver rub and buff on it! The flowers are cut from hand made paper with Tims tattered flowers dipped into UTTE, the middles have dazzles in them.

Last week I showed what is to the right of my desk, this is what is to the right! the wooden cubes have papers,books andin the cupboard are 'naked things' waiting to be papered, painted and grunged in various ways! (I would open it but everything would fall out!) on the top more papers 12x12 and boxes of chipboard letters. Next to the cubes is a trolly, on the bottom mags, the Ikea drawers have stamps and inkpads in them.

Storage jars have lots of 'bits' in them (buttons, feathers,beads, eyelets lots of odds and ends I can't bear to part with!

The othe side of the window more storage cubes draws have tins, empty ribbon rolls,bits of material, postcards, old photos and images. Boxes more of the same.

This trolly has my guillotine on it, the wire drawers have tools in them, more art bin boxes with paper in them. The drawers to the left have white card, acetate, canvas paper, shrink paper and watercolour paper in it.

Well thats me for this week!

Thanks for looking and if you want to join in or have a look at some more pop over to Julia's HERE , there is always something yummy to look at!

2 More Chooks!

Meet 2 more chooks I have knitted! These are rather funky ones!
The green one (think Inka gold green) is sparkly!

And this little lady is very 'furry' she does have eyes which in real life are easy to see!

I just had to try other yarns that I had, (they take less than 50g to make for the body), I still have a few different sorts of wool left so I may have to knit some more!

I think my house will be over run with chickens soon!

Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken Lay a Little Egg for Me!

Last week when I was blog hopping courtesy of all the great people that show their work spaces on WOYWW I came across some knitted chickens on one of them. I left a comment on the blog and a lovely lady called Famfa very kindly said she would send me details of how to knit them!
Well yesterday she visited my blog, we exchanged e mails and later that day Famfa send me instructions and I just had to make one!
So here she is (or is it a he)! I love it and I think I will make some more! Maybe funky ones with bright combs and tails!
I think they would look great on a dresser in the kitchen or as I don't have one I will put them on my pantry shelves, (sure to make me smile everytime I go in there!)

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Wednesday just keeps coming quicker and quicker! I know it doesn't really but it seems too!
Well as you can see my desk is not that different from last week so I thought I would show 'the wider picture'! This proved to be quite difficult as my room is only about 7 ft wide and I couldn't go back far enough to get it all in!

So I went back as far as I could for this shot but you can't see that much more!

This one was taken with the camera up against the opposite wall!

The dresser is really meant just for display but as you can see some cups of brushes, pens and crayons have crept into the space too!

I couldn't get the whole run of the wall in (about 9ft) but there is not much the other side of the desk only a table which my lamp, iron and a large box full of paper, mainly tissue and a 12x12 paper storage folder is on.

So thats me for this week! If you want to see more or share your work space go HERE to be wizzed over to Julia's place!

Happy WOYWW, thanks for popping by!

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Here is my desk for this week! Lots of half finished stuff as usual!

A closer look at the right hand side of my desk. Lots piled up on top of each other waiting for 'the finishing touches!' Right at the top, the backing from a felt sticker which I used as a mask on my journal page.

Here is the journal page I was working on, it is quite a bit brighter in real life. Her wings look white but they are very shimmery!

If you want to join in and show your desk or have a nosey at lots of others hop over to Julia's HERE.

Have a fun day!