Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Madonna
Originally uploaded by shellsbells2007
Based on a lovely illustration my sister did, I have created this mini cushion of the Madonna and Child. My sister is an avid collector of this iconography and we decided our new collaboration needed a lovely piece that represented motherhood. I had such fun making her, there are more on the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
envelopes
Originally uploaded by shellsbells2007
I made these for a parcel I was sending out to a customer from FELT. They are made from an old Sears catalogue (Canadian) found in a second hand shop in New Zealand - don’t you just love the randomness of that!
I have a love for old catalogues and adverts because my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bad blog, blah, stats on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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I had a laugh at Helen’s post on how the search terms on our blog stats say a lot about our blogs - oh dear - not very deep, meaning-full, passionate or focused it seems. Better up the ante!
Posted in craft, tutorial, tagged craft, embroidery, handmade, madonna, virgin on May 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I took some gifts on the recent visit. I embroidered the tea towel of the Virgin Mary to add to my sisters very large collection of all things Madonna. The line art pattern is available on my pattern page. Feel free to let me know how you used it.
Posted in family, tagged Melbourne, mikes, mothers day, street art, travel, trip on May 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Im back from a really great trip to see my sister in Melbourne. We had a fantastic 6 days together and what was anticipated with great excitement is now passed.
Between the two of us we have five girls - and we wanted to take time to do some sisterly things together that can’t always be [...]
Posted in craft, tagged baking, craft, flowers, jam, Melbourne, shortbread, silly on May 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well the girls and I had a great holiday together (only one or two melt downs, mostly by me). We did not go away - just spent some lovely time together. The house was allowed to get messier (well, that’s the story anyway) and who though hanging out in your pj’s most of the day [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged elephant, holiday, vacation on April 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
{What can I see
What can I see
I see an Elephant looking at me!}
School holidays have started - and Im going to go on Blog vacation and spend some real time quality with my two gorgeous girls. We are going to make hot chocolate with marshmallows, read books, go to a movie, have a tea party and revamp [...]
Posted in art, craft, cut and paste on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Detritus
Originally uploaded by shellsbells2007
I had an assignment for Craft Hub to make a page for my friend Rachelle’s altered book - her theme is Detritus - which can be defined as accumulated material and debris. At first, I thought I should put a photo of my work space in the book!
I found the weird, organic [...]
Posted in life and loves on April 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
14 years - 14 years, we have been married allthough we actually have been together longer. We were childhood sweethearts - Met in High School starting way back in the good ‘ol eighties - He was a rebel, in and out of trouble, bad rep and bad hair days. I was the sweet young thing [...]
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