Texture Tuesday

I havebeen looking at some pix I took on a hike recently. The country has wonderful - dry, hard, beautiful. It brings to mind the requirement for water, the changes on the environment, the need for change. It flows through to my art - a new paper doll made from a topology map of the Pacific sea floor. A vision of a world without water.

So Brown the Weather

After finishing de-dustifying everything today after the dust storm of the 23 September, I decided to check out the pix I took during the storm. Yuck! No wonder there was so much reddy brown water when I was finished

I'm even seeing brownish when I'm creating - these new badges seem to be affected by the muted tones. Well, at least they look like they should be that colour.

Pelican Friday at Redcliffe

Today we went to the pelican feeding at Pelican Park Redcliffe. The Redcliffe council do the feeding every day of the year at 10:00 am and it's great to watch. The bird are so tame and they are amazing and HUGE up that close.
We had a great time watching them and then checked out the bat colony in the botanical gardens at Redcliffe, and finally watched a man walk his pet pig in the park! What a place for wildlife.

I also collected some rocks that are just right for my pictures with my new brooches.

Wonderful Surprise from Handmade Magazine

I just opened a package I received from Handmade magazine, and what a treat it is. I emailed them a letter late last year about a slightly scary cooking experience and then forgot all about it. What a surprise to find my letter is their star letter in Handmade Vol 26 No 12 and I won a fantastic prize pack. Its got two papercraft books, some lovely textured papers, stickers, rub on's, super sized brads, and patterns too! So perfect for me. I can't wait to get playing.

Meanwhile just finished some Twilight inspired bookmarks.... love that toothy experience!

I Spy a Spider -Giveaway on Sarah Jo Sews

I found a link to this fantastic givaway on Sarah Jo sews - some slightly scary and yet rather cute spider fabric. Also you will love badges - I am in a badge mood at the moment.

This suits the Twilighty zone I am creating in at present.

Go check it out: http://ideyspidey.blogspot.com/

Twilight Delight

I have bowed to public pressure and have just about finished reading the Twilight books. And they are as wonderful as I had been told. Like all readers I fell for the charms of the dazzling Edward and felt the need to create a bookmark to match the reading experience. I sketched up Edward and got a lovely stamp made up. Today I finished the collages for the bookmarks - due soon in my Etsy shop, along with some ACEO sizes. I am most pleased - now I can go a read the final 40 pages!

Stamp Duty

A while ago I thought about creating some art stamps. I had some drawings I had done about 20 years ago that I thought might look good as stamp images (these ink pixel drawing took ages - its lucky I loved Blake's Seven enough to spend the time doing the pix). I went to Argee Stamps Brisbane and they created some brilliant art stamps for me at a very comparable price to the usual cost of art stamps and within a week. They were wonderful. Now I just now have to work out how to use the new images.