So this is what i've been up to

The deadline has been and gone. I decided to make a handbag after playing around with the cards for ages. It's an evening bag and I'm really pleased with how it turned out. Please tell me what you think. I would love to see it made out of something different.













As this one is finished we were given a new project to do. This brief is called MASS - MOVEMENT - TENSION. Great title isn't it?
I have a few ideas for it and i still have a few weeks till it has to be handed in (hand in date 6th march)

The past couple of days i have spent in the Ceramics and Glass workshop learning about all the techniques that can be done. For Ceramics it isn't just using a potters wheel you can do so much more and i can't wait till next week so i can get back in there and try different things for myself. The glass is just as good and has given me so many ideas. We were even given the time to have a go at sandblasting which is such a wonderful technique that i think i will be using alot in the future.
If you ever get the chance to try these things go for it as it isn't as hard as it looks because you can get amazing results from such simple techniques (you do need to come up with the ideas first).

I can't believe that this course is flying by because as soon this project is done we are on final piece which is put in a show that is open to the general public (scary)

Well apart from that not much has happened here. Oh yes i forgot Dom had his photo taken with the FA Cup a couple of weeks ago. What? I hear you ask, well as Portsmouth won the FA Cup last year they have been going round all the local schools so the children can have their photo taken with it (and touch it). We had a choice of how we wanted to get a copy of the photo

1. Have them do a poster of it with small photos from the cup final day. Cost £7.50
2. Download it for free from the website

Of course i went for the second choice and here it is


Are you jealous?

With the weather this week it didn't really affect us. Living on the South coast and at the bottom of a hill it didn't get too bad. On Monday it was off the roads and pavements by the evening and the same on Tuesday and we haven't had any since even though we were due for some today, we only had lots of rain.

Any way it's getting really late and i want to go and see whats happening on Twitter.
I'll be back another day (hopefully i won't leave it so long this time)

The Art Piece for Self Identity

This is the final piece for the Self Identity Project. I'm really pleased with how it turned out even thou it isn't how i first envisioned it.
It has to do with representations and feeling caged. That with all the roles we have as women are pushing me down but i want to escape and become me again but i can't reach the key that is shutting me in.
I also managed to hand it in on time so that made me happy.

We just have a little break before we get the next project on Thursday and we only have about 3 weeks left till the holidays.

Self Identity

That is the title of the project that we were given last thursday (that we have to hand in on the 21st nov at 4pm). I'm enjoying this and i think the final piece will be good when i've done it. When it's finished i will put it on here and give all the details then. I will say that the main part is this cage (with thanks to one of my lectures). It needed some cleaning when i got it as it was covered in mud and rust and it also had a live worm on it. I'm taking plenty of photos so that i can show how it was made.
Best get back to it.

Some news

With everything that has happened over the last year things are finally getting back to normal. So whats the news i hear you ask well I'm back to college next week to continue my Art course. So I'm an Art Student again. I know that it's going to be hard work but i'm looking forward to it. It will be worth it if i pass (or should i say when i pass). All being well after this i will go on to do a degree in either Interior Design or 3D Design and after that i can get a ful time job in something that i enjoy.

Please wish me luck for this course as i know that i'm going to need it. It's only two and a half days a week but it's classed as a full time course. The studios that we use are available for us every day so when we have projects to do we can work on the days that we don't have to be in.

One of my favourite bits is the lectures we have on Art History. They are more than that really as they cover so many different things and give you a new outlook on Art.

So next week it's the start of lots of hard work.
I will keep you posted of all the things that we do and try and show all the finished projects and when i'm working on them.

Bad Girls top Designer

Bad Girls Kits are having a search for a new top designer.
Sign up for this has already started but you have plenty of time to get over there before sign up ends on Sunday 7th September at 1 p.m. PST (9pm for UK girls). The classes start on Monday 8th September 10am PST (that's 6pm for UK girls)
The prize that is up for grabs is amazing

don't you agree?
I'm looking forward to the classes starting.
I hope to see you over there

Alsorts of stuff

Its been a while since i did any scrapping as i had lost my mojo but I'm finally getting it back. I have signed up for an ATC swap on on swap-bot. It's a swap on the colour purple and as i have lots of purple stash that will be easy.

I've started to do a canvas and it's going quite well so i'm pleased with it so far as i have no idea how it will look when it's finished. So fingers crossed.

As its been a while since i made anything i have just found something that haven't shared before. It's a minibook i made ages ago in a class taught by Kirsty Wiseman.










I can't believe that this is only the second week of the school holidays as it seems further in than that. Last week Dom was at Childrens University for 4 days which he really enjoyed. The first two days he made a clock out of plastic and it works. He had to use drills and alsorts of things to make it. It something to do with making a mould.
Then the next two days they were being Secret Agents, they didn't make anything this time.

Now he is in a Boxing summer camp (1 hour a day for two weeks) and he's really enjoying it. At the end of each week they get to do a small test to get a medal. So as long as he completes each week he'll get two medals. Then in September he can join the club and earn more. He is doing really well and wants to carry on so i will let him. It's not expensive to do why not.
I have told him if he carries on enjoying it i will buy him a punch bag for christmas. So we'll see how long it lasts but to be honest i think it will last.
I'm not that into boxing but it will do him the world of good to do it.

Well what can i say

Its been one of those weeks.
Last week i signed up for a Top Designer competition over at Bad Girls and each week if get through there is a class and you have to do project for it. Week 1 was colour theory and this is what i did.

This is a LO of My DS (Dominic) age 8 wearing with pride a handmade bead he got for his birthday called Dominoe
I think he looks so grown up that i wanted this to have a feel of sophistication and pride.
I hope that it comes across that way.

I chose these dream street papers because i felt that they matched the colour of my sons shirt and while still being boy they come across as more grown up.

I uploaded this last night and now i have to wait and see if i got through to week 2. I have at least 4 hours to wait so wish me luck.

Well it was fun and games here Wednesday. Dom came home early from school as he was ill (they never send a child home unless they think something is really wrong). About 7pm he starts complaining that all his joints ache, tummy ache, headache, feels really warm to the touch and then complains that the light hurts his eyes. So I 999 ambulance comes and he's taken into the children's assessment ward at the local hospital. When they take his temp it is 39.1 and is given paracetamol and by the time he is seen by a doctor is fine and back to normal.
We were there about 3 hours as he was admitted at 7.50 and we were home by midnight.
He has got some sort of infection but not sure what at the moment. He has two spots on his tonsils that could turn into something but who knows.

He's gone to school today and they haven't phoned me to go and get him so he should be OK. He'll be home in about an hour now so I'll see how he is then.
Looks like it was just a 24 hour thing.

I took these photos of him the other day when he was on the phone to his best mate Ben. He looks so cute. I just wonder what he will be like when he's a teenager as they were on the phone for about an hour then. He is watching TV at the same time as being on the phone and Ben was at the other end (it was the same programme).

Guest Designer

Today A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE uploaded their Design Team Gallery and i'm in it. I'm one of the two guest designers for this month. This is what i did with what they sent me.



Please tell me what you think. I am not used to doing LO's any more. These are the
first ones i've done in ages.

Just a quicky

I just want to ge these up here quickly for a change.
Today was my crop and my class was to make a little house. I saw this idea on the Stampington & Company website. Its such a lovely little house so why not have a go yourself.

Art journal cards

I've been catching up with these so here they are.

Quiet

No Regrets

Count Your Blessings

Get some one else to contribute

Surprise

Right Now

Junk Mail

I still have lots to do but i don't care as i'll get there in the end.

Don't forget about my give away HERE