I recently received this new award given to me by Donna Dixon . You MUST check out her site...it has fantastic eye-candy and wonderful free images!
Thank you Donna..I appreciate the fact that you felt me worthy of this award.

I have to list 5 things that I love, then choose 10 of my favourite blogs to give this award too.
Let me tell you that choosing ten will not be an easy task but I will give it a try.

Firstly, five things that I love....other than my hubby and my home...vbg

1. Watching my grand children grow.
2. Clean sheets on my bed.
3. The scent of Freesias.
4. The colour chartreuse...makes my mouth water...LOL
5. Listening to the rain on an iron roof, especially after a long dry.

And I send this award to the people below...

1. Kirsi..where you will find gorgeous eye-candy AND links to beautiful collage sheets.
2. Kris - the name says it all !
3. Diana - beautiful eye-candy.
4. Rachel - more lovely eye-candy.
5. Kathy - a very talented collage artist.
6. Jo James -FABULOUS whimsical art dolls!
7. Amy Flowe - she has a wonderful slide show of her art .
8. Kelsey - wonderful dark art...very lovely lady.
9. Robyn Gordon - FANTASTIC wooden carved art.
10. Nancy Baumiller - AWESOME Collage artist.

So, you wonderful artistes...if you don't wish to accept the award I will understand, but at least you will know that I love visiting your sites and adore and covet your art!

RAVEN AGAIN!

I made this one up for a CROW/RAVEN swap on a UK Yahoo group.

The only criteria was that we were to hand draw the crow/raven.

He is painted with Golden's Carbon Black onto a painted background,using watercolour paper.

I printed out the black and white paper borders, and also the yellow spotted hat, which began life as a picture of a paper cup.

The eye was cut out of a magazine.

Seems I couldn't help myself....he turned out Zetti-ish!

Fantastic Blog...Fabulous Give-away!

I have just spent way too much time ogling and drooling over images of fantastic art dolls...yes...they really are ART DOLLS!!....and one of them is going to be given away to a lucky visitor to the blog!
And yet another Yes....I will 'fess up that I still have a soft spot for cloth dolls, especially the whimsical, naive, arty ones.
The GIVE-AWAY is in honour of Jo James celebrating her 200th blog post! Wow!...what a milestone!
I have every part of me crossed that is possible to do, in hope that I will be the lucky winner!...LOL

So...take a walk on the whimsy side and check out this blog.
This is the little sweetie-pie that is up for winning.
But...be quick...the offer ends October 1st.

ANOTHER FABRIC PAGE

I have finally completed my commitment of fabric pages for several people on a Yahoo Group.

We all selected our own theme and each participant made a 5 inch X 7 inch page up for everyone, which the recipient then makes into a book.

This one's theme is "Nature".(Yeah..I know...it's a bit "fishy" but that's nature isn't it?)

Using silver thread and a wavy stitch, I attached some sheer, shiny fabric to the base fabric, which is cotton with a fleck of silver thru' it, I attached the fish, which are cut from a piece of fabric that I have had stashed away for yonks...(NEVER, NEVER throw anything away...you never know when you are going to want it!!...vbg)...and then stuffed them with Dacron filling to make them raised from the base fabric. They have glass beads for eyes and pearls and glass beads for the water bubbles.
I used yarns for seaweed and floral fabric for coral. I attached some Cinamay strips to the bottom of each side, then added some of those wonderful silicone beads that I used on the mermaid ATCs to represent sand.

I've been challenged..

I was checking out Moriah's blog today....sorry Moriah, I'm a little behind in doing so... where I discovered I was up for a Blog challenge! I was instructed to go to the 4th folder in "My Photos" and then post the 4th photo in that folder here and tell a little bit about it.
So, here it is...pretty boring old stuff really but I must do as I'm told...vbg.

This is a mixed media paper doll (bird) that was made for a swap. She was to go to a participant over in America, but some how she flew off course and never arrived at her destination!
She was about 6 inches tall, self supported on her wire legs, with a tiny woven vine nest which has three REAL candy coated chocolate eggs in it. I painted them with acrylic and then sealed them with a lacquer, adding tiny diamantes to them at that time.
There is a garland of lead crystals surrounding the nest and some also on the wire hanger. Unfortunately they don't show up in all their glory here. There are also tiny copper stars attached to the garland
Her wings are feathers off a vintage 1950's lady's hat and she has a brass crown, surrounded by Christmas icicle-garland spikes.
So now it is my turn to pass this challenge on to 4 other Bloggers....I do hope they take it up...and no cheating ladies...vbg.

Bevlea Ross http://soularts.typepad.com

Marion Bockelmann http://bockel24.blogspot.com

Diana O'Cobhthaigh http://docobhthaigh.blogspot.com

Lucy Leatham http://artitudebylucy.blogspot.com

ZETTI SWAP!

I am participating in my friend Marion Bockelmann's annual Blog Swap, this year the theme is Zetti..these are my entries.
I decided to go with the weird and wonderful kingdom of "Animorphs"...I hope they give the recipients cause to smile...just as they do me....vbg.

THE CROW HAS FLOWN !

Hee-hee!...But not very far...he is now available as my August Tute on our Tutorial blog.
Hope to see you there and that some of you will take part in the challenge of making up the ATC.