Michael steampunk-ed his specs!

Well, his spare glasses to be honest!

Super glue, tweezers, a magnifier and some of those dinky watch parts I got from EBay ... 

Amazing bit of up-cycling Michael. Only three more sleeps!

Sweet scrap fish ...

Next month sees my house transformed, and in part, open to the public as part of this years Arwey Art Trail ...

There are lots of new things to see, like a fancy pair of woollen fish that were born today while I sat with a poorly 6 year old ...

And my house of course, which has been very looked after following the winter damage. 

Will you come and see me?

Wee pink mouse

This small pink mouse is for a very special lady, and is based on my hamster pattern with a few simple changes. 

I'm really pleased with her!

Getting Ready for Artwey!

Some fun hamsters I will be exhibiting with Artwey starting this weekend at the Old Town Hall ...

done-up dolls house - time to play!

The dolls house that came from a friends loft was cleaned and white-washed, then collaged creatively with all kinds of embossed and coloured papers ... then sealed with my favourite ronseal water based varnish....

Some of the colours are really strong, but these look great with the plain wooden things that I managed to pick up locally for Christmas!

My girls had fun choosing how to set up the house, and I think they did a great job ...

So does this lucky resident! I love making my home nice too, do you?

New cats!

I have just popped some new kitty-kats in my Etsy shop!

Red fish!

Woking with a lovely jumper at the moment which was not really wearable any more - makes some super red fish though! And some other stuff, do you want to see?

Hamster Time!

You can catch these Cuties in my Etsy shop! I enjoyed having them in Cat's Porch as part of Artwey Art trail  but now they want  to be off ... there are four Hamsters left now.

Book keeping again!

A Junior Mission Praise from a Weymouth school was greatly in need of some TLC, esp once I had stripped off all the parcel tape to see what I was working with ...

here is the heavy book put back together, and the spine supported externally with some blue fabric, left over from the cover ..

And here is the repaired and covered book, ready for the new term, we hope it lives for a long time now! The commissioner wanted Holy-Spirit Blue, with a bit of sparkle, so I used some silver and blue glitter-print fabric for the spine...

Cute Shelf Makeover...

First, filling any gaps and keying in with some sandpaper ...

painting with layers of Dulux, because I have a large tub of it!

Looking for some collage papers to use ...

applying papers with thinned PVA

Aging the pie with fine sandpaper and finishing with some nice waxy furnature polish, ready for use in this years Artwey Art Trail!

New bin?

My shiny pedal bin was no longer so nice and shiny, my frequent use of a spray cleaner over the loo had left it rather pock-marked. Another opportunity to get collaging!

Materials, old bin, PVA, old bible, gold paint and some acrylic varnish.

Altered art finished ...

And with a couple of licks of Rosenthal on the frames, the pictures are ready to take over to Bridport on Wednesday!

Altered Art ....

Took some old picture frames with potential, and sanded any that needed it. this green one had a wash of white acrylic too ...

A donated old bible, which i had been after for some time, gave the frames a new lease of life ...

And with more precious pages and two Lovely quotes I created small pieces to fit into the frames.

These will be on display in Bridport soon :-) I had fun with collage papers, chalk and gold paint.

Cats are BACK!

The end of a favourite old cardi ...

Froggy Alterations ...

 This was Mary's Idea for a second talking frog - the first being a leap-frog ''Lilly'' she owns. The voice recorder was found on ebay (one cold have some great fun with this!!!)

Happy Birthday Solomon!

Made this cute monster-purse for a special present, it has the chunkiest zip ever!

From the Crow's Nest ....

I will be taking these to the Dorset Womens Day 2012 -Saturday 28th April, where I will have a stall and also be running a sock-monkey workshop too!

Today i got paint on me ....

WIP - cute shelves ...

Remember these two new projects?


I have been filling and sanding ...

Flock!