A day with Lance Anderson

I am soo excited as I am booked in to spend a day with Lance Anderson of Rusty Pickle fame next month! Check out Altered Treasures HERE to book your place - this one is too good to miss as I've had a sneak peek at the projects - seriously I recommend EVERYONE to book the day off work for a large helping of pickle !

AUSTRALIA HERE WE COME!!!!!!!!!

Well, at last we got the news that we've been waiting over a year for - we have been granted our permanent residency visas for Australia! We have to validate our passports by 12th Januay 2009 so basically we will be out there by the end of this year *Whooppee*

The house needs to go on the market in the next couple of weeks - just as soon as I transform my craft room back to a dining room. I will still be able to have some art time - it just means that faerychores are to be my priority til this place sells. So keep your fingers crossed for me - I really don't do H*#$ew&%k very well!!

The lovely Scrapbook Sisters have put my latest project up on their blog HERE It's just as well Julie is a dab hand with the camera cos I forgot to take photos myself *eek*.

are you with us?

are you with us?
Originally uploaded by shimelle

Yes Miss - ready to play. Julie

UKScrappers Oscars CyberCrop Weekend

It's cybercrop weekend on UKScrappers and although I can't play for all of it I have been indulging in the precrop chatter and challenges and am especially looking forward to Shimelle's challenge Scrap a day for 12 months. Basically we have been asked to create a book that will be used to record the 25th of the month, from tomorrow for the next 12 months. I think this journey will be an interesting one, especially as we should have emigrated by this time next year :) So the camera is coming to bed with me tonight, ready for the first photo of tomorrow which will be the time on the alarm clock!

Altered Tin

My first Sculpey creation...mosaic randomness on the lid of a tin - techniques include using border moulds from Lisa Pavelka, clay leafing foils, perfect pearls and clay from ALTERED TREASURES Have a look at the Lisa Pavelka website - very inspiring and Diz at AT has all her goodies to recreate these pieces :) Watch this space for more clay creations.

New Blog Header

What do you think?? I created the new header last weekend - playing with lots of my favourite things...distress inks, chipboard, glimmer mist, course pumice gel and Sculpey (thanks Diz x) beads, charms and other bits of bling :) Well, I call it art anyhow!

Julie at Scrapbook Sisters has been busy uploading pictures of the Monthly kit on their website. The kit has sold out but you can see some of mine and Morag Cutts' work HERE

Kids are slowly driving me round the twist and I still have another fortnight of the holidays to go - all suggestions for keeping a sane head will be gladly received!

Here are 2 layouts created with Bizous PDQ papers from Altered Treasures they are almost done so the odd tweak and embellishment once your photo is in place and voila - finished! Hmmm, I shouldn't speak French though...England are 1-0 down against France now at half time in the football. Let's hope that they can pull it back.