I recently issued the Chocolate Baroque Design Team with a challenge – to make artful paper shoes. They certainly came up with the goods and you can see their delightful creations (and mine) on the Design Team blog.
Aren’t I just the lucky one!
One of the perks of my job is that I occasionally receive beautiful hand made cards from lovely people. This one arrived a little early for my birthday (which is next week) and it’s an absolute stunner. Big thanks to Vronnie for this glorious masterpiece. Here’s a couple of close ups. The stamp is from [...]
What’s the story Morning Glory?
I’ve been teaching Colouring 101 online for the last five weeks and while making the videos for the class, I put one of them up on YouTube. It’s a fast forwarded video of me colouring and it’s quite long – you might even find it a bit tedious to watch, but whenever I have demonstrated [...]
A suitcase full of outrageous blessings
I came across this on someone else’s blog and I think I’ve tracked it down to a blogger called Nali. Well thank you Nali for expressing this feeling so eloquently – it just sums me up at the moment. I wanted to say thank you so much to everyone for your kind words on [...]
Zaphod BeebleKitten
There really is no easy way to say this – our sweet little boy is no longer with us. I have been so distraught, I haven’t been able to talk about it. It’s been all I could do to carry on with any semblance of normality. He was killed by a car on May 4th [...]
From the archives – Paint Dabbers
When Ranger launched their Paint Dabbers in 2006, I dived straight into the first delivery to grab some to play with and here’s my first experiment. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ from November 2006 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The paints are nice creamy acrylics with a sponge top applicator which means you can literally just dab them onto any surface for a [...]









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