ALT.SHIFT.CRAFT fair

Might see you on Friday night if you're in Palmy and interested in lovely craftiness to purchase.

Remind yourself of the lovelies I got last time. Well worth a visit, and say hi to Debs and Carole while you're there :-)

More art journalling

Hey there - one more week of work and then you should see a bit more creativity from me.
In the meantime I thought I'd share a couple more base pages from my Be Present art journal :

The flower on the above page is made by stitching organza over a book page - have used this Ruth Rae technique a few times now - on a card, and after a little experiment, on my July Calendar challenge.

On from there, here are some journal and hand-made book blog loves to investigate :
Daisy Yellow's stitched journals - lovely
and Caatje has been doing some tutorials about how she makes art journal pages - go here for Part 1 : backgrounds and here for Part 2 : decorating pages. Her atlas journal is very very cool.
Ingrid Dijkers has been making a new tunnel book called "Under the Sea"
Explore Sarah Haslam's blog - love her journal and calendar pages - she is great with colour and layers in her backgrounds. Inspired, like me, by Kate Crane
Until next time....

Bus Trip

I got up early on Sunday (early for me anyway) and made my way to catch a bus with other members of Rose City Quilters for a day trip to Waipukurau.
First we went to "The Festival" held at Pukeora.There were some lovely fabricy creations - clothes - brooches - woollens - but I really can't bring myself to purchase things I could create for myself. So no purchases but lots of ideas generated, and I was very tempted by the beautiful jewellery made by Shelley Von Sturm 
Then we were off to "A new spin on Wool" - this year's exhibition by Wine Country Quilts.
Not a large exhibition, but with some lovely quilts and other wool items. These are a selection of my favourites (credited with the labels that were hanging with them - if you  are the creator of one of these and have a blog, just let me know and I will link to you) :
This first one was created with wet felting and needlefelting. Don't you just love the colours?

"The Colour of Truth is Grey" by Leanne Rogerson of Auckland

"Oppose" by Marion Manson of Hamilton

Love this blue-brown colour combo.


"Rose Wreaths" by Jean Wilson of Blenheim

"Seen Better Days" by Julie Lumsden of Wellsford

"A Blooming Bag" by Lyn Stoddart of Waipukurau

And finally, this quilt by Katherine Morrison (a well-known NZ quilter).

"Turangawaewae" by Katherine Morrison of Upper Hutt

Check out the quilting from the back!
All in all a lovely day out spent with a lovely friend :-)