Hair today Gone Tomorrow (Today)...........

Well the deed is done .....I don't need to say anything every picture tells the story .........He IS CUTE ...xx

The last DREADful day

This is the last day Jim will have his Dreads ......he is cutting them to collect donations for Fire Fighters Families Charity........two firemen lost their lives recently while fighting a fire in Southampton....it was near where Jim was brought up so he decided to help ....I made some of his dreads and tended them lovingly ......he has had them for 6 years now and I am a teensy bit nervous about tomorrow .....I expect he'll still be as cute ......we are going into the woods and cutting them in the countryside.............will post an apres pic tomorrow ..!!!

Just thought I'd add this bit after reading all your comments .....
Thanks for your support Jim is grinning reading these about how cute he is ....and wot a bloomin brilliant idea to use them in a piece of art or under the embellisher ...How GENIUS is that ...when I made them I used a method similar to felting and sometimes used crochet hooks to get all the stray hairs woven it so they are a piece of art in themselves.....they are so dense and heavy and sometimes it's like lying on a piece of old rope ..they take about 5 hrs to dry ....but you are all right ...of course he'll be as cute ....xx

Elephants,Warhol, Dorinda the Galloping horse and Big Ben....

Had a school trip to London today to visit Tate Modern......I saw some things I liked and a few pieces I didn't understand and some art that was downright disturbing but there were great elephants along the South bank...along with Dorinda the galloping horse...the London eye ....Big Ben...graffiti ...and even met my daughter Sophie....and had a train journey so I could stitch all the way there and back...altogether a perfect day....




'Dorinda'......



This is a picture of me in the morning looking for something to wear from the heap of clothes in my bedroom .....(you've seen my workroom !!!)

Click to see Dorinda and her mates gallop on the South Bank

Some new work.....

This is a fabric Gothic arch that I swapped with Astrid....it was fun to make especially the front door........

Some new ATcs posted on Flickr ready for swapping .......

Workroom or Jumble Room........Not for the faint hearted...

After looking at the pics of Emma's desk thought I would share some pics of my workroom ...not sure if I should .....it IS quite shocking......I had just emptied the contents of my schoolbag onto my table ...which didn't help...Now you know why I called myself ArtyMESS......!!



Yesterday we went to the Maltings Festival as Jim was playing there (All in good time ....blog )Joss and Ruby made some jewellery

Psychadelic Saturday

I wanted to use the brightest embroidery threads in this one and it's quite mad !!


New Forest flora............


Here are some postcards mostly layered and hand embroidered. The second one is inspired by the heathers in the New Forest stitched while staying in our little caravan .....

I'm off to join the Circus.....

The Circus came to school today.........me with POIse .....xx

Love and Fun.....and I think I'm turning into a Smurf....!

No I'm not turning Smurflike just decided to dye my hoodie last night ...bought the hand dye by mistake and didn't have any rubber gloves....multi-coloured hands is my default setting...... Here are two more ATC cards ...just off on their adventure.........Tonight we went to the playpark and Jocelyn got me on the see saw swingy thing ...I got off when Jim wanted to spin us round too.....nearly brought up my tea!!!.....will probably take three days to stop aching .....xx

May Day......Allotments, Frog and Bluebell wood walk

Me getting stuck in .... Bit grey and windy May Day but that didn't stop us getting stuck in at the allotment. Caught that magnificent frog he was trying to climb the fence to get to a pond in the next allotment.Then we took the dogs for a walk in the woods full of bluebells...lovely job !!!.....xx

Video of Gracie ...No respect for furry creatures OR bluebells !!!

Cheer up Kim......here's a spring flutterby for you

Just posting a spring butterfly .....this was one of the first postcards that I made for swaps ...it started the swapping addiction.......this one flew to Judy in Australia....xx

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A Huge Thank You ....to my lovely blogging friends.....




Corrine>

and Kim and Astrid and Riet
and Linda and Brigitte
and Lela and Lorraine
and Jennie and Belinda
and Heidi and Jennie
and Lay Hoon ......

and Jodie and Crystal and Debbie and Belinda and Alessandra



thank you my beautiful blogging friends for your beautiful swapping gifts .........xxx