Ideas / sights / thoughts / inspiring things that spark my imagination
Welcome to my first post for 2023. May this year bring us all prosperity, health, laughter, and joy. Today, I received my first subscription box for 2023. This time, from The Purple Magnolia, one of my happy places. (If you haven’t attended a class there yet, do. You will be so happy you did.) So … [Read more…]
I got my happy mail again – I have not ordered a subscription box for a few months, but this one was one I thought I needed to have. As usual, it was filled with all sorts of happiness. This month’s box is sweetly called Creme de la crayon. <3 The kit contained 3 Distress … [Read more…]
Today I used a new-to-me stamp make – Polkadoodles at a class. They have really cute little stamps suitable for focal images and art journalling with gorgeous little bits and pieces. They also have stamp sets that are called “soup” stamps. These stamps are a bunch of shapes you can use to make mushrooms, birds, … [Read more…]
Today I popped into my local art and craft shop (just around the corner from my house) for an impromptu class. It was a wonderful one-on-one for a class I had missed previously. Denise and Sharon (from the Scrappers Village) showed me how to stamp and colour images using those blending brushes and oxide inks. … [Read more…]
Since the lockdown, I have become even better at online shopping. I already had a triple black belt, but now I am a grandmaster. After drooling at all the subscription services and monthly release kits that one can purchase in Europe and the Americas, I was determined to discover if there was something like that … [Read more…]
I have been loving making journals and decorating them. A friend showed me a tutorial on YouTube on making a journal entirely from envelopes. There is a channel by Angela Kerr that I encourage you to go check out, specifically her tutorial on the envelope journal: here. My friend gave me the envelopes already glued … [Read more…]
I am ecstatic to announce that I have been selected to join the Altenew Educator Certification Program. Woot! There are several courses I will need to work through and produce an item (a card, perhaps a scrapbook layout, perhaps a mixed media item) showing what I have learned, and post it here on my blog. … [Read more…]
Heavily inspired by a beautiful Celtic knot tutorial I saw on Instagram by zen.linea on THIS post, I have been drawing and drawing and drawing trying to make as beautiful an image. I decided to try to draw it onto my craft mug which is a blackboard mug I got from the local thrift store … [Read more…]
I have been feeling a bit stressed and emotional the last few days, so I decided to refurbish a small blackboard and frame I got from the local thrift store. I don’t have a before pic, but it was in good nick, just a different colour. I removed the frame and painted it a soft … [Read more…]
Our renovations are completed. We had a minor change to the bathroom, the braai / entertainment area, and the pool hoist. It was just too difficult to shower Colin in the commode as I am just not capable of washing him effectively while ensuring that he doesn’t slip out of the chair. I struggle to … [Read more…]