The Bunnies are so wild and shy

I made this Hugly this afternoon ~ I picked up a lovely old fabric Dean's Rag Book not so long ago for 10p ~ so I was able to use a page for this Hugly ~ six more pages to go! I have had a lovely day making ~ I finished off the textile embroidery and this Hugly ~ I should be making cards but I have to be in the mood for that.

I did have a bit of a dip today though, as my daughter is at Art College and she is using the house as her Art Studio. If you get my drift! i.e. my natural sponge .....left with household emulsion in it....overnight! My mono printing perspex board, left inked up.... overnight! Papers, stuff and kit everywhere. Paint brushes, half washed on back of cloakroom sink....nice hard emulsion stain on sink etc etc.

IS IT ME?????? When I have a moan, I get 'but I hav'nt finished yet'. Oh well, weary sigh!

Collage embroidery

My latest embroidery ~ Using a fabric transfer of a Deco letterhead as a background to an embroidered flower garden. As I have mentioned before, I do not have a plan when working these, they just evolve and it is 'all about placement'.

Hay-on-Wye

Mistletoe in one of the many
trees in
Hereford~
shire.






Must tell you about the most glorious day out, my husband and I had last Saturday. The sun actually shone for a starter! We then drove to Hay-on-Wye reknown for it's book shops. Well I thought I had died and gone to heaven! What a gem of a place, on the border of Hereford/Powys. Every other shop was a book shop with a few gorgeous galleries and boutiques thrown in! What a treat to visit a thriving town that is'nt full of opticians and building societies.


The top photo was taken from the castle looking down onto the open air book sales and High Street.

'During May'

After all my pithering about, thinking of how I could put three Huglies into the Shirehall Open for possible selection, I opted to try three embroideries instead (all at the eleventh hour I might add). I heard today that 'During May' had been selected. I'm really, really pleased as the exhib runs for two months and a is very popular.

Must go then, as I'm working on an envelope embroidery and it's very difficult not to spend all of my precious evenings reading blogs and staring at Flickr !

Pin Boards

I don't know about you but I do love a
good nosey around other people's houses, so I thought you may like a few more pics of inside my studio.
I know you can't really see much detail in the view of my desk, but this is the general look of the place. I end up working in a 2" square on my desk, very untidy, but I think it shows that you are busy if you have an untidy work area
;-) Mind you most of the space is taken up with my button collection. My friend Maureen gave me a set of bone buttons today, at work, it made my day!
Anyway the other two pics are the top and bottom of my pin board. As you can see mainly greetings cards, Orla and Poppy Treffrey feature. I recently purchased a beautiful brooch from http://www.melanietomlinson.co.uk/ her work is stunning.
Art of the Stitch at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Mmmmm, the jury is out on that exhibition. I like to come out of exhibs buzzing but did'nt from that one! Oh and there is a photo on the pin board of my husband before we married in 1983/84, he looks like a child! Pre-married life, kids, mortgage, rising costs and bills, family etc ;-)
Well better go......thanks for stopping by.

New work

Here is my latest textile collage entitled

'flowers' ~ spent ages thinking that title up!!! Anyway, I really enjoyed making this. I never work to a sketch/plan with these pieces, I just start with an image, such as the one above 'Joan's Flower Shop', which was from a vintage envelope and then away I go, adding and taking, sewing and embroidering. It's all about placement. I backed it with a lovely piece of linen which has an embroidery transfer ironed on, a Budgie! Well why not!

Moo love

I am so pleased with my mini calling cards from Moo......

they are so small and cute but have enough info. on the back to make them very personal. It's great that I can give a card with a photo of a Hugly to someone who has maybe purchased a Hugly. Appropriate information! I've ordered stickers too, so I'm looking forward to receiving those. Just brilliant.