I took my image transfer hat off today...  I took an altered book class....  wonderful it was too!  Here is a couple ... or more images of their creations...  fantastic .....  So much can be done with  an old book and imagination a few products and a little time. #alteredbook

Resin Pouring (all details here)

• Saturday 26th Feb  7pm 
• Saturday 5th March 7pm
• Tuesday 1st March 7pm
• Wednesday 2nd March 7pm  (this  class is now full)
• Tuesday 8th March 7pm
• Saturday 12th March 2pm

All workshops are help at Folk Art and Gift in Fitzroy... start time is 7pm, but feel free to come and time after 6.30pm.

Altered Book (All details here)

• Saturday 5th March 9am
• Saturdday 12th March 9am

I still have places in all workshops, please contact me if you would like to put your name down

Did not think I would have time for my update today.. as today is usually a day spent in the kitchen... Baking loads of yummys  for Teahouse on the Lake and Snickerdoodles.  I would like to put better links in here but guess what!!!! the person who was spose to have created their websites has been a bit slack (I mean busy), should not really give myself a hard time.   Thought I might share a recipe with you today...Lemon  Curd.  This is one of my favourites... Nom Nom Nom.  I am not a big sweets eater but when I make this in the kitchen... I am more than helping myself to this one. ........One for me, one for the recipe, one for me one for the recipe.... lol.  Now seriously!  This is recipe great for lemon tarts, lemon meringue pie, lemon slice ans many more other dishes!

I promised last week that I would do some more testing with the two Resene Products I am using to replace the Citra Solve product that I can not get here in New Zealand.  Below are samples from a 1979 NG Magazine, I have labeled each picture with the product I have used.  Close up of  "the scream"  for  Loving Mixed Media

It was lovingly suggested that I play with my colours, you see I am great  fan of Burnt Umber and those hues and a very comfortable with them and how they blend.  So I listened..yes I did.... may have has a slight hissy fit and wiped it off when I tried "Yellow"  for the life of me I can't do Yellow.  Cream yes Yellow no!  You might also notice that one of the Fleur dis lis is the not same as a previous in a post below I redid it as I did not like it... but that is not really what I wanted to say.  I did  not like the roughness of the original Fleur de lis,  so I set about making a new one (the cream and red version)  this one I poured a the shape and basically carved the rest out.

Altered Books
Right... now that I managed to distract myself for the last half an hour on twitter ..  I will get onto this altered book segment.  I am doing a free workshop this Thursday at Real Tart Gallery for some residents of a local rest home, so thought as I was...still am preparing all the books... I might share a brief how to for all you folks interested out there...
Hmmm  so you don't know what an altered book is aye... well take a look at some the these... there are several different types but here are three    Claire Lee  Karens Whimesy  Su Blackwell  if you want to see more google image is always great