big plans for this little pile

Well....after hearing about the death yesterday, of a very young beautiful person that was liked by all who knew her, I hit a bit of a downer. I was teary all day and have woken this morning feeling very down. Sometimes you ask yourself WHY?. Sometimes life isn't fair,

So as silent tears fell down my face last night I decided to do something that would take my mind a little off what had happened. Quite a few years back I ordered some Amy Butler fabric from the US. It is so darn expensive here in australia....
I have had it sitting there not doing anything, I recently made this stool frill with some of the greens I bought, but last night I decided that I would make a simple quilt, a colourful quilt, one that would be achievable for me!!!

I quickly went through my fabrics, and came up with this bundle...It's all cut, by scissors, ouch, and sorted and hopefully looks good once it's done.

We are getting a new bigger lounge set for our front room, which currently is only used for the kids to play the playstation in...it's a waste...so this new lounge is going in there once it comes in...we still have to degrout, regrout...(a horribly job!!!), paint, new skirting...my head hurts thinking about it, but it will be wonderful once it's finished, and the new colourful quilt won't match it, but it will make it cosy.

I will show you it once it's done, but it will take me a while...

Ok...well, that;s it for now

Until next time

lots of it

Mandy

xxx

Brown Paper Packages Tied up In String...

 These are a few of my favourite things....
I am missing getting creative...honestly...but I am ok with it. I have had a busy couple of months with my mil getting very ill then passing away and now my mummy had a mini stroke sunday night and my life is consumed with hospital....
She is a little better now, but mix an illness with alzheimers and its a tad stressful...
Anyhoos....
I feel i haven't scrapped or done anything creative for too long...and I miss putting happy things on my blog...so I thought I'd rehash ( is that the right word???!!!) some of my old favs....sorry to bore those of you who have already seen it...

OK...well...here is to getting creative very soon...

Until next time

lots of it

Mandy

xxx

A sad Goodbye

I have been very quiet in the blogging world...
A few weeks ago I had a call from my mother in law. She was talking about how happy she was that ray and i were together and telling me how wonderful hugh, my father in law is...
She spoke about the kids and how happy she was about our little family, well big family...
She spoke of her new reading glasses and how they will be wonderful because she is doing a lot of reading lately...
A week later my husband left for a week to visit his mum in another state..we in sydney, she in adelaide...
A day after he came back from his visit she was in hospital...the next day she was very unwell...
A few days later my mother in law passed away...
She was an artist, a wife, she was a grandmother a mother and adventurer who travelled half way around the world with her young family for a better life...she was caring and thoughtful,
and so much more...
She said goodbye to me on the phone a few weeks ago...
I never knew it would be her last time saying it to me....
goodbye raymond's mum...we'll all miss you...

I can sing a rainbow...

Well, I have thoroughly enjoyed the sumer of colour that was hosted by Kristin, over at twinkle twinkle...thank you so much Kristin...your challenges have pushed me into doing things I woud have never tried, and I have some wonderful art pieces up around my house....


This lasyt week of the challenge was to do a showcase in some form of all the pieces...I am happy to say I have done each of the colours...yay!!!


I thought the easiest way to show you is to just put up mu photos of my work...a quick glimpse of what I have created...some i loved, and some I was just ok with...in any case, I enjoyed each piece I created...

here goes...

BLUE

GREEN

PINK

YELLOW

BROWN

RED

PURPLE

ORANGE

Until next time

lots of it

Mandy

xxx

more than the stars in the sky...orange...

Well...orange is one of my favourite colours to scrap with...I had originally planned to do something totally different, but you know how art goes!!

I ended up doing a faceless me (inspired by all those who have been doing these gorgeous girls)  with my arms spread out ...I would say to my babies I love you more than the blades of grass, I love you more than the sand on the beach, I love you more than the stars in the sky...there are 6 stars in my sky, one for each of my children...this is on a 12 by 10 canvas board...

This week I was over at Esther's blog and she had a little photo of a dandelion...I call them wish flowers as if you blow all the seeds out in one blow you get to make a wish....

the story goes  a little like this...
one day I was sitting out the front on our driveway watching the kids play...when suddenly out of the corner of my eye I see a little movement ...upon closer inspection , there was a little ant carrying a seed from the dandelion just like a little umbrella...I went nuts and quickly got my camera and clicked away...here is my interpretation of it...and the song HIGH HOPES ...you know the ant who could move a rubber tree plant...well...here is my little version of that... My dandelion seed was inspired by a little stamp I once had...tho nowhere near as nice as it....lol...

Thankyou once again to Kristin at summer of colour ... and thanks once again to all who pop on into my blog and say hi, leave a lovely comment, or even stop by for a quick little look...all are greatly appreciated...

oh...I had a great birthday, getting a lovely pandora bracelet, some lovely charms to go on it and some wonderful birthday money to buy some art goodies and other things...some dvds and some comfy jammie pants...gotta love birthdays, oh, and I am FINALLY starting to get better...it's about time really, so thanks to you all for asking after me and wishing me a happy birthday...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CONNOR..he turned 12 on sunday...Harry Potter's birthday!!!lol...

until next time

lots of it

Mandy

xxx

love is all you need...purple...

Well...I didn't think I would make my purple piece but just this minute I finished sticking my crystals onto the flowers in her hair...I forced myself to do this as I couldn't NOT do it...


Thankyou to you all who asked after my health this week...seriously, I have been and still am the sickest I have been since I had pneumonia ten years ago...and it's only the flu!!!with asthma thrown in I have had minimal sleep, but on the brighter note I have had it for so long it's got to get better soon...my only hope is that Jacob does not get it....

OK...enough about me..lol...and onto my art...I have to tell you I tried to make balloons on a gift bag, and because the gift bag was brown it looked blah!!!!!

So, luckily that only took me about half an hour to do and it was when I didn't reach my pinnacle of illness, so today I just went for it...drew up my hippie with flowers in her hair, I used water soluable wax crayons and acrylics and some water colour pencils, I used a paper doily and a punched butterfly and some gorgeous kaisercraft rhinestones....

at first I was going to write on it ...let us live like hippies and live on love...but Jacob thought it sounded too ewww!!!...lol...!!! and husband suggested why don't you write ...love is all you need...going with the whole beatles theme suited me to a tee...

so...there you have it...
my hippie girl living on love...oh...if only life were that  simple...

guess what...tomorrow is my birthday...won't tell you how old I am but off my sisters I get money...lol...guess what that is buying...some art supplies, amongst other things...yay me...life is good...hee hee hee

until next time
lots of it
Mandy
xxx

ps...i will be sending out the things from my cushion cover giveaway and the random act of kindness...will be asking you guys to give me your address very soon....

its amazing what you can do in ten minutes...RED...

Well...I had such high hopes for my red pieces this week in the summer of colour challenge...I had planned a skirt to wear over black tights and a modern piece of art...feeling a bit under the weather with flu left me uninspired and no motivation to do anything...

So, knowing that I was taking the kids to see Harry Potter at the movies today I thought I have no other chance to do my red piece so I whiopped out this $7 white frame, sized the paper inside, tore a very thin and not great piece from one of the kids cheap journals and began to draw....

Out came a very small vase filled wioth flowers, I spent about one minute drawing that, then began to spray a few colours around using my water colour wax crayons....I remembered I had a cheap set of oil paints in my cupboard so a few splashes of that around and there you have it...i think I'll call it love, because red roses symbolise love, and of course my beloved turquoise...lol...

its only small...I am guessing 5 by 5 inches, but I actually am happy with it, I have never used oils before nor have I ever painted anything like this...as I said, for ten minutes work, I actuallu am happy with it and will put it on my wall of art when I get to paintng the room!!!

Thanks agin to Kristin for the wonderful inspiration and to all who visit me, I certainly don't say this lightly but I greatly appreciate every visit and it certainly lifts the spirit.

Now I can't wait to visit every one's red pieces.
Until next time
lots of it
andy
xxx