RED BOX

Here is one of the Treasure Boxes finished. Lined in a silk lining.

BUSY

Here are some larger 8x8 cm Treasure Boxes - nearly finished. Remind me of those Carpet Bags - lovely rich colours. The one at the end is made in a slightly different manner but I love the colours!

HEARTS AND FLOWERS

I have finished the art work on hearts that have been ongoing over the past couple of weeks. Now they are mounted and ready for sale on my Folksy site. That took an age to organise. Getting good quality photos is so important and I don't think I have got it right now! Wait and see what happens it doesn't help when the camera battery gives up half way through.
So not much done on the creative side. Deciding what papers to put together for a background seemed to take all morning, commitment.

I will leave you with some bright cheerful images on this dull day.

Hearts and Mind

I follow fibermania blog, (http://fibermania.blogspot.com/) the other day there was a feature on dyeing. So I had a go and turned natural silk into fabulous colours. Now I have to wait until they dry to use them. I did put them in the tumble dryer - it made the throwsters waste go curly! That seemed very wasteful of resources so patience.

Two for One

My cunning plan to make the silk paper softer by rinsing it and hoping to get the extra glue out of the paper did not work. However all was not lost as I found that I could peel the layers apart and have two pieces of silk to play with. Here are the results I will look at adding some more embellishment to the blue one.
It is true the more you do the more ideas you have, I am much more of a practical person than writing, drawing ideas.