(500) days of summer

Watched this movie last night and absolutely loved it. It's captivating, engagingly and interestingly told, moving backwards and forwards in time, and I can't tell you the end! Check it out.

ATCs Lighthouse Swap Received

I had these lovely ATCs come through the post today from a Lighthouse themed swap over on the Milliande site (link badge on right hand side). This is the first group ATC swap I've participated in and it definately won't be my last, it's so much fun.
The artists were Mary Larner, Lynn Engelhardt and Julie Simmonds, thanks girls!

I went for Tassles

Table Top Treasures

Went to a local church table top sale today and found some little treasures. The cat is Crown Derby, which my mum collects and it was a total snip at £10, I couldn't believe it. It was my mums birthday a few days ago so it can be an extra surprise pressie for her tomorrow.

The basket I think I'll use in my bathroom to store toiletries and it will match the picnic hampers I'm going to be using for towels and linens. The vintage books will be refashioned into picture frames and I'll use some of the faded, browned pages in my artwork. The ceramic cherubs, I'm undecided whether they will stay as is or be chipped off their plinths and end up coming up out of a mosaic mirror frame.

The charm necklace was a brilliant find as I was only thinking last night that I might try my hand at making a shrine for a mermaid and all the charms are linked to the sea - shells, an anchor, a ship's wheel, a sailing boat. Even the bookmark charm, which I've already taken off of the metal bookmark stick, can be used as the diamante slipper could be what the mermaid longs to be able to wear in her dreams. All in all a good day's shopping!

Vintage French Easter Postcard

I was going through my stash of vintage postcards when I came across this french Easter card and thought that it would be nice and timely to share it. I'm unable to decipher a date for it, could 07 mean 1907? It certainly seems aged enough. It was part of a group of postcards I bought off of ebay. I often wonder about who the people were, the senders and recipients of such cards, how have they found their ways out of families and into the hands of strangers. It seems so sad somehow. At least I and others appreciate them. Be lovely to see any art you do with it :)

Bookmarks

I've been working on making bookmarks and this is a selection. I've used ordinary, advertising covered card bookmarks that you can pick up free in libraries and covering them with foreign language scripts and musical scores. Then I've used paper napkins, acrylic paints, stickles, stamps etc. I've again enjoyed working in a 'series'. It allows me to get on with one whilst thinking about the next step for another, it allows for experimentation as well. Now the thorny problem of tassle or no tassle.....

Glass Day

Been over to a friends today and done some little glass experiments. We've been using glass beads, dichroic glass and ordinary glass. Making up 'sandwiches' of glass and then she is going to melt them together (hopefully) in her kiln. Be very interesting to see how they turn out. If there are any successful ones I can then repeat them and make them into jewellery, charms, wind chimes etc.