Catching Up .. .. .. !



Another two week gap.. Ermmmm =(

Well it was so VERY hot last weekend that I spent most of it in the garden. Although we were sat in the shade of the umbrella enjoying the view and doing lots of internet searches. Why ???

DH has bought my 40th birthday gift .. .. flights to the states for a two week holiday. Thus I had started to look at hotels and a driving route.

Over the last few days been working on the last of the Art Book round robin from the Tim Holtz group. This one will be heading home to Belgium real soon - just need the Shiva oil stick paint to dry out so I can shut the book ! The subject was Blue Circles. Thinking of Blue brought me round to a poem from a children film .. "Blue is beautiful, Blue is Best ,I'mBlue, I'm Beautiful I'm best !" This is from Dougal and the Blue Cat from 1970. I have the sound track record as a child and knew it off by heart.

The film was also known as Pollux et le Chat Bleu. Dougal and the Magic Round About was originally aFrench programme. This link is to YouTube of the introduction. I found that the whole film is on YouTube in 7 parts.

So I started playing with using the Blue cat .... I then contacted the owner of the book to find out if she knew about Dougal. Not only did she remember watching the french versions, she found a photo of her and her younger sister which shows her sister laying on a changing mat with Dougal charactors on it. AND the changing mat had lasted to be used for her own son !!! As she shared the photo with me I used this for the second page. I hope she likes it.

Also we agreed that I could be adventurous and use textiles too ! SO much fun making this.



I have been playing with GrungePaper. Tim Holtz had shown a patch work on his site made from the paper. Thus I thought it would be fun to make a few birthday cards for with patchwork front. The sewing machine stitched the best when a simple zigzag was used, but I wanted to use some of the nice quilting stitches I use on my textile based pieces.

I did not think they came out too bad. Sorry no close up but I have used varigated thread too.