I got this book from Clive & Gill for Christmas, and it is full of glorious eye candy. I’m not sure I will ever use it to make fabric books but it does make everything look pretty easy - I’m not so sure it is tho’. Despite having Jenny’s sewing machine and the little diddy one I bought a while back I have a real fear of the thing running away with itself and sewing through my fingers.

The book covers the basics of making a fabric journal and goes on to embellishing it. There are simple, intermediate and advanced bindings in the Projects part of the book and a really scrummy Gallery tops it all off. It is particularly useful that the book has a Templates section.

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I really can never get over the fact that some people think the rest of us are as stupid as they are!

Someone (shall we refer to her as ‘S’ for STUPID?) has been consistently ‘creative’ with the truth about when work has been posted on. Her ‘creativity’ has produce whoppers like, “I posted it yesterday”, then ten days later “Oh no, I forgot, I posted it 2 days later than I originally said, AND sent it 2nd Class, not 1st Class”, and then the package arrives the next day, with a postmark for the previous day, having been sent 1st Class! Over the last 2 years or so, I have put up with the lies, getting more and more cross. If she could only use the same level of creativity in her work, I’d be impressed, but no, most of it looks like a small child attacked it with some paint and a pot of glitter.
Anyway, hoping to inspire some creativity, we RAK’ed her some art materials and cool stamps etc., but that was a waste of time, she thanked us politely and disappeared into the undergrowth with the odd email to tell us that her PC had died, and she had lost her favourites on her browser and couldn’t find the Yahoo Group Homepage/the address to send stuff on to/her brain.

Needless to say, her ‘creativity’ with the truth continues, although I was amused to read in her online Profile, that she is a Christian. I wonder if she realises that going to church doesn’t make you a Christian, any more than going to McDonalds makes you a hamburger! LOL!

…….now, how do I unsubscribe someone from the group???……

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My three monthly art projects for the next few months, at least, are going to be the Monthly Challenges, the Same Image swap and the Interactive Inventions AB round robin. I have curbed my comittments and held off signing up for stuff no matter how tempting it sounds. Knowing how I leave everything to the last minute, and I never have any time for doing anything for myself, art-wise I deicded that the line has to be drawn somewhere. I must admit I am quite proud of myself especially as the swaps on Paperartsy are always pretty cool.

The January Challenge is to alter 3 bottles, and I’m in 2 minds, whether to alter 3 of the gazillion plastic Yakult bottle I have accumulated or whether to go for the 3 glass bottle I had ear-marked for the occasion… hmmmm…. maybe using the wee plastic bottles might be too outside-the-box for some people, you’d never guess we were supposed to be creative souls, would you? lol! They’re ot due until February 15th anyway, so a few weeks yet!

My Same Image swap for this month is Penny’s suitcase image, I’ll have to have a think about that, again I’ve got until 15th Feb. for this one.

I’ve got some really cool ideas for the AB this month (my book of course). I’ve got the welcome/instructions, sign-in pages and 2 spreads - gulp! Still, I’ve been making some notes and will let you know how I get on…. frighteningly, this one is due in 2 weeks so I had better get a giddy on.

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Can’t believe this is the first entry this year! Where has the time gone already? I’ve been busy getting some of my backlog of art work done. I sent off my envelope for the Same Image swap to Emma, using a stamp I have never used, strangely enough, and completed my spread in Dawn’s Zebra book, which was odd to say the least but having completed it I was happy to send it home. I also completed what turned out to be a very satisfying spread in Glynis’ Beauty book, to my shame I have had this book for several months now but I am happy with my spreads. I even managed to use a new (to me) technique which was a buzz - transparency transfers using gel medium. My spread was originally going to be called “Black Beauty - and not a horse in sight” (ha!ha!ha!) I printed off the transparencies of gorgeous black women from all over the globe and was set to ‘do’ something with them. When I did the transfers the images weren’t ‘perfect’ but some were distorted or looked a bit abstract or hazy and I was going to bin them but then looking at the transfers I realised that it was still possible to see the beauty in these images and that beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder! Soooo my spread changed, and for the better, I think

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