Decorating in the Kitchen

sometimes you find the best surprises at the tip shop!!......these plates! 17 altogether & brand new! posing on the kitchen bench with a hanger in the background, made last year from old  fence  palings, embroidered doilies & really old biscuit cutters from the second hand markets......there are hooks on the bottom of the  hanger for tea towels or pot holders.

.....& the bread board painting....... i stuck two pieces of hessian webbing down the sides, just to see how it would look.

these two pieces seem to have been made for each other.........unintentionally.

(raylee).

Trash to Treasure

hello....how was your monday?.....it was wet again here, but we had a beautiful sunny weekend!

i took photos of this chair in the sunshine, it was left on the kerb in my street, just the cane chair without cushions. so it found it's way to my place for some new cushions.......i found 3 remnants at the local fabric shop, they make a lot of soft furnishings so always have leftover pieces.

the  inserts covers i made from calico & the outer covers from two remnants of velvet, with piping made from a piece of printed cotton...... this is how it looked when it was finished..... ready for a new home.  

 the fabrics......

 new cushions!

the chair as it was before........i thought about painting it but decided to give it a wash instead.

what do you think ?..... to paint or not to paint?

(raylee).

365 Creative Challenge

a bit of a mixture this week.......crayon drawing of an eye on painted & stamped paper
vintage fabric, tea stained calico, string stitched with embroidery thread,
used envelopes painted with watercolour, torn & glued, gesso around the edge drawn into while still wet, & aquarelle pencil,
book page painted with turquoise ink, buttons & felt figures glued on, & glittery ink stencils,
collage on block printed butcher's paper, stencil text, star strips & picture from a book,
collage using the same grid patterned painted paper as the first page, painted tissue paper, i found five faces in the papers & highlighted them with ink, & a number five from a magazine,
writing in wet gesso, sloshy blue watercolour,
torn  magazine paper, old hand written lists, & the ladies courtesy of the graphicsfairy.blogspot.com,
a collage on watercolour paper, the paper was painted with red acrylic, when dry tissue paper glued on & then the image of the girl (from wrapping paper), & more paint added to blend in the image.
(raylee).

Hair pretties

recently I had a book from the library on macrame...

it reminded me of my teenage years...

when we made friendship bracelets...

using embroidery threads...

so...

I had a bit of a fiddle...

couldn't get my fingers back into the more difficult 4 strands...

so I just played with 2 strands...

little Misses were interested...

so we added a bead on the end....

and made "hair pretties"...

there was a squabble over the love heart and the star beads...

 so we did one of each...

amazing how quickly they sat to have their hair done...

as long as the pretties were added...

At The Beach

good morning!.......some photos of my sunday afternoon at the beach.

junk washed up .......

& parts of rusty cars uncovered by the recent rough seas............how was your weekend?

(raylee).

365 Creative Challenge 2013

i think today's page sums it up.......:".creativity is a big fat jump into the unknown'.
if you don't take that jump you won't know what you are missing out on.
i added some watercolour dots,  "green & purple" & a black  border to this advertisement & stuck it in my book!
(raylee).

365 Creative Challenge 2013

i am now up to date with my pages ...........the first one is texture medium that i stamped with a small lid, which became the centre of the flowers, let it dry & added a watery wash of blue watercolour & magenta acrylic. 

drew the flowers & leaves with a black faber castell pitt pen, just followed the shapes created by the texture medium & the patterns made by the paint. the petals are white acrylic with a bit of yellow watercolour in the centres.

the last of  the pen figures on tissue paper painted with watercolour & collaged onto the book page which had previously been painted with orange acrylic.

 a used envelope that i sloshed some watercolour on.......let it dry & tore a section off to fit the book page, & drew some trees with  black pitt pen. again i used some of the shapes that were created by the paint at the bottom of the paper to start the tree trunks.

(raylee).

365 Creative Challenge 2013

black & white images courtesy of karen , graphicsfairy.blogspot.com.au

(raylee).

365 Creative Challenge 2013

i  did post this page yesterday but forgot that i had some photos of the process, & where i found instructions for it, so here they are.......

& my notes as i did each step, more or less....      

a pink galah.......

a green collage  horse.......

.......& image courtesy of diana trout.......you will  find her here.

i added some watercolour, text & a torn border from  a painted used envelope as the colour blended well with the image.

(raylee).