Posted in Information, friendly Plastic, tagged friendly Plastic, heating, jana Ewy, reconditioning, skillet, snappers on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Wonderful news. Stop throwing out your Snappers! I have been told by the USA FP expert Jana Ewy that she reconditions her snappers and makes them good to go again. Isn’t that amazing?
Jana uses the dry electric skillet method to soften her Friendly Plastic, she puts the FP on a Teflon sheet in a dry [...]
Posted in Computer as a Design Tool, Information, Just Stuff, tagged cactus, computer, consequences, CTDG, photoshop DOT on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Well where did the week go? I had hoped to post to the blog days ago, but a load of stuff happened.
The DOT meeting was great fun; besides sharing our consequences images we talked about origami and Erica showed us how to get through an interminably boring formal dinner by making beautiful skrunkly (I have [...]
Posted in Information, Teaching and Talks, friendly Plastic, liz welch, tagged costume, friendly Plastic, lacework, masks, plastic, theatre on April 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tomorrow I am going to help a group of ladies turn their creative fantasies into fantastical masks using some Friendly Plastic, a bit of fabric, and some imagination. I love masks, they fascinate and apall me at the same time. I love their decorative posibilities and the fact that Friendly Plastic is absolutely brilliant for creating [...]
Posted in Information, Just Stuff, tagged embroiderers, flickr, guild, networking, photos, Weaving, yarn, young embroiderers on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
A good friend of mine, Chrissie Day suggested I take a look at the Fibre Arts and Mixed Media website, and sign up for a page. I took a peek and discovered a community of talented artists all wanting to discuss and share ideas, network and make new contacts, and generally inspire each other. They [...]
Posted in Information, Just Stuff, friendly Plastic, tagged friendly Plastic, liz welch, mess, necklace, pica award, studio, tidy, workspace on April 5, 2008 | No Comments »
I am ploughing on in the vain hope that I will eventually bring order to chaos and tidy my studio enough to be able to begin creative working again. As you can see, I am a long way off.
Some areas of the studio display a modicum of order:
Others, however, do not!
The trouble is that my [...]
Posted in Information, friendly Plastic, tagged bronzing powders, friendly Plastic, head dress, heat transfer foil, metallic powders, pigment powders, recycling, venice on March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I hope you all enjoyed your Easter break despite the weird weather. I have beem clearing up in the studio - nothing drastic, in fact most people would not even notice that I done any clearing up at all! I was doing some minor things that I have been meaning to do for ages, such [...]
Posted in Information, Teaching and Talks, friendly Plastic, tagged alcohol inks, Beetroot Tree, classes, colour, crock pot, friendly Plastic, hot water, ink pads, jewellery, liz welch, workshops on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
A few things you might not know about Friendly Plastic and other stuff:
Did you know that there is a Yahoo list dedicated to Friendly Plastic? Click on the link and you can join a list of nutty folk who like to mess with FP. It is quite quiet at the moment, so needs some livening [...]
Posted in Events, Information, Just Stuff, friendly Plastic, tagged costume, dvd, friendly Plastic, hobbycraft, ingrid de vane, knitting, liz welch, necklace, oooze, ooze, origin on March 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I don’t know what to tell you about first! I met so many lovely folk at the Hobbycraft show, it was delightful to meet customers and friends old and new. Thanks for taking the time to come and say hello.
All four days were very busy for me, there seemed to be no end of people [...]
Posted in Events, Information, friendly Plastic, tagged camelot crafts, classes, friendly Plastic, jewellery, liz welch, masks, oooze, teaching, the beetroot tree, workshop on March 11, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Wasn’t I the lucky one today. I went to the front door when the bell rang, and there was a beautiful flower arrangement for me! A very kind and thoughtful friend Froydis from Norway had sent it to me. I wish she had a blog or web site so I could direct you to see her [...]
Posted in Events, Information, friendly Plastic, tagged Chrissie Day, Dale Rollerson, doll, friendly Plastic, Hobbycraft Show, liz welch, oooze, patchwork, The Thread Studio on March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Are any of you going to the Hobbycraft Show at the NEC? If you are, stop by the Origin Publishing stand, and you will find me demonstrating Friendly Plastic every day of the show. Come along and say hello, or if you want to bring stuff for me to see, or stuff you want advice about. [...]
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