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 Computer as a Design Tool, Just Stuff, tagged cactus, computer, consequences, CTDG, DOT, erica, sketch books, val campbell harding on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Tomorrow is my DOT Group meeting. Designs On Textiles, or DOT for short.
We are just a small group of folks who love to use the computer as a design tool for our textile work. Pat and Ros, Margaret, Eileen, Chrissie and I are all in to stitched textiles of various sorts, and Erica is our knitter. She designs [...]
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 Just Stuff, liz welch, tagged accent beads, cocker spaniel, dog, friendly Plastic, garden, hockey, liz welch, puppy on March 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I know, it has been days and days since I last posted, but most of the time has been spent on the road between home and somewhere connected with hockey. My youngest son is a very keen and able field hockey player (not that they play on a field, but just to differentiate it from [...]
Posted in Just Stuff, tagged friendly Plastic, jewellery, liz welch, VAT on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Not much to report today except to say that I feel vaguely virtuous as I completed and filed my VAT return today. Boring and tedious in the extreme, but done and dusted!
Itching to get at my FP again as I have had some great ideas for new jewellery designs that I want to explore. No [...]
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, Just Stuff, tagged borboleta, butterfly, costume, friendly Plastic, hobbycraft, liz welch on March 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Half way through the Hobbycraft show at the NEC and I am pretty tired, particularly with all the driving each day. Loads of people have stopped by to learn how to work with FP, so that is a good thing. Many have bought the DVDs which is an even better thing as the workd spreads [...]
Posted in Just Stuff, Teaching and Talks, friendly Plastic, liz welch, tagged bend it shape it, bolton eg, bolton embroiderers guild, classes, friendly Plastic, lacework, liz welch, oooze, ooze, show and tell, teaching, workshop on March 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I would never make a proper diary writer, I have already missed two days of writing on the blog, and I only began it a week ago. My excuse for last night was that I went out to dinner with the family after having spent the day teaching at the Bolton Embroiderers Guild. I left [...]
Posted in Events, Just Stuff, tagged exhibition, Harley Gallery, Judith Burnett, Lucy Casson, Samantha Bryan on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Today I took a few hours off to go with my good friend Judith Burnett to The Harley Gallery in Worksop, Notts. It was a rare treat as the exhibition we went to see was enchanting; it was called Folk Art and Fairy Tales, which runs until 9th March. My particular favourites were the wonderful [...]
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