Off to Bunnings i went this week and bought myself a cool new toy.
I love it it takes the bigger chunky glue sticks and is cordless, it works for 5 minutes away from the base which is enough time for the little jobs and when you have a big job you just unplug the cord from the cradle and plug it into the gun......way too cool. It even has a drip tray on the cradle for any leakage. Best thing is it sits on your desk perfectly unlike the cheap little ones that fall over all the time and it was a bargain at $16.95 If you need a new glue gun definatley go check these out.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Another gift down, still a few more to make but I am getting there. I cant believe how awesome these Profile Australia shadow boxes are it was so quick and easy to create this frame. I especially like the white but the other 2 colours are great as well. Fantasia has a heap of them in stock, I wish I had discovered them sooner it may have made my Christmas gift making a lot easier.

I made this for Juliet's teachers aid, she has been her school mum since kindy and we are really going to miss her, she has been part of our family for so long.........I'm sure she knows more about what goes on at home than I do LOL. I look forward to her being a friend in my life now that Juliet is moving onto High School.
Her's to frienship.....new and old in 2012.

Two posts today.......lets hope i can keep it up.I have been finishing off my teachers gifts and i wanted to share with what i did for Juliet's teacher. I was inspired by Jen Hall, who shared on facebook a gift she had made for her daughters teacher. it was such a simple idea that made a great gift.



I love how it turned out and Juliet's teacher loved it as well. I guess this is my last teachers gift i will have to make as Juliet has now finished primary school and is off to High School. Am i relieved? Yes but i am also a bit sad as this has been somthing i have done for such a long time.

Tommorrow is just around the corner and i know it is going to be a day full of tears (on my part) and excitement on Juliets part....then there is the countdown till high school starts. Bring on 2012

Well I must say it has been a long time between post, my New Years resolution is going to be to post here every other day and I am getting myself in training for 2012 by having a practice run now.......leaving it a bit late I know, but what can I say....I have been busy.

Well this December saw me with 3 children graduating, year 12, year 10 and year 6. I very stupidly said to one of the year 6 teachers oh I have this great pattern for a small graduation cap, I could make one for each student................how many would you need I innocently asked, hhhhmmmmm 90 was the reply. I responded with now worries, piece of cake whilst secretly saying inside next time keep your mouth shut.

So 90 it was, well actually it became 100 as I made them for the year 6 teachers as well.

Here they are all neatly stacked and

ready for construction. I found doing them in batches of 10 was the easiest way to keep track of were I was at.

Hours and hours later without any sleep they were done.............well all except the hanging tassels which I had to handmake to match the lemon highlights. So more and more hours and hours later they were done.

In the end I was really glad I had made them, Juliet was so grateful and so were her friends in year 6. I had so many Thank You comments from both the boys and the girls. It was a great way to exit the school, after 16 years of being a parent here its time to hang up my hat (no pun intended) and move onto High School. No more brown uniform or brown shoes, no more junior shcool..........all of a sudden I feel sad and a bit nostalgic I have made so many great friends amongst the other parents and the teachers I know I will miss them but look forwarding to catching up in 2012.

PLAYING WITH MY COPIC MARKERS

Well i finally found a bit of time to play with my pens, i have been missing them heaps. I think they will be the last of my craft supplies to get packed. I decided to colour a Tiddlyinks "Fairy Fae Catches a Star" digital stamp. You can find her here. www.tiddlyinks.com/item_170/Fairy-Fae-Catches-a-Star.htm I have been checking out some really talented ladies on the internet, they use there Copic Markers to create some really fabulous shadowing and i wanted to give it a try so this is my first attemp. I am not 100% happy with it, I probaly shouldnt have gone with pink for my first try as i find it a little harder to blend but overall i think i am hooked now and will be looking at adding this type of depth to my colouring images in future. I have added the folds in the skirt of the fairies dress if you have a look at the original stamp you will see that it is just a straight skirt with only a little contour line on the right hand side. Let me know what you think.



Darelle