Art Journal Calendar

Last year i had the pleasure of going to Art from the heart for the day. The class that i was taking was with the amazing Kate Crane. I like Kate because she explains things and all her work is colourful and bright but without the messy look. Anyway back to the class which was Art Journaling Calendar, you are probably thinking to yourself what does that involve. Well its basically doing an Art journal page and then adding a Monthly Calendar on top. After Doing my first month i loved it and thought it was a good idea so now i am in my eight month and am still loving it even tho i do miss a few days here and there. With the Calendar tho you don't have to write loads you can just say you had a nice cup of coffee or chocolate today . So you don't have to go into big details.

Here are my seven months so far. Just got to add the finishing touches to this month and then i will post it.

By the way Kate Crane still teaches this class at Art from the heart so go and check on there site to see if its there. Also go and check Kate Crane out on her blog. P.S She has got to Amazing dvds out which i recommend you go and buys

Wiseman Family

So this past weekend i went up to Wigan to spend two days with the Wiseman Family. This consists

of Kirsty, Mark, Ellie and doggy Eddie.

I was really looking forward to going as Kirsty is the most amazing person. She's kind, caring and just all round amazing.

We went out for tea just to a little pub and we got a little lost on the way there and way back which was a little funny. Me and Kirsty shares a plate of food as we were both not really that hungry.

Had to take this pic of Kirsty spilling a bit of food down her top.

                                            

I don't know if people know but Kirsty is an amazing Photographer. In July last year for my birthday Kirsty drove to mine and she taught me how to use my camera in manual and we just had a great day. Any way Saturday night Kirsty showed me some tricks with sparklers which woz really kool

Here is Kirsty's heart about mine below looks more like two kidneys then a heart lol

Kirsty showed me how to write your name but as i went to do mine my battery decided to dye.

Ellie was so kind and gave her bed up for me. So when i went to put my things in her room look what woz waiting for me on the desk. Yes a little bag of chocolate and some soap. Now thats what you call hospitality.

Oh Kirsty is also an amazing crafter as well as a photographer and has worked with loads of craft magazines. Kirsty has also been on QVC which she did an amazing job if i don't say so myself.

Well Kirsty has got an amazing craft room which used to be her garage and i got to go and play in it. I did not know were to look as she has some kool stuff.

Kirsty woz so generous and gave me loads to come home with. 

The tags above which i woz given are now stored in a little wooded book with a couple of other tags and bits i have.

A few other bits that i came home with

Kirsty had these amazing vintage alphabet letters which she woz selling and as soon as i seen them i knew i had to have them. I can't wait to use them in some projects.

The last picture is of the canvas i start with Kirsty. When i got home i added the black circles on the back to make it a bit more dramatic

I just want to say i had an amazing weekend with the Wiseman Family and i can't wait till i get invited to go again

Be My Valentine

So I am still on my own so no big romantic dinner or roses for me this year:-( but my cousin's are over and i thought it would be nice to decorate the dinning room up. Mum decided she would do use a nice dinner and Jazz decided she would make her white chocolate and raspberry cheese cake yum yum.

Ok so first thing i want to show is this banner which i have hung above the dinning room window.

I have to say that i did not come up with the ideas for these banners. I took a online class with Margie Romney Aslett and she showed us how to make them.

As you can see from the photo there is two banners and then in the middle is a ring which i covered with pink thread. The top banner is made from loads of small cupcake holders these are in different colours Pink, White, black/pick and i added a few dollies as well.  I then punched out a hole in the middle so i could thread them all together. Every so often i added some red ribbon to break the cupcake holders up.

With the bottom banner i punched a load of different size punches and in different colours. Then i thread them though the sewing machine leaving a little gap after each one and left a bit of thread each end so they could hang.

Next come my table decoration. I made three different size lolly popstick and decorated them with Love theme. I then found an empty bucket and stuck them in. To make it look more pretty i added some star like stuff i had.

A Closer look at the Lolly sticks

I have a couple of different size jars which i filled with sweet and added ribbon to the top.

I love looking on Pinterest and cam a cross these cut Marshmallow sticks which i thought would be a great idea for my nephews. We have to be careful of what Henry eats as he has to have  dairy and wheat stuff. So these treats are great for him. I bet you are thinking but Chocolate is Dairy and yes it is but we have a little shop in are village that sells dairy free which is great.

All these are made from is Marshmallow put on a stick then dipped into melted chocolate and then dipped again in sprinkles. They make a cute little gift for parties.

As you can see from the picture below Archie enjoyed eating them as we made them

With the leftover chocolate i made the boys some cornflake cakes which went down well.

Happy Birthday

Its just a quick posted today but i wanted to wish my big sister Emma a Very Happy Birthday.

She is the best sister ever and she is always there for me. I love her lots 

Feb Calender

Wow can you believe we are at the beginning of the second month of 2012?? I can see this year going by so fast. So this is my February Calender Journal page. I wanted it to be red/pinks because when you think of February you think of those colours because of Valentines day. 

This month is all so a special in are family as its Emma's birthday and Mum's Birthday so we will be doing a lot of celebrating.

Bye January

Well thats January coming to and end. It has flown by super fast and I'm not really sure where it went. I was hoping this year i would be a better blogger and update it more but i am falling flat on my face with this one.

So i have been good and doing the Art journal Calendar and think i have done well even tho i did miss a couple of days. Seeing as it is the first time joining in and getting used to writing in it everyday i am happy with what i have done. 

Here is a picture of this month finished.

I love everything vintage and would love to do get more items. This month i seen a kool wooden suitcase in the local shop and i fell in love with it right away. The only thing is i could not afford to buy it. Anyway i walked by the shop to see if it was still there and it had gone i felt gutted as i loved it. 

To my surprise tho Mum had gone to the shop in the morning and got it for me. She is the best.

At the moment i have decided to store old book paper and music sheets inside.

Hello Twenty12

Happy New Year everyone

I can't believe it's the first of January today. I spent last night celebrating with my family. We just had a quite one in and watching Georges xmas present Inbetweeners which if you have not seen is so funni. Anyway we all ended up seeing the New Year in different rooms as both the boys were awake. Dad tryed to let a lantin off but i think we got some doggie ones as it would not set off. in the end mum had to get some water to put the fire out it was so funny.

Two thousand and eleven has flown by so fast. I had so much adventures last year that I'm hoping to have more this year. The first thing that I am going to try and keep up with this year is my Art Journal calendar. I came across this on Kate Crane's Blog and I really liked the concept of doing a calendar on a art journal background. I then found out the Kate started to do a class on this at Art from the heart . So I booked to take the class back in November. Kate is an amazing teacher very down to earth and she explains things so easy. I just love all her work and even tho it's all bright colours and you think art journaling is messy I always think Kate's pages look very clean and kool. Anyway the pictures below are my attempt at January. I have already started on Febuary but it just needs touching up here and there.