Hello

Thank you to everyone who took time out to come and say Hi to me on Saturday at the Hobbies Exhibition. It was a really good day catching up with some familiar faces and getting to know some new ones.

I had a thoroughly enjoyable day showing people my Powertex makes and talking to them about the different ways it can be used. I'm really looking forward to seeing if the local model boat making group can use it in their boat furnishings and if the bikers are able to adapt it as they want to. Only time will tell.

I have a few pictures of my makes from the exhibition and will be uploading them over the next few days along with full descriptions.

So check back soon for more posts from yours truly and hopefully news of future workshops.

Bye for now.

Hello again

See I am getting better, only a couple of weeks since my last blog.

Why the delay - well I am currently spending my free time creating new pieces in readiness for the Rotary Club of Google's 39th Annual Hobbies Exhibition which takes place this Saturday, 2nd March between 11am and 4pm.

I will be exhibiting my Powertex creations and hopefully chatting to a few people who may find my exhibits interesting enough to ask me about them. I will have a few pieces available to purchase on the day and will be taking commissions.

Of course the new pieces are currently being kept under wraps to be revealed on Saturday morning.  There will be a few golden oldies with me and some truly magical new pieces, both in theme and design. And I'm hoping at least one piece will get people looking and thinking How did she do that.

So If you are in the area then please come along and say Hi and let me know your honest opinion.  I delivery comment both positive and not so positive, after all art is in the eye of the beholder and what I think looks amazing may not float your boat as they say.

So bye for now and I will be back after the Show on Saturday with pictures and hopefully some positive reviews.

So here goes me trying to be a better blogger and re-launching the blog.

Since my last post so much has changed and I am now proud to be a Qualified Level One Powertex tutor.

So what does that mean I hear you ask?

Well it means that I can now help you release YOUR inner artist.  And I truly believe we all have one.  I mean I'm the girl who was told by her art tutor at 11 to make sure I brought homework for another subject to my compulsory art lesson and left to sit in the corner with the other non-artists while the rest of the class drew, painted and generally had fun.

I shouldn't complain as doing homework in art lessons meant I had more free time after school. But the downside was I did go through life thinking I had no talent for art.

That wasnt right.  What I didn't have was a talent my then art tutor cared to find and explore.

It's taken many, many years for me to find my Inner Artist.

It's not conventional - you are never going to see my work hung in the Tate - well I don't expect you will. But that's not the point of art to me. To me art is about finding that part of yourself that is not quite the norm, that wants to follow it's own path and go with the flow.

Over the years I have tried a few mediums to express my Inner Artist with varying degrees of not only success but satisfaction. Some fell by the wayside after a good try, others were my companion and release at times of stress and distress and some have stayed on my journey and been joined by new and sometimes complimentary forms of art.

And it was while having fun with one of these, clay crafting, that I learned of Powertex.  Well to be honest I overheard another crafter talking about it and it sounded amazing but then I went back to making my polymer clay figure and Powertex went to the back of my mind.  All ideas of finding out more disappeared as I became more immersed in creating my clay figure. And it might have stayed that way had I not seen an advert of a crafting smelly channel for yes you guessed it Powertex. So I set the Sky to record and watched as Tracey the demonstrator uses this liquid medium to turn a jam jar and fabric into a fairy house. Yes I know it sounds quite bizarre but this liquid medium turned the fabric hard and allowed her to sculpt it into shapes and folds and curves that stayed in place.

I was hooked.  I ordered the kit on sale and when it arrived began my Powertex journey.  Over the next  couple of years I ordered more and my collection of Fantasy Houses grew.  I even  tried it on a canvas and had my first piece of art to hang on my wall. And I was still hooked and watched every time the shows were on.

And then I saw a Facebook post about Tutor courses.  The timing was pants, the live chat was on a night I was at work but I wanted to do it so got in touch and found could be given a code to watch at a later time.  But I got up early and watched before I went to work and next day booked on the next course.

That was last May.

I have done a  couple of workshops since then and have spent time trying out new ideas, working out timings and ironing out kinks so that I can set up a proper workshop timetable and pass on my love of this medium.  A new grandchild also made an appearance last year which had to, by necessity, take priority for a few months but now all is well it's time to dust myself off and get on with holding workshops for any one out there who would love to give it a try but want that little push to know they can do it.

So new year, new me and new regular blog posts with piccys of my creations and details of my workshops and craft fairs where you can come along and find out all about Powertex yourself.  I hope to see you soon.

Busy Busy Busy

Well despite all my good intentions it's been more than 6 weeks since I started my new blog and yet again no posts from me. All I can say is between work, housework and my gramsy duties it hadn't left much time for crafting or blogging .  But in this last week I have made a concerted effort to at least craft more and I have achieved this. I began by attending a craft workshop last Saturday at Karachter Krafts, the Doncaster shop owned by Kathryn Sturrock who is undoubtedly one of the Queens of clay crafting.  I had a wonderful day making 3d bears into a Christmas Countdown display and this time I remembered to photograph each step to remind me what I had done. But what I really need is Kathryn to do a dvd showing us how to make characters in 3d. Hopefully in  the New Year Kathryn will have the time because I know it will be a best seller in the craft world.

So having done some crafting for myself I decided to finish some of the book folds that have been sitting on my craft room windowsill.   7 books later my friend Amanda came and picked them up to help raise funds for the Special Needs School her son who has Autism attends. Well it was six books for the school, the seventh was an Autism Ribbon which was my gift to her because she is simply an amazing mum and I honestly don't know how she does it.  Fingers crossed the books raise a half decent amount for the school.

I have a few more books to finish and fold that have been ordered for christmas so my days off are going to be full on. Luckily I have no gramsy duties this week especially since my beautiful granddaughter is ill with a chest infection so there wouldn't have even been gramsy and Onyx craft time which I love. She may only be two but she watches and copies everything I do and she truly believes my Sapphire is hers bless her.

Ok enough rabbiting for now. If I can remember how I will add a couple of piccys of my crafty makes so if anyone stumbles across my blog they can see what I have been up to.

Here goes my new blog.  Well my old one is still somewhere in blog land and although I can see it I just can't write on it anymore because I've been a bad blogger and not posted for absolutely ages.  So I thought what the heck start a new one with new intentions of blogging regularly and see if this time you succeed.

So my first post is here and I'm sure at some point someone will come across it and may even want to read it. I will be back to add details about me and to begin posting my crafty creations but for now this is it.

Hopefully I will be back soon and the posts will be more interesting lol.