About a year ago I started this project, and today I found it in the draw and decided to finish it.
Its made from two wooden heart cut outs that I painted with silver acrylic paint.

I printed a photo of my daughter onto pearlised tracing paper to give it a ghostly effect (it was an experiment and she hates the photo I used, but it would take another year for me to get around to doing another one!) I stuck it on with Mod Podge along with some corrugated card that I painted with silver dabber.

Then I added some lace, silk and paper flowers and some ephemera from the SteamPunk Debutante collection.

And finally, after a year of sitting in my “to Finish” draw, its done!

How are all my lovely swappers?!

Here are the goodies that are going to one of you this month – there is loads of paper, its Penny Lane by My Minds Eye, vellum, grunge paper, tags, more tags, coin envelopes, lace fibres, prima flowers, feathers, skeleton leaves, buttons, brads and bling – oh, and a tri fold frame from Bare Elements to stick it all to!

How are you getting on with your minis? have you all heard from your partners? if you have any questions, leave me a comment and i’ll get back to you soon.

Today is the Crafty Alley Dublin crop – I hope you all have a good day ladies, you never know there might be some visitors from Kerry at the next one!

Enjoy your weekend,
Felicia x

I firmly believe that you should do something that scares the life out of you as often as possible. That way, that particular thing won’t be scary anymore – or maybe it will scare you so much that you know not to do it again! but at least you will know and not spend your days wondering about it.

So, because of that, when I was offered another job – soooo far out of my comfort zone – I made the decision to leave the job I love, and give it a try. Yesterday was my last day at the Crafty Alley Shop, and I just want to say a huge Thank You to everyone who made it such a lovely day – but especially Cathy.

The celebrations started with a tea party at the Craft Club…

Which quickly moved on to Champagne and strawberries! – we do things in style around here!

And ended with Cocktails – mostly (well, some!)non alcoholic – but very enjoyable all the same!

The sun is shining today, so its still summery, but school is sneaking up on us!
Last week I went to Derrynane in West Kerry for a nights camping. We took our kiyaks and enjoyed the beautiful day out at sea. It was such a nice place that we stayed another night ( the food at The Blind Piper was a huge incentive, delicious!)
Look how clear the water was, i’ve never seen it like that before!

So ladies that is all of my news for today. I’m still taking names for the September swap untill Monday 30th, this months challenge will be small enough so it won’t take too much time!

I’m off to do a bit of gardening now – we have loads of tomatoes that are still green, but we can’t look at another courgette! my Dad bought a book called “what on earth will I do with all these courgettes” its full of really nice recipes, I’d better try some out!

Enjoy your day,

Felicia x

So, here I am again. I kind of stopped writing because it was sunny and everyone was too busy for blogging. However, its positively autumnal again! raining and cold…. summer is rumoured to be coming back again next week though…(yeah!)
This is what I’ve been up to since I last wrote…..

We celebrated Mollys’ 16th birthday.
I’ve made one whole page for my Sketchbook Project – still it doesn’t have to be finished untill January 2011. Why did they tell me that???
I made an altered photo frame as part of my Mums birthday present. It is Tim Holtz Lost & Found papers, it turned out really well, better then this photo did!
And yes, this is junk….literally! its for a “Recycled Art” exhibit for the Killarney Summerfest.

So, thats what i’ve been doing. How about you?
F x