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July Craft Classes.

Hello,

I was just looking at the calendar and realized that June has all but gone…… I know they say “the older you are, the quicker time flies” but I am not that old, where has the year gone??!!

We are going on holidays in the middle of July so there is a lot to get in before then, just as well I like to be busy 🙂

This coming Saturday 28th, I am going to Caroline’s house in Bunmahon, co. Waterford and we are making altered configuration books. They will be slightly different to the one I made because I got tempted by new papers!

I used scraps of all sorts for mine, but in the class we will use Prima’s “Something Blue”
(This class is fully booked.)

Then, its road trip time! off to Mayo I go – Kate and I are hosting the banner class (the last one for this project, it was supposed to be May, but finally I’m getting to go!) it is being held in Castlebar on Wednesday 2nd July, 7 pm. You can contact Kate for more details if you’re interested.

(How you photograph a banner and manage to get it all in the shot and show the detail is a mystery to me)

Saturday 5th July is a kids art class at home, there wasn’t a spare Saturday in the whole of June to do one so we missed out but we will be back to normal in September. I have kids camp classes in August, three days which you dip in and out of, or come to them all – more details on those soon.

There are still 4 places for this if you want to send your Smallies along.

Then the last one before I pack my bag is Tuesday 8th July, 7.30 pm at my house. I can’t tell you what we’re making because its a surprise (all the regular Ladies who come think that means I don’t have a plan, but I do!!) ‘Tis very pretty and not something i’d usually do…. and that’s all i’m saying!

That’s it for classes, but I just wanted to show you this:

These are our friends Kerry and Francois.They came over for the evening supposedly to help us with our French before we go away, but it lead to wine and chat (in English) and eventually Kerry and I got sidetracked by a craft project. Anyhoo, she was using the cropodile and he was saying”what is theese” in his French accent.

Then he took it off her and set all the eyelets himself…… perhaps we have a new crafter!!

I hope you are all enjoying the fine weather and still finding a bit of crafting time – See you in July!
F xx

25/06/2014 By felicia

In Felicia the Artist

Craftschool was Fab!!!!

So, I dragged my behind out of bed at 5.30 on Saturday morning, packed the car (with just about everything from my craftroom) and had the luxury of Himself driving me to Co. Waterford. He decided to do a bit of exploring around Youghal and Dungarvan so it worked out very well.

There was such a nice bunch of people there, Create with Kate had an enormous shop, Karen Matthews and Betty Cominsky were there ready to alter the cutest little birdhouses, there was knitting, quilting, basket weaving,cake decorating (which was so amazing it was hard to believe it was icing!) Carol Grogan from Crafty Cutting was there, we had very cool Dylusion demos……. (I think my resolve is slipping and it could be a new addiction!! ) and there were lovely ladies who had made hundreds of cakes and kept the refreshments coming all day!!

I had two classes, the first was a mixed media painting. We painted onto wood rather than canvas because its what I prefer – it so much tougher and takes more abuse!! Here is Michelle Bermingham doing her thing, she ended up with a beautiful painting of a birdhouse. It was such a very relaxed class with no rush and we got loads done.

We had a great big classroom and we spread out all over the place! this venue was so perfect,thank you Ballinameela National School for letting us loose in there!!

Later in the day while I was doing the mini album class two more people turned up but they wanted to paint. Since the day was so relaxed and we had so much room it really wasn’t a problem, Donal used the same techniques as the others but chose darker colours. That turned into an outer space type scene with die cut metal planets…..

(for some reason I cant rotate this photo, so turn your head to the left) He decided it wasn’t complete without the Tardis – how cool is that?!

Mary used purples, greens and pinks for her background which was finished off with enameled butterflies. I always forget to take proper photos… I really wish I had taken more because they all did such lovely work!

By the end of the classes Himself was back from his travels, we got some great books at the book sale, were sent home with loads of cakes (Midi’s chocolate biscuit cake won’t last long!!) and the new Tim Holtz alarm clock to play with. I was quite sorry that I wouldn’t be there for the next day.

This event was organised by Midi Walsh, she is a great woman to get things done! It wasn’t as well attended as it could have been, probably because it was a bank holiday with fine weather – but next year will be bigger, these things start small and I really hope this becomes an annual event. I am definately going to be there next March…… Midi is already planning it!!!!

05/05/2013 By felicia