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Saturday, 17 July 2010

Weather Blues?

What a great day I've had today, I took my two boys around a couple of houses to see some art as part of Warwickshire Arts Week and they didn't complain once!  The first house we went to they were giving away free juice and Doritos so of course they happily tucked into those!  I loved the textural paintings of the sea on display but unfortunately the artist that made them had injured her back putting the pictures on the wall. 

The second house was a little boy's dream house, it had a fascinating overgrown garden with masses of den making appeal and all sorts of weird and wonderful objects in all its nooks and cranies.  We were first directed into the cellar of the house with torches where there was some 'Installation Art' which were large negatives in frames that you shine your torch onto to see.   To top that there was this interesting outhouse building like a tree house on two levels complete with dodgy wooden stairs.  On the outside of  this 'treehouse' it had lots of objects buried into the walls like watches, calculators and gargoyles wearing glasses!  The elderly lady that owned the house was the artist and she gave us cherries from her garden whilst we sat in her sitting room surrounded by more fascinating objects and artwork.

As we were leaving we spotted a figure made out of bicycle inner tubes. The whole place was like the stuff  you imagine out of Enid Blyton type books and left us with a lasting memory (but no photos, forgot my camera!)
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On to my craft for today:
(The sentiments say 'Sorry you're feeling under the weather' and 'Wishing you a brighter tomorrow')

It was made with a new stamp set I've recently purchased in the Elzybells Closing Down Sale.  There's another stamp in the set  that I fancy using one day, it says, 'Just singing in the Rain'.  For this card I used aqua promarkers and a water brush for the rain effect.

Thanks for reading my extra long post today!
See you tomorrow,
qwiksave

Thursday, 15 July 2010

Sensational 70's

I was a teenager in the 1970's and I still have a great fondness for the era, maybe you have for the decade that you were in your teens?

As you may know, I'm still at the planning stage (take that to mean procrastinating) for scrapbooking my life for my children and I'm relishing the idea of scrapping the 1970's.

I have a bit of a collection and even bought a few dolls clothes today from a charity shop.  They are, ahem, awful! Just look at those patterns! They were handmade clothes that someone must have made for their little girl or grandchild:

(Plus a few other bits and bobs - this is just a very small selection of my collection). Also did you spot those 'lovely' pink knickers! lol:
Made for a bigger doll than the others.

I also still have some vinyl records of hits from the 1970's - our record player worked up until very recently.
These are the records in their 70's themed sleeves:
Yep, I'm going to enjoy documenting this very interesting, but seemingly tasteless (when looked back on), era of my youth.

I also made a 'Thank You' card for one of my son's teachers tonight:
Not sure I like it, too 'pretty' for my taste, but it suits its purpose..

Thanks for stopping by,
See you tomorrow,
qwiksave
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