Same scene 39 years Later!!

I very rarely ever enter any challenges on other blogs, but when I saw the subject of this one I knew I had just the right thing.  It took a lot of hunting through boxes and discs but eventually I found these two photos which I would like to enter into the Sticky Fingers Week 35 Challenge The Gallery: Before and After.


We were asked to recreate a photo we already had.  I chose this one taken in, ahem, 1966. That's me on the left, with my sister sitting down on the right:

It's not strictly the same people sitting there in this picture, as these are my two sons at the same age as my sister and I were.  This was taken in 2005, and we got as near to the same spot as we could on the beach.  The beach is Tenby in South Wales.

It was fun doing this challenge and may I do many more of them!

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Thank you for looking and for any comments,

qwiksave

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Hair!!

You may remember from a previous post (here) our family like to dress up.  We have quite a large selection of silly wigs which we can wear to change ourselves into all sorts of weird and wonderful characters.  Well tonight I decided to have a play just with a couple of photos and some wool scraps:

The other week my mother-in-law said to me, "When I go in charity shops I often see bits and pieces of crafty things. Would you like me to look out for some for you?" Whilst my husband was rapidly shaking his head, trying desperately to stop yet more stuff coming into the house, I politely accepted her kind offer, lol.  Today I was given this bag by my father-in-law and it contained 4 different types of eyelash wool and a crochet hook.  Don't know what my mil thought I was going to do with the crochet hook (!) but this is what I did with the wool!...

It's really quiet in the house again today, my boys have gone to stop with their grandparents for a whole week!  My husband has gone with them just for the weekend but he is going back to work in China (he's a Design Engineer by the way) on Monday.  What am I going to do with all this free time?...

Thanks for reading,
See you tomorrow,
qwiksave

Family Gift

You know when you are doing art or a present for someone else, you try and think of what they would appreciate?  In my case its how far can I take the distressing effect without them thinking 'that's a bit scruffy,' lol.  I don't know about how your relatives and friends are, but very few of mine are into art or craft so its difficult for me to give them anything thats not too 'straight', if you know what I mean (hopefully, or I'm just rambling!)  I did try, with this family picture I have made for one of my brothers:

When we met recently, I was sad to hear that he was suffering from depression and I thought I would like him to think his family was thinking of him as he tries to come through it.  So I made him this family picture set  (I have left the tags blank to add some personal journaling). 

The background is foamboard (nice and light for posting!) painted with gold paint first and then blue on the top.  I then added the photos and the buttons.  I was thinking of adding paper flowers but realised that my brother would not appreciate those at all! So buttons it was. Then I started inking the edges of the board and the tags.  I love adding gold to deep blue, its such a rich combination that works so well together.  I could have stopped there, but no, I just couldn't resist adding some more gold, the rub-on transfer scrolls, that ended up being much more shabby than they should have been, because they wouldn't come off where I wanted but other bits came off on parts where they shouldn't.  Maybe it was because I used a pencil rather than the proper tool?  

Seemed to work OK though.  I just covered the errors with more rub ons!

Hopefully the finished piece will be 'straight' enough for him!

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave

With love from us to you

Today's project I may need to warn you is a bit soppy!  As some of you know, my husband is working in China at the moment and only comes back to the UK every few weeks.  Well with all these aeroplane problems, I'm concerned that his next visit may be delayed which will be hard on all of us, we're finding it quite tough going as it is.  He only started this job in January so we hadn't been used to him being away and have had to get used to it! 

So today's project was a digital scrapbooking page (basic elements there, I just added to it) for him from us, his family:

This one uses the (paid) facility on Picnik.

I've had to do a quick craft today because since I visited my sister at the weekend I've been feeling a bit guilty.  Her house is immaculate (her husband runs a cleaning business) and mine is....... well, not! My excuse has always been 'I'm too busy being creative' but there's only so many times you can say that (believe me, I've tried!).  Anyway, to cut a long story short, I've been tackling our house with vigour today, giving it a proper Spring Clean, something which is long overdue.  Gotta be done though (bah!)

See you tomorrow

qwiksave
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