Yup you heard right !!! I actually did some work this weekend... See I knew that teaching the kids at school would get me A. into Gear !!!!
Well actually we're running out of time to finish the projects that the kids have started at school so I started out on Saturday by cutting the spines and centre cards to size and even scoring them all for them ... hopefully that means on Tuesday they can finally put their mini books together...
Something I've wanted to try but didn't have the courage or the knowledge so thanks to Dyan from Art from the Heart and Sue from Paper Paradise ... I've been playing with newspaper, gesso and acrylic paints and I've finally got the recipe right to convert newspaper into usable paper for ART or I want the kids to try Art Journaling ... I've always loved cutting up magazines and 'sticking' the images in books but that was it ... did nothing else with them... and in fact since moving here and starting to unpack the 'boxes' that have been in storage for goodness knows how long ... I have found some of my old 'scrapbooks' you know the old sugar paper ones with cut out dollies in them and dressy up clothes !!! And some of the weirdest poems too... Another long standing habit ... collecting poems, sayings and words !!! (now laugh all you want that was the only girly thing I ever did as a kid... the rest of the time with 3 brothers around it was cars, action man and armies !!! but mum said I always found some time to faff!!! well I loved the times at school when we had to do projects and I could cut, stick and paste !!!)
So here's a batch of photos of my progress ... it was soooo hot on Sunday that I sat outside under the trees and the cool breeze was lovely ... (yes! Steffi that is me painting !!! is it still called painting when you use baby wipes???) 
Adding some colours...
A finished prepared page ...
Oh 1stly ... this weekends colours = sunshiney yellow moving into blazing bloody hot for the whole weekend ... that might have helped with the motivation too !!!!
Well actually we're running out of time to finish the projects that the kids have started at school so I started out on Saturday by cutting the spines and centre cards to size and even scoring them all for them ... hopefully that means on Tuesday they can finally put their mini books together...
Something I've wanted to try but didn't have the courage or the knowledge so thanks to Dyan from Art from the Heart and Sue from Paper Paradise ... I've been playing with newspaper, gesso and acrylic paints and I've finally got the recipe right to convert newspaper into usable paper for ART or I want the kids to try Art Journaling ... I've always loved cutting up magazines and 'sticking' the images in books but that was it ... did nothing else with them... and in fact since moving here and starting to unpack the 'boxes' that have been in storage for goodness knows how long ... I have found some of my old 'scrapbooks' you know the old sugar paper ones with cut out dollies in them and dressy up clothes !!! And some of the weirdest poems too... Another long standing habit ... collecting poems, sayings and words !!! (now laugh all you want that was the only girly thing I ever did as a kid... the rest of the time with 3 brothers around it was cars, action man and armies !!! but mum said I always found some time to faff!!! well I loved the times at school when we had to do projects and I could cut, stick and paste !!!)
So here's a batch of photos of my progress ... it was soooo hot on Sunday that I sat outside under the trees and the cool breeze was lovely ... (yes! Steffi that is me painting !!! is it still called painting when you use baby wipes???)
Above is step 1 - newpaper with a layer of Gesso.
Above: Step 2 a layer of white acrylic paint
Just look at the state of these hands ...
Adding some colours...A finished prepared page ...And I even had to take photos of the used baby wipes ... do you think I can sell these to those head doctors who give you a picture and ask you what you can see ??? So what can you see???
This is what the tablecloth looked like when I was finished!!!
Mind you the nails are stuffed today ...I can't do this faffing thing without getting everything covered in paint... and now that I have these lovely pages I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with them ... But I can show the kids what their pages should look like before they start journaling ...
Mind you the nails are stuffed today ...I can't do this faffing thing without getting everything covered in paint... and now that I have these lovely pages I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with them ... But I can show the kids what their pages should look like before they start journaling ...
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