Finding new things.

Hi all again
This is my latest Polymer clay effort which is based on Mokume Gane.
My interpretation anyway.Enlarge to see.
This is what I have ben teaching my students this week , plus stringing it all.Its very nice to wear and isnt as heavy as it looks as polyclayists would know.
Soon I will be ableto put some of the students work in as they are doing very well and are as enthusiastic as I am.
Have a lovely day
XXX
Elizabeth.

Finding new things

Hi all my blogger friends.I am thinking how great to be able to sit here and write and think of all the nice people I have met through this blog.

Lets sit down and have a coffee together. The pic is of a Unicorn I made incorporating Cloth and air dry Poly clay, I love this medium.

Marie, am so glad you are back and have had such a great time at your Retreat. I would have loved to have been there but being on the other side of the world a bit out of my reach, so thank you for the great tutorial on Lapis Luzuli,using Alcohol inks. a fav topic of mine and somethimg I must get into and do more of.

Go to Maries site to see this. We are always Finding New things here and this is one of them. This lovely lady showing us How To.

I am like this too, love to show people How To , that is why I have 2 other groups besides my Cloth doll group where I love to pass on my knowledge. Why not while I'm still around. LOL Of course it works both ways , I learn new things from my cohorts too LOL.

Mmm, maybe there is a secret plot there so I can learn too.

I have of course been to plenty of workshops and Retreats and when I was doing them wasn't sure why I was so driven to go , but looking back I see the wealth of knowledge I have accumulated and I thank the Universe and of course my great teachers, for that.

Listing some of them out.

The ones who have come to AUS from America.

Sherry Goshon

Gloria Winner

Patti Culea ( have all her books)

Here in Aus,

Carol Wilkes (Free Machine Embroidery)

Anne Mitchell(Silk Painting and Fabric Painting) I Taught this under Anne for 5yrs.

Judith Prior ( Cloth dolls)

Ann Mullin (Felting and Cloth dolls even did an online class with her, to see what online classes were all about.

Jenny Romano, felting

Pearl Moon wonderful free machineing/doll making.

Lorraine Titherridge (cloth dolls)

Mel Dilday(Polymer clay) A great Polymer Clay retreat in Canberra in the Winter BRR.

Have all the books like

ART Doll Quarterly

Salon

Polymer Cafe

Soft dolls and Animals which is where I started my cloth doll life.

Raising the Surface, Maggie Grey, a wonderful book on free machine embroidery.

Judith Baker Montana Art Inspirations

Susannna Oroyan Figure books

Beading books galore even Fire Mountain catalogs

Judy Belcher and Kathleen Duncan Aimone

Lisa Pavelka

Polymer Pizzazz

Ann and Karen Mitchell, Liquid Polmer clay.

Christie Freisen

Carol Blackburn these last few,

(All poly clay books) Many more

Wow when I actually start thinking about this I see what an extensive library I have gathered on a lot of subjects.

The greatest thing about all my books is that I can pick any of them up anytime and read them through and still enjoy them, and sometimes even see more than I saw in them the first time.

I'm sure most craft minded gals like me have great collections, and feel the same way.

I am really book mad as I have found out over the years of crafting so thanks to all those wonderful people who go to the trouble of sharing their knowledge so we can all enjoy our Fav subjects with not much expense, what did I just say!!.

I dare not count it up as I can see where my( millions )LOL have gone. But have been happy and have I met so many lovely people and I have been able to pass on my accumulated knowledge.

So I wouldn't change anything. Would you!!

How's that Coffee?

Maybe I need another one now.!

So keep acquiring the great knowledge that is out there, and take it with you in all you

day dreams while you

Soar to the highest levels of your abilities,

helped by all the like minded, gifted,and talented people

who love to impart their knowledge to bring us closer together in our pursuits. not of perfection but of enjoyment.

May happy thoughts brighten your day.

XXXXX

Elizabeth.

Finding New Things

Here I am again 3 times in 24 hrs Amazing.
Must be down on work this week you say, but NO have just as much to do
But
Ive been Tagged,by the nicest person,my new friend Marie Segal
Thank you Marie
To be Tagged if you dont know, is to join in bringing all us Bloggers closer. this way we read a lot more blogs and on it goes.

This is a pic of me
on a Red Hat day
A few small rules here to Tag or if been Tagged
1. Name and link back to the person who Tagged you .
2. List 6 unimportant things that make you happy.
3. Tag 6 bloggers and let them know by leaving a comment
Of course if you are very busy , dont know 6 bloggers, or are just not inclined that way, no worries, it is all in good fun of course, just keep reading blogs.
Ok here goes for me,
6 Unimportant things that make me happy.
Reading blogs of followers.
Being with people
Finding time to create.
Meeting new friends
Knowing my family are having a happy day.
Just sitting musing, with time to spare (Not often enough) Of course these things are AS important as unimportant, as I am happy on my own too.
How about you.?
Have a lovely day and dont be surprised if you get Tagged it is getting incessant.
Bye XXXX
Elizabeth.

Finding New Things

These are the latest ATC'S that I have made and sent to a swap group in America. the theme was Kitchen.

I thought this would be easy but found myself scratching my head even more than for the Mandalas which I did not even know anything about. so I made up a poem as I like words on this sort of thing,and the inspiration just seemed to come.

The point of this is Never say Never, it is always there.

My little poem maybe hard

to read, so here it is.

In my Kitchen Recipes abound

Sometimes I lose them

New ones are found.

Pots and pans galore

To make biscuits light hands.

Coffee always on

Tea is always there too.

Jam on a scone for you.

Knead the dough makes the bread.

Keeps everyone well fed.

Well I guess it may not impress the Creative writers but it sure helped to get through a sticky patch.

So whenever you feel like there's nothing forthcoming, try a poem no matter how silly.

Something will come to you.

Words are a great outlet for Finding New things.

Looking in other blogs help one to realise how many wonderfully positve people there are in the world.

I prefer to think there are more of us Possies (my make up word) than others and I wish that everyone who is a neggie would try to find one little bit of positiveness in their day, they would feel so much better. Just look at the day, we are having a grey and rainy day for the 1st day of Winter, but there are so many things you can do on a Winters day, even just to stay in doors and snuggle up in a blanket is a plus.

Just getting out in the fresh air on a grey day is nice too.

Remember the Beatles

All the leaves are brown ( I think they said)

But they still found the positves in a Wintersday.

Hope Im right here.

But I'll say I am to myself.

I have been Tagged, !!!

I will be sending that around and more people will come into my blog.

that will be fun.

So keep those

Butterflies Soaring

They''ll come out on a crisp Winters day.

XXX

Elizabeth.

Finding new things

Hi , this is a happy photo of the outing we had as the Red Hat ladies this last Sunday.
The man in the middle helped himself to us bunch of beauties so impressed was he with the colour. Not usually for the guys is our Red Hat day.
The funny point of this was, we were suppose to be having lunch at a place called Angelos on the Marina here in Mackay. We did not book and found we couldnt go there so went somewhere else near, even nicer.
So when this man came along and wanted a photo with all of us , we named him Angelo.
The joke of the avo was, "at least we didnt have to eat olives" as Angelos is an Italian Resturant.
A lovely day and real fun.
I am the one in all purple on the right of the picture., but you may know that.


1st of June today, our first day of Winter in the Southern Hemisphere. and of course the first day of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
So a time to Find New Things that these few months bring us.

Finding New things

I have been berating myself for not coming into my blog and doing more with it.
while looking around at other blogs which I find takes me all over the world, I find so many new things that I get left behind in the wonder of it all.
I just dont do what I am suppose to be doing . Writing my own blog.
I see other bloggers may have the same affliction so dont feel so bad.
Here I am at last today to catch up and to show youthat I have been working.
I have made this cute symbolic type necklace from a design by Maria Teresa Stoa a lady from New Mexico.
From and article she had in the magazine Salon, from America, which a friend showed me.
The colour was so inviting I just had to make it, and am so pleased with it it. Here it is
I also made some of the beads while working with my polyclay.
I also have been doing ATC's to swap in America.
Here are some of my latest efforts with the Kitchen as the theme.
So you see all is not lost behind the scenes I am working away like a little beaver with creative things going round and round in my head.
Just like all the other creative Bloggers who like me dont get in here too often but sometimes have to give in to get some work done.
Hope you all have a lovely day working or blogging, such fun
Finding new things
XXXX
Elizabeth

Finding New Things

Positiveness Inspired.

Today is another lovely day in Autumn, even tho the sky is not its usual blue and a shower has just passed over,it is refreshingly nice, after a very hot and humid Summer.
Every season has its glories don't you think.
Autumn, mm, Fall, to my new friends.
In comments , on this page I have come across some nice new friends, who have already inspired me in many ways.
How wonderful the art of blogging is.
It brings positiveness to the whole world, or to those who want see life that way.
What a pity we all cant see the positiveness there is in everything in life.
How much happier people could be by leaving those negative thoughts and deeds behind.
Like I say,
Soar to your greatest potential.
You have the right to be that great person who is inside all of us.
Who has heard people say
"You are so clever, I cant do that"
Well ,cant is not in my vocabulary
Of course you can.
It is there in all of us, I see it in myself everyday, when I want to do something new.
I try, even tho I have no concept of what it is I am suppose to be doing LOL
Hence my attempt at Mandalas but even if I don't exactly "Get It"
I have already learnt so much just by trying, and it is within my
Finding new things. concept.
So be enlightened and find yourself within yourself, you will find the positiveness of life and
Soar, to heights you could never have imagined yourself doing.
Great things will come of it and even if you just have a nice day trying,
thats all we can ask for.
Except to do only as well as you can.
Everyone is different and unique and we all bring something to this world.
Make it as positive as only you can and you will be inspired.

Elizabeth