Marie ATC for live swap

Wow three posts in one night, a-maz-ing!

Anyway there are a group of us who get together every month for a face to face swap.  

Here is my effort for tomorrow.   I am loving how this came together.

Another birthday, another year older

Last weekend I finally arrived at my last year of being in my 30's.  Yep I am now 39 and on the countdown to 40 NOT!!  Age is just a number.

I started off with my 30's back in 2001.   In the past 9 and bit years I have acheived more than I could have ever dreamed of.

In my dying months of my 20's, I got married, moved to Australia two weeks before I was 30, and between those two dates, I found out I was pregnant with our first child.   One person said to me Made in New Zealand, but Katie was born in Australia.  She does not understand that meaning yet.

But back to my 30's.   I started off my creative side still dabbling in Cross-stitch, enjoying quilting and now nine years on, I don't do any of that at the moment but do cardmaking, scrapbooking and mixed media art (well I TRY to do that). 

Not only do I have one daughter, but two.   I have a wonderful group of friends that I love, cherish and adore.  

My birthday last weekend was the most memorable one for a very long time.   I got woken up but two little girls who wanted me to open my pressies.   I mean 7.10am on a Sunday, are you serious,  they were.  One suggested breakie in bed and came back with a Up and Go shake from the fridge.   I had lots of phone calls and text messages it was awesome.

My lovely and wonderful hubby got for me the Golden Watermedia Set, Lyra Aquacolor Crayons and 15 spraybottles.   All that I wanted, and I emailed him the list.   Glad he got the hint.  

I seriously can understand why our American friends love Golden.  It is brilliant and so easy to use.

Another little surprise that arrived was from Tracy K in WA state who sent over a little containder of the Golden Soft Gel (Gloss), well that is the best gel I have used and will be getting a larger bottle here when I run out.   I might have converted.  Now how to figure out how does one pay for this all once the visa is smashed with art supplies?

Thanks to all who have made my 39th birthday wonderful and special.  

I am pleased to call you all friends. 
Lots of love and hugs.

Just a little creativity

Strangely enough I have been doing the odd creative urge every now and then, but not a lot.  I feel the mojo is on holiday and taking a serious break. 

I finally finished page one of Gina's journal after having page two completed for what seems ages.

Page one for Gina's Through the Eyes of an Artist Journal











I also was able to get onto Elena's journal for the Journal of Dreams group.  With this one being a book, deciding on something that would be good for the size was somewhat challenging.  But I am happy with what I came up with.

I quite like the lady standing on the butterfly.   There is a quote on this page that was just floating around and it suited, so I added as one does.  Can't remember what the quote was though.

For this page I tried my hand at a gel medium transfer.   I had the wrong medium, so it looks a little patchy.  I have used my daughters and my dreams for them when they are older.  The heart is gold tin cut on the cuttlebug.









Blogger has taken ages to load these, so I have starred on an ATC swap due tomorrow.  Nothing like the last minute here.


Till Next Time
XoX