The last few months have been taken up with study and model making.  I have loved coming up with an idea for a flower shop for a shopping centre.  I have used a lot of quilling flowers I made a number of years ago waiting for the right moment to use them.  There is decoupage on the little wooden chair.
The flower pots are beads and small flowers used for dolls house miniatures 1:12 scale.  The outside is polypropelene so that you can see into the inside all around.  The green is made from pan scourers. 

JANUARY 2013

JANUARY 2013
Where did the last year go?  It was a particularly busy year for me crafting.  Did a good bit of puppetry and drama with a group.  We performed for primary school children which was fun.

I worked with Primary School children teaching them knitting.  They loved it and I am about to take on another group shortly.  I did a craft fair at Christmas and tried out a load of new ideas.  Working with jig saw puzzles as a new medium was exciting.  Caught peoples imagination.  I finished another Dolls House and made a lovely Mouse House out of Felt.

2011 Year End

Well what an unusual year!  So many diverse projects and challenges.  I am happy to be at the end of it and looking forward to some promising leads for the new year and new friends.  My art work is going well and filling a gap left by my job loss.  Thank God.  Planning on running a course in Dolls house Interior Design and getting ready already.  Exciting.   My chairs are going well thanks to a new friend Margaret whom I met in June.  We were destined to meet as I feel a connection where we have the cake and the cream!
Enjoy this year and Best Wishes to you all.

Acrylic Flower Painting

Gosh I have just been commissioned to do a look alike for a gallery owner in London.Whew!!!! That will be a challenge so already started.  Two months to complete it!!  Otherwise doing Christmas Cards and crafts with various groups.  I am currently working with the Irish Wheelchair Association teaching crafts to their members.  I am really enjoying it and so are they.

My miniature Life and Love

I always wanted a dolls house and in  1999 I set about my journey into miniatures!! What a Journey!  I got sucked in and I am still working down the scales at 1/144th at the moment.  I built my first house in 1/12th scale.  I enjoyed collecting all the items and making what I could.  I spent 8 weeks making a patchwork quilt hand pieced and stitched for the bed.  It was a labour of love and worth every stitch.  I have many treasured items collected on my travels around the world.  My second scale was 1/24th so it is almost completed.  I got a comission to do the Street Scene in 2004 seen here and it is proudly displayed in a Pub in the Galway area. 

My latest adventure into decoupaging chairs has led me into the world of comics, namely Dandy and Beano!  the added bonus is that you can read as you work!  It's fun.

Dabbling in Antiques

I took to de cluttering my house and have taken a step into the auction room to see what all the fuss is about.  Well my first muse was the total insignificent value of my so called precious items that I have been minding for so long!!  Looks like I have been harbouring a load of rubbish!!  I am delighted now that I have put the stuff in and will take whatever I get for it.  As for the family silver, what a load of nonsense!!  I have been listeneing to people go on about collecting a lifetime and see now what rubbish it all is.  anyway the auction is on the 16th and I will wait and see what comes about.  Then I will let you know how I am going to blow the sale money or if I actually owe the auction room money instead.  the BBC Antiques roadtrip if coming from the auction room here in Ireland for a first so maybe that is the buzz I will get!!!!!