More new art..

Today I went to meet a friend, Lisa, we only met a couple

of months ago but we get along really well and are both

interested in art/mixed media/crafting. Lisa showed me

the secrets behind making a cute photo frame using

metal tape and diecuts. We had a good time chatting and

I got to make another new friend, her cute dog, Baron.

When I got home I added some alcohol inks to the metal tape,

still not sure about using these so maybe I need to practice more.

Here is the finished frame complete with a photo.

I had about 12 attempts at getting a photo of it, lighting

was bad everywhere I tried, there really is not a dark patch

at the bottom or a light patch in the top right corner.

Hmm maybe I need some help photographing objects in my house :)

Looking forward to having another craft day with Lisa.

Beeswax fun..

I have heard a lot lately about the craze for making beeswax
collages, so I signed up for a class which I took yesterday at
the Frenzy Stamper in Scottsdale.
The teacher was Mike Putman who is local to Phoenix, he was
assisted by his partner Lesley Fisher. The class was very
entertaining and everyone made completely different pieces
of art, mine is pictured above. I really like the end result
but was very wary of using the hot beeswax and iron,
luckily I had help with the ironing part. Now all I have to
do is find somewhere good to display this :)

Happy to be home...

We went to the airport Thursday evening to pick up Alex

from his trip to NOAC, (National Order of the Arrow Conference),

that was held at Indiana University. He had a fabulous time

and took advantage of the activities offered to him there,

even though he had very little sleep. We are so glad to have

him back home as we all missed him a great deal, and I know

that he missed his home and family too.

Today school is back in session, yay !! Alex is starting his

Junior year in high school and Daniel is going into 8th grade.

Next year I will have 2 high schoolers, aargghh !