A New Year already...

...and another year older.
Hello, Happy New Year and everything. Its been awhile I know, but I'm still here.
I truly have been busy though, its been a fairly good summer so we've been very busy at the Holiday Park, which is good. I have managed to fit in a couple of projects and some messing around.

I love the feathers I see on lots of projects around and esp the gold dipped ones so I thought I'd have a go at making some. I had a bag of very downy white feathers to play with, which weren't perfect, but here's how they turned out.

First I painted the tips with gold paint, then dipped them in glitter and put aside to dry. Not perfect but I quite like them.

 Lastly, look at my beautiful cactus flowers, they don't last long but they are quite magnificent when they open.

How cute is Rio's paw in the photo :) This flower had been blown off the plant.

Back soon. Happy Summer!!

Fathers day and crafting

We had a lovely afternoon yesterday with James and Emma and a couple of James' friends, Josh and Jamie. Roast for dinner and some special cupcakes I made. My fancy icing attempt; I know, bad isn't it. Just can't keep a straight line lol. Still tasted good. I used my banana cake mixture and put in individual cups instead of in the big baking tin. Turned out great. Yum!!

Gardening - made a new garden the other day with a cute dangly banner thing to keep the birds away hopefully. It has broccoli, lettuce and silverbeet at this stage and herbs that were already there. And the markers I made from old spoons. Idea from Pinterest.

Been making molds for resin. What do you think this is, there's a hint at the top right of the photo. I'll show you tomorrow when I unmold it :)

Great news

I was invited to join the Scottie Crafts Design Team. See the details here. Such a cool little shop with lots of new product. Looking forward to a very creative year. I'll also be teaching classes at Scotties so that should be lots of fun.

I'm also excited about my first homegrown rock melon. Was very happy when it just fell off the vine this morning in my hands. And it smells so nice. Means it's ready. Doesn't it look beautiful. So proud.

And some gorgeous looking peppers from my garden. Just loving all the yummy homegrown goodness coming out of my garden. So worth the thrill of it all.

Back soon,

lianne