Wish you were here

 
 
 
 

The brief for the PostCardMailArt group should we choose to accept it, was TRAVEL.
Where better to travel , than to Australia!
Using various Australiana styled fabrics as my backgrounds,I used images of Australian icons:
The Sydney Opera House; Uluru and some Aboriginal styled holographic stickers.
To these were added passports, luggage stickers and on the REVERSE side of the card
"Wish you were here"

As usual I got carried away, and made more than necessary, so there will be some in reserve for other occasions.
Tomorrow a couple of cards will commence their journeys to California and Kentucky.

More Postcards

 

 

"Mary Mary" is the card I received from Teresa G!
It was such a surprise to learn that she lives about eleven k away. We hope to meet in the very near future.
Stitching fingers uses a different swap format to my other groups: here we need only make one card to swap, and it's a split swap rather than direct.
i.e I receive from Teresa, but I send to Patricia!

Humpty Dumpty is a "one -off" Nursery Rhyme swap with a member of the Stitching Fingers Postcard group.
This card is on its way to Patricia in Rupublic of Ireland.
It's been "a while" since I did any back-stitching and BOY! does it show!
I used Derwent Inktense water colour pencils to add detail to the stitching...I think it eased the starkness of the calico background and made it more "nursery rhyme-ish" looking.
I hope Patricia likes it


On a happier note: The auction over at AAQI is completed and I'm happy to report that my three cards were sold !
I do not know "who" purchased them, but I am grateful to them, that I was able be a minor fund raiser for such a worthy cause.
In total, the seven of our group from Postmark'dArt that contributed postcards raised US$916!

Ugly fabric swap

 

Mary S ,a member of the PostCardMailArt Group (PCMA) sent me a four inch square of what she thought passed as an UGLY fabric;
My mission was to use enough of the fabric for it to be recognisable
in a completed postcard to be mailed back to her. The green fabric is the ugly!
By using one inch strips to frame the kangaroo silhouettes I hope that Mary is happy with my attempt

Another wandering "baby"

 

I opened my bedroom blinds this morning, to let the sun shine in--- and this gorgeous young lady was outside basking in the warm winter sunshine.

I've done all the "right" things: taken her to my Vet to check if she has micro chip ID (NO)

Tattoo in ear denoting having been desexed NO

Her belly fur is matted-- and she appears to have an abdominal hernia.

I photographed her and contacted the RSPCA to register as a "found " cat and as well as my /.554,.details I also emailed them her photo.
Tomorrow I will again notify the Peninsula Animal Aid centre and leave details.

This little lady appears to be a Turkish Van.....has she been a Show cat?
(No trouble getting her into a cat cage, and no "singing" in the car as we went to the Vet's office)
RSPCA asked if I wanted her picked up and put in their custody. Knowing they have a policy of "three days grace and then euthanising" I said NO.

I think there may be interesting times ahead.

Snippets Postcards

 

These fabric and fibre postcards are representative of cards produced in the recent PostCardMail Art swap.
One card , titled "If you squint, you can see my garden" came from Deb P in IL (USA)
the "sunset? Sunrise?" came from NancyG, also in the state of IL

(Thank you both)
The two Abstracts are mine.

Recycled clothing

Finally I have finished the series for the "Recycled Clothing" for the PostCardMailArt group.It has been an interesting exercise learning to use my left foot on the sewing machine control, instead of the right (which is in plaster for another four weeks)

The fabrics I used in a crazy patch style go back some 29 years!
One I wore to my son's wedding, and the others came from blouses and after-five wear.
Some weeks back I was wandering around a local scrap booking shop when I spied a packet of dress-maker's dummies, and I already had some minute clothes hangers from another project, so I "fashioned" something to display on the dummies

You've got mail!

I have been very slack this year in updating my blog(s)
But I am still creating, albeit rather slowly.

The first two pics were based on the topic "Urban focus":

The brief being to

"Take picture of an overlooked city feature (manhole covers, crosswalk stripes, street lights, doorbells, shop awnings) and interpret it Mail by April 30th. "

I had GREAT ideas of showing maybe the Storm water drains that flowed out on my local beaches;  

 road barricades, as my area upgrades roads in a popular shopping/cafe precinct.

I photographed road signs dealing with    DOG WALKING/friendly areas

                                          Rubbish bins

                                          Street scape spotlights.

But finally I decided upon a love of mine: TENNIS!

So I give you "Chain wire surrounding tennis courts"!

The other cards refer to a swap on "stitchin fingers" site: where the brief was needle felting involving ribbons.

The first pic shows a needle felted

 background on an unused diaper lining; and needle felted silk ribbon forming flowers.

Back yard birds

I always love it when the various bird species come to visit. This one, is a Little Corella

which although fairly common in the suburbs, becomes more so, as Winter (the Dry season) draws closer. As we have had such a prolific Wet Summer season the Corellas and Galahs are taking advantage of the blossoms and seed pods that are forming.

Consequently, my bird bath is regularly full of debris! But it's a small price to pay for regular visitors

Girlie postcard

I volunteered to make a post-card for swapping on the "stitchin fingers" site where the theme currently is "girlie"

Still being in a bit of a recycle mode after my recent Recycled cards for Postmark'dArt group,

I once again used paper fabric as the foundation, and added "fussy cut" pieces from an Avon catalogue.

To me, the pink, ruffled dress seemed so "girlie" and feminine!

Adding some lace, crystals, beads and ribbon completed the card.

curli's photostream

curli's photostream on Flickr.

The photos of the postcards that Blogger would not accept via Picasa.

Recycled

For some reason unknown to me, Blogger will not accept any new blogs I attempt to add via my Picasa account.

So for the umpteenth time (well, it seems that way to me ) I'll try to post and add photos from here.

If you prefer go read it over on http://maureenc.wordpress.com/