Our Gallery Wall

Yes, it's finally finished!!
After months and months of preparation, it's finally finished and up.

I've shared a whole blog post on the stories behind the pieces and how it all came together on Cocoa Daisy here.

Everything has a meaning.... like want to know why foxes?

 

Or the story behind the map?

It's all here.

 

 

And I added an extra bit about using a piece on this wall from this months March Cocoa Daisy kit too.

 

 

I hope you enjoy.

Happy Monday xxx

 

 

Raindrops & Rainbows

It's a little like that at home right now.
I made this LO for Hollie this week.

 

 

Our February Cocoa Daisy Kits each include a piece of watercolour paper. I have put together a short tutorial on how I used mine. You can see the step by step process over on the Cocoa Daisy blog here.

 

Don't forget the reveal tonight. See what's coming in Feb. The main kit and all the wonderful addons. The reveal is at 8pm EST here.

 

xxxx

Ovada Art Exhibition

Yesterday we took a trip to Oxford.
My brother had some art being exhibited.
We met my Mum, her hubby and my Nan there too.
We arrived. The exhibition was tucked away in Oxford city centre in old old warehouse.
It was so cool.
The buildings were stunning.

 

So, my brother along with some of his Uni friends were exhibiting here.

 

 

The building inside was a piece of art in itself.

 

 

Ryan here had made his own medium. It started off being the same weight as himself in this white studio. He spent the whole weekend working and experimenting with the self made medium.

 

 

I loved Nancy's piece.

All these pieces of art are little maps of her day to day trips. Each one has been date stamped from when she took the trip.

 

  

 

Then upstairs on a little mezzanine level was my brother art.

It started on a piece of glass details on the Aids PEP treatment. How it works. 

 

This was his piece.

(the day was National AIDS Awareness Day)

 

 

 

There was an ipad with a short video along side it.

The video was of a naked person. My brother Gareth had painted the HIV virus spreading throughout the body. He then used the wet wipes (used in the art piece) to wipe away the paint, representing the P.E.P anti HIV medication and the virus being wiped away.

 

 

He's sculpted his own hands and made little red Aids Awareness ribbons for each person to take away.

I was really impressed and feel so proud of him. A lot of thought has gone in to this.

 

Here we are with my brother. Hollie, me, Gareth, our Nan, our Mum and little Louis.

As you can see, Gareth is the only one to get any height in our family.  (I'm 4ft10 (146cm) I have hopes for Louis still : )  

 

 

We then went off for lunch in Oxford.

We had such a great day.

 

 

Dressing Up

I'm a little behind my blogging.
I had a few nightmare days last week.
My pc died....again. just 11 months since the last time.
Thankfully everything is always backed up but it's the inconvenience of it all.
Ade rebuilt it for me, but as always, things are never as straight forward as they should be.
Then my big printer that I use for work wouldn't work and I kept getting the same error message coming up.
I really thought I was going to have to get a new one.
Thankfully Ade ended up fixing that too.
6 days later, after working from the lounge room, from a laptop,  I finally moved back in to my studio and then had so much work to catch up with. Thank goodness it's not my busy time for work.

So I do have a few projects to share here.
The first is a fun step by step tutorial that I put together for Cocoa Daisy this week.
The December Kit was launched on the 26th Nov.
In each main kit there is a really cool set of Maya Road Chipboard Alphas.
I love messing around with anything like this.
So as a design team, we each showed off this week what we did with ours.
You can see them all on the blog this week here.

I got really artsy with mine and put a step by step tutorial together here showing how I dressed my alphas up.
They ended up looking like this. But all the stages of the making process are on the CD blog.

     

 

I loved putting this together : )

I hope you like the tutorial.

Happy weekend xxx