GEOMETRIC ART...

Wow! its been 4 months since I last posted. Double vision, hospital appointments, and not being allowed to drive and now arthritis, affecting several joints I'm continuing to look for alternative crafty projects.

A mad moment as i'm no party animal, I decided to have a joint Birthday party with Phil at the end of June and making lots of giant paper flowers for the party filled hours with fun...

 CROCHET BUNTING: took me ages to make because of the arthritis in my hands but you can't have a party without bunting can you? 

Tasseled bunting too...fun to make

I made table cloths and cushions sale bought Moroccan style duvet coverts and even cleared and redecorated my work room. 

About time too, it's now a fabulous space i can actually get into again...space for one or two workshops maybe?

My workroom wall decorated with a Moroccan look tile wallpaper and I love it...

 I'm reclaiming my workroom slowly, although 50+ boxes of wool/samples are still to be sorted

MOROCCAN TILE WALLPAPER: From B&Q, @£10 a roll a bargain and looks fabulous, went up really easy and the wall took 3 rolls to cover with some bits left over to decorate trays etc...

This wallpaper has sent me on a journey, into the world of Moroccan geometric art and architecture, colour and design.

 Couldn't find my compass, my ruler had chunks out of the edge, no hard pencils...its years since i had done any geometric drawings.

 It took a while to engage my brain in this rewarding mathematical fun..

Simple [i thought], 12 point rosette, typical of the Moroccan tiles in the wall paper

The seemingly simple shapes are intriguing, although not quite so easy as you think to draw, or is it that i've not used a compass and ruler and delved into the geometric world for such a long time?

All you need is a compass, a ruler and a few pencils, time and a brain! lol. 

No idea where its taking me, but as i'm unable to crochet for more than an hour at a time at the moment, its entertaining me between sewing [never thought i would go back to sewing again], paper crafting and decorating.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us all to get it right!

HAPPY CRAFTING IN 2010

Thanks for a great party last night Cath

SORRY we were late...ooops fell asleep

-3 degrees when we came home at 1.15am....didn't wake up until after 7.30 unheard of hehehe

Naughty Kathryn!!!..glad you've ok though l was worried about you!

PARTY BUNTING

Vintage Halloween postcard bunting for the Halloween Camper Party next weekend

Large 'flower' to hang in the camper

Assortment on the peg rail....made the bunting then took terrible photos of it...to follow

PARTY TIME!!!......WHEY HEY

Yesterdays Congleton trip..south Cheshire has some dire road signs took us an hour to find the place does help though if the post code was correct...mmmmm

We went for coffee well chocolate fix really then shops but we've done all our christmas shopping so decided to do the cinema...4 CHRISTMASES...some bits are hilarious but 6 out of 10 maybe

Then PIZZA HUT for late lunch love pizza but dont like their prices and the place was PACKED.....what does that say about the credit crunch!!!

Then the loan MX5 decided to loose a cylinder very careless l think.....and behave like an old nail and backfired all the way back to the garage!!! mmmmmm

Well ouch and just before Christmas!!!.....seems MX5's have a tendany to corrosive break pipes and mine needed replacing plus a big sevice...meaning expensive

So back it has to go for another days work gggggggrrrrrrrrrrr

Funny how a car can work perfectly well and still be in need of seemingly drastic work!!! Suppose thats why they are serviced to make sure you dont beakdown when it sooooooooo not convenient lol

PARTYTIME GIRLS...CYA LATER hope ya got your hats? hehehe

CROP DAY TODAY

Morning fellow croppers...sorry you wont make it Jane cya later Sarah?
Hat to make today ready for the party on Sunday.....should be fun

edit:...no Sarah either so going out...hope all ok?.....cya soon