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One of my new heroes is Alisa Burke whose work I have mentioned before. I liked her style because it is very much art based. I first came ...

I made my first attempt at making Elderberry Jelly this week. I added plenty of lemon juice but it took two attempts to get a set. Left with...

These are two samples from my City & Guilds course. Its good sometimes to look through the folders full of samples for inspiration and ...

This is a stitched piece which I recently completed using the ‘snow writing’ symbols. The symbols were printed out onto calico from the com...

On and off over past months I have been using some marks which I saw in the snow as inspiration as I thought they looked like some unreadab...

I have used this stitched piece as a background for a photo group competition on Flickr. It was one of a series with 'blue' titles ...

Thank you to Abigail for this award. I always enjoy following the links from the blogs which I enjoy, but I tend to keep my current blogs ...

This may or may not be dynamic but it was the first group exercise on my drawing workshop of that name which took place at Morley College y...

Thanks again for the comments. I do agree that creativity is about that wonderful feeling of being ‘carried away’, either being entirely in ...

Thank you for recent comments and especially the birthday wishes. Here are some more pictures of the Woolworths' book; it surprising th...

There will be a couple of posts now about the book I worked on over the last few months for an exhibition; unfortunately, it didn’t get sele...

20th June, my birthday. I’ve made a big chocolate cake to celebrate and I intend to have much more than my fair share. I’m also getting the...

Summer is? Originally uploaded by stitchworks-jackie Seen at the Hackwood Art Festival.

I’m getting bits together now for the June button swap. The theme is beach, sand etc.It is fun to get the ideas and bits and pieces together...

This post relates to a request from Kathi who is about to do some work based on a photograph of a dandelion. Funnily enough I had thought r...

TB & TC Brighton - Main Piece Originally uploaded by DBO PONDERS My talented son's work.

garden-inspired ... mosaic monday Originally uploaded by cathy cullis My shed included in this pretty mosaic.

This is a small piece using the original images from the Mayan Glyphs with wax resist. I like the colours and worked bullion knots just bec...