My machine has been busy at last inspired by Alex Waylett!!!

Oh what a lovely time I have been having. It was 'Textiles in Focus' at Cottenham Village College last weekend and I booked up for Alex Waylett's teaching session. I had a BALL!! She is such a superb teacher...I really do recommend her. Do take a peek at her website....her work is wonderful!

We started off by being inspired by pictures of Angie Lewin's work. Her screen prints are very simplistic and stylised and perfect inspiration.
I'm afraid I forgot to take my camera so I don't have any step photos of my work. We chose three shapes and cut them out of cardboard and then sponged around them with sumptuous paints in blues and greens

Next, we slapped paint onto the card shapes and stamped into the white spaces. There were a few commercial stamps there too so I added some flowers to my design. Why not?!!

I was so inspired that as soon as I got home I fired up my machine and flew around freely adding my trademark black detail to the design. It made such a difference! I even pushed the boat out and used GOLD thread too...now there is a turn up for the books! You cannot sew as fast with gold or it shreds so I was very patient and only had to re-thread three times!!! LOL. If you scroll up you will see some of the gold free machining on the other pictures

Finally, on Monday I joined a group of other people for a hand stitching morning and had fun adding beads and sequins to add some BLING!! Now.....I have to decide what I am going to do with it. WATCH THIS SPACE!!! I am away for a retreat this weekend and it is coming with me to be made into a bag...(or something....who knows what!)

Thank you once again to Alex for giving me the creative boost I really need at the moment x

The Fallen Angel Co is now on Facebook!

Ho hum......I am feeling quite pleased with myself and have finally got my 'Fallen Angel' Facebook page up and running even though I thought about creating it in 2011! Here it is here Come on over....I hope you 'like' it!!

I'm just hoping it works. If I was really clever I could add a button for it on my blog but it is late at night and I don't think I am quite up to it!!

I've been away for a while as our girlie Claire has been in hospital longer than was planned and much later than expected. Life has been on hold for quite some time. She had her VP shunt replaced with a Miethke one a few weeks ago and she is so sparkly, lively and full of fun now her pressure setting is right. Inter-cranial brain pressure makes such a difference to personality....but sadly doctors do not recognise the fine nuances  personality as being important....but they are to close relatives who see the changes but now hopefully, she will stay well and life will return to normal.

Normality.....this is something that you simply take for granted day after day. Boring, humdrum life...you know....doing the weekly shop, cooking, cleaning, getting your hand round the 'u' bend..... all that boring stuff that you wish you could break free from, but it all grinds to a halt when someone close to you is ill and you find your whole being tied in worrying about them and endless hospital trips, in Claire's case to London, which took whole days at a time. You long for normality to return...nothing spectacular, just that comfortable familiarity of day today ordinariness.

My creative being was stolen from me but now I'm hoping I might find it this week lurking in a pot of bright pink paint or maybe it will come out from my sewing machine needle if I invite it to try speeding across some colourful fabric. I think I shall set my alarm clock early and make myself leap out of bed and think YAY!! time to play, and if I find it, I shall blog about it!