I want to thank everyone for their get well soon wishes left as comments and in email. As much as I hate to be talking about my health I have just come from my doctor and want to let people know that I have surgery next Wednesday and hope to …
This morning I am going to point altered book and collage artist Karen Hatzigeorgiou’s site Karens Whimsy. The site houses Altered Books, Reliquaries, Wall Hangings and Collage Art. Links to her blog Artful Journey and the site also houses a number of tutorials such as treating paper in various ways, …
Owen Jones classic The Grammar of Ornament is online. The 1910 edition is provided free by the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture Another gem from the same collection of e books also by Owen Jones is the 1867 edition of Examples of Chinese ornament selected from …
I thought people might like to see more of how I use a visual journal. Earlier this week I posted about my wonderful surprise gift from Lynn Schoeffler. I like to know where various bits and pieces that I use come from so a few years ago now I started …
While trawling around the web I discovered Picnik a free online photo editing service You can load a photo from your computer or your Flickr site and edit it. Then save it for use. It is easy to pull photos straight from your Flickr account or you can enter the …
Yesterday a wonderful squishy arrived as a surprise gift from Lynn Schoeffler It truly is a squishie to lust after. Everything in it from the unusual fabrics to the vintage buttons was ‘me’. It was nice it set my mind a thinking – and I am not going to even …
If you are an English speaker and need to translate a Spanish crochet pattern you have a bit of a problem. Because the language and abbreviations are so specialised a translator will be useless. This site of English and Spanish Crochet abbreviations (link removed as it is out of date) will …
