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Daisy Yellow prompt for yesterday (yeh I'm a day late in reading her post.. oops) was to post a favourite card from last year's challenge. I think this is mine. It started off life as a small rubber stamp that I bought years back. It has the row of little bird houses along the top of an empty frame. I copied the houses freehand to fit the icard, and then added a tree to give them a background. Looking back at it I love the vibrancy of the colours. I'm not sure I got the shading right though - the light seems to be coming at it from all angles!<br />
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It's back, it's big, it's fun! It's two months of making art every day within the confines of an index card. Now I confess that I didn't see last year's event through to the end, but this time around, I think if I stick to the smaller card format, I might just be able to keep going. And I'm not going to be drawn (ha) into competition to make my cards the best, because I can't! It's hard, but I should just concentrate on 5 minutes making creative (?) marks on the card, rather than thinking I have to have a style, a point, a purpose, lots of colour or a perfect work of art. <br />
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Have fun :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17402859147935639017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375258460634574422.post-91518001682397417582012-03-09T12:09:00.001+08:002012-03-09T15:59:58.825+08:00The Eco Prints Are Out!<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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These are the results of various bundles that have been lying around drying out slowly. These are a mixture of plant samples from <span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">rose</span> leaves on the right of the collage to <span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;">eucalyptus </span>cinarea on the right. The purple is from <span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-size: large;">red cabbage</span> - some of the bundles came into contact with another which just contained red cabbage and absorbed some of the dye. I'm loving the central print which is a mix of very semi successful eucalypt (black prints) with a blue to purple cabbage patch! Looking at it in the frame of pictures it looks almost like the ghost of an abstract landscape.<br />
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The circular prints are in fact from shibori style wrapping around <span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;">pecan </span>nuts (unshelled) and simmered in plain water. The fabric is old cotton sheeting. When wet these looked pale and insipid. Only once left to dry in the bundle did the colour concentrate and develop. They have not been rinsed.<br />
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The purple-ish prints at the top of the collage are not cabbage, but rose petals wrapped in cotton around a glass and steamed (in fact all prints above are steamed). The little brown stamp you can see is from a printed image on the glass itself!<br />
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Current Inspiration<br />
<a href="http://prophet-of-bloom.blogspot.com.au/"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">India Flint</span></a><br />
<a href="http://windthread.typepad.com/"><span style="color: #45818e; font-size: large;">Windthread</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.lindavincent.blogspot.com.au/"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Blue Eyed Girl</span></a><br />
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Editor's note: Also hugely inspired by<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://soewnearth.blogspot.com.au/"><span style="color: red;">Soewn Earth</span></a></span> - do check out her latest on tea bags and eucalypts.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17402859147935639017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375258460634574422.post-55644179354392093252012-02-23T12:05:00.000+08:002012-02-23T12:07:44.873+08:00Red Cabbage<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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There is no before because I didn't take photos of before. I forgot. I didn't think about it. I was busy cleaning out all the moths and the c^@) they kindly left behind. Larder moths are not good. Neither are flour bugs. Nyeh! Yeugh! <br />
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The floor is clear. Almost. All bags have been organised. All cloth bags are together ready for the next trip. Oversize carriers have been folded and stored in the white boxy bag. Paper bags are flat and stored in another paper bag... you can't see it from here. I am enjoying looking at my pantry. Is it now good feng shui? It makes me feel good. That's good enough for me.<br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-size: large;">Progression:</span> Parcel of cotton and petals. Frozen. Rolled with a rolling pin. Left out to dry. Opened. Prints. Fuzzy up close. Good takeup of colour. Next time try with soy mordant.<br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Progression:</span> Bundles of cloth out of the dyepot. Unbinding. Fabulous aromas. Eucalyptus bound in cotton and wool. Pre-modanted with soy. Not a great result. Even the wool is disappointing. It should pick up plant dyes like a sponge in water. Slight evidence of printing in the last picture, lower left!<br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Progression:</span> From rolled and wrapped bundle of white cotton sheeting and brown onion skins; boiled and simmered into beautiful hues of yellows and oranges. <br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Instruction:</span> From India Flint's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eco-Colour-Botanical-Beautiful-Textiles/dp/1596683309/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328161979&sr=8-1">EcoColour</a> and the <a href="http://prophet-of-bloom.blogspot.com.au/">Prophet of Bloom</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17402859147935639017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375258460634574422.post-18352550117063368052011-11-21T15:54:00.000+08:002011-11-21T16:12:35.551+08:00Saturday Saunter in Mt Lawley<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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This week coming to you from Beaufort Street in Mount Lawley, Perth WA.<br />
A gorgeous sunny day with amazing clear blue skys.<br />
Stopping off at Elmars for hot shnitzel dogs.<br />
Calling into gorgeous boutiques along the way.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I don't know what all this means. An eskimo perhaps? With bad leg<br />and a crutch, a giraffe? Missed his head, sorry!<br />Beautifully painted.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of Art Deco style influences around here. This is a<br />beautiful mosaic on an apartment block. If I remember<br />right there is a cafe downstairs... then again, every other<br />establishment is a cafe.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I could buy up the shop. I saw 'Zakka' and was inside in a trice.<br />Everything is so cute. And it doesn't just sell giftware, but crafty bits too.<br />My haul included a lovely french style handwriting alphabet stamp set,<br />a decorative zipper that you stitch on the outside of the item to show it off,<br />and some fabulous washi tape with sewing patterns printed all over... love!<br />This is<a href="http://www.zakkabox.com.au/index.html"> Zakka Box.</a></td></tr>
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Back to Freo again, but this time in the glorious sunshine. Had a chance to go by myself, woohoo, so I headed straight for the markets - I normally get groaned at for suggesting this! The plan was to window shop only this weekend... payday not until middle of the week! Did pretty well for the most. Hit the vintage clothing shop on Wray Avenue and picked up an overdress (to wear with trousers) for $10... and then spent up at the veg shop a little further up... grabbing a couple of huge pots of herbs for the garden at $4 each!! Then up to the market to find a snack and check out <a href="http://georginamavor.blogspot.com/">Georgina Mavor's</a> place with beautiful handmade journals. I was rather shy as I wasn't spending so I shall introduce next time around... sorry Georgina!! Do you ever do that... feel a little embarassed that you're not going to buy from a handmade stall, just wanting a looksee? Promise to treat myself next time, honest! One of her journals would make the most perfect sketchbook.<br />
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While in the market I achieved the aim of a snack with the best piece of pizza EVER. And it wasn't even cooked!! A totally delicious piece of buckwheat and courgette dehydrated base with a topping of tomatoes, basil, olives, hummous and sundried tomoato puree - divine. Completely raw and bursting with flavour. That was from The Raw Kitchen stall if you're ever there. At $8 a slice it was way more than I'd normally spend, but that seemed to be the going rate for all snacks in the market... but it was a great choice and kept me going until the BBQ in the evening. I might just be a convert to raw foodiness if it tastes that good!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Line sketching with fineliner and watercolour pencil<br />to add shading... rather random shading!</td></tr>
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I just can't stay home on a Saturday. Tried it, can't do it. After being at work all week, doing the school run, going home, dinner, bed... Saturday is the day to get out and about and see the world, or at least a little bit of it. </div>
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This week's saunter took place in Freo.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">*</span> We were on our way to the bike shop to select the bike to replace the one that was stolen a few months back (grrr) and found the same problem the world over, especially on a rainy Saturday - nowhere to park. Correction, nowhere to park for free! Solution, side of the road further out of the centre. Result, we were in a gorgeous leafy suburb and a short walk to where we needed to be. Even better, the local shops were fantastic, including a fabulous fresh veg shop - very fresh and very well priced for WA - on <a href="http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=11&gs_id=14&xhr=t&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1016&bih=648&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=wray+avenue+pharmacy&fb=1&gl=au&hq=wray+avenue+pharmacy&hnear=0x2a32946b9ed9bbad:0x404f0b535df55e0,Perth+WA&cid=0,0,9112767181838926060&ei=a3K3TpieE8bmmAXns8jrAw&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&sqi=2&ved=0CAwQ_BI">Wray Avenue</a>. To top that find was an emergency stop off at this shop, Pekho. Emergency huh? I saw rolls of fabric which just had to be looked at. I can't walk past that! A fabulous shop that I must revisit without darling daughter to have a proper look. Many locally made products, and a fabulous remnant of screen printed mossy green linen... that was what caught my eye, and I promise to post you a picture of it later. After being depressed by the offering of a Spotlight visit earlier in the day, my spirits were lifted with this excellent find.</div>
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Here are a few snaps of the sights of Wray Avenue... and I'm ultra happy to have seen yarn bombing at long last in real life... just outside Diamond Aps Recycling Boutique.. and another shop pictured below which I completely forgot to capture the name of.. and which doesn't show up well on Google street view.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pekho.com/">Pekho Wear and Wares</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Decorated windowsills on a boutique clothing shop - so cute!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Outside the same boutique on Wray Avenue... a delightful piece of embroidery<br />
and applique</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yay, I've seen Yarn Bombing at last!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is inside <a href="http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/338/1504038/restaurant/Perth/City-of-Fremantle/Wild-Poppy-Fremantle">Wild Poppy's</a>, a delightful and relaxed cafe on the corner of<br />
Wray and South Terrace. I've seen these vintage doily lighshades<br />
in many magazines, and they look fabulous... they're quite large and<br />
en masse they are both boho and chic, standing out prettily against<br />
the dark green and black walls.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>* Freo = Fremantle WA</i></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17402859147935639017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375258460634574422.post-9762475942701031312011-11-04T14:04:00.000+08:002011-11-08T16:00:23.698+08:00CHOGM comes to PERTHNot many words today. Instead I wanted to share some of the images captured from the day of the Great Aussie BBQ held in Perth last Saturday to celebrate the end of the weeklong Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)... some are of the event, others from a wander through the CBD and city afterwards....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perth Esplenade (Alf Curlewis Gardens)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wouldn't this look amazing on the hilside below Kings Park<br />
overlooking the Swan River!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our viewscreen on the Esplanade... sorry about the quality!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Queen's arrival at the Esplanade</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">er, not sure, but he was amazing on the didgeridoo!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">there, you can see him on the right of the picture..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early and Late 20th Century (don't quote me on that one)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This would make an amazing quilt pattern!<br />
This is the new Commonwealth Bank building</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the old Commonwealth Bank building next door</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Style and Pattern</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elephant Kisses!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mega Flora Chogmosis in the Urban Orchard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Weaving a Peacock's Tail</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ayres Rock Surf Lifesaving Club<br />
AKA Pinstripe Circus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Indiginous Car Art!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The colours were overwhelming, and beautifully executed.</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17402859147935639017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375258460634574422.post-27896784729769253522011-11-03T12:16:00.001+08:002011-11-03T20:53:22.753+08:00My Creative SpacePeople that know me know that I don't do jeans. What!!! I hear you gasp... you don't wear what most people practically live in? Nope, never have, but.... maybe will. You see the problem is, I like my clothes to fit and be comfortable. Nothing wrong in that per se, but you see jeans just don't fit the criteria. They have been found to fit where they touch, to gape at the waist, to cut one in half when sitting, and with the trend for low waistlines, well the problem is exacerbated manyfold. The solution is, therefore, to make my own. But then I still can't be sure that when I make them myself that they'll be any better than something off the peg. My dressmaking skills are something not to be desired! At least for anything I make myself. Kiddies, no problem. Me, nah!<br />
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So what to do? Well as luck would have it, on a wander through Perth city centre en route from going to see the Queen (think CHOGM here) to Myer I came across <a href="http://www.fabulousfabrics.com.au/">Fabulous Fabrics</a> on Murray Street that I just had to wander into, just for a looksee. There, next to the door was a copy of the latest Vogue catalogue and in it was this:<br />
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Now I've followed <a href="http://www.marcytilton.com/index.php?cid=1703">Marcy Tilton's blog</a> for a while and have one of her tops patterns that is still to be made (more on that in another post) and hadn't seen this pattern before... actually what I'd not noticed on the web picture, that the catalogue made abundantly clear, was that the dark longer trousers are made in denim. Click! A very comfortable, loose fitting, but well fitted, pair of jeans - or denim trousers? - is within my grasp as the pattern is now mine!!<br />
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I have to confess that now I'm stuck for the denim - I have some but it's very heavy, and not good for the upcoming summer.. so if anyone is in the know about where to get a medium to light weight denim in Western Australia at a reasonable price (ie. not $28 a meter as is a lot of fabric) do drop me a comment.... otherwise it's back to ebay.co.uk.<br />
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I have, however, started on a toile. This is, as I gather, the correct way to try a pattern. Not to start out in the final fabric, mess it up, throw it in a corner and sulk for the next three months! So the pattern has been duly traced onto some newsprint paper and cut out, pinned to check fit, unpinned and afixed to some old duvet fabric... and cut out. That is where I am up to. But keep a watch on next week's Creative Space and I might just have progressed some. In fact that is what will spur me on... I WILL have progress some, or a lot!!<br />
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Hop on over to <a href="http://ourcreativespaces.blogspot.com/">Our Creative Space</a> to check out the crafty creativeness that spans our planet this week.<br />
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A great day, much awaited... my vintage pattern from Etsy seller CYNICALGIRL has arrived from America! I saw this pattern and had to have it no matter what! I mean, it wasn't because it was a bag or a rucksack, but because of the picture and the freedom it represents. It reminds of a time when cycling was not battling the traffic in dayglo lycra, but a pleasant way to travel for fun along country lanes in something a little more elegant.</div>
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It also reminded me of an old blue army rucksack that I had for Guide summer camps in the 80's which was probably new around the early 70's and was made in exactly the same colour with cream trim (so I think I remember) as the picture above.</div>
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The plan? To make this backpack, with one or two updates, and perhaps a colourful lining, in some hefty canvas that will, like the old rucksack, withstand any amount of packing and bashing. And perhaps to put one or two for sale on MadeIt or Etsy.... maybe?</div>
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Trying out patterns and repeats... with a bit of shading. Need to fill the page better, but I quite like these. Not sure I'd do this too often... I was getting a little fed up with the green!! Prefered doing the little brightly coloured version... and yes the background shading on the green one is definitely dodgy!! ;DAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17402859147935639017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375258460634574422.post-47867228009251558712011-10-27T15:09:00.000+08:002011-10-27T15:09:16.450+08:00Sketchbook Delight 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I must offer my apologies for this picture. It is not good. It is not really my best! But I like the naive style. I know the perspective is shot to bits and is lying all around the sewing room floor. There are so many mistakes and I know this looks nothing like the original... but you don't know that, and I'm not letting on... ah! oh well!<br />
Practice, practice, practice, go get a glass of wine and do something completely different....Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17402859147935639017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2375258460634574422.post-73130187122044906452011-10-25T14:46:00.001+08:002011-10-26T09:04:30.281+08:00Sketchbook Delight 3Next to my rotary washing line there is a huge frondy, shaggy pile of a plant. I've no idea what it is, but it's very graceful if rather oversize. It had been cut down to ground level when I moved into the house last year, but it's now well over 5' tall and more than that around. I've just had a peek around the native flora websites to find out what it is, but still none the wiser... I shall have to take a photo and post it here to see if anyone can identify it :) Meantime, this is a sketch of one of the stems off one of the fronds of this plant. I found it quite hard to get a handle on how to demonstrate the 3D-ness of the leaves.. that some of them were turned over as I put the stem down on the table... so I wouldn't be surprised if some of the shading is in the wrong place!!<br />
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Taken earlier in the year on the heritage cycle trail up near Midland in WA on an insanely bright day! This is an old tunnel on a disused railway line that's great for cycling or walking. The children with us thought this was awesome for rock climbing.<br />
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That title reminds me of that dessert I used to love as a child called Angel Delight! But this is no pudin', this is the title of a fantastic online course that I joined yesterday. It's run by artist and teacher <a href="http://www.alisaburke.com/onlineworkshops/sketchbookdelight.html">Alisa Burke</a> and is stuffed full of videos and ideas and fun. I've just looked at the first lesson all in one go and started putting together my first pages already, which is saying something for someone who is daunted by a blank page, let alone a blank book! I was somewhat cautious as, although I admire and read Alisa's blog regularly, I wasn't sure if it was going to be right for me... but when I sussed that $50 is only around 30 quid, I thought that really there wasn't anything to lose!! And it's been money well spent from the first day. I tried another online drawing/doodling course recently and I found it just wasn't my style... I couldn't get inspired to keep going. Perhaps it's because I see Alisa's beautiful bold and bright work and think that I'd like to draw and design like her, that will make this time more successful. Watch this space.</div>
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