Tassel for Sue

My friend has a key stuck in a lock. It will turn but won't come out. She asked me to make a dangly something to hang from the naughty key. Sue already has a woven copper piece made for her birthday a couple of years ago, so I decided to incorporate copper into the tassel.

I strung the beads onto beading thread and used needle weaving to make the loop. Time will tell whether it is strong enough to withstand handling. I will report back if it falls apart.

I delivered presents to my in-laws yesterday. Today I got a phone call telling me that they have opened them. Who needs kids when you have parents like these? Anyway they like their stuff, I think their favorite gift was the clockwork racing snails. They are already bickering over who gets to eat the caramel nougat bars:) Wonderful people are buying me a sink to put into my new workshop for christmas.

I've been tagged

I have been tagged by Diane at http://soonerorlater.blogspirit.com
This is quite exiting, I have been reading other blogs and wondered if anyone would like me enough to tag me. It's a bit like being picked for a team at school. Yippee.

I am not sure there are 7 interesting things about me, but here goes...

1. When I was 7 I won the nobbly knee contest at junior school.
2. I was in the school choir and stood in the front row - but I was asked to mime.
3. I was banned from the art studios at school when I was 12.
4. I believe Robbie Williams www.RobbieWilliams.com is the most phwaa man alive.
5. I met two women on-line and travelled across the atlantic on my own to meet them, and neither of them were mad axe killers.
6. When I have a beading project which needs finishing, I have the outrageous desire to paint something but when I need to paint I just have to stitch, etc etc
7. For every project I complete, at least 7 go into the bin.

Now I have to find seven people to tag, here goes...

I would like to tag the following people because they have excellent blogs...

Evie http://breadandcircuses.typepad.com/
Beate http://beates-fabric-art.blogspot.com/
Elis http://intotheblystic.blogspot.com/
Connie http://www.cettacheese.blogspot.com/
Susan http://blackberrycreek.typepad.com/blackberry_creek/
Kristen http://stillheart.blogspot.com/
Keron http://www.thecolourguru.typepad.com/

Have you seen the latest issue of QA? There is an excellent article by an amazing (and egotistical) artist. I feel a bit of a fraud squished in between the fab articles in my favorite magazine.

Anyway, I am walking tall and much more of this and I will be able to reach the top shelf in the supermarket all by myself.

**On a serious note - Helen Gregory and Barbara Delaney from QA were wonderful, friendly, helpful and 100% professional. If you have an idea, don't hesitate to send it to them.

Paper collage with stitch. Another work in progress. It is not as grey as it appears here, more a bluey grey. I plan to add highlights and maybe a little orange.

It will be a postcard one day.

Marilyn Pipe came to our Embroidery group to teach for the weekend. We played with Lutradur, bondaweb, tyvek and other goodies. This is one sample which is waiting for stitch and embellishment.

Marilyn is lovely, great fun, a great and inspiring tutor and she gives good girls jelly babies.

Inky Pinky Plonky Poo
Oh dear, I don't know what to do

The pigs are flying overhead
The cows refuse to moo
The sheep are saying ba ba baa
The ducks have gone to the zoo

Where

The bears are eating museli
The lions say boo hoo
The dolphin has a broken leg
Oh dear, what a to do

The Elephant has lost the plot
The mouse lives in a shoe
The fox is eating strawberries
and....about the kangaroo

He has

Gold bullion in his pocket
And in his pouches too
The policeman waves his trunch e on
And we all hide in the loo

Oh dear, what are we going to do

The judge, he says "you naughty boy"
"Off you go to prison"
I've only got a tiny cell
Where nothing can be hidden


And now I am stuck, a prize of an atc is offered for the best last verse

Both last verses are excellent and I would like to send an atc to thank you for entering into the spirit of my daft poetry. Would 'justthesmallstuff' please let me know who you are and where I can send your wondrous piece of art ;)

Paper landscape. I stitched this today, from torn scraps of paper with some yarn. Then I painted it with watery acrylics. Next I plan to highlight some of the raised areas. And no doubt ruin it completely.....