inspired to stitch

goodness what a bad blogger I've been ...

I started the year off in such a prolific manner ... determined to keep up with my blog and lots of projects and challenges

in January I met up with one of my dearest blog friends and together we set about creating erosion bundles full of seaside inspired goodies from St. Ives beach. I have three bundles sitting out in the garden in the cold and wet. I will be sharing the contents of the bundles on my other blog in March, and the reveal in April, as that one seems to have naturally evolved into a seaside inspired blog
... which is a lovely thing to happen

I've had twice monthly Crow Days with my friend Jo

and I also finished up the sketchbook project
which has now been received at the art museum in New York
again, photos on that later ... what a tease I am!

on top of that I've been hosting Tag Tuesday
keeping up with my tags and making the blog look pretty ...
will share my recent tags soon as well as
some beautiful gifts from my blog friends

the reason ...
is that in January I had an absolute eeeeeek moment!

I discovered that my joint mixed media textile art exhibition with Jo was in March. For goodness sake ... I had it in my mind that it was April but quite honestly I had so much going on last year that I hadn't time to think clearly about it at all. So panic has set in and there is some serious multi tasking going on here at the moment (as I work for my hubby and I'm trying to keep my shop going too)

so here it is ...
the reason ...

INSPIRED TO STITCH

an exhibition of mixed media textile art

The Library, Gabriel Street, St. Ives, Cornwall
1st March - 31st March 2012
(closed on Wednesdays)

I will be at the exhibition on these dates and times

Thursday 8th March (12.30 - 4 pm)
Tuesday 27th March (2 - 5 pm)

Jo will be at the exhibition on these dates and times
Monday 12th March (12.30 - 4 pm)
Tuesday 20th March (12 - 5 pm)

an additional selection of textile work will be available for sale on the dates above ... such as wearable art, scarves, jewellery, my textured art hearts, original art cards, textile inspiration packs, textile art supplies and lots of my beads to handle

Jo and I would be very happy to see you if you are in Cornwall
or down on holiday in St. Ives during March

so lots of catch ups later
including Christmas and everything else I've missed!

until then ...
I hope you will forgive this bad, bad blogger
♥

Tag Tuesday

Tag Tuesday

the Tag Tuesday blog has been keeping me busy
as we more than doubled numbers in just a week

we now have 75 artists playing along with the weekly themes
and the blog is looking wonderful
with their beautiful and inspiring tags

this week's theme is
"snow sports and games"

for my tag I used a vintage image of a girl on a sled
with silver snowflakes left over from last week
some wintery text and an ice star button

at the bottom I added some ribbon with icicles
which I beaded with Swarovski crystals
~ they glisten beautifully in the light ~

♥

generally ... I'm gradually catching up with many projects
and my December post on the other blog is now done

thank you for visiting me
and for your generous comments and uplifting emails

Carolyn ♥

Tag Tuesday

Tag Tuesday

is a brand new challenge which I'm hosting here
to create an art tag each week on a Tuesday
with a different seasonal theme

I am thrilled it has got off to a good start with 36 players
and some very beautiful snowy tags are appearing
for this week's theme of snow

"snow on snow"
"snowy landscape"

these are my tags made from a simple bit of collage
the sparkly silver snowflakes are cut from chiffon
and I've added some text

for the time being I'm displaying my tags
on the fireplace in my bedroom

it's still Christmas in the cottage until Friday
the weather is so appalling here ... rain, gales and darkness
I welcome the cheer of fairy lights and candles a little longer
and still plenty of time to share my Christmas photos before then

have a lovely Tuesday

New year greetings

It's time to wish you a very happy new year
a fresh start ... with renewed enthusiasm
for your chosen projects for the year

I'm sharing a mosaic I made a couple of years ago
but one which I still like very much
I hope you like it too

1. A 2. Frozen red berries 3. Vintage christmas card 4. Red berry tree in winter 5. Vintage girl on sled 6. Happy New Year 7. Holly 8. Flower christmas gift tag 9. Red berries 10. Christmas snow 11. Snowflakes on red 12. Frosted cranberries - recipe 13. Happy new year 14. Sleigh bells 15. Auld Lang Syne 16. Sugar frosted cranberries

in an effort to catch up with things and draw a line under 2011 I have been quite busy the last few days posting on the other blog. There is just one more catch up post to do and then I feel I can move on to new projects and tackle some of the outstanding ones from 2011 as I am still intending to complete them all

September
October
November
December
Christmas

I feel a great excitement for the projects I have chosen
but more on that later

new year greetings to you
may it be a good year for us all
♥