A Theraputic Piece

Hi... not like me to post at the weekend, but I have had such a weird couple of days... bad, bad, bad with my mother on Thursday morning, starting before I got up... 8.15am on the phone cos she had no knickers, or could not find them... SOOO distressed, I was overwhelmed!!! Then many more of a similar ilk until after lunchtime... I was exhausted.

 Went to bed reasonable time Thursday night, but only drifted along the edges of sleeping ALL night, my friends...even MORE exhausted!!! so this morning, I collected up some bits pieces and tools, and set to work on my creation...whilst resting in my bed!!! How jolly decadent is THAT!!?? And this little beauty is what I made... Lots of beads and bits, strung on wires then added to the chain...

 I chose a mainly neutral set of colours, with some of these fab shiny ones... you can see the honey and dark ones, all looking very established. The rose ones have wrapping wire around their loops...if you look carefully you can see me taking the photo in that big, shiny bead, centre picture...

 I made three teeny tiny tags yesterday and popped them into my VV in the time Holtz embossing folder,,, they came up very well. The one above was in the bird bit of the folder... all shiny after buffing with the Vintaj sanding block...

 Lots of ickle beads were wired and added, including these fabby scissors... I purposely used different coloured wire and metal throughout...

 Here is another tag, cut from a Vintaj square blank, with my trusty TH scissors... I spy an ickle birdie here too...

I might give this to a friend who has a birthday this weekend, or to my daughter, or I might just keep it for myself!!! It does look lovely worn on the wrist and NOT on a bottle, tee hee!!.

It took me about 3 hours from collecting to finishing off, and in that time, I did not think about mum or anything, really, so it was a very theraputic piece to make this morning... After that, I was able to ring her and we had a reasonable chat, even laughed a bit, and she seemed to remember the lack of knickers from yesterday!!! and made fun of herself and me for not knowing where they all were... she knew the drawer this morning, but there is NO rhyme or reason that says she will know where to look next time

Well thanks for looking, and don't forget to leave me a comment, cos I lurve hearing what you think... Also don't forget the birdcage swap... deets at the top of the postings here... I had the wrong email down - forgot an "o" in my name!!!! So it should work now...
Love and light
Frankie
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Sunday Stamper - White Lines

 Hels has challenged us to make white lines, so I decided to take her at her word!!!

 But I needed a bold image to counter what I had in mind... this new butterfly came to my rescue... it's by Papermania...

 So the background started as a plain white card, then I criss-crossed lines with my Perfect Medium plain pen... the lines were then embossed in clear ep (what a surprise!!!) and various distress inks were rubbed into the card... of course, the embossed lines stayed white!!! hurrah...

 They are rather large, these butterflies, and that served a great purpose... I used white, shiny cardstock, smooched the same set of distress inks on it, plus a little red stain... they are printed in black archival and clear embossed, then slightly enhanced with some painted on colour...

I kept this tag simple and bright... it's what I can cope with this afternoon, after many phone calls to the various teams already involved , and those getting involved with my mother's care... golly, it is so wearing... thank the Dao for my crafting!!!

Thanks for coming to look and for commenting... I do love to see and hear from you... and don't forget to join in with the birdcage swap - see at the top of my posts!!
Love and light
Frankie
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WOYWW #115 - Blinging it On!!!!

 Oh no... I don't believe it's another week since last time I saw you... it's spooky how quickly this year is romping away with me!!! Just wish I could keep up... Well here is my desk, and here is where you should go to visit the ineffable Julia, case you have been in la la land for the last few months!!! tee hee... I have some newly appointed, but old, storage, and I am now keeping my distress inks and pads in these drawers on the right... this bit next to my printer is ALWAYS a mess so I have sorted it a bit with this unit... I can lift out the various colours as and when, quite easily...

 The work in progress is for Simon Says Stamp and Show some bling, this week, and the beginning of a tag for TIO, where the theme is child's play... ooo difficult for me as I don't have any appropriate stamps...
I have shown you both finished projects here below...

 I made some more of those metail flowers, blow-torched for different colours and I added a bit of inca gold, in purple to match the whole colour scheme... I have a full posting on this one here...

This is the tag for TIO... I also have a DT call out this weeek, as we are loosing two of our members, so if anyone here fancies joining my fab team, please just email me and I will consider you as a teamie!!! - frankie@gaywood.net

Thanks for looking and commenting.... don't forget the birdcage swap - deets here, as there is still plenty of time to join in...and most of all have a GREAT week and ENJOY your crafting
Love and light
Frankie
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Simon Says Bling It On!!!

 I made myself smile here with this title... but that's all I am smiling about just now... having more problems with mum, so forgive me if I'm a bit distracted ...

Well Simon Says Stamp and Show some bling this week and I really fancied doing this one.... so I made some more of those fabby copper flowers and pasted them with Inca Gold purple paste... yumminess..

 Here they are in close-up... they are so interesting to make and so blingie when they are adorning a piece... this corner has some Vintaj flowers added as foliage...

 The TH sewing room die is cut from thick card, embossed with a cuttlebug swirls folder then blinged up with Inca Gold gold and purple pastes... I added some lovely broidery anglais layers and a couple of flowers, dyed with purple distress ink. A pearl at the throat and on the bodice bling up the rest of this part...

 The BLING letters are cut with a TH alphabet die, from thin, sparkly card.  The beautiful corner piece is also from Vintaj, with a large and medium sized pearl dangling, all blingie-like!!

 Here is the whole piece, front on, showing the TH pearl and blingie chain hanging on a charm clip from a hitch fastener. Loads of bling!!!

Finally, the frame was painted with Fresco paints in London nights and vintage lace with a pva sandwich, to crackle . I smeared Inca Gold gold and purple pastes and bronze rub and buff... A piece of TH paper was inked and printed it layers of stamps and distressed ... I really enjoyed this project and hope it fits the bill...

Thanks for looking and commenting
Love and light
Frankie
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I also want to submit this piece at
Dream Valley Challenges - distressing
Make It Monday - always anything goes