Amazing students work

On Saturday I taught my textured grid canvas to 2 wonderfully creative women. It was my first time teaching this workshop so it was nice to just have the 2 to try it out on. We had great fun with all the different texture pastes and then choosing bits and bobs to go with it. Teaching always inspires me but with this group I even got a few new ideas to work on.

Kim

Sharon

Did you do any creating over the weekend?

Happy Creating!

Wendy

Resin Jewelry students work

Creating jewelry with resin is so much fun and teaching it is equally fun. I get the best students! It's so great to see what designs they create on their own. Last week I had a great group of ladies to make resin jewelry with. I had a wonderful time teaching them and was inspired by their creations. Here they are for you to see for yourself.

Kim

Kim

Louise

Louise

Nicola

Nicolette

Nicolette

Nicolette

Olive

Peggy

What do you think. Weren't they a creative punch? Some did 2 necklaces instead of the usually necklace and earring set while Olive did here own thing with some components she had brought herself.

Happy Creating!

Wendy

More metal embossing...

I had another great metal embossing workshop on Saturday with a few very creative ladies. I loved all their colour combinations and am inspired to do another mirror myself. Now to just find a little extra time to do it!

Amy

Caroline

Kim

What do you think? Isn't their work awesome! What's your favourite metal colour combination?

If you're looking for something creative to do next month there is still a few spots left in the Grid Texture Canvas and Metal Embossed Book workshops.

Get Creative!

Wendy

Altered photo ATC's

This months ATC theme was Altered photo. I found this a challenge but as you can see the others didn't. What fun creations this month.

Louise

Lucie

Olive

Peggy

Veronica

Virginia

Wendy

It did make me want to explore altering photo's some more though. Have you done some photo altering? Do you have some techniques for it that you can share with me?

Happy Creating

Wendy

Gardens and Butterfly's oh my!

As I said the Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens and Butterfly Conservatory were my favourite stop on our little Niagara Falls getaway. The Butterfly Conservatory is in the Botanical Gardens and holds more than 2000 tropical butterflies with more than 45 species. As soon as we stepped in it was like being transformed to another world. Although it was quite busy there was a peace and tranquility that was hard to leave again. The butterflies seemed undisturbed by all the attention and often landed right on people as well as the lush greenery all around. 

As you can guess I highly recommend the Botanical gardens and Butterfly Conservatory. I hope you enjoyed my little tour of it.

Wendy

A little break and trip to Niagara Falls

I took a few weeks off while my son and his girlfriend were visiting along with her parents from China. We had a full house and a great visit along with a quick trip to Niagara Falls. I hadn't seen the falls for a number of year and its was amazing as usual. I never get tired of the wonders of nature. While there we did the Maid of the Mist tour and hopped on the WEGO bus to see the Floral Clock, Botanical Gardens, Butterfly Conservatory, Whirlpool Aero Car and Queenston Heights park.

American Falls

Canadian Falls

Canadian Falls from Maid of the Mist

Whirlpool Aero Car

My favourite was the Botanical Gardens and Butterfly Conservatory. I got a little carried away taking picures there so I'll share them tomorrow.

Have you taken any breaks yet this summer? Where are your favourite places to bring visitors?

Wendy

A little studio update.

I don't think I will ever be finished setting up my studio. Well that probably goes for everything in my house and life. It's all about exploring new things or just changing it up a bit. With the studio I still have some things I want to set up a little better or organize some more. It's so hard to know how I want things until I use it for a while. As I moved in, their were some things that I knew how I wanted them displayed or put away but some things just came up as I needed them and they haven't found there best place yet. So it's a work in progress which just like me.

This week the Tin Man helped me with a few little projects. 

 We made this large bulletin board for my office corner. It's about 3.5 feet by 6 feet. I plan to use it as a business and inspirational board. It seems very plain right now so I'm thinking of putting some kind of boarder on with lace but I know once I start pinning thing up it will look better.  

And then he put this display shelf up for me. I like the idea of having a shelf so it's easy to change things up when the urge strikes me. I hate to commit to just a few holes in the wall for hanging thing and then having to find similar sized things when I want to make a change to it. 

So that's my small studio update for now. So are you a hang it and leave it kinda person or do you like to change things up regularly?

Happy Creating!

Wendy