Egypt journal - Nefertiti pages

Hi All - As promised - here is the next installment of my Egypt Journal ...the first "spread" of pages. The first pic shows the "paint base"... yummy gold and copper Lumiere paints- then the second pic shows the "plan of attack" - arranging the images etc then the third shows them stuck into place and then the fourth - the addition of the English lettering and the Egyptian Hieroglyphs. The Pictures of Nefertiti - are of course the various stages of my Needle lace Nefertiti which I did a few years ago .... so my journal has become a bit of a crafty record too :-)
Thanks to those of you who take the time to leave a comment - if you haven't done so before please do - I would love to come visit your blog too :-)

Egyptian Art Journal - more cover pics

Hi All - as promised - here are the last 2 pics of the Egyptian Journal front cover first pic - almost finished and second one shows it complete with "Egypt" written in Egyptian Hieroglyphics - throughout the journal there are the words written in English and then in Hieroglyphs. Also now on the cover is an added thread wrapped pipecleaner - if your wondering what the foily stuff is on the left - it is gold celophane wrapping paper that has been "hit" with a heat gun then painted with "Lumiere" paints - you know how much I luv them LOL!
The Nefertiti picture is a a photograph of my Needle Lace Nefertiti neck purse which I made a couple of years ago - she also stars on the 1st double page spread - which I will be putting on the next post - stay tuned :-) Thank you to those of you who take the time to leave a comment - I luv reading them :-)

Egyptian Art Journal

Hi All - Back in November last year one of the ladies at the ATASDA (Australian Textile Art and Surface Design Association) WA Group that I go to brought in 7 plain white "pop up" books - 4 small and 3 large - she had bought 8 books altogether and decorated one of the larger ones and decided to give the others away to anyone who wanted to "do something" with them - on the premise that they would bring the completed book back to the meeting in this February just gone...I picked up one of the smaller ones ... and as I am fascinated by all things Egyptian - decided that that would be my theme .... so here is a pic of the "naked" book as I got it then the first coat of coloured acrylic paints and finally with the gold "Lumiere" paint on it....stay tuned for more pics of the cover and the 6 double page spreads that are inside of it ..... :-)

Happy First day of Autumn

Yay! First day of Autumn - though someone forgot to tell Mother Nature - record breaking temperatures here -and I am sooo over the humidity - :-( Roll on Sunday when it's dropping to 29 degrees :-)
I have been busy in the studio the last 3 days - too hot to be painting bobbins so I have been making a 3D Vessel - I have been taking pics as it progressed so stay tuned - I just have to make some Couronnes at lace tomorrow and it will be finished :-)

One WOrld One Heart Winners

Hi Everybody For those of you who left a comment and were in the running for my Giveaway -thank you so much - so here are the lucky winners:

1. Deci
2. Faerie Moon Creations
3. Peggy Aplseeds
4.Cindy Adkins
5. Rough Seas Designs

CONGRATULATIONS :-)

I have emailed you and look forward to your replies

One World One Heart

This Giveaway is now closed!
Hi - Welcome to my Blog. My name is Britt Fairchild and I am a Lacemaker and Lace Teacher, Embroiderer and Textile Artist and I hand paint Lace Bobbins.
I love travelling and am lucky to be able to do this with my Lace career both within Australia and also overseas. I have made many friends over the years including lots through my blog. I am looking forward to meeting more of you out there in "Blogland".

One World One Heart is a great way to get to know other bloggers and to visit like minded people all over the world.
This is a worldwide event to bring bloggers together, you can read all about it at One World, One Heart here - Thank you to Lisa.

The purpose is to encourage people, bloggers and non-bloggers alike to visit other blogs and make connections. Anyone with the One World One Heart logo on their blog is taking part. If you'd like more information click on the One World One heart in this entry or on the sidebar.

To possibly win my giveaway, you must leave a comment ON THIS POST ONLY, by February 16th, and I will announce the winner on February 17th. You need to be a blogger yourself, in order to qualify and you must leave an email address if I can't link back to you through your blog so you can be contacted if you should win.

When you click on the One World One Heart logo you will be taken to the site that will explain everything, and show you a list of every participating blogger. Visit all the blogs! Leave comments! Make new friends! Win prizes! Check back on the site, as new blogs will be listed as their authors sign up.

WHAT AM I OFFERING?
As this is the 5th year of One World One Heart - I am offering FIVE prizes this year - Each prize will consist of a Handmade Textile Bookmark (Made out of dispersal dyed fabric- with shiva/Markel stick embellishment, a butterfly and 3 Couronne (Needle lace technique) dangly rings) and a small mixed bag of textured threads and fabric scraps. See the pics above - you can click on them to see more detail.

So on February 17th I will be drawing 5 names and yours could be one! Thanks for stopping by - I hope you come visit again soon and Good Luck!

Crazy Patch Belts

Here are pics of my Crazy Patch belts - the top one was made a few years ago now - multi-coloured with hand embroidery and of course hand made lace (mostly mine but a couple of pieces given to me by friends are included).... the bottom one is the one I made early last year in a Navy Blue, Cream and Rust theme to wear in Japan at the OIDFA Lace congress - all clothes in my suitcase were in that colourway! which meant it was all mix and match! hehe!
I have just started a slightly different shaped one - hopefully it will be finished by April for my New Zealand Teaching trip - a colour scheme this time of Red, White and Black and I will also be taking this colour scheme to UK in July and to Sydney/Tasmania in Sept/Oct :-) I will get plenty of use out of the new belt haha!

Scrappy Flower brooch

Hi All - Here is the pic of the "Scrappy Flower" brooch which I made a couple of months ago. (I am posting the pic as promised)
It's made using some left over material from when I made my Wedding Dress. (A good few years ago now!! LOL)
I am going to be participating in the One World One Heart again this year ... it starts tonight - in one of the US time zones - so because we are so many hours ahead here in Western Australia I won't be posting my info in until tomorrow evening our time .... all very confusing hehe! I am really looking forward to it - do come see what it's all about :-)

Happy Australia Day

Happy Australia Day everyone - I have been really busy the last few weeks - so unfortunately my blog has been a bit neglected there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day! LOL! - the sun keeps setting and I haven't done half of what I wanted!
Talking of setting suns as I haven't yet got around to loading pics from my camera to the computer here is a pic I took of the sunset over the Indian Ocean at a local beach a couple of years ago - there had been a bush fire earlier in the day and the smoke had blown out over the sea and this was the result. Off to sip glasses of bubbly with jellied Hibiscus flowers in them later this afternoon - dirty job but someone's gotta do it haha! (If you don't know what I am talking about just go to Google Images and type in "Champagne and Jellied Hibiscus flowers") mmm mmm they are yum!

Happy New Year and Scrappy Flowers!

Happy New year everyone! :-)
I am a bit behind with loading pics onto the computer so here are pics of my scrappy flower brooches which I made last year for my travels. I saw them on my friend Pat's blog (entry dated April 11 2010) and she got it from Ati, who got it from Anni, who saw the tutorial on Roben-Marie's blog here ... I loved it so much - I made 3 and in September I made a white one from scraps of my Wedding Dress material though with this one I put a fancy button in the centre - I thought I had a pic of it but can't seem to find it on this computer so I will take some tomorrow :-)
I have been busy in the studio the last couple of days - spangling my bobbins that I have been accumulating over the last 3 years - just over 180 of them!!! so it's a big job! but fun - I luv playing and sorting the beads LOL!

Needle Lace Christmas Trees

Hi All - Here are a couple of pics of the 4 Needle Lace Christmas Tree cards/decorations which I made to swap - I am in an online Lace Group here in Australia and I received 4 cards from 4 other friends - I haven't taken photo's of them yet but will do over next few days as the camera will be out for Xmas shots! - My decorations are made in "free" needle lace (with beads for baubles) onto hand dyed fabric then mounted onto "bangle" bracelets and a sequin star added to the top and another sequin/bead on the "pot". ALSO I am once again participating in the One World One Heart at the end of January - where you can visit Crafty People's blogs and pop your name down to be in with a chance to win various fabulous goodies made by the blog artist whose page you visit ... This will be the 5th and Final one - I didn't know about it the first 2 years but have participated early last year in the 3rd one and in the 4th one earlier this year - I won 1 prize last year and was the lucky recipient of 4 things this year which I treasure - so do pop back on January 30th to see what I have on offer (as it's teh 5th and final one I have 5 goodies all ready for it!!!) and if you want more info about the OWOH click on the big One World One Heart logo on the left of this blog screen - under my Stitchety Grub header! It's a lot of fun! PS..... I have just spent 5 mins trying to get the first 15 words of this entry to join up with the rest of the copy - but no Blogger won't let me LOL!

Finished Sea Urchin Vessel

Here are the final pics of the Sea Urchin Vessel - the first photo shows the six panels completed and ready for putting together - the next photo shows the lid and the bottom of the finished vessel - then a couple of shots from different sides of the finished vessel with it's lid in place :-) I am very pleased with it and as it's been made in the colour scheme of our lain living area it is displayed on my side board (Buffet).

More Sea Urchin Vessel

Hi All - here are the next 3 pics of the Sea Urchin Vessel - the little blue " ball's" are made by rolling up a tiny amount of coloured wool top and popping it into a small square of, in this case, dark blue chiffon then stitched into place... (I also used a tiny painted polystyrene bead in the chiffon) you can see one of the wool ones in the first picture, right panel above the orange velvet flower, there are also a couple of tatted gold rings incorporated and of course various fluffy textured knitting wools... more next time...

Sea Urchin Vessel

Here are the first 3 pics of the Sea Urchin Vessel as promised - I did 3 panels out of the first piece of material alternating with 3 panels out of the second material... these were from some of the pieces of material which I dyed last year on the Machine Embroidery course... the last photo shows the first 2 panels with their "embellished" bits on! ready for the construction stage. More to follow :-)

Coloured Bobbin Lace

Hi All - I have a very busy first couple of weeks of November - madly preparing for my stall at the WA Branch of the Australian Lace Guild "Cattern's Day Fair" in 2 weeks time .... and also son's 18th Birthday which was all a great success! phew! I do have some new crafty pics but haven't had time to load them onto the computer so here are a couple of pics from last year's UK trip - I went to an "Old Mill" gallery up in Cumbria and on the stairway between levels I discovered this display of traditional and non traditional bobbin lace - fabulous display - a couple of pics here show some of it and also the detail plaque and the last pic is the river outside the mill. Love the colours in the lace :-)

Birthdays all over the place!

Three weeks ago yesterday my Baby Gal was 21 - here she is sitting in my comfy chair - along with my resident Meerkats! LOL! Meerkat group on the left = big meerkat "Sid" -Bought in Fremantle in August 2008 and Monty on his left (bought in Cumbria, UK August 2009) - in front is Mork then piglet (not a meerkat obviously! haha) and Mindy (Mork and Mindy joined the family in June this year).
On the right of the pic is Maurice (bought at a local shopping center in a florists! last year, Flower (from Perth Zoo shop in January 2009) and Alex bought in Swanage, UK last September) My only Meerkat that doesn't sit in my chair is Mikey the Micro Meerkat as he would get lost down the sides all the time haha!
Baby Gal is wearing her glittery 21 sash which I made for her to go "clubbing" in!...The other pic shows Baby Boy and his Girlfriend at the 21st Birthday dinner - and this Wednesday it will be his 18th Birthday! so tomorrow I have to make an 18th "head/arm band" for him to go clubbing with - awww 18 - an adult haha! LOL!

Needle Lace Dragonfly bra bag

Hi All - as I had promised some lace making friends - here is the photo of my latest "Bra bag" - the Needle lace dragonfly was made during the recent Australian Lace Guild AGM week - the actual dragonfly was designed by tutor Margaret Stephens.... his wings are 3d .... I made him in 3 days and he was always intended to go on the bag but looked a bit lost - so on the 4th and final day of the workshop I designed a blossom branch for him to sit on - the flowers are small couronnes.... (made on a pad not a couronne stick) all mounted onto a pre-prepared black "bra" bag :-) This is my 3rd bra bag and just in case you missed the other 2 - here are pics of the 1st - pink one and the 2nd one - Egyptian Scarab - which was also made during a Needle lace "Margaret Stephen's" workshop at the AGM week - 2 years ago - I adapted Margaret's design to fit in an oval so that it could be the scarab beetle's back. The lace edging is also hand made using a metallic thread which wasn't easy to use! but looked great - so I was determined it was going to do what I wanted it to - you have to be assertive with a many of the metallic threads !!!! hehe!

Needle lace Butterfly

Hi All - as promised here are 3 pics of the butterfly which I made the week after the AGM - during the actual AGM workshop week (with Tutor Margaret Stephens) I did the Dragonfly (I will pop a pic of that on here in the next entry) All the other 9 students were making gorgeous butterflies and so I was compelled to make one when I returned home - so here it is ... the first photo shows the "Base" - wings and the second one with the 2nd 3D wings attached and the final photo shows the complete necklace - the Beaded "chain" attached and I made some earrings to match (I don't have hooks on them in the photo as I attach all my earrings to "Euro ball" hooks made of real silver or real gold as I am not good with the cheap varieties of hooks) it means I can just thread on whichever earrings I want - great for travelling :-)

Funky Red Shoes

Hi All - at last I have been able to load on my photo's from my recent escapades - alas though today I have run out of time to compress them ready to go on here ...However I have popped these two pics on here which are of the new Red shoes I bought today - funky aren't they ha ha? Do stay tuned as there will be all sorts of exciting pics to come ....