Inspired






I have been so incredibly inspired in the last few weeks. I attended The New Art Festival (formerly Art in the Park) in the Glebe and was amazed at all of the beautiful work and talented people that were there. I cannot believe that after all these years of having it that I hadn't made it down there. Boy was it worth the trip. There was an artist whose paintings I really liked, his name was Mark Jeremy Gleberzon. He was adorable and let me take a picture of one of his newer and different pieces. It is an old photograph blown up and mounted on metal. It was pretty cool in that it had a shimmery quality to it and was coated in resin so was also very glossy. I took the photograph with my phone so it is kind of hard to tell. You can see Mark is holding it up for me, haha. Needless to say, being there made me want to go home and paint, immediately. I did just that and I finished three little mixed media pieces, YEY ME!!! Pictures to follow shortly...

More Nursery Goodies



Happy Thursday all!! It is a pretty dark and dreary day here so I thought I might try and bring on the sunshine with my bright and cherry bird mobile I made for baby Amelia's room. It is over her change table. I just was not happy with what I was seeing out there so I figured why not make it myself!!!!

Ultrasound Layout



I started Amelia's first scrapbook. Here is the first layout.It is the ultrasound where we found out she was a girl. I thought it was appropriate to make it pink and girly but with a touch of black to tone it down a little and to balance out the black in the picture.

**UPDATE**  I have moved.  Please come check out this post on my new blog http://peaberrydesigns.com/amelia-ultrasound-layout/

Thank You Mini Album









My in-laws have been amazing help lately so I didn't want to give them the average thank you card so I whipped up a square mini album that folds into itself. I haven't given it to them yet, so shhhhh! I tried to keep it simple but I am happy with the way it turned out. Here is a link to a tutorial for making the album. http://www.pagesoftheheart.net/artman/publish/article_1036.shtml

Easter Week-end







I know I am a little behind with this post but with a newborn in the house things are a little hectic. We travelled to Peterborough for the Easter weekend to visit grandma and grandpa Baal. Boy am I grateful to have such amazing in-laws. Just wanted to post a couple pics of the girls with their Easter treats, which they found at the end of their treasure hunt put on by the Easter Bunny himself.





Check out our little crouton (she was upgraded from a crumb as she is now over 10 pounds!!!) with her bunny slippers. Adorable!

Back from the dead


Hello all, I am back. Things got a little busy with the pregnancy which ended in an early c-section but check out my prize. Isnt she the cutest thing ever?? She came in at 6 pounds 1 ounce and three weeks early. We got a bit of a scare with her but all is well now. Time to get the nursery finished. Posts of nursery goodies to follow soon!!

LORD AYLMER SCHOOL CHRISTMAS BAZAAR

Just letting you know about the bazaar I will be at this weekend at my daughter's school. There will be a bake sale, face painting, kid's craft table and there are rumours that the jolly old big guy shall be making an appearance. The deets are:

Saturday, December 4, 2010
9am to 2pm
Lord Aylmer Elementary School
116 Frank Robinson

Hope to see you there!!!!