Monday, November 12, 2007

CQRR06 - Last Block..


This is the last block for what has been a very long saga in CQRRO6 over on a craft forum... My contribution is a the the top of the block - mostly beaded with the word 'friends' in backstitch. Tomorrow the block leaves for the last leg of its journey - home to NSW. Roz I hope you like it...

Sunday, November 11, 2007

AngelFace...


Look familiar??? Whilst this isn't quite stitching it is related in a lateral kind of way. This I started about... umm - yep so long ago I can't even remember... I traced her from the cross stitch design and obviously started to paint her - somewhere in the scheme of things to happen - it hasn't!!!! Since I have been stitching her my thoughts have wandered back to the painting which is on the lid of a heart shaped box - after a bit of a hunt I found her way up in a cupboard... Was my original idea to have both the stitched version and the box??? I don't think that was the intention - it was more that I liked the image - the angel with the peace dove. Angels, peace doves and hearts would be up there as far as favorite motifs. My reasons are varied to why - perhaps I am just a unashamedly romantic idealist at heart...
I haven't picked up a paint brush in ages but looking through a book on decorative painting at work has whetted my appetite to perhaps giving it another go...