The Tender Trap....

Funny the things you remember...I was attempting, yet again, to make a space in my workroom and into my head popped the opening sequence of the old (1955) Frank Sinatra film  "The Tender Trap".  It opens in a fancy appartment the morning after what has obviously been one heck of a party.  Sinatra surveys the devastation and then gingerly picks up a tie between finger and thumb, he carefully makes his way through the debris and opens a closet and carefully deposits the tie .....on the floor.  Fast forward to my workroom, I enter pick something up, look at it and think I wonder what I can do with this? (Bin it Pat, Bin it!!) This was a piece of paper from a Fibre in Form workshop about a year ago...

I thought it would make a couple of ATC's

and then there were just two little fragments left, and look

a little South Sea island

and the moon through a snowy window

Well that's accounted for one piece of paper...........

This is my reward.

The nation votes.......

No, not THAT election (can any human being attain that level of expectation, we can only hope!) ....no I am talking about Strictly Come Dancing....I am nailing my colours to the mast here. I love Austin and Erin but I adore Ian and Jodie, there is something about the chemistry between them which makes them great to watch though I think the BBC Wardrobe should remember that they are dressing a model, they have not been kind.(once a wardrobe mistress always a wardrobe mistress...for Pam) Unfortunately the judges didn't like either of my couples tonight so fingers crossed. I think, when the whole series is over (OH NOOOOOOO!), I will always remember John stomping across the floor dragging Kristina behind him. (I'm giggling now!)

Now to weightier matters.... Fibre-in Form experiments. This is the before and after result of acrylic paint.


Reminds me of "Little dabs of powder, little dabs of paint...makes a litle lady look like what she ain't." Sort of sums up what we do now I come to think of it!! Transform things, I mean.

This is on a wallpaper and scrim sample

These two are using ink on gesso some paper stuff and on couched threads and gesso.


Too much fun, just not enough free hours in the day, how did I ever have the time to go out to work????????.........

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