WOYWW bending the rules

Where did the last week go? Well, here it went by at the normal speed of light until the end of the week, which vanished even faster in a flurry of craft related activities which you may find of some interest. I'll try and keep it short and sweet, but there just has to be more than my usual one or two photos, hehe.

Workshop with Paula Cheney (7 Gypsies)

Last Friday I went to a workshop at Alice in Paperland given by Paula Cheney. It's not often we have international artists of Paula's reknown so I felt very privileged to take part in her creative class. OK, I didn't finish it in class, so here's what is happening on my desk at the moment ...

The project was a "Natural History Folio" using lots of different techniques and ideas. Paula was a great teacher, friendly and helpful, with no stress (or measuring) involved.
It was a fabulous class and Alice provided lunch afterwards! How good was that?

But wait, there's more ... next comes a

Workshop with  Tim Holtz

Yes, that's right, two days later, another workshop, with none other than (now, please don't swoon, there was enough of that going on at the time), the man behind many of those fabulous Ranger products. Another great teacher, again, friendly and helpful, giving us more tips and techniques, of which I can probably only remember about one!  And here is the finished piece! Yes, that's right, finished, at the time, in the class!

And many thanks to my friend Sandra who hears about these things, while I live under a rock, or in a cave, or some place where this sort of information rarely reaches!
Here's where we had lunch before Tim's class ... don't forget, it's Winter here! :)

Now, as I have blatantly and deliberately bent all the WOYWW rules :) I'll save all the happy mail which continues to filter in, from the WOYWW 3rd Birthday and show you next week, because it deserves a post all it's own. OK? and I'm off to visit Julia now to see what everyone else is up to on their desks.