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Friday 11 June 2021

Craft room Makeover - Part 2


My craft room makeover so far.




 It's taken me quite a while to get to this point as I suffer with a bad back. I try not to let it stop me πŸ’ͺ but it just means I have to do a bit at a time 😊

I'm loving my new power tools, that mitre saw is a thing of beauty 😁
Anyone else love power tools? No? Just me then πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

The next job is to start laying the new flooring , then its on to shelving and furniture.

Take care everyone
Hugs Sue xx


                           

Sunday 25 April 2021

Craft room makeover begins...


It's Sunday how will you be spending your day, having a relaxing read or tidying the garden perhaps.
I will be starting my craft room redecoration as the room is finally empty.



I've bought new flooring and I'm going to have a go at laying some click laminate. How hard can it be? Famous last words 😏 πŸ˜‚ you may hear me swearing if you live in a 10 mile radius πŸ€¬πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚.

Unfortunately until I can put shelves and furniture back in there the rest of the house looks like a storage unit. 


The landing, Mias bedroom, even the bathrooms full and Mia's due home from uni next weekend. Oops!!! Think she might be sleeping on the sofa for a couple of nights πŸ˜• sorry Mia 😚.


Hope you all have a restful Sunday doing something you enjoy 😘😘

Sending love and sunshine ☀️

Hugs Sue xx



Thursday 22 April 2021

Happy Earth Day 2021





Hello lovely friends and 
Happy Earth Day everyone 🌎
I always try to do my bit to help the environment. I love eco - friendly crafting too, ♻️ recycling, repurposing and reusing many things, inc empty bottles, old jars, coffee tubs, old clothes and fabric scraps to name a few.

If your interested in recycling and enjoy being creative, and would like to learn how to;

* make recycling fun, turning your trash to treasure, 
* make unique handcrafted projects suitable for your home and garden, 
* thrill your friends and family with handcrafted gifts, 
* create fantastic art,
and much, much more. 

 Then you'll want to know as soon as my new * Crafting Academy * opens.

 Sign up now to start receiving my awesome newsletters and be the first to hear about what's happening in the all new Crafting Academy, new tutorials, workshops, kits and classes. 

You'll also receive fab freebies, special discounts, and early bird offers, only available to my lovely Crafting Academy subscribers. 

Click the link below ⬇️


Sending love and sunshine
Hugs Sue xx 

Sunday 18 April 2021

What have you been up to? I've started a Craft room makeover


Happy Sunday everyone,
I hope you are having a good weekend so far. What did you get up to yesterday?
Where you busy Bee's 🐝 or lazy daisy's 🌼 Whatever you've been doing I hope you managed to enjoy a little sunshine 🌞

Its been a long time since we've had a proper catch up and there's been a lot happening with some big changes for me and my family.
Firstly I lost my dad, who I miss so very much, then my daughter went off to university and my son moved in with his girlfriend, leaving me and hubby home alone with just our two german shepherd dogs and our 21 year old puss, 🐱who sadly passed at the end of last year. We've been taking one of the dogs, back and to ,to the vets where she has had 4 lots of surgery to remove cancerous tumours around her eye. Fingers crossed nothing has grown back since December and she seems ok and happy again.
Then at the beginning of this year, the stresses and strains caught up with me and I became ill myself. After having 2 months off work, I made the decision to finish work altogether and concentrate on my crafting and see if I can turn it into a little business of my own.
With that in mind I knew I needed a proper space to create in, and set up to make video tutorials and online workshops.
I decided to tackle the enormous job of sorting out my spare bedroom. I used to use it as my craft room, then my hubby took it over as his computer room then it became a dump anything and everything in it room and shut the door on it room. 🀦‍♀️ So now it looks like the hidden room in Monica's apartment, all you Friends fans will know what I mean πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ So I thought it was time to turn it back into my craft room. 😁 But where to start? - Empty it - obviouslyπŸ™„ - Remove old carpetπŸ’ͺ - Redecorate πŸ‘©‍🎨 - Put down new flooring πŸ‘‡ - Repaint furniture, tables, shelves, cupboards🎨 - Build new Ikea furniture πŸ’ͺ - Refill it with all my craft stuff, laptop and set up tripod and video equipment 🎨 πŸ’»πŸ–Œ️πŸ–️✂️ - Get back to crafting and create some videos, in my new awesome craft room. 😁 It's not finished yet , but I promise I'll keep you up to date and show you some pictures as we go along, of my Mega Craft room Makeover πŸ€ Wish me luck, I'm going back in πŸ™‹‍♀️

Thanks for sticking with me through this very long post, and for all your support and lovely comments over the last year.
Wishing you Hugs and Sunshine
Sue xx


                         

Monday 11 May 2020

My new YouTube channel

Good morning crafty friends I hope you are all staying safe and keeping yourselves healthy and happy.

 If, like me, you've wanted to spend your time crafting, but your mojo seems to be social distancing itself from you. Maybe try  tidying and sorting out your craft space.
 I finally got round to a bit of sorting and organising of my crafty stash and not only did I find stuff I'd forgotten about, but sitting in an organised space with stuff at hand and watching lots of crafting videos and lives, that are on at the moment, I actually found my mojo and got lots of inspiration flowing again.
I'm trying out new techniques and products and even recycling, packaging and old bottles and jars.
I really enjoy sharing my love of crafts and as I can't hold any workshops in person at the moment, I've been filming a few tutorials and popping them on my new YouTube channel.
 I hope you will take a look.
YouTube - Crafting with Love and Fairy Dust
 I am trying to show lots of different techniques and using lots of different products, so that I might inspire you to have a go and get back to crafting.
Don't forget if you like my videos give them a thumbs up πŸ‘, Subscribe and click the bellπŸ”” so you'll be notified when I upload a new video.

Thanks for reading, stay safe and keep crafting,

Big Hugs
Suzanne xx


Monday 13 April 2020

Realms of fantasy 3- Quest for the Sea - KatySue Design samples



As I've not had time to catch up on my blog posts recently I'll leave some links to my Facebook page - Crafting with love and Fairy dust, so you can see what I've been up to.

Realms of Fantasy 3 - Quest for the Sea


Hugs Sue xx

Saturday 19 October 2019

Certified Powertex Tutor


I recently completed my Powertex training and am now a certified Powertex Tutor. 
Here's a few of my recent makes using Powertex.









I am currently looking for suitable venues, where I can hold workshops so people can have a go at making these themselves.
Watch this space or take a look at my Facebook page for more info.
Thanks for looking
Hugs Sue xx


                                 

Saturday 7 September 2019

African canvas using Powertex

I just received a secret art box from Powertex and couldn't wait to play. I used some wooden shapes, Powertex, Bisters, sprays and a little dark green and gold pigments. I had a vision in my head that I wanted to create, but didn't know how to achieve it, so I just slapped on Powertex and then sprayed with yellow, red, brown Bisters and a little egg yolk spray. I put a plastic cup upside down in the middle before spraying to leave a lighter area.


 I added some texture paste to the wood shapes and then sprayed with the Bisters once dry. Finally I dry brushed over with some dark green on the tree and gold on the whole canvas mainly under the light circle and on the giraffe. 



* Extra news - I have just booked myself on some extra training with Powertex at the end of this month, so when completed I will be a fully fledged certified Powertex Tutor. I'm so excited! 😁
Thanks for looking
Hugs Sue xx

Monday 2 September 2019

Steampunk Top Hat Tutorial

Good morning crafty friends, I have promised to do a quick tutorial on how I made this steampunk top hat
from this coffee tub

I have written most of the information on each photo, so don't miss any pic out, and then some in between, be warned it has lots of photos ☺️ so grab yourself a brew, get comfy and start scrolling and reading. 


Firstly I cut a circle larger than the base of the tub out of a sheet of thick card and glued it on the bottom. 


I used Das air drying clay, but any clay that can be used in a mould will do, e. g hearty paperclay, clay made from Powertex and stone art. You're going to coat it in Powertex so it will become quite durable. 








Once dry I brushed over the whole piece with Powertex pigments mixed with their varnish


To decorate I used more of KatySue design moulds, the distressed cogs and the rusty pipes mainly, these are from their new Industrial Steampunk range along with the metal sheet mould used to cover the hat. 
I moulded them and once dry I painted them to look rusty and old and added some Powertex pigments and guiding wax, then stuck them on, all round and on the lid too. 









I made the goggles by covering 2 circles I cut from a kitchen roll and covered them with clay moulded from the same metal sheet mould, I added acetate behind each cog then stuck on to kitchen roll circles. The middle piece and side straps are actually made with a hinge mould also by KatySue Designs. I then added a little clay key and a flourish on each lens. 



So there you have it a Steampunk Top Hat that not only looks good but is also useful for storage. Even better made from rubbish that we would normally throw away. 
Just call me a Womble ;)

Even though this is a tutorial I'd still like to enter it into some challenges, hope thats ok.




Thanks for looking, I'd love to hear what you think, or if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a comment. 
Big hugs Sue xx


Friday 22 February 2019

Slightly rusty but still pretty

Here's another of my samples - 
A journal cover.
I couldn't make up my mind when I made this whether to keep it pretty with a bit of  sparkle or to go rusty grunge. So I did a bit of both 😁
I used the new rose embosser from Katy Sue Designs and some Starlight paint and some Rusty patina paint both from Imagination crafts.

Challenges:
Creative artiste mixed media challenge
Rhedds creative spirit
Altered eclectics

Thanks for looking 
Hugs Sue xx

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