In Your Eyes

Well some people know I'm fond of love poetry and have written some myself many, many years ago. But here is one I found from someone that too, must have that sensitive poet's heart, but an unlikely and surprising candidate.

In your Eyes

In your eyes lies ardor, refusal and ease
In your eyes I sensed reproach
I saw in them the shaft of death sinking Into my conscience as I lost my way
Blame me not for past events
But reward with forgiveness my misdeeds instead
In you I believed and in destiny's judgement each thing in this world has a reason for being
Oh my beloved, between us both intimacy and reserve
In our love we exchanged suffering
Who can heal when there is no doctor, no cure
Nor one who knows the healing power of plants?
How I tried and tried to meet you I tried to approach you
The echo of me came not from your direction
Who can respond to this voice when my presence is an absence?
Oh angel dearest, the eyelid fled sees sleeplessness in my eyes and stays well away.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Judge Gently

Pray don't find fault with the man who limps or stumbles along the road,
Unless you have worn the shoes he wears, or struggled beneath his load.

There may be tacks in his shoes that hurt, though hidden away from view,
Or the burden he bears, placed on your back, might cause you to stumble too.

Don't sneer at the man who's down today, unless you have felt the blow
That caused his fall or felt the shame that only the fallen know.

You may be strong; but still the blows that were his, if dealt to you
In the selfsame way, at the selfsame time, might cause you to stagger too.

Don't be too harsh with the man who sins, or pelt him with word or stone,
Unless you are sure, yea doubly sure, that you have no sins of your own;

For you know, perhaps if the tempter's voice should whisper as softly to you
As it did to him when he went astray, it might cause you to falter, too.

– Author Unknown.

I really love this poem.

Ephemera

These are photos that I took in the summer holidays (2008). Just a little slow in uploading them. So I know I can't do anything with them, as I don't own the ephemera, but they were taken up north in the Bay of Islands in one of the museums there.

I just loved the vintage postcards. So enjoy.

Glimpses of Hope

Hope for a peaceful future,
Hope for a better outcome,
Hope for a wrong to be righted.

These are glimpses of hope,
For everyone to share and know,
And of course to pass on.

Vintage Romance Story in Pictures

This is one of Tatjana's quirky Victoriana's star books she made. Remember when making these books we are confined to the resources and materials we have as supplies, so often we have to make up the stories with what we have, and then it can get really quirky.

The opening is entitled "Together Forever"

The next page is scattered with red love hearts, and is showing the story unfolding about the couple's correspondence with one another.

A tiny envelope of ephemera with "The Sweet calm days in golden haze, melt down the amber sky."

This page shows the lady and where she stores her love letters.

Next page is about sweet nothings: sugar pie, honey bunch and sweetheart. Alas, she is now winning him through food.

Here we have an elephant doing a balancing act on a globe. Love equals balance.

And for some kinectic stuff, yes part of the globe slides down revealing 'together forever'. Fly me to the moon.

And here we have a few stolen moments.

Then she unravels her fan and out explodes another letter with lyrics to a song "once in a love", with the violin ready to be played below. Rhapsody in love.

... further on She said .."isn't it romantic and they said it wouldn't last." (the gossips). And the 'tying the knot' – the cord with a heart on it .... He said ....

Embrace destiny my soul mate.


The end. A fine romance by Passion Seekers Anonymous.

The Cross

"We live by faith and not by sight"



I haven't blogged for ages, it is more to do with the assignments I have been working on (non-art projects) and having to cope with a massive flooding in my office (the bursting of an air con pipe) rather than having no material to upload. Anyway, life is almost back to normal.

This cross I made awhile ago and I was inspired by the work of Michal Negrin one of my favourite artists (she is listed under my favourite artists). I have used a collection of Victoriana stickers that have been scuffed (distressed) and then applied on to some beautiful paper by Walter Knabe (another favourite artist). On top of this I have added Dimensional Magic, a product that looks like ready made resin. It coats it beautifully with lots of lustre and shine.

This is the reverse side:

Exploding Box

Tracy one of my talented tutors at Scrapbookers' Delight has kept me quite amused with her exploding box. Classes are being run at this at Scrapbookers' Delight, 7 Triton Drive, Albany, Auckland. Check www.scrapbookersdelight.blogspot.com.

Altered iMac with Decopatch

Well, here it is the ultimate altered art alchemist work, my own little iMac laptop has had a severe makeover!

I didn't like the white colour, it always looked dirty and I got sick of cleaning it, so when I had seen what you could do with Decopatch tissues, decopodge and varnish on things like mobile phones, I decided I would try it on my Mac.

I'm probably the first brave person in the world to venture out in decorating their computer this way – that is using podge. I must admit I was a bit worried that the glue may slip into the motherboard, but I carefully applied every piece of ripped tissue. And girls, it is still going fine. At least it looks like it belongs to an artist now, check it out:

Stampington Stamps

I feel like I haven't posted for awhile, because we have been so busy with our store's Stampington Promo Product Launch, over here at Scrapbookers' Delight.

Stampington is the company who produce many magazines such as Altered Couture, Bella Amoire, Legacy, and my favourite Somerset Studio. They also have some jewellery, which I am sporting here on my top (I'm going to try my hand at this, that is soldering work shortly, stay tuned).

Check out some of their stamps I have just bought to add to my collection:

Collage Canvas Tuition

We've been busy beavers over at Altered Art Alchemist. Here are three girls who wanted to try their hand at collage canvas.

Pictured far right Kathryn, Sarah and their cousin. Each girl chose their own decoupage paper, scrapbook papers to create their own masterpiece. They did extremely well, and I loved their final pieces. Well done girls! Wonderful.





Then we've got Kaye and Leanne, two others doing our Friday evening class. Here we have 'altered' the story of Romeo and Juliet – they do get married after all – you can see the wedding bells above their heads.

Victorian All-in-One PC

For those who ever wondered what steampunk is, well take a look at this:



This is made by Jake von Slatt, and in his words: "The inexorable march of technology has rendered my 4:3 aspect ratio 19" LCD mod and my pump-less water cooled PC obsolete, so when I saw a 24" wide screen monitor on sale for $299.00 I grabbed it with the intent of making a Victorian All-in-One PC.

If you want to see and read more, just scroll down to my favourite links section and click on Steampunk.

Decopatch

Aren't these just beautiful tissue papers.



We are having many new products coming into our stores. Be sure to be charmed with these beautiful decoupage tissues from Decopatch. These tissues are made in France and are beautiful. There I've said it THREE times now!





Some of the items produced:

Origami Box - Prima Marketing

We recently had a Prima Marketing promotion in our store. Us girls (myself, Angie and Tracy) each had a project to complete and teach for the evening. Mine was an origami box. To see more details of this promo visit our blog: www.scrapbookersdelight.blogspot.com

Closer detail of the box:



Some of the product being used, pearl wire sprays:



More variations on the theme using papers from Basic Grey and Daisy D:



Other products used on the above boxes also included door knobs by 7 Gypsies, diamantes from K & Co, and lots of ribbon and trim. Here we are having some fun.

Anagram Bookshop Prague

I just had to show these beautiful paper sculptures from this bookshop. I don't know who the artist is, but the work can be found at this website here

Glimmer Mist Demonstration

And of course, what they look like when the Glimmer Mist is applied:



Here's me, demonstrating the product from Tattered Angels: Glimmer Mist. It's a great product all sparkly and it glistens under the lights. This demonstration was at our store's Fancy Pants Promo which you can view on our blog at scrapbookersdelight.blogspot.com



This time using the brayer for an unusual effect:





Or just spraying direct and then using the heat gun:



You can find more about this product either by visiting our stores, or www.mytatteredangels.com.