my art group

Hello darl

Sorry to hear you're not well....hope you get rid of it really soon.

Thanks for telling me how you made the hanging - I luv the idea of glueing - very easy!! (except of course if you glue yourself!! LOL!

One of my friends makes hangings and quilts but she does it the complicated way - all stitched and stuffed etc - proper quilting which for me at the moment is    a) too hard and  b) too time consuming!

Sadly I have to tell you that I'm unable to come up to Sydney - I simply can't afford it.  Just between you and me, I lost my house (we now rent) due to this cancer.  I had lost main job in Dec 2010 (long story very unfair) and unknown to me I was getting sick, so the jobs I did manage to secure I ended up stuffing up because I couldn't concentrate.  When I finally did get a good job - the one I'm in now - found out on the Monday I got the job and then found out I had cancer on the Thursday the same week!  Talk about bad luck....oh well.

Anyway we're just trying to get on our feet financially and I thought I'd make it but alas it's just not realistic.  I'm really disappointed - particularly because of the speakers (most in the medical field that I used to work in)but I suppose there will be one next year.

So I'll be thinking of everyone when it's on.  I'm going to put in a post on Room 912 now to let the others know.

In the meantime darl, you take care and get well....there's plenty of time to get out there as a CLO - remember be kind to yourself! 

Bye for now

Luv H

Really easy- just cut out a base piece of any sort of fabric.Then cut out all sorts of fabric bits and place them on the base.When you have a design you like. glue on pieces and hand stitch after where you like.I used gold metallic thread. It's just a matter of whether you have some time Helen! I'm afraid I have a nasty virus at the moment which is hindering me in my CLO duties.I plan to see the local breast care nurse first. I'm waiting for my local paper to contact me this week - no hurry though as I would only cough and splutter which is not a good image! Take care,some nasties out there.

                   luv Tonya xx

Hope you are well and out there spreading the word about BCNA!

Fantastic work darl!  I absolutely love it...I have always wanted to do that - it's one of the few crafts I haven't had a go at.  Was it hard to do?  How could I attempt something like this?

Luv H

I love this work Tonya - please keep posting what you create - just lovely.

I love this work Tonya - please keep posting what you create - just lovely.

Hi Tonya,

Very creative :-) If you need a hand with uploading images let me know. You should be able to down size the image if it uploads too big.

I alway struggle when trying to do something creative - I feel it has to be perfect before I am happy with my art - but i love the way you look at it "it is the processof being creative and not the end product"

i am going to get creative over the weekend with some card making and i will show you what I have done :-)

i hope to see what other people have been upto :-)

I managed to upload a photo of my art work but it took up the whole space and I couldn't write anything.So will put down some words in "comments" I go to an art group on Tuesdays for people who have had cancer. Jody is our art therapist and each week we do something different ie.not always painting. We sit there being creative and chatting away - it's great. I've learnt that it is the"process"of being creative and not the end product which is the therapy bit. Anyway,this photo is of my fabric artwork. I cut up fabric,glued and stitched and this was the end result.Hope to get some more work up here when I figure out how to reduce the size of the photo.

                                    Tonya xx

I managed to upload a photo of my art work but it took up the whole space and I couldn't write anything.So will put down some words in "comments" I go to an art group on Tuesdays for people who have had cancer. Jody is our art therapist and each week we do something different ie.not always painting. We sit there being creative and chatting away - it's great. I've learnt that it is the"process"of being creative and not the end product which is the therapy bit. Anyway,this photo is of my fabric artwork. I cut up fabric,glued and stitched and this was the end result.Hope to get some more work up here when I figure out how to reduce the size of the photo.

                                    Tonya xx