May Your Christmas be Blessed.....

For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6

artwork by Georgia Hamilton aged 9

it's been a busy weekend....

It's been a little while since I made an ATC

and as it is Georgia's and my special weekend

I thought I'd make her one for her collection.

It's a dark & overcast this afternoon so it's hard to capture

the colour and the texture,

but it has lots of layers of Stitching, Ink, paint & rub-on's

and is a little more pink and pearly than it appears in this photo and she loves it :)

Of course a Girly weekend wouldn't be complete without a trip to the markets,

now would it!

We both fell in love with these butterfly brooches we found at our local market

and we had to have a 'mummy & me' pair :)

I've been following the very talented Katia Donohoe for a little while now through her blog Plushka's craft blog she makes the most gorgeous items, I was really quite chuffed to find that she had been featured in Septembers issue of Notebook Magazine. Along with her feature there was instructions for making one of her sweet little 'owl babies' when I showed this to Georgia she immediately wanted it on the list for our girly weekend.

Georgia only needed a little help with stitching some of the smaller pieces but apart from that she did everything else and is already hooked on making softies!

Thank you so much Katia it was fun to watch Georgia create with so much excitement as her little owl baby came together :)

If you'd like to be inspired by Katia

Here is her Blog Plushka's craft blog

Her madeit store Plushka

and the Baby Owl Tutorial & template pdf

Thanks for visiting and sharing our Girly weekend!
♥ Gillian & Georgia :)

The start of our girly weekend....

Well Georgia and my girly weekend is underway :)

here is a couple of our projects from last night.

I started this crochet cushion cover

which will be my night time project for a couple of weeks I think.

And Georgia Started and Completed this Gorgeous little monster out of this issue of Australian Homesewn, it's been tucked away in our magazine rack since last year and Georgia pulled it out and put this on our 'list of things to do' for this weekend.I think she did a great job :)

today we have been baking, shopping, treating ourselves to some yummy food and we are going to make another softie this afternoon :)

Hope you are enjoying yourself this weekend,

I know we are!

Gillian & Georgia ♥

My little artist and her adventures with Sculpey...

Yesterday Georgia and I had such fun playing with sculpey :)

She wanted me to share with you what she made.
It's a little 'Sun Art Doll'
called 'Sunny' :)
This is the new mould I bought this week, and this lovely large box of sculpey...
Georgia and I will be having a lovely time playing with it over the next couple of weeks.
It's such a lovely craft for both children & adults.
I've so many plans for this face mould, even as I'm sitting here now typing away I'm thinking up more ideas.... & I'm keen to use some of my rubber stamps with the sculpey also...

Look what She made.....

Isn't she AMAZING!!!!!
I'm so Proud of my little Collage Artist, I just had to share...
Recently Georgia and I made a new ART FRIEND
and like Georgia she Just Loves Mermaids
And she put a Beautiful little Pack of Mermaidian Collage Pieces together for My little miss Georgia, Well she couldn't wait to Create....

so Over the weekend in a couple of sittings she came up with the design and I helped a little with some of the gluing, but I can proudly say this is Her ARTWORK....

Our new Art Friend is Heidi

Please go and visit her and say hi :)

She makes Beautiful Art in many forms...

Thankyou Heidi...

Not just for your lovely gift, but for sharing you passion of Art and Mermaids with Georgia

and Helping us have a most enjoyable time Creating together :)