Kids Craft Workshops

Since we have moved to Perth and been homeschooling I have seen the need to help other homeschooling mums in teaching craft to their children.  Sometimes it’s hard to meet all of the learning area requirements, so I have decided to start a little business teaching craft activities to homeschoolers.

You can visit my website and check out what I’m teaching.  I’m still uploading classes but have a few ideas up of my past classes.

http://kidscraftworkshops.blogspot.com

Here is a class I made today.  It is not my own idea but borrowed from a friend :)  It was heaps of fun to make.  Now I just need to work on a boy version.

A Scrap Camp

I was blessed with a weekend away with my new friend Nicky to her Kazzazz Scrap Camp in Baldivis.  I was able to get a few layouts completed as well as some unfinished projects finished at last.  All day Saturday I made Twocan Stitch orders and made some pocket money :) I had a very tiring but awesome weekend with a great group of ladies.

   

Button Art

I was asked to help out with a friends daughters birthday party craft activity. She had the idea of button art and I came up with an example for the girls. It was actually heaps of fun creating art from buttons! I put my finished piece on Twocan Stitch and it sold plus I have 2 more orders. A butterfly and an S monogram. I'll be doing more of these I think :)
Edited to add the butterfly

Straps!

In the past couple of weeks I have made camera straps and today I made myself a guitar strap. I'm loving sewing! Not sure when I'll get back to scrapbooking again but I'm sure I will here and there.

Teen Birthday Card

I was asked to make a large birthday can for a friends 16th birthday party for the guests to write in. Having girls, I didn't have any teen boy papers or embellishments in my stash so I went shopping. We have 4 shops in our little town that sell scrapbooking supplies but not one of them had anything for teen boys! Dyllan loves his music so I knew I wanted to feature that. For my last resort I headed to our music shop to find supplies. He gave me a sheet of music and some picks.
I went home and downloaded a drawing of an electric guitar and then did my best at paper piecing the guitar together out of scrap paper. I'm happy with how it turned out.

A Dad and his Daughters

I love this photo so much of Murray and his girls.  We had ridden our motorbikes out to some caves and I took this of them in the cave on my iPhone.  I love it!

Recording Tayla’s Arm Dramas

A double page (simple) scrapbooking layout to remember the details of Tayla’s broken arm saga.

 

Been a while!!

As you can tell by how active this blog is, I haven't been doing any creating lately. I have put Twocan Stitch on hold for the time being to have a break and haven't done any other form of craft. I do desire to learn to crochet though as I want to make Amigurumi creatures :)
I'm doing distance Ed with Bree at the moment so my free time when I'm not working is filled with schooling.
Everything for a season right? :)

My new camera

Canon 600D with 18-200mm lens.









Arriving in 2-3 weeks as Harvey Norman was out of stock.

October 2011 Wave Rock Retreat layouts

Well I have finally gotten around to uploading my layouts from the retreat 2 weeks ago! (Thanks to a reminder from Lissa)

I was able to get 5 singles and 3 doubles finished as well as helping Karen in the shop.

It was such a great weekend once again with all new tutors!

These two layouts are from Mistra Hoolahan’s classes.  I LOVED getting dirty and learning some simple but very effective techniques.

 

These next 3 layouts were from our trip to the snow in Melbourne in July.  I have done a double layout for each of the girls albums and will do another double for our family album.

 

Here is Tayla with her ‘Think it over’ baby she brought home from school for Child Care..

And Bree’s Basketball team.  A very quick and simple layout…

Tayla and Ashlee mud skiing with Bindy at the Schroders in Victoria…

So that's it :)

I did really well in selling my hair accessories at the retreat with a total of 48 sold :)  I’ve just put some new Resin accessories on the blog today if your interested: www.twocanstitch.blogspot.com

I’m off to Lissa’s tomorrow and hope to get some more scrapping done :)

Next week I am doing ‘A Week in the Life’ by Ali Edwards (Google it to find out more).  I will be taking my camera with me where ever I go and taking photos of everything I do (minus the private things) and then at the end of the week I will scrapbook an album about my week.  I plan to upload my photos here each day so you can follow along if you like!

See you soon.

Gayle