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NEWS April 2019

Yep I've been away a long time! I've been caught up in face to face art groups here in Perth Australia and in entering several exhibitions. I've also been blogging on the design team for Gelli Arts®

I gave up Swapbot a while back as not only did I not have time but I was sick of getting junk through the mail instead of quality swaps like I was sending out! Might give it another go.

CUSTOMS

Please remember when sending to Australia that we have very strict customs. If your swap contains any food, plant, animal, shell, leaf, twig, pebble etc it will get destroyed before it reaches me. :-(

POST TAKES AGES TO/FROM AUSTRALIA

Sometimes Australia post is good, sometimes it's not. My quickest international turn around was 3 days. The longest 8 weeks! The average is around 2 weeks. Please consider this and contact me if your swap has not arrived.

RATINGS

If your swap meets the swap requirements I will rate 5. Sending me extras (whilst very nice), will not get you a 5 if the actual swap does not meet criteria.

If you send a swap that looks like it was made by a 2 year old and then run over with a tractor I will rate a 3. Please don't send me rubbish.

I give hearts for extra effort on the swap itself. Sending extras (still very nice), doesn't automatically get you a heart. It's the quality of the actual swap that counts.

If you flake I will rate a 1.

Home Educator, artist, teacher and Gelli Arts® design team member.

Mixed media, mono printing, journals, textile art, book art, fabric postcards, collage, lino cuts

Other than the obvious arts and crafts I'm also interested in education, science, geology, nature, camping and bush-walking.

I'm happy for you to send me anything that fits the swap description. Any colour, any design as long as it is something that you also like and would be happy to receive.

Likes:

• hand made art works
• textiles
• fabric postcards
• mixed media journal pages
• home-made flag
• tags
• altered books
• mixed media books
• texture
• bright colours with black and white (particularly lime and bright pink)
• lino cuts, handmade stamps and prints
• paintings
• pretty postage stamps
• ribbons, lace, unusual yarn, chains
• fabric scraps
• charms
• paper and fabric flowers
• old sheet music
• interesting textured and coloured or patterned paper
• buttons
• stencils
• lino stamps
• tags
• ephemera
• metals bits and pieces

Dislikes:

Items that took you about 5 minutes to make and look like it! Christmas and overly religious items (pretty angels ok).

Absolute favourite images:

• Seed pods
• Sea urchins

Other favourite images:

• Leaves and flowers (especially sunflowers, big daisies poppies, daffodils and tulips)
• Butterflies, beetles and insects
• Birds
• Starfish
• Shells
• Fish
• Jelly fish and octopus
• Crabs and lobsters
• Mermaids
• Clocks
• Scientific / natural history illustration
• Ruins, castles, stairways, architecture, crumbling doors and windows
• Fossils particularly ammonites
• Animal skeletons and skulls
• Fairies
• Old push bikes
• Scaly lizards
• Vintage maps
• Mushrooms and toadstools
• Rocks, minerals and gems
• Black and white, line drawings and lino cuts

CAUTION - My blog may contain SPOILER photos. Don't look there if you would like your swap to be a surprise!

Some of my swaps sent so far...

Fantastic Flag

Art Tiles

Butterfly Book

Butterfly Book

Butterfly Book

Button Fairy

Fabric panel

Fabric panel

Journal page

Leaves PC

Fabric tags

Fabric tags

Lino cut PC

Fabric PC

Fabric PC

Handmade journal

Insipre#6 PC

Journal

Bugs PC

Mixed media postcard

Fabric postcard

Prayer flag

Journal page

Mixed media PC

Journal page

Mini Book

Altered photo

Mixed media PC

Collage JP

Altered pocket quilt

Gelli

travelling fabric PC

tag july

Naked journal

Mug Rug

Paper bag album

Art journal page

Smash book

Smash book

June journal page

Tea time PC

July Prayer flag

Monthly Journal May

12 Tags - May

Nature ATC

Prayer Flag