Eye Patch - Fashion Statement #3

Palsy of 6th Nerve in the right eye looks like this..... It turns inwards causing double vision.



When you try to focus on the outside.. Your eye just wont move... But hay it's a cool party trick.. It really groses some people out... I love it.. It is definitely one advantage to having this problem...



This is what I am seeing at the moment... It is quite annoying.. but when I cover the right eye... I can see much better.. Judgment is still a little bit weird and I am still getting used to the one eyed-ness of it all..... However all is well if I just take it slowly..... then my "disability" is no were near as noticeable to either myself or others.. I can like fool myself that there is nothing wrong....

When there is more detail and colour that I have to take in then it gets very confusing... Like yesterday Master 8 ran through a solid object... I told him he has super powers... He was stoked with that.. and then on his way back to the play ground he ran into the building I said he ran through... Hehehehe.. Little joker!!!

Sometimes it gets on top of me... And I get annoyed, frustrated and MAD!!! Yesterday was one of those days for me.... I had a very very low day... Feeling EXTREMELY sorry for myself. Feeling icky... Ugly ... and YUCK and trapped, because of having to wear eye patches which limits my social life, and eye/brain stimulation... It gets awfully tiring having just the one eye to process everything.. I find sometimes my brain will not shut off at night time and it takes me HOURS to fall asleep.... Ever since I can remember no matter what was going on in my life I have always been able to fall asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.... (Much to the disgust of my husband... Who has NEVER had this pleasure.....) So back to the point... Yesterday I was just down right bummed!!!

With new resolve this morning I arose with a goal in mind.. I have had a design for a new eye patch in my mind for a long time and after I prepared for this afternoons workshop I decided to get the creative juices flowing and make a LOVELY eye patch to make me feel more BEAUTIFUL!!!!! ( I recently saw "Burlesque" and LOVED LOVED LOVED the costumes... Nothing beats lace, feathers, glitter, bling, trimmings and a whole lot of Lovely feminine decorations... This movie was some of my inspiration)

This is what I came up with...I am so LOVING my Big Shot for making the base of the eye patches!!! It work a treat!!! Black and white is always clasic!!! I definately feel more lovely today with my new eye patch!!!

If you would like to know how to make your own please call me and we can have a class... It would be fun to get others involved in my "NEW" obsession... heheh

Love Ursula

WICKED....ly AWESOME

Lisa, Jane and I went to Wicked... and it was TOTALLY AWESOME!!! I was glad that I had made a lovely eye patch to wear to the occasion.. heheh...

What else will WICKED inspire in the future I wonder???

Punch Art at BAYSIDE Craft Classes

Paper Angels have our usual gathering at Bayside Craft Class and this year it is looking to be brilliant!!! We have a theme ever week so if you do not have something that you are working on you can turn up and still go home with something learned or made... It's FANTASTIC... Very inspirational!!!

Last week was Punch art... We made these beautiful Baby Cards (inspired by Dianna - PA's Team) and these cute little Sesame Street Characters... Liz walked us through Dianna's Baby cards... and Kim walked us through the cute Characters...

Next week is Bring a project you would like to share or demonstrate.... I am looking forward to learning much much more this year!!!

Oh while we were making the Sesame Street Punch art I suggested that they would be great felt eye patches for kids.... so today I pulled out my Big Shot and had to make a cookie monster one for myself.... Cool hey???


Thanks again for lovely friends taking me home after Bayside craft!!! It's lovely receiving so much support at this time... Bless you all!!! Muwah xxxx

Love Ursula

Community Craft Class

This year I've started teaching a Craft class at KENG... We make one card and have a lovely social time talking about other projects etc.. We've only had two classes so far but I can see that is is going to be one of the things I most look forward to each week!!! We have a lovely bunch of ladies that are coming at this time and they are all so creative in their own right!!! Last week we had show and tell and that was very inspirational!!! I was able to gather quite a few inspirational ideas for future classes...

The first week we created this lovely card... Which uses the wonderful Stamp n Write markers to colour in the stamp... It is simple and elegant..

This card was what we put together last week and was inspired by Stampin Up and Liz... The design is the same as the thank you card we received last year for our demonstrations at Regional training... but the new twist is the faux silk covering on the butterfly... If you would like to learn this please book a workshop with me or come along to a class that demonstrates anything FAUX..


Remember Sale-A-Bration is on at the moment and it's the BEST time to recieve many EXCLUSIVE BONUS products to add to your crafting collection.... Sale-A-Bration ends in March so there is still plenty of time to book a workshop.. however my diary is filling fast.... so be sure to get in quick so you do not miss out!!!

Or place an order of $100 to receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set...

Love Ursula

Ps... I would like to say a HUGE Thank you so much to the lovely ladies that have offered to drive me to Craft class for the next few months as my palsy eye does not allow me to drive safely for longer distances... May you be Blessed immensely for your kindness!!! My life is blessed because of you.... Muwah...

Valentines Workshop 2011 - Love love love

All we need is LOVE!!!! As the famous Betles song states.....
With that theme in mind I put together this LOVEly Class for my wonderful customers...

This class included a lovely Scrapbook page, a Beautiful card and Yummy sweet treat (chocolate) box card. The main them is obviously the word LOVE... And may I say I LOVE the BIG SHOT Simple Letters Alphabet.. It makes word headdings so much easier... and what I ABSOLUTELY LOVE about this wonderful product is that you can use the negative (offcuts) as well as the positive (letters)... It cuts down the cost and use of your product.. ALSO you can cut out EXACTLY the right amount of letters that your project requires and you are NEVER going to run out of S's, R's, T's, vowels etc etc!!! As you tend to do when you purchase a chipboard alphabet set... By simply cutting a peice of chipboard to a standard size, covering it with your desired colour card stock or DSP and centering it on your desired letter you can get two for the price of one!!! Whoot whoo!!!

This lovely card was inspired by Liz who was inspired by 2010 Incentive Trip... And it was the whole theme of my Class.... This class demonstrated PERFECTLY how you can take a card and turn it into a scrapbook page or any other project you desire....


This project... "Chocolate Box Card" uses a 7cm x 29.8cm (A4 length) of card stock... and is very economical to reproduce as you can get 3 box cards out of one A4 piece of card stock...
I purchased the lovely little chocolate bars from ALDI. I stacked them up, then I measured them to make sure that when I put them in the card they did not easily fall out. I scored the card stock on one end and stuck it down to it's self with Sticky Strip.... As you can see the letters are the "negative" of the letters I cut out for the card.. Thus the duel usage out of the one piece of chipboard.

The tag embelishment was made by stamping two images on top of each other. The Stamp set used is the lovely "Bliss" Sale-A-Bration set.... The butterfly is behind the "BLISS" word.. and on the scallop I have stamped the BEAUTIFUL flourish before I punched it out.

It was truly a LOVEly class...

Birthday Cards Personalised

I was asked to make some personalised birthday cards for a friend this year.. She discovered this book called 'Why shouldn't I call my son Clint?' by David Hocking.... Fiona has been wanting to have these made for some time now she had the design in her head and she really wanted to incorporate the name quotes from the book... SO we put our heads together and came up with this idea.... It is a very simple formula... and way easy to mass-produce... Simply print out your name and the quote you want on 1/4 of an A4 page.. then run it through the Big Shot with an Embossing folder if you like and or stamp it, then cut out with the Top Note Die cut... tie a ribbon around the card and adhere it with dimenionals... Simple, Elegant and PERSONALISED!!!

(one is blury.. because It has not been given out yet...)

Eye Patch - Fashion Statement #2

Heading to the Theater I needed something a little blingy!!! So this is the eye patch I made out of Sculpey and Diamonties... PERRRRRTY!!!
I'm going to have a WICKED time... heheheh

Unfortunately it takes a little longer to make things with just one eye... and having only one eye makes you quite tired!!! So I did not get to make the GREEN eye patch (for Wicked) that I wanted to ... However I am sure my design that I have been dreaming of over the past few days will come to fruition soon!!!! Stay tuned...
Love Ursula