New home, new studio, new life = love

I have been quiet on the blog lately (as usual) but have been ultra busy (as usual). Life is so busy, but awesome. The kids and I have settled in our new home in Forbes, we are just loving it. The house is perfect and suits us to the ground, we all have our own rooms/spaces, along with a massive enclosed yard (including newly built cubby for the kids = thankyou Poppy!) and my very own little art studio *squeals with excitement*  It is safe to say, we are happy & content here :)

I haven't really thrown myself into decorating the house and doing 'kids themed bedrooms'. One; I just don't have a lot of time and two; money is lacking. Besides, it looks just perfect just the way it is. This also leaves more time for playing, both the kids & mummy ;)

Thought I'd share a few pics of our new place where we hangout.

 Hannahs room. I love the Origami Mobile from my good friend Jac, and the

quilted height chart made by Nanny Ree.

 

 

Wills Room (love the storage) and here he has just emptied

out his cupboard to hide before rest time lol

 

 

Office straight off my bedroom.

 

Our beautiful green yard after some rain, love.

 

Roses grown in the garden!! so beautiful!

 

Studio space I've made in the garage: (my fave place of course)

 

My beautiful babies:

 

 

 

That's life as it is at the moment. My babies are so very special and bring so much joy. Love them too bits and love living back at home with my family around xxx

 

Mel xx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Busy Weekend.

What a weekend! It's Sunday night now and we're all tired in this household. I've managed to fit so much in this weekend, lots of family time, kids swimming lessons, park trips & lots of art and creative time for me :)

Friday night involved watching some tv with Brent whilst I had a wine and painted some undercoat layers on some canvases. I think having a wine made me a bit more free with the painting... kind of along the lines of 'be brave, be bold' which my art tutor tells us :) It's not often I paint at home, apart from my 2.5 hours every Wednesday night, but I think since I have started this blog it's made me more aware to keep creating.. *go me* haha.

I was hating on one canvas I've recently started, so I pulled out some mod podge, some hot pink, magenta, gold & white paints and an old magazine. This is the old canvas I started with:

 

 

 Here's the final product with a bit of 'beautifying' from an iphone app. I shall call this print,

Kate the Great

 



 



Final two canvases primed and layered up ready for something to take over:

 

 

For lunch today, we went down to South Molly park for a picnic lunch with the kids and a play. Here's a shot from the park:

 

 

 

So we wore them out well and truly; both having a big two hour nap thisafternoon *Woo!* This gave me some time to be a little creative at my workbench doing some jewellery :) Here's a few items I came up with today whilst the kids had a sleep.

 

 

 

So I've definately added enough arm swag to keep me going :)

 

I was planning on this one for my mum, but she is a gold wearer, so might keep this one for myself and work on her present ;)

 

 

This is a 38 inch necklace, sits nice and long.

 

 

And that's about it for the weekend, very productive on the creative side and lots of fun with my family. I hope all of you had a great weekend too. For now, I'm off to bed, ready for another busy week ahead.

 

Night,

Melissa x

My first ever blog post!

Hello out there to anyone that reads this and welcome :) I'm very new to the blogging world and not sure what I'm doing here but thought I would give it a go in order to journal what I'm up to. Now I'd first like to start with an apology as I'm not good with words or grammar.. Hence probably why I studied accountancy and numbers at Uni as opposed to something English related! Anyway moving along.... I'm Mel ;) you can see some info in the about me section above.

I'm just typing this first little introductory blog post in bed on the iPad at 11pm while everyone is sleeping. It's the quietest in our household at this time of day (until one of our babies wakes and wanders into our bed!). I'm also just back from my regular Wednesday night art class with a fun bunch of girls.. We sit, chat, gossip, drink tea and paint (or ceramics, draw, collage..whatever we have in mind really). Wednesday's is my favourite day of the week as I have mothers group in the mornings followed by art at night. Oh and I also did a fabulous silversmithing class last night at Mogo so it's been a fun 24 hours for me!! More on the silversmithing later.

I think I'll use this blog to post whatever I have in mind... whether it be clothes or shoes I'm loving on, art or creative things and family happenings. I might leave you with a little sneak peak of a few underlayers I'm currently working on for a painting for hubby.. it's obviously going to be fish related as he loves his spearfishing here on the south coast!!

Apart from that, I have also listed a few of the paintings I've completed recently at the artworks tab. I also like to do some sewing or jewellery making for friends and family, some of the things I've been working on are here under project gallery. When I get better at this blogging thing, I will share some of my patterns and tutorials for how to make things... maybe if you tell me what you like best, I can work on adding that tutorial first :)

Lastly, we have just received Williams first school photos. They look very cute and I just couldn't resist sharing. He is 2.5 years old, and of course I think very handsome ;)

That's it for me today, I hope you all have a fun weekend.