Workshop Update ...

Hello there ;-)

Are you enjoying this glorious spring weather?  Just beautiful!  My fruit trees are all covered in blossoms, can't wait for the fruit to be ready to pick during summer, yummo!!

Next weekends Scrap'n'Roast, 20th September, won't be going ahead due to lack of bookings.  Oh well, we will all just have to watch the footy instead!

Page Map - Circles   $20

Thursday 25th September 1pm

The last scrapbooking workshop will be Thursday 25th September at 1pm - 3pm.  We have all now got the wonderful circle cutters from Martha Stewart, so I thought it appropriate that we create a layout with an abundance of circles in many sizes!

I found this wonderful page map on Pintrest, it had originally come from Basic Grey via

www.sketchsavvy.blogspot.com 

You will need 4 landscape photos @ 4"x6".

You will also need your basic tool kit, large and small Martha Stewart Circle Cutting system, inks, a large title, a border punch and a journaling pen.

We will spend a little time practising using the circle cutters as I know some of you haven't used them before.

 

SALE...SALE...SALE...SALE

Thursday 25th September

1pm - 5pm

Everything 35% off!!!

STOREWIDE

All stock including paper racks for $10 each!!!! 

Pass the news along :-)

 

Happy Scrapping,

Mandy :-)

Art Journal Workshops - 11th September

Hi girls, just a quick one. 

Tomorrow's afternoon art journal workshop scheduled @ 1-3pm is cancelled. Unfortunately there's only one person booked in. 

The evening workshop will still be going ahead @ 7-9pm. 

Please refer to the last post regarding the supplies you need to bring. 

Thanks,

Mandy :-)

Art Journaling This Week ... 12th September 2014

Hi my arty crafty friends :-)

This week we will be art journaling - yay!  

Friday 1-3pm and 7-9pm

$13

I  found this gorgeous spread on you tube by France Papillon and loved it!  So, now to share it with you.  Of course, I didn't have everything that France had, so I've improvised a bit and have made some cute tissue paper tape for you and got out my stamp maker to create the larger butterfly stamp :-)

You will need to bring - 

Acrylic paint

Circle stencil (the paper one I made you ages ago)

Distress inks

Glimmermist

Tripletac

Journal pen

Stazon ink pad

Watercolour pencils

Chalks or Soft pastels

Makeup sponge

Water spray bottle

Background stamp (I used a small dots one I found in my stash)

Ink cube (I used gold)

Blending stump (cheap - I got a packet from Neds)

SALE...SALE...SALE...SALE

During workshops everything in store will be 30% off!!!!  

Everything has to go - all stock, paper racks and more!

Great time to stock up :-)

As you know I am struggling with my health issues at the moment, it's still early days so still sorting out medications and getting used to my new way of eating :-)  It is all quite a lot to wrap my head around, but I'm keeping my spirits up and experimenting in the kitchen everyday!   Anyway, due to this huge lifestyle change I have decided, after 13 years, to close down Made by Mandy Scrapbooking.  I thank you for all your support and custom over the years, the laughs, the tears and of course the creative times :-)

I hope to catch up with you all before I finish, until then...

Happy Scrapping,

Mandy :-)

This Week's Workshop ... Thursday 28th August

Good morning my lovlies :-)

Bet you thought I had forgoten to update the blog with the details of this weeks workshop!  Well.... not really, I have just been really busy and hadn't gotten around to it. 

So without further ado...

PAGE MAPS   $22

Thursday 1-3pm

You will need 10 photos for this double layout!  4 portrait@3 1/2"x4 1/2"; 2 square@3 1/2"x3 1/2"; 3 portrait@3 1/2"x6" and 1 landscape @ 3 1/2"x3".  You will also need your basic tool kit, an around the page border punch (normal size not large), a border punch, corner rounder, paper piercer, eyelet setter and inks.

Dates to remember - 

12th September

Art Journaling 1-3pm and 7-9pm

20th September 

Scrap'n'Roast 4-midnight 

Okey pokey, off to work!  For the next 5 weeks I am working everyday between Royal Park and North Adelaide :-)  

Keep well, warm and safe.

Happy Scrapping,

Mandy :-)

Hello, hello ...

Hi everyone :-)

How have you all been keeping?  

Thank you for the cards and phone calls to see how I am going.  They really have brightened my days :-)

I am plodding along.   The specialist has left no stone unturned and I am due for another stint into hospital at the beginning of September, hopefully just for the day, for another round of tests to double check his findings.  The diagnosis is Crohn's Disease, which is an autoimmune disease effecting the digestive system.  It causes inflammation of the bowel, most commonly the lower small intestine (ileum) and the large intestine (colon). Mine is all the way through both intestines and stomach - yay!  The inflammation extends through the entire thickness of the bowel wall which causes abdominal pain, diarrhoea and a range of other symptoms including fever and weight loss.  No cure for this, a whole new way of eating - good thing I love to cook and experiment, isn't it!  I am in quite a bit of pain each day and still zooming to the toilet copious times, but hopefully with the help of the specialist, medication and cutting out grains, refined sugars and dairy, it will settle down. 

Anyhoo, I am going to begin workshops again - but on a much reduced scale.  At this stage just once a month. I know you all understand xx  

Please, please, please - bookings for all workshops are absolutely essential. 

So, firstly, we shall get some Art Journaling happening on Friday 15th August @ 1pm and again @ 7pm.  We are finally going to be using all those barcode strips that I've been collecting all year ;-P  The workshop will be $10 and you will need to bring your art journal tool kit, paints, Tripletac adhesive (or gel medium), black stazon ink, background type stamps, acrylic block, rubons in black and a black journal pen.  I shall post a pic next week once I have finished my page. 

Scrapping workshop will be on Thursday 28th August @ 1pm.  Here is a quick pic to whet your appetite...

Good news for the ladies who have been patiently waiting for the Martha Stewart Circle Cutting Systems to arrive - they will be here next week!!!!  Yay! Finally, after a few months on backorder I received an email yesterday saying they were in stock.  So I quickly put the order through before you missed out again!  The 4"-12" cutter is $45 each and the 1"-5" is $43.  I shall let you know personally when they arrive :-)

I have been doing a little bit of art.  Here is a bloom girl I did with the lovely talented Jamie Dougherty - 

 She just needs to go into a frame and be hung :-)

Rightyho, back to editing ballet photos!

Happy Scrapping,

Mandy :-)

A little update ...

Hi girls :-)

How are you all going?  Keeping warm and busy, I hope!

All went well at the hospital last week.  I went off to sleep laughing with the specialist, anesthesiologist and nurses about being special enough to have the machines that goes 'bing' and 'whoosh'!  (Monty Python humour!)

 

The specialist rang me earlier today, Tuesday, and I will be seeing him on Friday.  He is still waiting for some of the histology reports to come back from the many biopsies he took.

I have begun a course of medication and it seems to be helping, but there is no quick fix or even a cure.  So, a big lifestyle change for my family and me.  All for the better (and healthier) for us all though!

I am concentrating on getting a lot better before I get back into scrapping, art journaling and photography.

Keep well, I shall keep you updated.

Happy Scrapping,

Mandy :-)

Update for this week ... 13th July 2014

Hello on my way to hospital :-)

Finally!!  After seeing the specialist late on Friday, he has admitted me to hospital today.  Loads of tests are being done, left, right and centre!  Although I still feel yuck (that's a medical term, isn't it, lol!) at least something is being done to find out what's wrong.  I was getting quite down with the doctors as they just kept sending me away, but this specialist was fantastic.  He was extremely empathetic and got his receptionist to ring the hospital and add me to today's surgery list as a matter of urgency.  I felt so relieved that someone was finally listening to what was happening and doing something about it.

Anyhoo, workshops will be suspended until further notice.  As you can appreciate I have to concentrate on getting better and back to my 'normal' self.  

To all the ladies heading off on fantastic holidays - have a wonderful time!!!  Can't wait to see photos :-)

The rest of us staying put in Adelaide - stay warm and well!!!! 

I will keep you updated.

Happy Scrapping,

Mandy :-)