It is that time of the year again!!
Summer Camps for Kiddies of all ages…..
Childrens Art Camp
Tuesday 3rd, Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th July
10am-1pm
60 euro per child
A Mount Leinster Ranger Pony!!!
Textile mixed Media workshop
Saturday 7th, Sunday 8th and Monday the 9th July
10 am –4 pm each day
240 Euro all materials included
email me maireadholohan57@gmail.com or 0872236686
At last the Foxgloves are coming out…..
This is a new group that I am very excited about. This piece is a taster, a getting to know piece the purpose of which is to show some symbols of Traveller culture for a culture night coming up in Kilkenny. A batik piece hanging out to dry on my deck.
This group is now starting to finish pieces and catch up on pieces not done. Great leaps being made and just trying to pull it all together.
What A busy week.Last day in both Crafted Schools.
Yesterday i had to go to Duckets grove to check out my wraps which are selling! Then i had to deliver paintings to the Blueprint group for Eigse, i think I may change them now I’m not sure they were the right ones to bring??
I am exhausted and cannot stop as I have a new group to do go to tomorrow and all my other groups as well as the confirmation to organise. Then the week after if I get around to entering her Molly will go to the sales 
boo hoo Unless a miracle happens and someone walks in the gate to buy her!
Time to make some art or craft would be a luxury, I have a half made felt experiment in the studio and cotton soaked in soda ash drying to use for a wall hanging tomorrow with my new group…..
The children of Grangecon NS
The Wall hanging not quite finished.
Batik pieces photographed last week in Ferrybank. The work is being finished and will be ready soon for an exhibition!!
These are fantastic. The Principle of the Tullow NS, was blown over and pointed out quite apart from the heads and the finished product the learning that happened in the making of the bodies was enormous!
We did an evaluation session and the children filled out and decorated these handouts, in doing so they fulfilled a very important part of the art curriculum, responding to work, in this case their own work!
As I woke up early, I got up and went up to Studio to work on my two wraps here is the finished product
Then I finished the sewing the puppets for Tullow, the children would never have done this! Now to sew up the seams on the backdrop.
The weather is beautiful today and we have had lots of people walking up the lane.
Spent the morning with Ferry Bank group.
Some fantastic work being done between classes by people. This group are really working well, though we seem to have lost a few. We have gained one new girl, Teresa and perhaps the others will come back!
When I got home I just had to go to the studio and paint a quick watercolour, then I ironed the silk wraps that I had painted last night. Tomorrow I will start to Nuno felt bits of them.
The walk up to my studio is beautiful right now, the Bluebells and all the other little flowers are just gorgeous. The wall are going to be covered in foxgloves and those big daisies, I cannot wait, I love Foxgloves.
I sometimes wonder how I get it all done, then I look around the house!! I don’t get it all done.
I do however do the things that I want, most of the time. Obviously having a young daughter I do have to do things for her the odd time!
My husband reckons if her were a horse he would get more attention.
I have been re honing my old skills and trying to make a top from plain cotton and then dyes it.
I am quite pleased but of course it is not finished yet and the finish has always been my weakness.
This has been dyed using a selection of Batik dyes and some dyes that i bought in the Souks of Marrakesh in 1998!! Very ethnic and earth friendly I think.
Here is a scarf that was going to be a silk bolero but I did not cut enough fabric so it is a cowl/scarf, quite cool actually.
I had a mad moment when I decided to play with my mothers dinner dance stole.
I decided to felt the colours that were in this piece of shimmering fabric on to it. It is interesting to see the contrast between the shiny fabric and the texture of the wool.
Now I really must go and paint up two silk pieces of fabric to be made into wraps I think???
