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		Easter 2012 VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

All done and the children seemed happy.

to any moms you need to let the paste fabric dry completely then scratch off the paste, then iron the fabric to seal the colour, it is a good idea to put newspaper between iron and fabric.

Thank you all foe being such good and interested children

Today we started two items and Started and finished another. I am amazed at the ability of these children to just do what they are shown, bear in mind one of the them is preschool and the eldest is 8!

		Easy foam prints VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

These are really good because it is hard for children to get the concept of printing sometimes but we had no problems!

		Flour Paste Batik VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

This is the first stage of these batiks, tomorrow the children will paint them with fabric paint and then they or some older person will take flour off when dry! I wonder who will have to do that??

		Hanging Balloon eggs?? VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

These are a real risk as even though we put Vaseline on the balloons they may not stay together!! the balloon have to be burst and then  hope fully the string will stay in place!!!

Tomorrow we will finish all these as well as painting the clay and then we will see if we have time for a few other things….always keep things up your sleeves, you never know what rate children work at . It always amazes me how much we get done!

Bags in batik done by a group of children from Junior,Senior, First and Second Class, how brilliant are they?

I decided to just photograph the pieces as they are so far. They still have to be ironed and I will put them up again then.

		GrangeCon N.S. VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

I have been unable to find a way to upload the images of the children in Grangecon on their introductory session to Batik. My own phone is at the O2 doctors right now andthey lent me an old Nokia which I am unable to download pics from??? Anyone any ideas?

Lovely morning with a beautiful bunch of children. It is such a pleasure to work with children who want to be in the studio!

We drew, painted, walked and brought back twigs and leaves to paint with! We did clay pots and spoons!

Here is some of the work done, I will put up more just need to photograph it when dry.

		Kiddies Easter Camp 2012 VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

I am a bit late putting this up but for the first time in months I managed to meet up with my good friend Margaret Kent at a paint out in nearby St Mullins. I was happy enough with my work as I have not actually painted for ages, I have been so busy with group work.

I had been hoping to do some really loose and moody work. So I think it Kinda worked?

View from the river bank

The Mullacháin Café

Boy am i am going to busy! I am starting a second school for Crafted, Tullow National school, First Class girls. We had our training session today in Enniscorthy Education Centre. Lovely enthusiastic teacher, Ann E Murphy.

We are going to do some construction on the Lovely theme of ‘The children of Lir’.

I am really looking forward to it and have lots to do planning over Easter.

Statues of Swans and more!!

On Friday I will be starting work with a new School, Grangecon in Co Wicklow.

I love these projects, they are pressured but the outcomes are usually really good.

The children love the distraction of a stranger doing mad things with them as well as the time off school work!

We are hoping to work on a theme of birds and depending on what the children think will hope fully make their own personal fabric bird to reflect themselves.

So excited now that I think about it!!!