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this Friday: an "inedible Fondu"

This weekend is Barcelona's annual craft and hobby trade fair, "Creativa". I will be collaborating with Scrap House Barcelona for the third year in a row, and sharing some new workshops, which (I am happy to report) have sold-out!

I am really looking forward to my first workshop on Friday afternoon, as it will be the official "debut" for the Ranger Melting Pot® in a workshop in Spain! We will be experimenting with UTEE (Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel) and Beeswax! I've put together a vintage style Christmas project on wood, which we will use as our base for a series of 3-dimensional pieces that we will create out of UTEE and wax, by way of another great Ranger Inc. product, known as the "Mold-n-Pour" (so addictive!)

Here's a peek at what we will be making!

...So versatile, what you can do with some stamps, some Tim Holtz® "Idea-ology™ Findings, Ranger "Perfect Pearls" pigment powders, acrylic paint, UTEE and a nice hot Melting Pot® of bees wax...! Can't wait!!

Enjoy the rest of your week! ...Happy NOVEMBER!

on the road again...!

Hey, it's been awhile...!! And it's been a super active September! Been busy with multiple projects and things at home, what with all that getting into the new "back-to-routines" routine. But of course you know how that goes, I am sure you've had a busy month as well.
Tomorrow will find me on the super speedy AVE train from Barcelona to Madrid and then on to Valldolid for our first edition of Spain's "Creativa" Craft and Hobby Fair,

...where I will be teaching two new workshops for "Bambola Casa Creativa" Scrapbooking stores, based around the Madrid area.

I am looking forward to sharing these two new workshops with participants at the fair--(both workshops have sold out if I am correct). I'm also looking forward to the road-trip part of it, as it's the first time I have visited this area of Spain (Valldolid). I am told that area is where the "purest Castillian Spanish" is spoken. We will see how it compares to my Barcelona Spanish (which I usually unintentionally tend to mix with Catalan, so I'll have to really make an effort not to mix the two languages this weekend! ;)

Click here, here and here for more information on my workshops, if you are interested (or simply want to practise your Spanish! ;) 

Cheers and enjoy your weekend!

        ...Happy OCTOBER!!

Compasses and full moons

Happy Friday to you out there!! Nice to have the weekend upon us once again, eh? I hope everything is well in your orbit. We are all healthy and well--last weekend, the tadpole picked up a bit of that fevery-coughing bug, but now is fine...seems to be going around most families around here! We're making sure to drink lots of fresh orange juice and taking our vitamins to keep things at bay...And keeping busy with all of the various activities going on in our family (music, theatre, handball, work, batukada (street percussion--we've got a gig coming up in a couple weeks, playing in our city's parade), and the regular comings and goings at home...

Also coming up to bat is Barcelona's annual Craft and Hobby Trade Fair, "Creativa", in which I will be giving a workshop in collaboration with the Scrapbooking shop, Scrap House.

The 3 hour worshop consists of a home decor patchwork-scrap fusion project, as it uses traditional Scrapbooking material and techniques but also features a "patchwork" style collage work, and works with both paper and fabric.

Here are a few photos:

Last I heard, there is only 1 spot left in the workshop, as space is limited. 

On other topics, I'm looking forward to taking my tadpole to the theatre tomorrow, to see "Bollywood Love Story", which is playing until Sunday:

....So how's New Moon mania going where you live? I couldn't resist taking myself to the afternoon session on the day the film debuted in Spain, as it opened here two days earlier than most of the rest of the world.
I was in a theatre full of teenagers, so that made seeing the movie that much more fun. Their comments and reactions were hilarious. My favourite scene in the film was the one that includes the following track (by genious Thom Yorke of Radiohead); I thought the music made the chase scene particularly effective:

Anyway, enjoy your weekend, regardless of whether you are a werewolf, vampire or just a mortal human!!

one more bit and we're up to date!

...Following the DD event in Barcelona came "Creativa", the annual craft and hobby trade fair in Barcelona. It's an interesting set-up because there are sister events with the same name in other countries (France, Switzerland and Belgium), so it brings businessess from out of the country down to Barcelona for the trade fair. This was my first year doing workshops at the event--and a new experience for me to try giving a workshop while being drowned out by the PA system of the near-by "patchwork fashion show", complete with their disco mix of Abba's Greatest Hits...a little tricky to explain "the many intricasies of embossing powder", while attempting to shout full volume overtop of the background noise of passers-by and a circus-tent ceiling. But it's all part of the fun of working at a trade fair, now isn't it!!
I was free to create my own projects for the workshop, so I came up with a Christmas themed tag tryptic project on the one hand, that would introduce people to a little bit of everything (Distress Ink techniques, embossing, working with transparencies, setting eyelets, creating a vintage style) and on the other, 4 different ATCs that highlight the use of embossing powder and techniques. And again, it went well. Most importantly for me, the workshop participants we able to complete the project within the time available, and even better: everyone, no matter their skill level, was able to work comfortably. Major important :)

Here's what we made: