Demo, Workshops! 7th, 9th, 10th and 20th April - don't missed out!

Hello World!
I will be back to work on Sunday 7th. I am going to Fermoy for indoor market between 11am-4pm with Decoupage demo + small trial for everyone who wants to try. Suitable for age from age 3 to 103!

Please note that next workshops will be held in Cobh & Cork with price reduced to 10 euro.

Dates are as follows:

Cobh (English)
Tuesday 9th April, 7 pm - 10 pm
Wednesday 10th April, 9.30-12.30
To book your place please call into Cobh Family Resource Centre

Cork (Polish)
Sunday 21st April, 11am - 2pm
to book your place call info Together - Razem "Support & Integration Centre

More coming soon.

Decoupage in Shannon, Co. Clare - 17-18.03.2013

I spend two days in Shannon Co. Clare.
First day I spend on Decoupage Party. And we decorated goose egg's shells:
<sorry for bad pics, I forgot my camera>

It was great fun for all of us!

When we where alone (me and my friend) we started working on our own projects with glass of wine (my apologize for quality of the pics again):

For sure - you can't guess what we did next day? Yes we decoupaged another egg's shells.

This time we tried to use relief outliner. I was time consuming but result was worth it:

We also tried easy painting technique and different texture:

Because I have my daughter with me she and her friend decorated goose egg's shells too :)

Here picture of their work in progress. They finished work with colored ribbon.

It was great and creative trip. I love to travel so when I can combine my passion, my work and travelling I am the happiest human in the entire world!

Thank you all and hope to see you again!

Workshop in Co. Clare!!! WOW! My business is really growing up very fast!!!

Today I just confirmed upcoming FREE workshop for kids in Midleton Library.
It will be during the Easter Holidays - on Wednesday, 3rd April. More info and bookings in Midleton Library.


Next great news is that today I was invited to provide workshop in Shannon, Co. Clare.
All places are booked out! Cant wait girls to see you!

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!!!!!!!!

Free Demonstration - Goose Egg's Shell - Midleton

16th March 2013

Once again - all ages, all levels very welcome.
Just pop in any time that will suit you between 10am and 1pm.
M&K Tailoring Centre is next to Farm Gate so if you ask for direction ask for this very popular place. You can't missed it :)

If you want to try decorate the shell you will have a chance to do so for only 5 euro per egg.

Numbers of eggs are limited.

Full workshop about egg's shell decorating is coming next week, 23rd March.
Book your place  to avoid disappointing.

See you in Midleton on Saturday!

The Angels - Workshop for Parent & Kids in Cobh

On Saturday 9th March I provided second workshop for parents & kids in Cobh Family Resource Center.

This time parents and kids decorated the angels with paint, gilding and napkin.









It was great fun for all of us. We work very hard for two hours and everyone was very happy with the result.

Here is our new Angel's Family :)

Thank you all for coming. Special thanks to Carmel because she drove from Cork City.

You are such a good auntie :)

Next workshop for kids (6-12) will be on Saturday, 20th April. 11am - 1pm.
It will be for kids without the parents :)

Workshop With The Angels - 23.02.2013

Yesterday I had amazing morning that I spend with very nice girls from Midleton.

I organized first workshop in this town. It was designed for the adults.

I was ready to start at 10am. I brought all paints, brushes, scissors, napkins etc.

First I explained what "Italian Style Decoupage" is and what it isn't as this is often confused with card making technique.

Then we started preparing wooden pieces with sanding paper, painted them and sanded again and painted... to make it smooth and well covered with the paint.

In the next step we prepared our pieces for the napkins and start gluing napkins onto the angel's body.

It was the hardest point but all did very well thanks to special glue for napkins and my instructions.

I am more than sure that everyone in my class was a bit afraid before we started. Decoupage seems like craft that needs lost of experience and many skills. But that is NOT TRUE.
Decoupage is craft for everyone from 3 to 93 years old (that was my the youngest and the oldest trainee).

Here is a proof:

Black Angel is my favorite :)

At the end I answered question about ageing technique. In decoupage the best way to explain is... 'show and try' so I use small pieces of wood to make very simple shabby chic coasters. Here is first work of my trainees:

I like when on my workshop every piece of work is different and unique. I love to give a chance to participants to use their own imagination and creativity.

One is sure - I will see all of them soon :) Can't wait!

Big thank to Marzena and Krzysztof from Tailoring Center in Midleton for hosting my workshop in their lovely place. It was a great support that I really appreciated!
I would recommend them as very talented, skilled and hard working people. There is no too small or too big job for them - from simple alteration to totally transformation of sofa. At reasonable price!