A Day with Finnabair

Had a lovely day out yesterday with Lorraine (ok, I said Finnabair above) when we went to Harrogate to a workshop by Finnabair.  It saw us leaving home quite early in the morning and travelling up in the rain.  Poor Lorraine driving as usual with me as chief navigator, assisted ably by the Sat Nav I must add.

Anyway, in the morning we had a workshop entitled Beauty and the Beads and it was in my favourite dark dark colours.  The metallic sheen on the canvas that comes from the sprays we used is just wonderful.  I wish you could see it on here.

The first workshop I ever did with Finn was down in Wiltshire (I think - take me south of Lancashire and I don't know where I am) and I came home with a gorgeous pale blue and green journal and a canvas that shaded from black to a very pale blueish colour.  I just loved them.  Then at another workshop, yes I was hooked, I did a black journal (similar to the canvas above) and I was totally head over heels in love.  So you see, I just love the canvas above and was so glad we did a black one.

That is not to say I do not like what I made in the afternoon.  Because I do.  This workshop was called Time Capsule and the pocket watch centre piece was perfect for a photograph but I decided to leave mine 'faceless'. However I am hoping to make another one of these and this time it will contain a photograph.  That is because I like it and can see me making even more than one more of these.

Can you see the metal flower top right?  I love this which is part of the new collection I think.  Also I liked the screw heads (Junkyard Findings) and the twirl at the bottom.  The paper roses are lovely too and I can see I am becoming addicted to these embellishments but rather surprised myself that I used so many on each canvas.  Usually I am a bit "skinny" when it comes to sticking them down.

Well, hope you like what you have seen although I realise they have been seen a lot on Facebook so I don't expect many, if any, comments on here.

If you did see them on Facebook do you notice any difference with the black one today?