Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

The Lachine Artist group had a demo on Monday night which I am hoping will be the turn around in my creativity because I am absolutely amazed at the products and the Artist that gave the demo. The woman giving the demo's name is Melanie Matthews and you can see her video on youtube for Golden Paints: http://www.goldenpaints.com/VIDEO/library.php?ID=59 Here is her website:http://melaniematthews.ca/ She is giving workshops in the Montreal area and if you have even one ounce of creativity in you, I recommend you attend any of her workshops. We were all given samples of some Golden Paint products which I have been playing with and I can't wait to go out and buy more.....photos of creations to follow...here is the first couple that I did. The first 2 are family photos of my dad & his brothers, sister and Aunt taken in black and white which transfered wonderfully. I used Med gel gloss to do the transfer. The second one is of a photo of montreal transfered into

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I made these today by starting with a lino print for Kerri's and Olive's birthday but loved the way the first one turned out so I made 4 more. Each one I used different colors and then did different detail work.

I found these sewing machine drawers at the curb last summer and have been debating what to do with them. I may try to sell on and keep the other for a project....hum so many projects....what shall I do? I love the detail on each of the little drawer pulls and one of them has this little detailed corner which is so cute. the bottom of this one lost it's veneer After some research on some of my blogs that I visit I found some great ideas like this one by Mamie Jane's Here is another idea to use the drawers for from http://www.etsy.com/listing/65855791/salvaged-vintage-sewing-machine-drawer?ref=sr_list_1&ga_search_query=sewing+machine+drawers&ga_page=2&ga_search_type=all&ga_facet = Or this one from http://www.etsy.com/listing/63700962/vintage-oak-sewing-machine-drawer-with?ref=sr_list_19&ga_search_query=sewing+machine+drawers&ga_page=2&ga_search_type=all&ga_facet = another real cute design for candle holders f

http://mamiejanes.blogspot.com/2011/02/printers-drawer-bulletin-board.html es.blogspot.com/2011/02/printers-drawer-bulletin-board.html Also, check out this cool idea to hang your jewellery at one of my favorite shops on Etsy:   http://www.etsy.com/people/bluebirdheaven?ref=ls_profile And this one is real cute to at anoher favorite at Etsy MaggieMayEtc: http://www.etsy.com/listing/68197906/cowboy-themed-type-case-collage?ref=sr_list_36&ga_search_query=printer+drawers&ga_page=2&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade And another cute idea that I found on a dyi site a while ago:

While doing some clean up I came across 54 vintage swizzel sticks that I got free many years ago at a garage sale. Included in the bunch are the following different ones: 1- Pink dancing girl, El Paso Cafe Lachine on the lake shore 1-(clear) Sheraton Hotels 1-Tree limb, (grey) The Stork Club Montreal 1-Gold Stork, The Stork Club Montreal 1-Tree limb, (brown) Ruby Foos Montreal 1-Martines New Carlton Hotel Montreal (brown) 5-Gold Fleurs de lyes, The Queen Elizabeth 1-Clover Cafe 2204 St Catherine W Montreal (white) 1-Clover Cafe (grey) 1-Laurentien Hotel Montreal (blue) 1-Kon Tiki Sheraton Mt Royal Montreal (green) 1-The Pines Hotel - St. Jovite PQ (black) 5- Restaurants de la place ville marie (3 green, 1 pink, 1 black) 1-Maroon Club Inc Montreal (green) 2-Hotel Statler (green) 2-Desjardins Seafood Montreal (1-green 1 blue) 7- Bellevue Casino Montreal Canada (2 grey woman dancers, 2 red profile pinups, 1 red mermaid, 2 blue mermaids) 1-Cafe la Boheme Guy St Mont

I can still remember the first time I heard this song from Pavlov's dog talk about the 70's: It brought shivers up and down my spine and I played that song over and over at my friend's house. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcGplGWkuLQ

My son cleaned out his room a couple of weeks ago and had tons of awards and throphies, instead of putting them in the garbage I decided to try to upcycle the small plaques. For the trophies, I simply took off his name and sent them to the second hand store hoping someone craftier than me can do something with them. I wasn't sure how I would paint over the existing enamel paint and thought of sanding them down and then repainting them but that was alot of effort. So I simply sanded the top and then made a print with water color paper and modge podged one. Have a look at the before and after pictures. Here is the second one that I did for 2 of the women that work with Chuck. One of them sent me a beautiful candlebra as a Thank you, now I have to thank her for this.....and so it goes

this is the way that I felt when I woke up this morning after finding out what the treasury was about, scroll down to the bottom of this linked page to see how I felt: http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d593e331a5e8eef3ad4608d/let-my-heart-show-you-the-way?ref=pr_treasury  by someone posting on my site.

These were done at the demo at Andrea's house back in Jan when I showed the gang how to do Linoleum cuts and Marilyn brought a relief piece of wood for detailing on wood. We took a print from this and it really looked crappy but I told her I would do something with it. Today I added some detail with another lino cut which we did that day and here is the final result......Thank you Marilyn

Cut up and dice 1 onion, 2 stalks of celery, 2 carrots, 6 cloves Fry up diced vegtables until a little soft. Add 1 1/2 tablespoon of Chili paste, 1 tablespoon curry. Add 1 cup of wine and 1 cup of broth and simmer 5 minutes. Add Herbs, parsley, oregano, a touch of basi and fresh coriander and pepper to taste.  Good to have good reading material on Herb always handy.  Add 1 can of diced tomotoes and bring to a boil.  Mussel that that been clean and soaked.  Add shrimps and scallops to tomatoes and then because it was a double batch of mussels we added the tomatoe mixture to the mussels.  Bring it to a boil. Close the lid to steam the mussels and stir often.  Steam until mussels open up and shrimp are nice an pink.  Everything is ready....yum  Serve with fresh bread and enjoy. How to make Chuck and Barb's Seafood Stew

Some of my collectibles for sale on craigslist