At the art group that I go to, run by Effie ,we do a monthly swap. This year we are doing tags, each month we make 2 identical tags, one to keep and one to swap. We have also made an art journal to stick them in.

This is my January tag, I liked it till I did my Feb one, which I like more, so I may do another January one in the same style as Feb lol



February tag...





Time page from my 8x8 art journal...made using same pens and paints as the first two. Any suggestions for themes of future pages most welcome.




Birthday card for a little friend of mine who turned 10 last week, double digits at last, how very grown up.

I also made her a bag,it's a Melly & Me pattern, using 4 fat quarters.





Bag fastens with 2 magnetic bag clasps.

...and this is the sock monster I made for her. A while ago she gave me 2 pairs of teeny socks that she had grown out of but couldn't bear to throw away, so now she can keep them forever lol

"Hello my name is Victoria Murray, originally from Australia where I was a cleaner in the Sydney Opera House, I now live in the UK. I came here to seek my fame and fortune, and to one day see my name in lights in the West End. My favourite musical is Hairspray, I love sherbet lemons but I am a little afraid of bananas."

Sorry for lack of updates, I haven't really made much, mojo packed up and went on holiday. But today I had a baking session. Egg and bacon flan, corned beef and potato pie and a mahoosive chocolate cake, with courgettes and pistachios in it.

These cupcakes I made a couple of weeks ago, top left is lemon, top right is beetroot,fruit and orange, bottom left is carrot,cranberry and nuts,bttom right is beetroot and chocolate. I gave

them all away to friends.

last night I made a birthday card for a friend who is a dancer. I started with a sketch, what witht he missing mojo I found one on deviant art that I liked and copied the basic shape, then modified it .

Next the outlines done with a fineliner.
I then took a large blank card, C5 size, matted blue card onto it, then made a background with promarkers which I matted onto the card.

Finally the main image is coloured with promarkers, then cut out and stuck onto the background image and matted card.

I also made this sock monster as a birthday gift, this is his story...

Originally from the planet 'GHLUTZshone',this monster is a political prisoner.He never understood his arrest,everyone hates the governement right?

Ok so he may have used a little Uranium, and some politicians may now glow in the dark,but surely that's not an arrestable offence!

Whilst being made to harvest giant man-eating tulips in the AABriki desert,he managed to steal the guards spaceship.He had heard about the infamous Guy Fawkes,and headed to Earth to join him.Unfortunately he got lost in the space-time continuum and landed some 400 years too late.

Upon discovering the delights of minty toothpaste,he decided to stay,though he is not too keen on the lack of two-headed females. His real name is impossible to pronounce unless you are willing to have each of your teeth split in half. The nearest equivalent name in English is 'Wilson'

Here are the final 6, that's 40 monsters in total. I am pretty much all monstered out lol

Here is a family shot of all 40, they have now all been packed up in the van ready to set off for Bulgaria in the morning.

A lovely lady that I know, Sue Nicholson, and her daughter Sarah,made these 2 monsters to add to the convoy..how lovely is that. This makes 42 on their way to the orphanage.

Darcy x

Batch 5 of the monsters done, I am working on the final 6, well 4 are done now so I am working on the final 2. That will make 40 in total, a bit short of the 100 that I would have liked to send, there are 100 children in the orphanage, but it was impossible given the time I had...maybe next time lol did I really just say that, can't believe I would ever want to look at a sock ever again hahaha

Still doing diy, I have been waxing woodwork and putting up lining paper, and in the few moments inbetween I have been making a little photo album /booklet for a friend.

Batch number 4 all done, this makes a total of 26 monsters now. The next pile of socks is sitting in my desk ready to be mutilated and reborn. I hope you like seeing them, sorry there isn't much else to show you at the moment.

Batch number 3, this makes 20 monsters in total now. I am feeling a bit monstered out lol as well as doing these I am still sanding, painting,waxing and doing woodwork in the livingroom. Hoping to get the lining paper on the walls sometime next week and then the flooring can go down. Today my son moved into his new flat, ready to start his masters degree in a few weeks.

Second batch of sock monsters, 14 done in total now.

THIS is where they are going.

These are sock monsters, going on a convoy of aid over to children in Bulgaria. 7 done so far....lots more to do.

New sock monster, yet to be named, I think he's a bit cute and would love to keep him lol


Socks for Ian, for Easter. I can't tell you about the pattern as I have completely forgotten how I did them, and clearly wasn't organised enough to write the destructions down...shame as I quite like the pattern and want some for myself. I may sit and work out what I did at some point, but probbaly not, life is too short. Oh and note to self, do not wrap Cadburys creme eggs up inside socks. Ian opened them while still in bed, opening the sock up above his head, at which point the eggs fell out and almost concussed him.



New birthday card, hand drawn outlined with letraset fineliner and coloured with promarkers. not happy with the arms and legs, must try harder lol



I need to make a non religious christening/naming card......any ideas?

What's been happening ? well not a great deal really. We have had a few nice days and have been out for walks, taking lots of photos. We also had Mother's Day here in the UK, we went to Whitby for the day, to one of my fave restaurants, was a lovely day spent with my boy.

I made 3 sock monsters to go out to 3 little girls in Uganda, my dance teacher sponsors them, and they will go out in the next box of goodies she sends out to them.



I also made a set of 12 greetings cards for servicemen/women. This fabby girl used to be in the RAF, and she is collecting a ton of greeting cards that she will send out to soldiers serving abroad. they have no access to cards or stationery with which to write home to their families. So if you make cards and want to help, get in touch with her.






ummm what else? I got a new dress and new shoes. These are for my mum's 70th birthday party next weekend.

I made some socks for Ian for Easter, though a photo will have to wait.

Ian's niece had a baby boy the other day, welcome to the world baby Owen. Here is the card I made for him.



A couple of years ago my son bought me a wooden sign of my name, it was plain blue, so I have decorated it.



Last night I made another sock monster for the daughter of a friend.



I went shopping up at the farm shop and got molested by cows.




oh and I am officially addicted to promarkers.