the Rogue Gene Collective speaks » crafts http://blog.roguegenecollective.com ... artists working for artists ... Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:44:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Mother’s Day creations http://blog.roguegenecollective.com/mothers-day-creations-671.htm http://blog.roguegenecollective.com/mothers-day-creations-671.htm#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:40:10 +0000 Aitch http://blog.roguegenecollective.com/?p=671 Continue reading →]]> Mother’s Day was over a week ago now, but as my mum was ill on the day itself and for several days afterwards, too, I had to wait a week to give her her presents and card. So on Sunday 21st March we celebrated Mother’s Day by  cooking a favourite spaghetti bolognese recipe of ours for my parents. We started the meal with olives, ciabatta bread and an olive oil/balsamic vinegar dip, then had the spaghetti bolognese with garlic bread and finished with a raspberry pavlova – all in all, a very enjoyable evening.

I decided to go completely hand-made for my gifts this year – it’s often tricky finding a gift that won’t be wasted, so I made some more white chocolate and cranberry fudge, the same as I featured in my personal blog at Christmas here.

I also made her a magnetic note-pad, similar to the ones I’ve been stocking in my Etsy shop lately. I stupidly forgot to take a photo of it before I wrapped it up, but it was a combination of gold and green colours very similar to my paintings Green Opulence 1 and Green Opulence 2, with an emerald green ribbon tying the note-pad onto the board itself.

The card I made this year was taken from a web-site I discovered in Stumbleupon and I made a note of it as I really wanted to try it out. The link to the web-site is here, and you can see my version of it in these images:

]]> http://blog.roguegenecollective.com/mothers-day-creations-671.htm/feed 0 ‘Frozen’ featured in Etsy Treasury http://blog.roguegenecollective.com/frozen-featured-in-etsy-treasury-520.htm http://blog.roguegenecollective.com/frozen-featured-in-etsy-treasury-520.htm#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:51:19 +0000 andrea http://blog.roguegenecollective.com/?p=520 Continue reading →]]> EtsyTreasuryMany thanks to Etsy user ‘julieandco’ for featuring my ethereal landscape painting ‘Frozen’ in her wonderful Etsy Treasury list!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=35128667

‘Frozen’ can be purchased from my Etsy shop. You will also find a selection mini art paintings and handmade items; greeting cards, felt corsages and wool wreaths that compliment the colours in my contemporary paintings.

www.andreafarmerart.etsy.com

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