Fabulous Mail Day!!!

Yesterday would have to be one of my best mail days ever!!! I received an absolutely fantastic canvas art piece from a friend who's shifted up North of Western Australia to Tom Price (yeah, I know, sounds like a bloke's name, but it's actually a town!)....the wonderful Natalie Briney's piece of artwork just for me .......da daaaaaaaaaa........

There was another package for me to open, this one from Luxembourg.....another super-talented girl - Belinda Schneider. I had sent her some atc's to swap and her return atc's arrived to much anticipation.....absolutely worth the wait! They are so textural and layered even though you can't tell this much from the flat scan, there are numerous layers of painted paper in the backgrounds. LOVE her images too and those white wings on the gothic art piece are just to die for!!! So these first 3 are the atc's that she sent to me....

and this is the absolutely gorgeous gothic arch piece that Belinda sent to me.....DEFINITELY going to make a gothic arch book to hold this piece!

Must try and find some time today to make some atc's for trading at the Art Retreat this weekend. I have my good pal Barb Thomas arriving tomorrow from Wagga (over East). We are all pretty excited about spending some quality time soaking up all the techniques and absorbing inspiration from Lesley Riley, Michael de Meng, Nina Bagley & our very own Dale Rollerson (The Thread Studio), should be a blast! Taking my camera so you girls had better be on your best behaviour or you MIGHT find yourself on "youtube"!!! hahahaha Speaking of youtube, Michelle Ward has got me well & truly hooked on the very delectable Ville Valo from HIM....take a look at this clip