Kahurangi Cottage

23/12/2024

10/10/2024

This wee bundle arrived yesterday around 2.30pm, the spring weather took a turn for the worse with lots of rain and snow on the hills. Spent a sleepless night making sure she was getting milk and mum was keeping her warm. Thankfully she did. 🙃💜

17/09/2024

Silver Springs. Ink, tea and silver foil on watercolour paper.🙃💜

08/09/2024

Church of the Good Shepherd Lake Tekapo South Island NZ. Oil on canvas. Another in the Aurora series, this time Aurora Australis or Southern Lights, it's been a mission getting this finished!🙃💜

31/08/2024

I've had a bit of a soap sabbatical over the winter as my studio is a bit on the cold side for successful soap making. Now the warmer weather is arriving, I can start again. Looking for some handmade soap with all natural products, so good for your skin, PM me🙃💜

12/07/2024

My lovely friend/sister-in-law gave me this scotch chest, my initial thought was a dark red riding hood, but since our lovely hielan' coo Haggis has gone to that great paddock in the sky, I just had to have a homage to her. I printed out this photo and decoupaged it onto the front, I stuffed it up big time, it looked awful!! The only way I could save it was by painting over the print. My daughter then suggested I put some thistles on it, the handles don't come off, so with a bit of DAS paper clay and my thistle mould I made the handles look a bit special (in my opinion!!). I then used my cricut to print out the top, it says Highland Cows are my spirit animal in gaelic. The sides were blended with the sky blue and white chalk paint (both from Kmart) and some celtic knotwork stencilled onto them in lilac chalk paint (kmart again). I love, love, love this piece, hopefully it will be a family heirloom!😂🤣💜💜💜

12/07/2024

Adding a bit of steampunk to an old metal trunk.🙃💜

21/03/2024

Pink Lady mixed media on canvas. I found a pin by Amadriadi. Celia Bailes that appealed to me for a fabric study, I put my own spin on the background.🙃💜

16/03/2024

Last week I decided to upcyle these old Rimu drawers ( some of you purist will be appalled at me actually putting paint on Rimu, but in my defence they are pretty boring and our house is all wood, so colour is needed here an there!! The mould is made from air dry clay, then I painted it with Vodoo Molly Pink Kiss vintage paint, decoupaged the steampunk cats on the front and on the top, then blended Cherry Bomb vintage paint by Vodoo Molly with Blush Pink by Rustoleum, once dry I added some waterslide decals to the top print then waxed the whole piece. Finally used some gilding wax to the mould and added crystal handles.🙃💜

12/02/2024

My first soap of 2024, been a busy summer at the cottage! Jaffa Cake smells amazing of chocolate and orange, this will be available in time for the Pretty Crafty Market on Sun 17th March which happens to be St Patricks Day.🙃💜