Sandy Snowden

This week 'Uncle Stan's Bicycle' returned from its journeys round the UK. This was part of the recently retired Suitcase Co...

When I tried out the letter/map idea for ALAW. I decided to do something I could use for a postcard for my family member. Her name starts...

The new theme for letters on the blog A Letter A Week is Place. I had ideas straight away. I thought I would use a Road Atlas from a few ...

I mentioned at the beginning of the year that I saw a different sort of fabric bead on the 31st December. It was in an article in the recent...

A slight diversion from things I am working on... For just over a week we have been getting used to a new member of the household. Mee...

2014 - Week 5 Daily Beads outer frill beads continue from last week no.26 no.27 no.28 outer frill beads change no.29 no.30 ...

Tomorrow's post will show the beads for the week. But here are all the beaded curtain rings for the month of January. The image shou...

The next step for working on the barkcloth for the Hands Up for Uganda Barkcloth to Artcloth exhibition. You can read more about Hands Up f...

Once I got the little Afghan girls in the post, I started working on the barkcloth for the Hands Up for Uganda project. I worked out that...

The next thing was to discover an edging. I thought of using the same fabric to make binding - endless desert idea - but it seemed it wanted...

After I built the little girls to add to the background, I tried them out on the piece I thought would give the idea of a desert-like wastel...

2014 - Week 4 Daily Beads outer frill beads continue from last week no.19 no.20 outer frill beads change no.21 no.22 no.23...

I have been drawn further into the needs of children in 3rd world countries following a more research when I was doing the "Menina de F...

Remember what I said about seeing shapes that look like some sort of creature or other? I went to press this piece of cloth and there he w...

Another funny little scrap. Now on a postcard and on its way. This scrap looked like a strange elephant. I always have been able to se...

2014 - Week 3 Daily Beads outer frill beads continue from last week no.12 outer frill beads change no.13 no.14 no.15 no.16 ...

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I have received some barkcloth in the post. This is to be embellished by me and then will be made up into ...

The last pages from the Sketchbook "Punctuation and Symbols". 22+23 24+25 26+27 28+29 30+31 32 The...