new little book

 Just another little book I have been working on.

Sneak peak

Here is a sneak peak of some little books that I have just finished ready to list on etsy in the coming weeks. (if I can part with them) LOL
Love Sarah
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I'm backkkk....

 Hi there Bloggers, its me Sarah!  Sarah who you ask? Me, its me I am back, finally after more than a year away playing mum again, I am once again at the table creating. And it feels good. I am loving getting inky, gluey dirty fingers all over again. Even this little one who seems to have grown up way too fast, is loving watching her mum do what she loves. God forbib if anything is within her reach though. I never seem to get it back in the same state. LOL

 Anyway I have had a little play around in the last few months with creating some canvases for my daughters,  girlie fun stuff. And now I am back into the book making. I am like a mad woman who cant get enough. Thats what happens when you have a 1 year break. In fact I am making books to sell on etsy. Well I hope I am. Thats if I can part with them.  On the subject of etsy, I would like to say a big thank you to all the lovely ladies out there who have messaged me asking when I will be back in buisness. The answer to that is (Fingers Crossed) some time mid June I am hoping. Maybe earlier all going well.. Hmmfff who am I kidding, I have a 11 month old daughter. No I am more than hopeful it will be June sometime.LOL

 Anyway bloggers I must get some beauty sleep, its rather rare in this house, even after 11 months, but its getting much better, and if I want to get these hands dirty tomorrow, sleep is on the menu right now. If all plays out well in the coming days I shall upload some pics of some of the books I have just finished..
  Missed you all, and its great to be back..
Love Sarah
xxoxoxoxox

A blogging hiatus

I am off on a blogging hiatus my dear friends. As you can see this steampunk wanna be mumma of one is about to become a mumma of 2 any day now. Its been 10yrs since my last baby was born and if my memory serves me right, there isnt anytime for creativity for a few months at least.

I shall be back, when I do not know, with what I couldnt tell u, gosh one could even get back to my scrapbooking roots, eeekk now thats my baby brain speaking surely, as its been years, but its a thought either way.

Take care all

Love Sarah

xoxoxoxoxo

A wee little golden book

Here is a wee little golden book I have made for my dear friend Jen Crossley for her 50th birthday today.

Happy birthday Jen Jen wishing I was there to help you blow out all 50 candles with you.. xoxoxo

Love Sarah

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Another Steampunk Book

I know what your all saying, "Sarah another steampunk book!!" LOL , I know I know, its a fad I am going through..heheh

I just adore Tim Holtz's new book plate stamp and when I saw what my dear friend Jen did, well I just had to play too.

Please check out Jen's blog for her book, and 2 other lovely creative women who have played with Tim's stamps and metal etched their own books. Fab work girls, no wonder we are always inspired to create..

Check out these blogs for more eye candy.. Bevlea and Lucy.

Enjoy and happy creating

Sarah

xoxoxox

MIA

Sorry dear friends for MIA for quite some time. However have still been creating, here are a couple of books that I was commissioned to make for a lovely lady to give to her mother and daughter.. Forgot how long these big buggers take to make, but I loved every moment of creating them. I also made etched brass bookmarks to go inside.

Will be back later in the week with another book I have made with inspiration coming from my dear talented friend Jen Crossley .

Hope you all had a wonderful easter.

Love sarah

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Book 2

More jewellery from Tim's idea-ology range

Here is another 3 jewellery creations I have been playing with lately. I am loving playing with Tim Holtz's idea-ology range of findings. They lend themselves perfectly to my obesession with those little faces made from polymer clay.

All going well in the next couple of weeks I shall reopen my etsy store with some new books and jewellery (if I can part with it LOL). I will let you all know when it happens here on my blog.

Love Sarah

xoxoxoxoxox

Obsessed with Faces.

Howdy all, hope your all well. I've been been back on the jewellery making bender once again and playing around with faces and polymer clay. Here are 3 so far and I will be back tomorrow with 3 more that I have just finished. Til then take care.

Love Sarah

xoxoxoxox

Inspired..

Can you remeber the first person that inspired you to be creative?

As a teen I had 3 wonderful people who inspired me to be creative and start this life long journey of creativity.

Firstly my mum, who always gave me freedom to play and nourished all my ideas. Even if they seemed a bit odd at the time.

Secondly was a wonderful craft teacher Shirley who owned a craft shop in the little town I grew up in. (Would love to know how she is these days). She was incredibly patient with teaching children, and gave us endless supplies of lace and hot glue to create whatever too our fancy.

And thirdly was a dear high school friend Ingrid Lee. Man did she have and still does have some serious talent up her sleeve.

I remeber sitting in art class just wanting to paint like her, needless to say I couldnt. I remember begging her for one of her china painted fairy pendants. She must of finally succumbed to my nagging as I was a proud owner of this beautiful pendant.

Over the years, when I opened up my jewellery box, I would always fondly remember Ingrid, and wonder how she was.

Thankfully Facebook has reunited us, and our passion for art has bought us back togeather. I told her I still had her pendant and wanted to do this blog post to say thank you Ingrid for inspiring me, then and even now.

Please check out her wonderful blog Ingrid creates, even her baking is superb..

By the way sorry for not blogging since Halloween, we have moved interstate just before Christmas, and now thats its a new year, plenty of creating lies await..

Take care all, and promise to return with some of my own creations in the not too distant future.

Inside the Halloween Book.

Thought I would share some of the pages inside my Halloween Book that I have been working on. Its still a work in progress, something that I can pick up and add to whenever it takes my fancy. I also found the inner scrapbooker in me again and did a couple of photo pages of my daughter dressed up a few years back..

This book has given me plenty of pleasure lately and hopefully one day all the pages will be filled with frighfully fun and spooky objet d'art..

Inside the Halloween Book Part 2

Gee isnt she a cute little witch?

Happy Halloween

Love Sarah

xoxoxoxoxo

Open for buisness.

My etsy store is finally here and open for buisness. You can find my mini books and jewellery here at Saimba's Etsy Store.

Get in while you can as once these are sold, no more will be made until January at the earliest.

And trust me its going to kill me not being able to be creative for a couple of months.. Arrgghh the joys of being an army wife and moving all the time.

Thank you all for your wonderful support and kind comments along the way, I would love to be able to press a button and thank each and everyone of you, (I am sure there has to be one here on blogger) I just have to find it.. LOL

Saimba's etsy store...

Love Sarah

xoxoxoxoxox

Busy busy busy...

I am still floating about, been busy busy busy of late with getting house ready to move interstate in a couple of months, and of course getting in the last bit of creativity before the madness of moving, and all my supplies are packed up until January.

I have finally decided to open up my own etsy store, which I am in the process of doing, and hope to have items listed in the coming days.

There will be some jewellery items, Mini Alice in wonderland books, and my other vintage victorian inspired mini books, which I have several new designs to share with you.

So stay tuned, if you follow my blog you will be the 1st to know when Saimba's etsy shop opens in the coming days.

Love Sarah

xoxoxoxoxox

Pause in art transmission to remember

this time 9 yrs ago, I had just fed my 8 week old baby, I placed her in her bouncer ready to let the dogs out and wake my man to go to bed when i saw on the late news a plane had flown into a building in the US. Thinking to myself, what a terrible accident, a small plane off course. I phoned my mum, as i always do every night, I was telling her about the news, so she turned to that channel. As we were watching togeather via the phone we witnessed that 2nd plane flying into Tower 2. I remember clearly I swore quite a bit. Woke the man up then, I didnt even give him a chance to rub his eyes when I unloaded this upon him. Bless him, Straight away he said Terriorists. I was like "WHAT!" This was the night I learnt about terrorists other than the IRA. This was the night that the world changed, the night we would never see young children see inside a cock pit of an areoplane again, this would be the night to see my husband go to war for the 2nd time, this would be the night that would eventually see many of our friends not make it home from war, (Tash always thinking of you mate), this one night would see so many people die, and continue to die from diseases from the all the contaminated dust that fell from those 2 buildings, and the on going war in Afghanistan. As a young mum, I was frightened, scared to death, of what the future held, and does hold. And all i have to say to you who did this, who changed the world is... fuck you. Fuck you, fuck u fuck u.

Buried deep..

I have been buried deep in all things wicked and spooky of late. I decided that I was sick and tired at looking at this half finished Halloween Book for neally 3 years. So out I pull it, and all the accompaning junk that I have hoarded for 3 years and bury myself deep into finishing it.

I am almost there, its no masterpiece by any means, but its my little book where I can keep adding to it over the years of Halloween Images and little pieces of spooky art that I may create. Some of which I will share closer to Halloween. Now off to clean craft room, ready for the next creation..