Alicry Sky

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Alicry Sky, the world I live in from my eyes and living with heart failure - by Buffy

So, what’s the point of this page? It’s the Facebook place where I share everything I’ve made, some are for sale, some are sold before they’re even made and some sell before they are finished and a very small number of them I keep all for myself :) Always happy to teach tips and tricks, actually thinking about writing some kind of book with all my ideas on crafting, inspiration and marketing and some folk have expressed an interest but I honestly wonder if it’ll ever happen :D I’m going to use this bit as a kind of diary

What crafts have I tried? Ooh lots :) most of the ones that don’t involve wool, I tried knitting as a child and hated it. Strangely as a youngster I wasn’t really very crafty, mostly I was to be found with my head in a book, I didn’t even do “proper art” until I was 15 and then fluked an O’ Level at 16, still not sure how. I really want to have a go at pottery and love glass work but I also love wood and metal work. I don’t really enjoy pyrography, there isn’t enough colour or glitter in it :) it’s a bit like glass etching. I do love beads and jewellery making, I love the wide variety of beads available and that if I can’t find what I need I can make it with wood, acrylic, resin, string or clay, etc,

I spent a few weeks learning new skills to make some acrylic poured paint artwork and clocks. There is lots of weighing and getting mixtures right :) and trying different paints and inks and pouring fluids which is something I do love to do, I loved adding different powders and glitters and beads too and am happy to say most of the clocks made so far sold almost immediately. After four days of waiting for paint and two coats of resin to dry they take a bit too long for me, patience isn’t something I have a lot of and these clocks seem to take days to complete depending on how much resin you use or how many layers, I think it’ll be faster for me to use an acrylic finish instead. You can find one of my clocks here https://folksy.com/items/7480684-Green-and-bronze-handpainted-art-wall-clock Working with resin is interesting, a lot of people don’t realise how toxic it is to breathe in and get on your skin. Sadly too many also fail to realise that it shouldn’t be used in items intended to come into contact with food.

Encaustic art is kind of cool, it’s painting with wax on an iron. It gives a beautiful finish and creates some fantastical scenery and images. I am a messy creator though and drip the stuff everywhere :D

I love creating designs on the computer for tee-shirts and mugs, etc and enjoyed sublimation work, hated the printer though. I’ve buried it now behind a shelf in the craft room and if I ever have to look at it again it’ll be too soon. I might start sub printing again but next time I try a different printer :) learning to set up a continuous ink system was a good experience though, just not with a printer that you can’t take apart easily.

My world I live in Lincoln, in my 21st home. I was born in Bicester in Oxfordshire and growing up my dad was in the Royal Air Force, we moved around a lot, I went to eight schools and loved it when it was time to move on. As an adult I settled in Buckinghamshire for a while and then destiny brought me to my husband, my soul mate. I knew the moment that I saw him that he was “the one”. He was in the Royal Air Force when we met so I was already used to the lifestyle he was to introduce me back to. We eventually moved to Lincoln where he was based at RAF Waddington until retirement, we bought a house here and settled. We’ve only moved once since then and that was temporary when our home burned in 2010 we had to move out for eight months. We had hoped to move to France for a long while but it all vanished, and then Brexit happened and we celebrate our near miss. So here I am, living in the bustling and beautiful city of Lincoln, which I should say is poles apart from Lincoln, Nebraska, which I visited in 2013. The city and countryside is steeped in history filled with the castle and cathedral, from Victorians, monks, Romans, Kings and war time memories there is much to see and do here.

What’s this heart failure thing? I had an overactive thyroid for many years that I kept trying not to get sorted until in 2013 I went off and saw a doctor, determined to look after my health, except it was kind of too late for my heart. I also developed thyroid eye disease,also known as Graves disease, which causes your eyes to bulge in a creepy weird mad scientist way :D I allowed vanity to rule my head because I knew that thyroid was keeping me slim. Talk about karma...! I spent all those years as a size 12 and in the last five years I’ve shot outwards (and am still growing) to a size 22. I’m five foot two and weigh sixteen stone and to make it worse I’m a vegetarian so it’s not possible to cut things out of my diet and replace them with veggies or fruit - oops. Not having my thyroid treated for all those years has left me with lasting and progressive damage and in the last two years it has deteriorated to the point that I can no longer walk around my bed without getting out of breath and having to sit down. Making it up the stairs without stopping to breathe several times is an accomplishment, and of course gaining weight brings other problems. Most days I’m out of energy before I’ve even got up. My heart has to choose between pumping to my limbs or my lungs and brain and it can’t keep up with any of it so I often spend a lot of the day coughing and feeling like I’m drowning from the fluid building up in my lungs. My sciatic nerve traps after just a few minutes standing, my hips and knees shriek in pain with the weight on them, the knee thing makes going upstairs even less fun. It’s not all bad though :) I can craft sitting down and there’s nothing wrong with my arms, hands or head and three of our sons live locally and my lovely husband is around to help - Truly blessed!