Friday 13 January 2012

Tulips forever

Mr. P and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary last week, and being an old romantic, he brought home a beautiful vase full of our wedding flowers, French tulips, arranged by his own fair hands...I just love the graceful beauty of these blooms so I thought I'd share a photo of them before they fade....




Being an old romantic myself, my gift to him also had a tulip theme...a wooden tulip which I had carved out of pine over a period of weeks...talk about a labour of love!




Here's to many more wonderful years of love and romance!



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Tuesday 10 January 2012

Ideas ideas

Being back at college means that I have to cram an awful lot into my evenings once the kids are in bed...but with so many gorgeous craft blogs out there I find the lure of reading and looking at beautiful blogs far outweighs my desire to make something myself. For starters, there's no risk of making something truly hideous that just proves I don't have what it takes to ever be a designer-maker. So often I end up accomplishing nothing in my evenings but just a major dose of blog envy, doubts over my own ability and the blank pages of my sketchbook still staring back at me. But then sometimes, I come across a truly fantastic blog that it makes my evening of inaction so worthwhile. Ninainvorm is one such blog. I totally adore her cute and colourful collages and ceramics. It's really got me thinking about my own work and how important it is to stay true to what I really like, and what makes me happy. Looking at Nina's work I am so inspired to have a go at making collages and ceramics and somehow find a way of incorporating it into furniture and woodwork....ooohh the wheels and cogs of my imagination are turning....I guess that's some kind of action (even if it's not visible!).






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Friday 6 January 2012

Blooming Marvellous

What to do with leftover fabric scraps and random buttons....


...make Kanzashi, Japanese fabric flowers of course!



Combining gorgeous fabrics with origami techniques....it just can't get better! My mind's just swirling with ideas on how I can use these cute flowers...I'm in craft heaven!


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