a creative painting space

an unfinished canvas & a big mess of metho, brushes, oil paints.

 i love that there is no straight lines, no hems to iron or zips to place. a creative mess in progress - i spend a little bit of time every other day playing around with the metho & washing back the previous colour, messy but fun :)

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creative space

a while ago i purchased this gorgous print "the rabbit & the duck"  from Penny @ Pocket Carnival, for a friend who was expecting a baby boy. I thought this print was (still is) just perfect for a little boys room. For months i searched for the right frame and couldnt find one that would fit it nicely......baby Miles was born and I was under pressure to get this thing framed!  i ending up buying a white box frame and machine stitched the print onto some art canvas, then framed it. I love the texture that the art canvas has and with the stitching it makes it look more of a collage. i am very happy with it!

then a card.....the giraffe was scanned from a piece of  vintage wrapping paper (you may remember i made gift tags using this wrapping paper quite some time ago) then printed onto my fave paper (art canvas) & machine stitched it a ll together.

The gift was perfect for them! The Pocket Carnival  print is now hanging up on

miles' wall and the card is possibly going to be framed aswell. :)

 its a good feeling  when you put something together for someone special and they love it!

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my creative space

and this is just one of 4 corners. and i sometimes wonder why my creativeness just isnt there! but hey, like my profile says, if i cant see the floor -i'm happy that way i know i have been productive. On an upside i am very blessed to have my own sewing room & its all mine so who cares how messy it is. It is full of all my treasures, like my painting of Frida Kahlo (yet to be mounted), my nanas cookie jar, buttons etc, 2 of my machines, baskets of cotton spools, oppy finds, made things, and not so finished made things, boxes & baskets, vintage saris...etc so........maybe next week i'll show you all another corner, or if i can be bothered i might even tidy it up. x

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my creative space...today i will..

today i will start / finish my necklaces. i am actually supposed to be working today, but the moon goddess has decided i need a day of rest. i am hoping it will be a productive day as the weeks start was a bit blah, with my printer ceasing up halfway through printing mysticturtle's brochures, (must get some work done on mt's blog & re-do the web & facebook pages also...) so now i must buy a new one ANYONE HAVE A FAVE MODEL TO RECOMMEND? and then my car decided not to start and is now at the mechanics, then half of my tooth fell out. so that's my 3.

this week just seems so caotic..........i have maybe taken on board the job of looking after the handmade shows blog, i have a studio full of unfinished projects, (so much for getting my etsy shop up by the end of jan), and a friend has asked me to help market her belly dance classes, which i think will be great, as i can just trade my time for her class tuition. i do miss the dance.

onward & forward.............................might go for a walk to ease the cramping & get some fresh air before i start again on my jewellery, or i might just relax all day catching up on some fave blogs or reading mags.

oh and so much for one of my esty purchases (lil round tins for jewellery) it has been a month and the supplier has no record of my order grrrrrr.....