Monthly Archives: February 2010

Saturday February 27, 2010

Change of Season and the End of Birthday Month

This is the flash of red at the bottom of my garden. These blossoms herald the end of summer and the start of autumn and coincide with shortening days and chilly mornings. Today marks the last day of summer and the end of birthday month. When the boys were little we would take our annual [...]

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Friday February 26, 2010

Drawing a Nice Pear… Give Away!

So this is what I’ve been doing this week… drawing pears. Actually I love pears and not just the taste of them. I’m even trying to incorporate the word pear into a business name because I think a pear on a business card would look lovely. Now, back to the reason I am drawing pears… [...]

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Wednesday February 24, 2010

Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Lavender

You’ll be pleased to know that the Etsy colour search tools did not let me down this week, here’s what I found:TOP: Photoglassworks tree and bird glass pendant. I know it was the background that matched my colour but when this appeared I just couldn’t let it go. Isn’t it gorgeous?MIDDLE: Sick on Sin’s [...]

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Sunday February 21, 2010

Flickr three :: indigo

{images via flickr – click image to go to source page}

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Sunday February 21, 2010

Dear Lynette, The Romance is Over

Our challenge this week is to write about falling out of love with a technique, fabric or pattern. For me the answer is easy… Thimbleberries. I used to adore the country stylings of Lynette Jensen’s fabric and now I’m really not a fan at all. My first real foray into quilting was in Atlanta [...]

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Friday February 19, 2010

Give me the child until seven…

and I will give you the man. This Jesuit motto has been running through my head leading up to my Jolly Monkey’s 7th birthday. Could it be that the person he will become has already been hardwired? Sometimes I find myself watching him and wondering what life has in store for him. This gives me [...]

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Thursday February 18, 2010

Procrastinating

I have the worst case of procrastination today! What I’m supposed to be doing is writing an essay and I simply cannot start. I have done all the research, I have all my references but… does this ever happen to you? How do you deal with it? I have managed almost every avoidance tactic [...]

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Wednesday February 17, 2010

Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Indigo

I just knew that a search for indigo would yield something inspired by Japan. I was happy to see that I was right. I should add that the old Etsy colour search once again let me down. It just couldn’t understand my colour request and it returned some very strange results. Give it a [...]

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Monday February 15, 2010

Flickr three :: purple

Almost slipped past me this week {I’m a little late – shhh don’t tell anyone} {images via flickr – click image to go to source page}

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Saturday February 13, 2010

Setting the Mood

It’s been a while since I have played with the Mijn Moodboard and it’s still a fun time waster. It’s also still in Dutch but it’s not too difficult to work out how to create your own moody compositions. Added features now are the ability to upload your own pictures for your moodboard and to [...]

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