Monthly Archives: February 2010

Saturday February 13, 2010

Getting Creative

My task this week is to talk about when I first fell in love with creating. For me it started with my mother and her love of sewing. She is such a beautiful seamstress and over the years has made everything from quilts, to dolls clothes to overly complicated Issey Miyake shirts (for me). She [...]

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Thursday February 11, 2010

Can You See Something Ticking?

Do you ever become aware of something e.g. a word, a colour or a concept and then you see and hear it everywhere you go? This is me and striped ticking at the moment. I am seeing it everywhere I look. Is it more prevalent than it used to be or am I just more [...]

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Tuesday February 9, 2010

Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Purple

This week not only did the old and new Etsy colour search engines disappoint I had to completely abandon them in favour of a keyword search. I found nothing that grabbed me with either colour pickers but look at what I did find with my ‘purple’ search:TOP: Andie’s Glass focal bead. The bead is beautiful [...]

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Tuesday February 9, 2010

Birthday Month Continues

My little man turns 5 today but we celebrated with a party last Saturday. Here he is ready for his party and posing in his birthday t-shirt (I’m not sure about this ‘smile’). The birthday t-shirts are now a tradition and they have definitely evolved over the last 5 years. They used to be made [...]

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Saturday February 6, 2010

Flickr three :: fuchsia

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

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Friday February 5, 2010

Imperfection

Lately I’ve been pondering my attraction to things that are flawed. I have a diamond in a ring with a giant flaw that I feel like I have to justify to any jeweller that ever looks at it. I like dog-eared books, odd numbers and the idea behind rug makers purposefully tying one knot in [...]

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Thursday February 4, 2010

How Do You Store Your Fabric?

My fabric has been stuffed in a Cathcart Allied moving box since we came from Atlanta so this has been a quandary of mine for quite a few months now. I’m appealing to you for your help – how should I store my fabric? I am not only aiming this question at my fellow fabric [...]

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Wednesday February 3, 2010

Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Fuchsia

Once again I thought this would be an easy task this week as fuchsia is such a bold garish colour that I assumed it would prevail in my colour search. Once again I almost gave up on the old search tool but that was until I found the top picture…TOP – Jellybeans – A Spring [...]

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