Creative life

Doodles

Posted on 18 October 2011 in Art, Creative life, Fun stuff

Oh I did some good doodles last week:…

Friday Art Class

Posted on 16 October 2011 in Art, Creative life

These are the words that just be true

Posted on 15 October 2011 in Creative life

I keep on scribbling In the spare room I’m living in Body’s here but I’m living in Why do I keep wasting time I keep on writing, writing But them folk ain’t biting, biting Maybe the bait ain’t juicy…

I wish…

Posted on 10 October 2011 in Creative life

…That I had a job where I could dress like this every day and no-one would care. …That I didn’t have to spend ten frustrating minutes every day trying to find a pair of tights without holes in them,…

A message from Cy Twombly

Posted on 5 October 2011 in Art, Creative life

The other week I went with my friend Helen to see a Cy Twombly exhibition at Dulwich. I LOVE Cy Twombly. Saw the big exhibition at the Tate a few years ago and fell in love with his work…

South West Jumble - I did it!

Posted on 26 September 2011 in Craft, Creative life

Well, I did it! I had a craft stall at the South West Jumble! YAY! I had some lovely comments on my work and spoke to some amazing artists… whose cards I seem to have temporarily misplaced, so will…

Exciting crafty news!

Posted on 3 September 2011 in Craft, Creative life

This week I had some good news - I’ve been allocated a table at the lovely South West Jumble, in Tooting, South London, on 25th September. (I blogged about this crafty event back in June). Here’s the Facebook event…

Time

Posted on 27 August 2011 in Creative life

So I bought this book: To be honest I haven’t read it yet. But time to create is something that endlessly frustrates me. I have so many ideas of things I want to do. Sometimes they come one after…

Shopping trip

Posted on 21 August 2011 in Creative life, Fun stuff

I ended up at Spitalfields market today and made me way home via Blade Rubber Stamps and Magma (which may be my favourite shop EVER). It’s a good job, for the sake of my bank balance, that I don’t…

Recent Flickr Favourites

Posted on 9 August 2011 in Creative life

1. Textile ArtWork - Hand Stitched Appliqued Patchwork, 2. One-liner giraffe, 3. FEARLESS Painting Insomnia , 4. Ozella- in process, 5. Day 1: Opening Your Heart Center, 6. lost stars on strings, 7. A bunny for Leonie #doodle #doodlebomb…

Fearless painting!

Posted on 4 August 2011 in Art, Creative life

I’ve been meaning to try out the painting processes/techniques of Connie Hozvicka of Dirty Footprints Studio for ages after having signed up to the 21 Secrets art journaling course. She’s blown me away with her writing and teaching skills….

Paint over collage class on 21Secrets

Posted on 2 July 2011 in Art, Creative life

So I signed up for 21 Secrets and I’m so glad I did. There’s so much in there to try and get inspired by. So far I’ve been trying out Willowing’s paint over collage class (also now available to buy…

Mosaic on a Monday

Posted on 13 June 2011 in Art, Craft, Creative life, Fun stuff

1. in-progress art quilt (detail 1), 2. Index Card 01, 3. small portrait, 4. journal-page, 5. Paper is Lovely, 6. A Sister’s ‘HuG’, 7. For Cory, 8. Book spines, 9. The Board of stuff Created with fd’s Flickr Toys…

South West Jumble

Posted on 6 June 2011 in Art, Craft, Creative life, Fun stuff

On Sunday we had a potter round South West Jumble, a craft event that I recently discovered just down the road from me! It’s held in the stunning Tooting Tram & Social pub which has a very eclectic design:…

Recent Flickr favourites

Posted on 31 May 2011 in Creative life

Thanks for everyone’s nice comments on my recent posts! I’m still here and still creating things… I hope to post up details of what I’ve done soon(ish). I’ve also ordered some Moo cards, printed out some more copies of…

My DWYL Book

Posted on 28 May 2011 in Craft, Creative life

It’s about time I blogged about the product of my attendance at the Do What You Love Retreat, which was a gorgeous handmade book! As you’ll know from my previous post I took a class with the lovely Rachel Hazell,…

Recent Flickr Favourites

Posted on 19 May 2011 in Art, Craft, Creative life

1. Broadcast, 2. mixed media teapot picture, 3. A Happy Redundancy, 4. Day 352 - Sketching with Printing, 5. sun touched tulip, 6. Postcard Study, 7. Untitled, 8. Downtown, 9. IMG_3862 Created with fd’s Flickr Toys…

Back from Doing What I Love!

Posted on 17 May 2011 in Art, Craft, Creative life

“How beautiful it is to fit art into your everyday life” - Flora Bowley Well I got back on Sunday from the Do What You Love art retreat, and wow, it really was fantastic. I have not had time to…

Retreating!

Posted on 9 May 2011 in Art, Craft, Creative life

Did you notice anything exciting when I posted this picture the other day? No. Not the untidiness of my bookshelf. Ignore that! Ignore it I say! Can’t spot it? How about now? I’m going on an arty/crafty retreat! My…

Cheer on a Monday

Posted on 9 May 2011 in Art, Craft, Creative life

As it’s Monday, let’s have some lovely images to cheer us all up, shall we? I love how these all work together somehow. 1. droplets, 2. Little Birds Brooch, 3. Coolifornia, 4. ledger journal, 5. PERSONAL USE ONLY - Vintage…

Back from holiday!

Posted on 5 May 2011 in Art, Craft, Creative life

It’s been a bit quiet around here as I’ve been away walking on The Glyndwr’s Way; a 135 mile National Trail through mid-Wales, from Knighton to Welshpool. It was lovely… the weather was sunny almost every day, it didn’t…

Creativity on holiday

Posted on 20 April 2011 in Art, Creative life, Walking

Last year when we walked the Coast to Coast, I made a zine out of it! Part of the fun was drawing it as we went, each night we’d sit down and Andrew would write his journal and I…

Recently I am all about the cute stuff

Posted on 13 April 2011 in Art, Creative life

In my constant quest to try to figure out what makes me tick creatively, I made another breakthrough: Cute stuff! Also, stationery. Preferably combined (oooo). I went shopping the other day on a well worn route, including a couple…

Secret ingredient

Posted on 8 April 2011 in Art, Creative life

I’ve been pretty busy the last few days so not much time to blog or be creative. My parents were visiting last weekend; this is us walking towards the beautiful Seven Sisters cliffs: I suppose I’ve been dwelling on the…