Rourke and Henry

My Creative Space....

the last two weeks  I have had my very own sweatshop of 1 happening.....me, machine, coffee, music. Job done, ready for delivery- happy days.

Today, I began prepping for the Winter  Art Bazaar on Sunday, June 10. Maitland Regional Art Gallery....10am-3pm.  I drew thse guys on cardboard today and played with instagram, normally they are my bunting characters..... not really sure how I will use them yet but I'm working on that bit.... I'll let you know. I've covered the inside of one of my vintage suitcases with some pages from The Wizaed of Oz and I think I will do a couple more suitcases next week. 

I'm thinking a bit of a storybook theme going on....mixed with my cut out characters..... 

I'm linking up with Our Creative Spaces this week over at Village Voices... do pop over.

Product Review- iPhone Cross Stitch Case.

Coming this week to the Teeny Tiny Techy Department. A crafty DIY project for your iPhone 4. If you're the stitching type and you love your iPhone you can stitch yourself a one-of-a-kind iPhone cover. How totally groovy is that?
This uber cool kit comes with 1 silicone iPhone cover with tiny perforations, quite like a needlepoint canvas, three different colour threads, a needle and a little book full of ideas to stitch your little heart out or you could make your own design. The possibilities are endless, and if you get sick of your design you can always restitch something else.
They come in a variety of colours white, pink, blue, green,black and orange.
I do think it is a very lovely marriage of craft and technology. And if your mum needs an über cool crafty mother's day present you could stitch her something totally for her. Yep, cool idea indeed.
They are $18 for the complete kit and will be in store this Wednesday.

Olive the Owl Girl

Olive is currently adorning my window. My window is tinted so I've decided to pop stories on the window. I still have groovy stuff in my window but I also have funny little stories. So here is Olive's.

Olive the Owl girl is a dreamer. She is a dreamer of big dreams. Her head is often in the clouds. The clouds remind her of marshmallows. She especially likes pink marshmallows. She can fit 5 in her mouth and still chat! She likes chatting. She would chat all day if she could. Her best pals are Randy and Rex, they are a pair of squirrels, they are ACE. They know secret squirrel stuff like how to climb into a rainbow and how to find a four leaf clover. They love Olive to bits and bits cause she is good and fun and always dreams the best dreams. She is going to be famous one day but today Rex and Randy think she is fabulous......just fabulous. X

(apologies for the photo)
Here is Olive in colour- she is part of my original artwork Inspirez Bunting too.

My Creative Space....inspired by gorgeousness

I adore this blog..... I'm hoping my creative space will look something like this whan I'm done, with my own spin on it...bits of red.... 

My other creativeness has been inspired by this blog, I adore it too. 

Miss Muffet has indeed been road testing these sweet little cloud (aka fibre fill but cloud sounds so much better) and lavender sweet dreams pillows.... it seems to be working.... so far, so good. 

Hope your week has been creative, over here is.

Busy, Busy.....

busy....busy....

...making...colouring, cutting, cooking, painting, baking....busy, happy, working... blessed with ACE customers ( I know I've said that before but its like the truest of true!) These school holidays have whizzed by, life whizzes by....

sometimes you have to make time to play....or else you go insane.... 

 

but the Lorax was good, we saw it this week, I liked it alot. I like Dr. Seuss alot, you learn stuff without learning it. That is especially good for the smalls learning stuff without learning it. We watched Percy Jackson and the lightning theif, Mr Magoo is reading it at the moment and much to his inital suprise I know stuff, random I know but I know a little bit about Zeus and Medusa and The Gods!! Miss Muffet is reading The Lorax. It is good she says. She likes Dr.Seuss too. 

The very new veggie garden planted Easter Saturday is growing....the weather has been quite hideous for children but the new veggies are adoring the weather cause they are growing like really, really fast.....some from seed! Yay. 

...In the words of Ferris "life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in awhile you could miss it"  

I'm glad we found time to stop and check out the scenery these holidays, even though it has been busy, busy, we still had time.... oh and we played some humdinger UNO games! We like those too. 

...so this week I'm grateful for being busy but also grateful for finding time out... life's great balancing act.... one of my all time fav Dr. Seuss books...Oh, the places you'll go...read it you will be glad you did.I hope your hoildays were grand. 

Pop over to Maxabella's Grateful or Village Voices lots of lovelies hang out there.

 

My Creative Space....

Lots of stitching this week, stitching monkeys,bunnies, bags, bunting, lots of nifty stuff. Lots. 

Lots of stitching Tuesday afternoon, stitching and laughs. I love my crafty Tuesday gang. They are simply Awesome. 

Stitching this cutie patootie monkey today and then had a bright idea to attach a bunny to the front of these bags, I like them and think they might just make cute stash bags for all the chocolate.....


hop, hop, hop over here to see all the other creatives this week. 

 

My Creative Space....

My creative space this week has seen a new department introduced at Coco's that I'm very excited about. The Kindness Department houses beautiful books, inspiring journals and notebooks. It has some of my Coco art and it also has free stuff. Free compliments and positive thoughts. You can print these out too if you like head over to Kind Over Matter, Amanda has some truely gorgeous printables. They will make you smile.

The Kindness Department also has free recipe cards, I have handwritten these and they will come with a picture and a Pay it Forward Kindness Card. I have been thinking about the Pay it Forward concept alot in recent months so I had these cards printed..... mostly for myself and the smalls to be able to play with but I thought it might be nice to give a recipe and a PIF card for you to play with if you want. I think it is a lovely idea for my children to grasp, Pay it Forward. I let Mr Magoo watch the movie last week, and then I watched it too.

Such a simple concept yet such a huge ripple......do you want to play? do you know how? 

for lots of creatives head over to our creative spaces and take a peek.  

 

My Creative Space

Here is our Easter window at Coco's. My window is tinted so it makes it a little hard to see through. So I've been drawing on the window. Yesterday I wrote a little story about Marcel and Lucy..... You can probably decipher the photo but if you can't this is what it says.
'Marcel is a shy bunny, not when he has his suit and cape on though. With his Super Bunny suit he can move mountains. He eats danger for breakfast. His best pal is Lucy bunny. She is a sweetheart. She knows Marcel does not need his suit and cape to be a super bunny but she does not mind that he wears it downtown with her. They get milkshakes and park their bikes at Coco's (it's their favourite store) and they learn French together. It's fun. They know words like 'Merci' and 'Bonjour' they will go to Paris one day but today they are happy Easter is just around the next corner.....xxx'

Head on over here for lots of creative spaces.... I think Easter may be in the air over there too.

Product Review.... Passport Covers

I wish I was using one of these passport covers soon. My passport and tickets would fit nicely in one. I wish I was going to New York or Paris or Hawaii or some remote island. I'm not fussy although the remote island may lack shops and I need shops. Shops and I are great friends, I love shops. But I'm digressing here this is a product review, so review I shall.
These fabulous passport covers are long enough to hold your airline boarding pass (22cm x 11cm) passport and probably some other important stuff you carry with you. They have a little clear section so you could pop your name and phone or contact information. They have a pen holder and notepad - I find this super for little bits of inspiration, shop names, websites or converting currency. It has 4 sections to house your stuff and is lined with sweet as fabric with keys and Eiffel Towers and tiny dots and a lace looking border.
Then there is the cover, it has me at the cover. Made of Pleather, that's what I call pretend leather, they are printed on the front with an Eiffel Tower and 'The Journey' then here's the bit I love lots it says - ' journey makes your life beautiful and exciting, and a memorable journey is a part of your living' The red one is my fav, you could have probably guessed that if you drop by often. They also come in navy blue and caramel brown. They are $29 each.
Wouldn't your passport just love to live in this cover. Mine sure does, now I just need to find a boarding pass......

My Creative Space....Some bunnies hero.

This is the pencil that draws the pictures, it is attached to my left hand, my drawing hand. It is my favourite pencil. I love this quote, I think Emerson was probably cool. You would have to be to think of a quote like that. "Be silly, be honest, be kind". Great words to live by and draw with.  

My creative space is much more creative chaos, genereally I have at least five or six projects on the go at any one time, depending on my mood and time of day and of course location depends on which project may get the attention it deserves. 

I colour alot at Coco's, I always have colours with me, school, coffee, sports, yep they are pretty much a given in my bag. Today I coloured a bunny boy super hero. He is cute. He is cool and he has some cool, fun, inspiring words. 

Words for little Heroes or growing Heroes or bunnies that need inspiring. 

For lots more ever inspiring creatives go here. I do.