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.

My Creative Space....

Today I set myself a colouring in goal, check, done.
Time for fun. My favourite blog at the moment is a beautiful mess. It is all sorts of awesome and amazing. It is always full of wow. A couple of weeks ago the girls posted a DIY on clear iPhone covers. Neato, super neato, very cool idea. You can see I like that idea. They posted a tutorial over here. Cool, huh.
So, I got in the mail this week some clear iPhone covers. I have limited crafty supplies at work but I do have some old Frankie's and other books and scissors so that is a good enough start.....You know I have issues with patience.....
So after I had coloured my quota of Inspirez bunting today I let loose with the scissors and hole punch (it works just dandy as the camera hole cutter) and here are a couple of interchangeable covers I now have. I love the pink moose girl. She is from the Frankie magazine. She is a tad groovy, so she is perfect on my phone today.
I had a smallish brain explosion with the singer sewing machine ad, put the camera hole on the wrong side - derr me! Almost did it again with the Moose girl but, but realized just in the nick of hole punch time! Phew.
You could use just about any paper or maybe fabric, depending on the thickness.... I will test that so we'll see. Origami paper would look fab and cause it is usually quite thin I would be perfect. Imagination and a few supplies, that's it, you have a neato project for the weekend. Have fun.

side note - my last creative space was partially inspired by a beautiful mess too. The doily dream catcher.... It is still a work in progress.... I must make friends with patience for the completion of this one me thinks...... That in itself could be interesting.

Anyhow, for all things creative swing on over here. I have already had a squibs hence why I'm a little late with mine!

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.

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.

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.

 

 

My Creative Space....

here are some of my finished pile from last week, the monkey's are still on the go.....

lots and lots of others playing over here

My Creative Space....

Prepping some socks for weekend stitching.....sock monkeys and baby owls just around the next corner....

I also had fun stitching paper bunting this week. Gorgeous oriental papers to adorn cute corners at Coco's. I now have a wall at Coco's with cute FREE thoughts, compliments and affirmations. They are made by Amanda over at Kind Over Matter. I have used them before outside the store but I thought today they would make a lovley permanent fixture at Coco's. What do you think? 

Lots more lovely creatives over here.

 

 

My Creative Space..... Sew Baby Sew!!

Woohoo, my creative space this week is newness for me. Yay I love testing out new stuff. Back at the sewing machine, it's been quite neglected of late so it has been lovely this week to be playing with some Mexican oilcloth. It's like way bright and fabulous and spotty and happy. I like happy fabric, it makes me smile. And it wasn't quite as daunting to sew with as I first thought, phew.... You know how I don't have much patience well I tried to find some and read some stuff about sewing oilcloth and the like and well I wasn't all gun-hoe about cutting it, I read a bit more, and then I finally drew myself up a pattern and after adjusting the pattern three times, the first two were a little large, the third one worked a treat. Pictured is prototype number 2, great size for my multitudes of make up or the Mr.'s lunch.
And the best handy little tip, so you don't have to buy a Teflon foot for your machine, if your going to sew on the bright, happy side, otherwise known as the right side pop a piece of baking paper over the top and sew straight through it. When you are finished carefully tear it off and wha-la it works, give it a burl. And also make sure your machine needle is sharp- that's a no brainer!
For the rest of all our creative spaces toddle off over here.....