I made this today....from pattern to finished product in a few hours. It isn't very complicated but still it was done and this does lead me on to ask you all a question about weekend crafting......Do you get things finished faster on weekends than you would during the week? I have all the time in my week, apart from when the whole family is home for lunch, to do what I want to do but I never seem to get a whole lot completed. I always think I have other things to do like the washing or the cleaning or the organising of meals. All that seems to hinder the creative flow then a Saturday shows up and wham I can do it. Is it because everybody else is lolling about not duing much and I feel I can do what I please and not the household chores. I would like to know if there is anybody else out there that agrees with me or you all just think I am crazy and should just think that everyday is a Saturday.
Let me know!
Friday mornings activities............catching up for a birthday coffee...........not having coffee but a fine Italien chocolate frappe..............new cafe opened up that serves fine Italien hot chocolate as well.............you know the kind you have to drink with a spoon! It was very good indeed.
I was lying in bed on Tuesday evening thinking these girl so I got my jobs finished first thing Wednesday morning and put thread to material. I'm not sure what I will do with them but I was thinking brooches. Today I have more thoughts in mind to sew then I will move on to the next step of fancying them all up. They will also need a very good iron!
Other creative spacers over here.
Sending out mail, recieving mail is always nice isn't it? Over the past few months I have become a little addicted to checking in on Swapbot. I don't know if you know the site but it is all about swaps, all kinds of swaps, you name it they swap it. I check in every now and again to see what is happening and see if there is something I may be able to do. I have participated in 2 swaps so far, nothing to hard nor complicated. The little parcel I sent of yesterday was a mix of 10 odd buttons.I liked the idea of this one as it isn't to tricky for a crafter to find 10 odd buttons is it? Now I will be waiting patiently see what arrives in my mailbox.
I haven't been in this space for quite a while. There is 2 reasons for this the 1st being I haven't felt like it. The 2nd is I have had other things to do, a few jobs around the house that I had been putting off and putting off but now I have slowly knocked a few off the list I can look at the creative space again. I picked up something this week that has been sitting for a long time waiting to be finished. I am not sure why I left Django's quilt for so long as it took me not more than an hour to add some simple machine quilting on it. I plan to put the binding on by the end of the day and then spend the next day or so doing the handstitiching and he should have it on his bed by the weekend. Hooray!!Just because I haven't been in my creative doesn't mean I haven't been checking up on what has been going on in other peoples space.
My lovely hubby bought me a Blythe calender for 2010.
Here is Miss March all ready for Spring.
Not us here though we are still 30 degrees and wilting in the wind.
Our weekend passed with rain & sunshine & eating out & some sitting around relaxin'. Always a nice combination for me........a bit of doin' & a bit of sittin'.The weekend started with a visit to a small art exhibition on Friday night. The kids did an art class when we got back to Noumea this year and this was the fruits of their labour. The classes revolved around theirs hands not just what they could do with their hands but decorating copies of their hands.
Their little expo coincided with a much grander expo from a local artist Miriam Schwamm.....she had taken a picture everyday for a year of her hand with something written on it. I think the kids liked that there work was up on the wall with a much bigger artist than themselves but I think what they liked more was running around the yard of the Centre D'art playing cache-cache.
P.S I meant to add I finished this book over the weekend and I really liked it. I didn't want it to end, I wanted to read more letters between all those people.
