Bright Light

In the quest to finish our unit, I am trying out all my ideas... yesterday, it was a light shade for our living room....  not bad for under $20 in materials... and a few hours work.

Original Creations

I love originality, I love seeing the final piece in someone's ideas & inspirations.. so I thought I would share a few of my own final pieces.  These are from over the last few years...hope you like them

Amazing Art

I came across the most amazing art this morning (by artist Lora8 a.k.a Lora Zombie)....based around splatters of paint.. you've got to check them out!!!

http://www.designzzz.com/artwork-beautiful-splatter-effects-lora8/

http://lora8.deviantart.com/

A Quilt for Mum

This Mother's Day, I thought I would make a quilt for my Mum.  I went into this thinking that it would be quite easy - nothing too challenging.. let me say, I have a WHOLE new respect for Quilters.. especially those very detailed quilts.  I didn't let it beat me though - I may have deviated away from my original pattern (once I discovered how much work was involved in it)... but I still think it came out pretty good.  I still have the pieces from the original design and now that I'm a seasoned Quilter (hehe), I might give that one a go.. in say a hundred years!

  

Elephant Madness

Recently, I've become obsessed with elephants.. 

drawing them, sewing them, painting them....  

Here are a few of the latest creations

Score of the Decade

Even before I was a home owner, I had always wanted Casala chairs in my home .. although the dream was here, the spare funds weren't.  My dreams came true the other day on my way to the shops.. someone had put 2 Casala chairs on the side of the road.. free!!!!  Without a second thought, I u-turned and put them in my boot before the previous owners could realise what they had let go of!  So, another project - they need a bit of work.. and think I'll get them done properly - and at a grand total of much much less than they are worth.  This, is the bargain of the century!!!  The saying, 'Other people's trash is another's treasure' could not be more true.

Dutch Love

Last night I was trawling the internet for creativity, and came across this blog, Bloesem, it is so simple, yet so packed full of creativity.  I just couldn't stop, I had to go through every page, and on each page I would find something that I thought 'that's so cool!'  'I want to make that!'  So I thought I would share it with you ... The thing that I think I like the most is that you get to take a peek inside the creative spaces of so many people - you can see what inspires them, what they like to have around them when they create.  I find this so fascinating...

I want some of these ceramic keys !  These are from nonesuchthings.

                                        

The vase of paper flowers gives such a great base idea for some amazing centre pieces ... 

Feather Light

Last night as I tossed and turned in bed, I couldn't help but feel I needed to get my hands on a paintbrush, a pencil, anything that would allow me to create.. and thus, sleep.  It's been far too long between projects, and my body doesn't allow me rest until I have the satisfaction of a finished project.  While this is a small piece, it was enough to get me to sleep. 

The Light Project

So, this project was one of those ones that you get super excited about at the beginning, then you start and it seems to take SO much more time than you had anticipated ... and you get slightly bored with it, looking at it day after day, knowing you should be doing something about it, but the mere thought makes you want to run the other way.  This was one of THOSE projects.  In saying it was one of THOSE projects, doesn't take away from the fact that I am absolutely thrilled with the way it turned out and looking back on it, know the blood, sweat and tears were definitely all worth it.

It started with $4 window frames that I found at a tip in Woodridge (of all places!).  I didn't want to use them in the conventional way - very unlike me I know ;) .  After tossing up many, many ideas, I decided I wanted to make them into a floor lamp - a lamp that had frosted glass .. with dragonflies - that projected on the wall when the light was on.  2 years, a few $$ and many frustrations later - I stood back and watched the dragonflies light up the wall.  Mission accomplished!

Umbrella .. with a twist of irony

I often 'doodle' at work - to get my eyes off the computer screen 

and to keep my hands moving ... 

the idea for this picture started as a work doodle .. 

Parallel Creativity

The other day, I thought I would use some of the beautiful Japanese paper that a good friend had given me - I wanted to make a wall of butterflies.  I have a light made from 3 old window frames, that I had frosted with dragonfly images, to cast shadows over the wall when the light was on.  I thought I'd continue with the shadow casting, and position the butterflies so they appear to be flying from out of the light.. casting shadows as they go. 

A few days later, I was 'surfing the net' looking for images of inspiration, and I found an image of butterfly cut outs dotted along a wall ...  parallel creativity ...

My butterfly wall ... 

The image I found a few days 

after I had created my butterfly wall...

So true xx

Fridge Project .... completed

The fridge has turned out better than I could have hoped.  I started on the contact - and it didn't go too bad.  In hind sight, I should have made sure both the contact and the lace were completely flat - but not to worry.  I was quite confident after the initial spray on contact, so decided to take a jump in the deep end.... and go direct onto the fridge.

Lucky my husband was around ... adding great ideas - like taking the doors off ... making things so much easier.

After making sure the lace was tight and very flat (with no bumps or lumps), and with my heart in my mouth, I made the first spray.  We did the freezer half of the door first .. the anticipation of the big reveal was killing me!  But I had learnt that you need to be patient with these things (which is very, very hard for me).  So I kept myself busy with other things... like taping up the other half of the door.  Drum roll please.....I carefully peeled back the lace....  it looked great!!!!  

Even my husband reluctantly agreed that it actually looked better than he had imagined.  So we did the second half of the door... turned out great (I accidently had the pattern going the opposite way, but I think this actually made for a better effect - let's say it was meant to be that way .. hehe)

A Calendar!!

Not that I like keeping a track of time, but I do love calendars - any one year, I could have as many as 10 calendars throughout the house.. Pair this with my love of keys & keyholes & I have found my perfect calendar.. 

Fallen in Love

I have fallen in love with these ceramic pieces of art ....  I LOVE keys & keyholes .. the old kind, the antique kind - you see ornate keyplates, with a single keyhole... a hole of darkness, of mystery .. with secrets and many a drama gone on behind it - and then you have the key.. The key that can open anything ... and the anticipation of what could be found once that key enters the keyhole, turns and you hear that 'click' of the lock letting go...

http://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtMind

Inspiration

Wish List

You know how you always have a 'must have' on your wish list.. this is mine.. I have always envisaged my studio having an old plan drawer/architects drawer in the corner - oozing with character.  I'm just hoping

the furniture fairy drops it off to my place...as a 

gesture of good will... hhhhmm, unlikely?