Showing posts with label diary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diary. Show all posts
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Long time
Though its been way too long since I blogged (I am too embarrassed to mention just how long), I am bursting with creative ideas, DIY inspiration, the glory of upcycling, my growing addiction to instagram, a longing for my sewing-machine buried under the rubble of the 'spare room' (otherwise known as the pit), and just the pure joy of making things. Here I sit with my moleskin ideas book and fresh felt tipped pen, my sketch journal, my daily diary which also incidentally got buried in the spare room, pinterest site open, statigram, instagram, twitter and yes, the blog. I do plan to get it going again. I want to post pics, ideas, things to sew, furniture I plan to renovate, decor I intend to scatter about my little housie, a foray into baking and whatever else I might be inspired to do. Instead of keeping all these ideas tucked away in the recesses of my e-files I thought I might just blog about them! So here's to inspiration, here's to spare time, here's to order from chaos, here's to beauty, here's to the therapy of creating something lovely.
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011
I've been doing covered journals (see previous post) and decided to branch out into 2012 diaries. Everyone needs a diary for the new year, right? So far I'm experimenting with printed cotton, a great range of shweshwe, embroidered maps of Africa, felt and of course, some hearts. The cotton makes for a neater fit than the tweed (very bulky) and I feel you can't go ever go wrong with shweshwe! I don't feel I've quite 'got' it yet. There are elements of all of it that I really love, and then somehow I don't feel like its really 'working' quite yet. I think the felt hearts (situated, of course, in South Africa) probably stand out a bit too much and I might try some fancy embroidery stitch there rather. Hmm. A work in progress.
So I'll be selling these at the NG Christmas Market (1-3 Dec in Grahamstown, Hill Str) but if anyone is keen to order let me know. I'm on c.brauteseth@gmail.com.
So I'll be selling these at the NG Christmas Market (1-3 Dec in Grahamstown, Hill Str) but if anyone is keen to order let me know. I'm on c.brauteseth@gmail.com.
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