Art Every Day Month

Well here goes, the start of art every day month. I can't promise to take photos every day but I can do my best to do something creative every day this month in some shape or form. I've spent quite a bit of today printing up orders for my NOTHS shop. But that doesn't really count as creative in my mind. I've already designed the screens, I'm just putting different people's names on the stationery. I'm so pleased though to have had several orders this week, being in the NOTHS catalogue was obviously the right decision. I don't want it to go crazy though. My small business needs to stay small for the time being- I have a dissertation to finish, a magazine to write for and a wedding to plan (let alone a full time job and a house to look after!)

Anyway, I will be doing something creative today and hopefully I'll remember to take photos too. Happy 1st November x

Christmas time, tra la la la la

Well the time had to come eventually, here's a blatant plug for my Christmas cards!


They're available here, here and here! And soon on my very own website at long last.

Now, drum roll for the winner of the mini-giveaway on my last post...

the winner is....

commenter no. 10

cloudhopping said...

good luck with the creative month, fab idea, wish I was organised enough to commit to join too. 19 October 2008 08:46:00 GMT

I'll be in touch shortly cloudhopping to get your address :)

On a completely different note... how gorgeous are these shoes? If you follow my other blog you'll know I've been looking at purple as one of my wedding colours, wouldn't these be perfect to have peeking out from under my dress?


from net-a-porter

A bit of a jumbly update

Lots of little bits of updates today...

• I've joined in this fab project...

hopefully I'll manage to do at least something creative every day in November.

• I'm in the inaugural papernstitch exhibition

• and um... sure there's something else but I'm too tired to remember!

How are you all doing? Leave a comment and I might just send one of you a little something if you're very lucky :)

Inspiration in Amsterdam part 2

Remember the flower photos from Amsterdam in my last post?

Here's a colour palette I made using the bighugelabs color palette generator and one of the photos.



I can use this now to create an inspiration board.



1. green bridesmaid dress, 2. bouquet, 3. cake purple hydrangea carnation, 4. Untitled, 5. Isabelle Wedding Invitation, 6. lilac, 7. bridesmaids all in a row, 8. hydrangea wedding, 9. stylish greens and browns

Ooooh I like this colour scheme a lot! But it all depends on the bridesmaids dresses that we're yet to choose.

Walk the Walk

Some of you may remember I did the Playtex MoonWalk last year (and the year before that!) and what an amazing experience it was. Can you imagine how amazing it is walking 26 miles around London, at night, with 10,000+ other women and wearing a decorated bra? No? Neither could I until I did it. The feeling at the end was one of relief, elation and pride and very emotional.

I personally can’t commit the time needed to train for this (be under no illusion, the training is essential and hard work) so I won’t be taking part in 2009 but maybe some of you may be inspired to instead? If you’re looking for a way to get fit, raise some money for breast cancer research, treatment & care and have fun, enter the MoonWalk next week when entries open (16th October). Do it for me?

Here are a few (a lot of) photos that might inspire you (or put you off!) Let me know if you decide to enter!

Feets & Feats: Inspired by Erin

If you haven't seen the latest issue of Mankind Mag, go and download it now! Then come back here and read my feats and see my feets.

feat 1: learning to ski and doing my first black run- I am so uncoordinated yet somehow I managed to learn to whizz (ish) down a mountain with skis strapped to my feet.
feat 2: skydiving- I have seriously never done anything so scary in my life and I can't imagine doing anything so scary again, it's this I think which helped me overcome my skiing nervousness.
feat 3: degree- I haven't quite completed this feat yet but I'm on the home straight, by June next year I'll have a degree!
feat 4: paper and cloth- I never thought people would actually want to buy anything I make and I'm so happy to have my own little creative business.

feets:

Inspiration in Amsterdam

I went to Amsterdam and The Hague at the weekend and visited the flower market in Amsterdam. I don't know what colours we're having for the wedding yet but these flowers caught my eye...





Have you seen inspiration in the every day? I'll have more on this subject soon.

I've actually updated my other blog...

Go see the crafty bride for my French themed wedding inspiration board (which includes a photo of my actual wedding dress, note to self: make a different board to show Ben!). I'm really in to the idea of adding French influences to our wedding as of course we got engaged in France.

Aaaaaaannnnd I wrote a quick post on UK Handmade about the fab flower project.

Here are the flowers I've had so far:

Feeling a bit French...

So we got engaged in France, my dress has a French feel and it's romantic! What other reasons do I need for considering a little bit of a French theme for our wedding?

1) My dress from Pronuptia 2) Dauphine Press 3)Chalkboard labels 4)Life Images 5) Lavender 6) Croquembouche 7)Champagne Cork 8) ParisBreakfasts 9) Sweet Paul

Hmmmmm it could just work. What do you think?

Oh dear

I'm a bad blogger again. I am still here I promise :) I can't think what I've been doing lately, so here's a list of September so far to help me remember...

a little bit of partying (best friend's 30th), a lot of reading, some working, some studying, not enough making, cleaning :(, lots of bulb planting and weeding, daydreaming of a French style wedding, bridesmaid dress browsing, thinking about knitting, loving Japanese stuffs, wondering if I can bake a gingerbread house, playing with picnik, writing for the UK Handmade magazine.

Just so this isn't a pictureless post, here's a picniked photo of moi (it's photo you'll have seen before I'm sure)...