...inspired by the details of interiors past...
Sunday, 16 February 2014
Sunday, 9 February 2014
...papering the living room....
.....I have a rather 'out of control' collection of Victorian decoupage papers. So, as part of my potterings on a Sunday, I thought I would sort through and see if I could part with a small gathering over at The Linen Garden shop next week. I started to attach them to the corners of my paintings in the living room - they look rather cheery that I don't actually want to take them down.....
(ppssst) it is now a few days since I wrote this post...these (or similar) are now currently for sale over at The Linen Garden...
Monday, 3 February 2014
...the Friday-Monday rule....
...I am trying to stick to my new routine of work/family/sanity balance that only allows me to check into my work room on a weekend to answer emails or to indulge in a little internet meandering. I don't own a mobile phone so my visiting Facebook or Pinterest or Etsy is one taken by being sat at my bureau infront of my pc.
It is so important that work has a completion line that closes one week and allows the next in line to commence with a refreshed eye. I have chosen to be a tad organised on a Friday. This may seem a bit confusing but I leave my work room as if it is the up and coming Monday morning. I leave new trimmings hanging on the wall, new found visuals positioned on floral grounds, re-awaken textures, tidy and sort and leave the studio with exciting compositions in place. A sense of a new week before we even approach.
...so this is how my Monday morning looks to me....I have a list in my diary of orders needing to be completed and sent and while I work on those I ponder what to do with the new fabrics and ephemera that have recently arrived in the studio...I take an acknowledged consideration and nod to completing projects and products that are still only half made - even if it is only another quarter of a mile of stitching I will be still closer to completion that I was last Friday.
....do you have any routines you can share...I love hearing how others organise their week - sometimes I wonder how I manage to complete deadlines when there are so many distractions.....but I do and satisfaction is felt....
Sunday, 2 February 2014
a sunday sigh
...just that one image that conjures all sorts of responses....just to absorb it's beauty, to inspire you to paint, to re-discover and research...this painting by Vuillard was an absolute pleasure of a find this week....that one painting that just warms your heart......a Sunday sigh.
Friday, 31 January 2014
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
gathering and listening
...recent days gatherings of inspiration...
...listening to...
...click on the images to take you to places new...
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
'til I come marching home....
...looking back through files and found this linen booklet I made for a photoshoot for Oxfam in London a couple of years ago...I wonder where it is now.....I keep meaning to make a few more for the shop.
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
heavenly haberdashery
...so much prettiness decorating the shelves of The Linen Garden - and above is a card wrap of a Parisienne ribbon from my hand made collection off to its new home in the States...
Monday, 20 January 2014
sheer bloomin' floral happiness
...you get to know and learn, after a few years of practice, how long a task will take you...but crikes have I had a long 48 hours......And that means something coming from a girl who thinks 24 hours just isn't enough time in the day.
DAY 1.
Sunday. I set up my make shift photo board and sat, patiently, on a very grey day waiting for the late morning light to wave hello through the studio window. The light in my work room is particularly wonderful between the hours of 10 and 1 at this time of year. But the room became darker as the skies became more grey. Dark northern skies may I add. At busy times like this I need the weather to work with me, when I really need a blue sky and a bright day I like to think the weather will perform just for me. I almost, stupidly, just expect it to be there. I don't have fancy photography lights. I like natural light. I have deadlines. I am impatient. I want to be able to cross tasks off my list. I never learn. Was I annoyed with the grey or was I more disgruntled that I had to work a Sunday (especially when I am supposed to be my own boss).
After messing around with test shots and trying to do clever things in Photoshop with pretty bad 'dark day' results, I was about to give up, when the skies must have been that annoyed with my tuts and curses that they decided to part the clouds and let a little 'light flood in'.......
Happiness. Sheer bloomin' floral happiness.
DAY 2
Monday. I have spent the best part of the day (since 5am) sorting and tweeking and labeling photographs ready to place on my Etsy shop. 11am. I sat at my computer with hands poised, like a mad pianist, ready to keyboard my way through the day rather smoothly. Technicalities. Every time I started to list a product the internet would cease and flip me back to a starting point. So I unplugged wires, reconnected wires, juggled wires trying to look as if I knew what I was doing. What has been going on today?? According to the land of twitter a fair few of us have had 'issues' - very small ladders and great big gigantic snakes have been my board game to the working day. And would you know it - three hours later it rectified itself just like that. Not too sure which is more annoying. But I don't know how I did it - but I got there. Half of the products made, photographed and listed and the other half lay on my making table awaiting attention and love and I will start the whole process again.
Next time I will look ahead at the forecast and book myself in advance for a beautiful sunny day and I am going to start listing products when the whole nation is asleep. Life is so much simpler when you are sat at a table with your fabric and snippets and your sewing box.
All products are listed on my Etsy shop 'The Vintage Drawer' if you care for a meander around the shelves.
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