List Love

Lists on my desk this week

Home

1. Clear out walk in cupboard which hold pots, dishes, laundry centre and miscillanious items. At the moment things are being strateigically placed so they don't fall on the floor instead of being neatly away. I have to get this sorted this week before I break something!

2. Get all my pictures up on the living room wall in a cluster type collection. I think I have about 15 pieces to go up and I am fed up looking at the canvas thingy I did years ago and looks unfinished.

3. Write some letters. I have 4 people in my life I want to send a lovely letter too this week.

Jewellery Shop

4. Work on some new brooch designs, in metal and fabric. I have so many ideas floating about and don't really know where to start, so I know I just have to start making and see where I go.

5. Make up some Christmas Gift sets. I would like to offer a package with earrings, a bracelet and a card. I plan to have at least 2 listed by next Monday.

Papier Delights

6. List the new ACEOs I made this weekend. Looking at my photographs of these is making me think I should re take some of my other ones and keep the feel the same. I plan to list a new ACEO a day over the next few weeks and if the sun breaks through the clouds tomorrow I'll re take some snaps.

7. Do more doodle embroidery. Instead of watching TV at night I have been stitching away. They can maybe end up as cards but for the moment I'm just trying to sew for an hour a day.

What are on your lists for this week?

Little stitches

washing line #4

Todays washing line features a little sewing project I created on Sunday evening. I had a quite night in alone and decided that I wanted to get my threads out, and created home 1.

As most of you will realise by now I love creating in lots of different mediums and for most of the time my head is buzzing with ideas.

My biggest challenge is giving each project my time and full attention. When I am creating jewellery I long to get my paints out. When I get round to clearing my desk to collage, I get orders in for jewellery. I need to work out a way to split my time between jewellery and everything else.

Any suggestions?

I am going to fill papier delights with all my non jewellery creations for the moment and share them with the world.

the leaves are falling

winter leaf charm bracelet

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."

Emily Bronte

some other leafy inspiration:

mystify print by Sherri Conley on Etsy

leaf the place to buy leaf teas online

leaf mobile tutorial - design*sponge

Inspiration

washing line #2

I believe in signs and I have been sent quite a few in the last couple of days. In my last post I talked about digging out lots of my collage work and remembering about it. Well last night I was delighted to find that I sold 3 more ACEO's from my papierdelights shop. I am always filled with joy when people select my work to adorn their wrists or their walls, and this particular sale has got my mixed media juices flowing again! So tomorrow I am going to have a collaging day, glue and ribbon at the ready........

washing line #3

Weekend

It has been a lovely lazy weekend.

Saturday I started working on thank you tags for my shop packaging which meant emptying out my collage box and finding lots of things I had forgotton about. Having been inspired by lobster and swan a few weeks ago, I decided to use here 'washing line' display technique to share some of the loveliness I found.

washing line #1

A little while ago I had a collage frenzie and make up lots of little pictures and ACEOs to add to my other shop. But I didn't ever get round to listing them. I think deep down I knew there were a few I wanted to keep for myself, so put them into a folder. The fist picture hanging on my line is a small collage using a piece of recycled cereal box, book and old atlas pages and lovely printed papers.

So after finding these pieces and I got to work on some tags and come up with a new design for the gift boxes I use to post out my designs. I wanted something simple yet special and am happy with this.

And yesterday was spent eating breakfast in bed, reading the paper and snuggling with Pablo. Just perfect.

Inspiration

I found this project 50 people 1 Question a few months ago and it moved me so much.

Something to think about over the weekend.

I would like to say a little hello to all my new blog followers, I'm going to spend today in blogland, visiting you all!

Friday Link Love

Avant Garden Love - A fanciful twist

I think I need one of these - Diana F camera

My feet would love these - Caesar from Liberty

Starting to bloom

Stormy Afternoon

:: And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful

than the risk it took to blossom ::

Anais Nin

This quote has been pinned beside my computer for the last 3 years and it has taken me until this month for me to actually start to blossom. I have stayed stagnent for so many years, through fear. But no more!

This is the beginning of my new beginning.

(more to follow soon)