Showing posts with label laurabailliedesigns2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laurabailliedesigns2. Show all posts

Friday, 9 January 2009

Getting in the mood



"My Sweetheart"


I have been getting ready for the next "date" on my calander Valentine's Day and thinking love, romance and rich red.



"Acknowledging our love"


I have been flitting between mixed media and jewellery this week and loving every minute, but I think I'll stick to the paper and illustrations this weekend and then get down to businessey things on Monday. I was about to pack all my papers and paint away this evening but I got a quick visit from Miss L with lovely new brushes, so I'll need to try them all out. Thanks Missy!


A few months ago my bo was unpacking the car having just finished refurbishing someone's kitchen and was making a pile of materials to take to get recycled, when I spied this meter piece of hardboard. I knew I could use it for something and asked him if he could saw it up for me into small squares and rectangles. So on Wednesday night I began transfering some of my recent sketch book pages onto them.


I have enjoyed working on this series so much that I am getting very little sleep. I just can't seem to switch off at the moment which is such a buzz. I am beginning to understand my creative cycle and just work with it. I seem to have a quiet time of doodling, designing and then playing, which is followed by an almost frenzied splurge of production. At the moment I am in the midst of a frenzie, and have a very messy studio to prove it!

My bo is always so understanding of how I work and has been so patient these last two weeks while I have been in hibernation covered in PVA and paint, so this evening I promised him my undivided attention. We have had lovely dinner and are now watching "The Puffy Chair", and I have sneeked a few minutes in blogland while he take Pablo out for a walk.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend x

Saturday, 3 January 2009

Tadaaaa..............


Well after a long wait I have finally got my act together and re-opened laurabailliedesigns2!

I managed to use some relaxing days of the holidays to create and find my new creative flair and I have been really enjoying it. I initially opened this shop in October 2007 and dipped in and out of it listing and deleting different types of paper goodies but never really felt happy with them. Do you ever get that way with your creations?


This time I feel my work reflects my loves, paper, collage, text, paint, finding things and birds. And because of this I am making more than I have time to photograph and edit! So I'm going to have to sit down and sort out a time table for making, photogaphing, editing and listing for 2 shops, or else I fear I will end up in a muddle and going nowhere.