tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76739447930486183612024-02-07T05:14:14.742+00:00The Shabby Chic BohemianShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.comBlogger256125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-76834189187301725782015-01-03T18:03:00.000+00:002015-01-03T18:03:08.202+00:00What a Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been quite a year. I finally found my little dream house in the country. I didn't do too badly envisioning what I ended up with. To clarify what I was looking for I decided to make a textile collage to remind myself what I needed and desired and hung it out in the old garden. I was haunting Zoopla morning, noon and night and had almost given up when this house came along. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was totally stressed out, two offers on other houses had not been successful. I was ready for a weekend off, no more house hunting and then this one popped into my inbox. It's not old, but it ticked all the other boxes so I went, I saw, I loved and the rest is history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whatever the weather I never tire of this view .....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then came the unpacking, choosing colours (always a favourite task) and then enjoying the results of my labours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was lots to explore for the cats, a new garden to sniff around, new territories to conquer. And they are so less stressed as I've only seen another 3 cats in the area whereas there were 10 that I knew of over the wall at the old house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas has come and gone for another year. Billy enjoyed the Christmas tree as usual, seeing it as a seasonal activity centre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What will the New Year bring? What are we looking forward to?</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More homebaking, coupled with some vegetable growing, there is a whole blank canvas of a garden to make over!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The summer house will be erected, a bargain in the sales, a welcome addition of some much needed shade on my sunny plot</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More colour in the garden, it desperately needs flowers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More charity shop trawling and treasures to unearth</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More visits to more cemeteries and more photos of angels</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More rest - listening to my body and taking it easy sometimes and not feeling guilty about doing nothing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And definitely more creative making (an easy intention to keep as last years creative output was paltry as the very least)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Happy New Year to all my friends and family! I hope it brings you all you wish for!</span></div>
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I went to a fabulous workshop lead by <a href="http://www.mandypattullo.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mandy Pattullo</a> at <a href="http://www.hopeandelvis.com/" target="_blank">Hope and Elvis</a> on Saturday. I set off on a very misty, murky morning and for those of you who know me, this is a big thing, driving somewhere I haven't been before. I'm not the world's most confident driver but I was determined to go but so glad I hadn't realised that visibility was so dire. It was only just over an hour away, I could do it, I would do it because the lure of her work and the wonderfulness of Hope and Elvis was the biggest 'carrot'. So, so glad I did, it more than lived up to expectations.</div>
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The wonderful stag above just had to come home with me. It was love at first sight, from the delightfully worn piece of quilt it's stitched on, to the wonderful mix of colours and textures in the embroidery.</div>
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Mandy was such a good tutor it wasn't long before we were up and running. Having chosen my template - a cheeky squirrel it was off to rummage for fabric pieces in the heaven of a pile of fabrics!<br />
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The whole place was just so inspirational but a bench, covered in fabric to rummage through was just so inspiring, so many fabrics and textures. Wish I could show you more of the studio but guess who forgot to charge her camera, arghhhhh!</div>
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Here was my work at the end of the day, still a ways to go but determined to finish it. I had such fun, it had been so long since I'd played and created. But it won't be as long again.<br />
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The house move is out of the way, most of the boxes are unpacked so it won't be long before I'm back making again. Incidently Mandy Pattullo very kindly brought along some of her sketchbooks and I was so happy to see the works she'd done around a cemetery - cos we all know how much I love cemeteries right? When I was in a local cemetery recently, doing some rubbings, ideas were flitting across my mind......watch this space folks. I also don't think it will be long before I'm on another course at Hope and Elvis, it really is a very special space.ShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-67158586971608479422014-05-25T18:02:00.000+01:002014-05-25T18:02:37.545+01:00Bye, bye my sweet garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I should now be moving house shortly and I'm going to miss my little garden. </div>
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I've enjoyed making it mine, full of roses and other cottage garden plants, slightly shabby around the edges, a little oasis of green for me and the boys. </div>
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But a new garden awaits, with a lawn, which will be a novelty, never had one of those before. It is all shrubs around the outside, very much as this one was, so some structure but crying out for some flowers. Also I'll have two gardens, one front and one at the back, a north and a south facing, so that should be fun.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I've recently discovered Waterlogue, a fabulous little app that turns your photos into pictures like watercolours. Here's Merlin in close up and</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's Hutch actually on his cat pillow, a wonderful vintage furnishing fabric.</span>ShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-62117558234434397272014-02-16T16:21:00.000+00:002014-02-16T16:21:07.329+00:00Hoorah! A Dry Sunday Afternoon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Started work on an art quilt with the theme of gardens. This is the first time I've tried curves with english paper piecing and I think it's worked quite well. It's to be a seed packet if the company was owned by a shabby chic gardener. I'll let you see it as it progresses...<br />
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Now off for a glass of chilled Soave and to put my feet up and watch the Musketeers. Just loving the detailing on the uniforms. The faces aren't bad either, lol. Enjoy your Sundays!</div>
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It's time to look forward to 2014 and what delights and opportunities it will bring for us all.</div>
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But first a word about this year. 2013 has 'been a funny old year' to paraphrase old Arkwright</div>
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I felt unsettled in January, started clearing things out, trips to take stuff to the charity shop when stuff normally comes the other direction, an attempt to get organised, so not like me who happily works in chaos, or creative juxtapositions as I like to call it. Then I put my house on the market and resolved to move to the country, to a smaller house with a bigger garden. No joy, no houses to go and look at much less to fall in love with. So stay put and do some improvements. Pass the smelling salts, the quotes came back so high that it just wasn't worth it.</div>
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Okay time for a list of what I'm looking for in a house and this took the form of a collage which is now blowing in the breeze (okay it's a bit more than a breeze but breeze sounds so much more romantic) in the garden for the universe to see. So now I wait, and scour the internet and ring drippy estate agents and keep my fingers crossed for the right house, at the right price, to come onto the market for me and my furry friends. Sorry no photos of the collage, they're on the old camera and I can't find the lead, total chaos as I said.</div>
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2013 was unsettling as well because I was 50 in November and that caused a fair amount of reflection etc. All in all a difficult year to be creative in, boo hoo. Well no more unsettled, a goal to focus on and some creating to be done in 2014.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've been attempting to use some of my fabric stash and came up with making these simple patchwork cushions.</span><br />
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I've been working on this cushion cover, on and off, for a couple of months and I've finally completed it. I thought I'd show you, stage by stage, how I did it.<br />
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Firstly the inspiration came from my friend Helen who drew and then screen printed this gorgeous face and script onto a piece of cotton. I'd seen it and asked if she had any spare if I could have one to embroider and make into a cushion. Isn't she clever, I couldn't draw that in a month of Sundays. Then as I was taking a batik class and had been experimenting with lace as a stencil to two ideas came together and I got to work.<br />
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I stretched the piece on a frame and used a vintage piece of lace from an antimacassar (it may have been my Grandma's but as I collect this type of lace anyways I can't remember) as a stencil for the beeswax, and 'framed' the image on two sides.<br />
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I was very concerned not to get the dye on the face and yet I wanted to have a crackle effect over the script to the left. This called for some serious, careful scrunching of the wax!<br />
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I first painted over the dye (Dylon Burlesque Red) but was happy with the light results, I wanted a stronger, deeper colour. So I ended up immersing the whole piece in the dye bowl.<br />
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Then, obviously I couldn't waste the dye so other batik lace pieces went in together with scraps from my stash. I love dying all different fabrics and trims in the same pot as they all take up the colour slightly differently and I have lots of pieces to then use to embellish a piece and they automatically 'match' the main piece.<br />
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Here it was, all dried and the wax taken out by ironing and washing.<br />
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Now came the auditioning and patchworking of pieces to enhance the main piece<br />
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Maybe this....<br />
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Or this?....<br />
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When I'd settled on an arrangement, and sewn the main pieces together with my trusty machine, (or I'm liable to keep changing things and not getting on, lol), I began embroidering.<br />
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I used simple back stitch to enhance the hair and a kind of satin stitch and couching on the lips.<br />
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The crocheted piece was dyed with tea to give it a more vintage look and couched down into place<br />
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Now I all I have to decide is where to use it! <br />
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And try to keep the cats off of it!<br />
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The back I kept deliberately simple, just two offcuts of co-ordinating fabric and an envelope finish.<br />
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I've really enjoyed working on this and now have to find another project to take my interest, sure another project will present itself soon. Maybe if I use a vintage photo as the focal point and do something similar......ShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-84764182699342448872013-07-15T19:11:00.000+01:002013-07-15T19:11:45.302+01:00Time for some Cat Photos me thinks.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was a blisteringly hot day yesterday, when my friend and I visited Rock Cemetery in Nottingham. It had long been on my mental 'to visit' list but when I saw my internet friend, <a href="http://www.blue-eyed-girl.co.uk/" target="_blank">Linda of Blue Eyed Girl</a> fame's photos recently I knew I just had to go now.<br />
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There were angels galore in this Victorian gothic cemetery, built in and around old sandpits and sandstone rocks.<br />
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I thought I'd share a few of my favourites with you. The graves were tightly packed together, no paths between them and such a mixture of statues and crosses.<br />
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Whilst it was nice to wander about on a bright and sunny day, I couldn't help but wonder how the atmosphere would change on a say, misty or frosty day. I feel another trip is needed later in the year.<br />
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Some lovely iron work,<br />
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beautiful carvings,<br />
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and wild flower settings really give much to the overall atmosphere and ambience of the place.<br />
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Unfortunately the couple stripped and sunbathing, together with the family having a barbeque in one of the shallow caves did not add to the experience. Whilst I am all for the living appreciating the resting places of the dead, these behaviours just smacked of over familiarity and were inappropriate; especially when there was a park next door but I assume no park keepers in the cemetery.<br />
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But the cold of an autumnal morning or the damp of a winter's day should soon put paid to such interlopers and am looking forward to my next visit.ShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-21777327108935463672013-06-28T08:00:00.000+01:002013-06-28T08:00:00.101+01:00Foliage Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love looking at all different leaves in my garden, the different shapes and colours. Here are just a few of my favourites.ShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-39499545655279903372013-06-25T08:00:00.000+01:002013-06-25T08:00:09.388+01:00Looking back at Spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was a wonderful spring for aquilegias this year. They are all self set from the introduction of a couple of plants about 6 years ago. I just love their fairy dress like petals, so beautiful, swaying in the breeze.<br />
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I also know them as Grannies Bonnets, what do you call them?<br />
<br />ShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-61457704020459411892013-06-23T18:04:00.000+01:002013-06-23T18:07:25.964+01:00The Poppies are no more<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thank you so much to the lovely ladies who responded to my last post. It's good to know that I'm not the only one who suffers bloggers block. Very big thanks for your support and encouragement to continue blogging so off we go.....<br />
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My poppies came out on Tuesday, I photographed them on Wednesday as heavy rain was due on Thursday<br />
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and today check and yup, they are no more, battered down and petal-less from the rain. But they were glorious whilst they lasted. ShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-8307108047994719122013-05-10T20:24:00.000+01:002013-05-10T20:24:09.672+01:00Blogger's Block and Other Animals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Does anyone else suffer from Blogger's Block or have I just made up the condition. Do you know that 'I have nothing worth saying' feeling, everything seems so minor to mention. The thought that nobody will be interested in that and then the days go by and before you really realise it you can no longer hold your head up as a blogger, you're verging on being an ex-blogger .... That's when your internet friends step in and offer encouragement and support, understanding your blight, having been there etc. So thank you to all my blogging buds for the gentle push I needed and here's hoping that you'll be encouraged to continue blogging as well.<br />
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The lovely cookie above was made by one of the nicest library customers we have. She makes them to sell for World Lupus Day, which is apparently today. It is no more, I've eaten it and it was delicious. I find it so lovely that there are people in the world willing to give up their time and effort to help others and that this lady made a special effort to come in to see me, as I'd loved last year's cookie so much!<br />
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The cookie helped stop my craving to go back to Ilkley, North Yorkshire, where I visited earlier this week, stopping off at the world famous Bettys Tea Rooms. A delightful cup of tea and a cake were the order of the day.<br />
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I found a lovely victorian shopping arcade but sadly there was only one shop open in there, a sad sign of the economic times.<br />
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The display of tulips around this church was amazing, and more amazing as I don't particularly like tulips or the colour yellow!<br />
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We went over the moors, no sign of Heathcliff I'm afraid<br />
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and stopped off in Tadcaster, the home of John Smiths Brewery to partake of some fish and chips. The batter is always so amazing in Yorkshire and the haddock from Kirkdale Fisheries was no exception, so light and crispy.<br />
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I've been putting my extensive wallpaper sample collection to good use, decorating the chimney breast in my bedroom to show off the fireplace<br />
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and papering a wall in the kitchen to try to increase the chances of selling my house, yup I hope to be on the move and escape to the country, but more on that, no doubt, in upcoming posts.<br />
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Mickey remains indifferent to all the hustle and bustle going on around him.<br />
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Merlin was just intent on getting some rays on the sunny windowsill.<br />
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Hutchiebaby picked up some rays on the entrance hall floor<br />
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and Billyboy insisted on supervising the paper hanging.<br />
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Archie was having a laze in the garden and I'm going to take a leaf out of his book this weekend!<br />
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Hope you have a lovely weekend whatever you're up to!ShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-25832741005004937402013-03-05T15:32:00.000+00:002013-03-05T16:52:26.994+00:00Mini Quilts continued<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm still making little mini quilts and loving the little explosions of colour, soon have enough to sew together to make a journal cover. <br />
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I've been making a sewn together collage for a friend's son, using pamphlets and flyers picked up on their visit to Nantes, France and the Jules Verne museum. It's been a while since I used this technique and it was nice to revisit it. I also found an old copy of a Journey to the Centre of the Earth and used pages from it to add into the mix.<br />
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I just love the quilty furrows I got by stitching parallel lines on the larger, back page of my journal. I'd love to use this effect on a larger quilt, maybe make something to throw over the sofa, mmmm............. too many ideas and so little time (as usual, lol).ShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-10033073704245919042013-02-16T10:10:00.000+00:002013-02-16T10:10:16.069+00:00Visit to Salts Mill, Bradford<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I went off on a jaunt to Salts Mill in Saltaire, Bradford with some friends yesterday and after a wrong turn or two we arrived in glorious sunshine (such a contrast to two days ago when it was snowing). Salts Mill was built by Titus Salt in the 1853 to spin his alpaca and russian wools. He built the whole village around it for the workers, including a church and a school, in response to the appalling living conditions in nearby Bradford.<br />
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I can never go very far without finding a cat<br />
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and another,<br />
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and another. I'm wondering if T. Milnes made lions for gravestones as well, I'll have to do some research, as these lions remind me of one in Highgate Cemetery.<br />
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The streets are narrow and cobbled still.<br />
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The chimneys are massive.<br />
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The church like a spectacular cake!<br />
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The mill building is now divided into galleries with art materials, a book shop to die for (I could have spent all day and all my money in there), antiques emporiums and yummy restaurants.<br />
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Even the toilets have been left with the industrial tiles and feel.<br />
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There is a designer homeware shop with displays of vintage pottery, some by one of my friends.<br />
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And they had a display of Totem by Portmerion, one of my all time favourite ranges.<br />
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Around the mill are lovely shops including vintage, which is where I spotted this lovely bit of embroidery<br />
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and a gallery showing these super quirky art dolls by Ann Davies, an artist living and working in Saltaire.<br />
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Just to prove it was snowing earlier this week, some snowdrops out at Newtown Linford, so pretty with their little blanket of snow.<br /><br />ShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-33523382454968856572013-02-03T19:07:00.001+00:002013-02-03T19:07:54.774+00:00Stitching Little Quiltlets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Now the studio is tidy and my table is clear I'm back to creating! In tidying up I came across lots of started-but-not-completed projects. Let's face it we all have them. The ones we lose interest in, the ones that need something but we don't know what, the impulse buys etc. Well, one of my resolutions this year is to finish more than I start! So these little quiltlets, a la Teesha Moore, were started ages ago and then I moved on to something else and these languished in a box.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Well, no more. I've now cut out some more, watched the videos again on Youtube and started stitching again. They are so simple to make and easy to pick up and put down, so ideal TV project. It's great when a project fits in a box don't you think?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I also came across this stitched journal that I suspect was made using Teesha Moore's instructions and only one flap had been started, so combining the quiltlet cover with this journel will mean two projects finished!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the process of tidying I came across this box of soft sculptured heads that I made in workshop many years ago, probably the 90's, and I still don't know what to do with them. Any suggestions?</span>ShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-83541220869405753072013-01-29T20:04:00.000+00:002013-01-29T20:04:00.372+00:00Crochet Gloriousness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Earlier this month my lovely friend Annie from <a href="http://nanagogoblogs.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nana Go Go</a> sent me the most wonderful present, a handcrocheted bag in the most delicious swirling blues and turquoises. It is a true delight; she has put so much surface decoration and texture in it.</div>
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It undulates and wriths, swirls and twirls in woolly fabulousness. </div>
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Quite simply, it is stunning and Annie is a genius!</div>
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It's 4 years since my Freddy passed on but he's not forgotten, I always mark the day with treats for my boys. So Gourmet pate or Sheba tender slices, decisions, decisions..... sure the boys would say both, lol.<br />
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Hutch turned 10 this past week. He didn't seem too impressed but soon bucked up when the cat milk came out - he's such a foodie.<br />
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As you may have noticed I'm starting to play around with my photos - and having so much fun. Here's one of Merlin, showing off his multiple personalities<br />
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I'm hoping to actually get something creative done today as studio almost tidied. What are you up to today?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Now the mince pies have settled and the fireworks have gone off and 'normal' life resuming I wanted to share some of the wonderful cards that I got from the Inspirational Deck Swap I participated in. It arrived between Christmas and New Year like a belated but very welcome present and it's stunning. So many artists have come together to make this a wonderful swap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Here are just some of the fabulous cards that I've pulled out of the deck to share with you today. The above artists are Kristin Dudish, Annette R Lansing and Joann Loftus. The cards below were made by Sandra Beligi, Mary Jane Chadbourne and Grace Mendex.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">They really are a very inspirational way to start the New Year. I've just got to decide whether to make a box, a journal or a ring to keep them all in mmmm........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And I shall be visiting the artists and their blogs/facebooks etc over the next few days, really looking forward to meeting you all. Thank you for all your superb work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hope you've all had a wonderful festive time and may I wish you a Happy, Creative and Artistic 2013!</span>ShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-26498654607475862402012-12-08T17:54:00.002+00:002012-12-08T17:55:40.722+00:00It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Crafts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been busy making things for some Christmas Craft Fairs I've been standing. These trees are made from the pages of an old copy of A Christmas Carol by Dickens and I used corks for the bases.<br />
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These jotters are made out of junk envelopes with book print and buttons<br />
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A selection of Christmas tags with vintage images, lace and buttons and a smattering of glitter <br />
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These kilt pin brooches are lovely to make, involving me getting all my beads out (and I have way too many) and sorting out different colour combinations - a delightful job :-) <br />
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with little metal charms added. These jingle really sweetly, when you move. <br />
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And last, but not least I've made some little books, actually using some of my scrapbook paper stash instead of just looking and admiring it!<br />
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That's the last craft fair stood today, now on to christmas present making, a crafters work is never done, lolShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-62599890520608135622012-11-05T23:28:00.001+00:002012-11-05T23:28:38.071+00:00Little Quote to Ponder for Tuesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another ATC from the Inspiration Card Deck Swap - Happy Tuesday!<br /><br />ShabbyChicShazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08829899527911353704noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7673944793048618361.post-56972145805225007332012-10-27T15:40:00.000+01:002012-10-27T15:40:00.537+01:002012 Inspiration Card Deck Swap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I thought you might like to see my stages for creating 52 cards for this <a href="http://www.insearchofdessert.com/?p=8428" target="_blank">fabulous swap</a><br />
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First I chose 3 soft pastel colours and painted the old set of playing cards with them, some all one colour, some a mix, depending what I had on my palette or brush. I then gave them a second coat, still allowing part of the original playing card to show through, adding interest.</div>
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I then adhered torn pieces of book paper to the cards and again, over painted it with the soft pastel acrylics, the words still visible through the paint.<br />
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I then took ripped up pieces of patterned paper napkins and pasted them over the top of the words and paint, sometimes covering the whole cards, sometimes only covering a section. I then stamped images on to the cards, adding a further layer of interest.</div>
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I then printed out the quotes on computer paper and cut and pasted them onto the cards, as they came out of the pack, no sorting out just working my way through them. I then highlighted around the quotes, roughly in soft pencil, to make them pop off the page.<br />
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I'll share some more quotes with you over the coming weeks :-)<br />
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