My Creative Space

Today I have enjoyed making more retro caravan blocks.

I am thinking I will make a quilt as I have some cute caravan fabric that will match perfectly.

Yep so much for not starting any new projects......Ha, no self control here unfortunately.

Head over to Kirsty's place for more creative joy and inspiration.

Vintage Apple

 PS

I always have one of these handmade lovelies under the computer keyboard.
Nothing as nice as this one though.

Adds a little vintage charm to the modern apple computer.

No functionality added just purely decorative.

I am sure the two boys of the house will love it!

(Actually I am fairly certain they will not even notice it!)

 (and they didn't, ha!)

Lovely parcel delivery

Am feeling like a very lucky girl this week.

I was 'gifted' the most beautiful pile of vintage handmade delights from yesteryear.

They came from a friend's friend's mother-in-law's estate (make sense??).

Janice's mother-in -law sounded like a very caring, giving soul so it will give me great joy to use them as is, or make something 'different' with them one day.

They are exquisite!! The detail and handiwork is amaazing!!

Thanks Janice and Tina for my lovely gift and for making my day!

 

Thread drawing??

I have recently been inspired by Melissa of Clothworks and her talents with 'thread drawing' (I think that is what you call it?? perhaps it is just plain old raw edged applique??)

She has recently made a lovely cushion with a VW bug as a feature.

Go check it out, it is fabulous!!

Anyway, when I should have been doing a thousand other things yesterday, I thought I would crack out the Vliesofix and have a go with a retro caravan picture.

 

I am reasonably happy with how the 'van' turned out but must admit in places it looks like I am suffering from a bad case of nerves.
(I was a bit nervous actually, it was all going a bit to fast for my liking).

I think Melissa must have a very 'cool' hand to have mastered this technique so well.

Alot of practise is needed I believe.

Our little 'Goldilocks'

Our gorgeous girl was away for (2) nights on school camp this week.

'Goldilocks' (aka Charlie) snuck into her 'big' bed for a change of nocturnal scenery.

He thought it was fantastic, made even better by sharing the bed with his friend 'Peter puppy'. 

Anything to be like the 'bigkids' is a great thing for young 'Goldilocks'........

Bounce, rest, bounce...

I love photography.

There is so much to it though.

The concepts are slowly slowly sinking in.

My simple brain can get 'confuzzled' by the whole thing.

Every now and then I play around with all the dials on the DSLR and even pop it onto 'manual' mode. (crazy I know)

On the weekend I was attempting to play around with shutter speed and take photos of James bouncing on the trampoline.

I don't think I could have made that shutter go much faster and there was still blur and fuzz.

The photo on the right is my best effort from our short 'shoot'.

More practise, practise, practise is needed so I can take some lovely photos of our travels to have as special memories.

Do you play around with your 'dials'? or do you just shoot in automatic or semi automatic modes?

(I do love aperture priority for portraits)

My Childhood wheels

I have recently joined Pinterest.

Now there is another fabulous, Internet based, time 'consumer' of mammoth proportions.

What an amazing phenomenon! 

A virtual online pin board of inspiration.

This morning I 'repinned' this fabulous photo of a bike that is exactly like the first bike I owned as a child.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jodielz/5305185447/

Oh boy, it takes me back.

I absolutely loved it!

I do remember it wasn't a particularly fast bike and I did struggle on the dirt hills but that was OK.

I didn't need to go fast.

I am likin' Pinterest.......alot!

PS If you wish to join and you need someone to invite you , feel free to leave your email address in the comments. 

They give you (5) invites.