Pondering....and completing

Welllllll.......... what's been happening round here lately.......... life has been busy busy busy, I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels like they could do with a 28 hour day to fit everything in, but then I get to the end of the day and can't actually articulate what I've done! ( I hope I'm not the only one!) 'Stuff' covers most of my daily activities these days. 'Things.'

I waste a lot of time. I sit and ponder. I daydream all the things I'm going to do. I write endless, ambitious, unattainable lists of 'things to do' and then feel flat when the day goes haywire or off on a different tangent to the 'plan' and the list is still sitting amongst the brekkie dishes at dinner time. I should be more realistic and STOP PROCRASTINATING and Just. Get. On. With. Something!!! Life is just like that, chaos and inertia. Must just flow with it. I'll try.

Soooooo.......I feel glad when I see my youngest is still able to smile for a photo, even when he is home from school with a puffy eye, snotty nose, stuffy head type cold, and forced to keep me company on the endless merry go round that is food shopping! I had also just dropped the camera in the carpark at Safeway, so was very happy to see his bleary eyed grin in that little display screen! (oops, but it seems to be working ok....for now...)


Anyhoo....onto more practical matters...... I got my mobile finished......this is kind of what it looks like........ pretty hard to get a good pic as the only hook I could find was in a window so lighting was a bit all over the place.


Lots of flowery, leafy goodness, and quite vine like, which pleases me!

.....Thinking of putting it in my future Madeit shop.... I can see lots of little viney, flowery, floaty things being made quite soonish!

See you soon, have a great day!

something new to do.....

It's my birthday in a couple of days and my dear old grandpa sent me down some money, and I just happened to see this lovely book so I decided it was a great way to spend my birthday treat!
"Doodle Stitching" by Aimee Ray has me wanting to start covering everything I see in lots of embroidered cuteness! I have not done much embroidery, and don't know how to do proper stitches or anything, but I think I can see myself learning lots of great stuff from this book.
Thought I'd show you some of the yummy little projects and bits of inspiration....


.......loving these little trees, can see a whole forest being created here......



.......gorgeous little balsa wood embroidered charms/broaches , who would think to embroider wood? Looks very doable......


........ gorgeous fruit and veg for shopping bags.......



.......and super cute hand stitched gift tags, embroidering through card, something else to have a go at...


..... here's what you can do when you put it all together!



.....I love these tree motifs, I think they will be my first try things. So, do you want to have a go at embroidery now too? It doesn't seem too hard and it looks pretty hip!




And just a little sneak peak at the completed flower mobile thingamajig, hoping to find a good place to hang it and take some spiffy pics to show you soon!

Have a great day!

My creative space #13........

Yay! Computer happy again! My 12yr old did something and hey presto photos are up! Sorry this is such a poor quality shot, something has gone feral on the camera too and I'm having trouble getting a decent picture.

Anyway, this is what I'm working on at the moment - my little flower mobile thingamajig.
Hoping next photos will have leaves and vines attached and be nice and floaty and dreamy!

lots of creative places to check out here at Kirsty's.