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  • Procrastinating

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      I have the worst case of procrastination today! What I’m supposed to be doing is writing an essay and I simply cannot start. I have done all the research, I have all my references but… does this ever happen to you? How do you deal with it? I have managed almost every avoidance tactic…

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Indigo

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      I just knew that a search for indigo would yield something inspired by Japan. I was happy to see that I was right. I should add that the old Etsy colour search once again let me down. It just couldn’t understand my colour request and it returned some very strange results. Give it a…

  • Flickr three :: purple

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      Almost slipped past me this week {I’m a little late – shhh don’t tell anyone} {images via flickr – click image to go to source page}

  • Setting the Mood

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    It’s been a while since I have played with the Mijn Moodboard and it’s still a fun time waster. It’s also still in Dutch but it’s not too difficult to work out how to create your own moody compositions. Added features now are the ability to upload your own pictures for your moodboard and to…

  • Getting Creative

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    My task this week is to talk about when I first fell in love with creating. For me it started with my mother and her love of sewing. She is such a beautiful seamstress and over the years has made everything from quilts, to dolls clothes to overly complicated Issey Miyake shirts (for me). She…

  • Can You See Something Ticking?

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    Do you ever become aware of something e.g. a word, a colour or a concept and then you see and hear it everywhere you go? This is me and striped ticking at the moment. I am seeing it everywhere I look. Is it more prevalent than it used to be or am I just more…

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Purple

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    This week not only did the old and new Etsy colour search engines disappoint I had to completely abandon them in favour of a keyword search. I found nothing that grabbed me with either colour pickers but look at what I did find with my ‘purple’ search:TOP: Andie’s Glass focal bead. The bead is beautiful…

  • Flickr three :: fuchsia

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    {images via flickr – click image to go to source page}

  • Imperfection

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    Lately I’ve been pondering my attraction to things that are flawed. I have a diamond in a ring with a giant flaw that I feel like I have to justify to any jeweller that ever looks at it. I like dog-eared books, odd numbers and the idea behind rug makers purposefully tying one knot in…

  • How Do You Store Your Fabric?

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    My fabric has been stuffed in a Cathcart Allied moving box since we came from Atlanta so this has been a quandary of  mine for quite a few months now.  I’m appealing to you for your help – how should I store my fabric? I am not only aiming this question at my fellow fabric…