Merry Christmas

In the spirit of Christmas and seeing as it is Audrey's first, I felt i had to make her a Christmas Stocking. The photo's aren't too crash hot but you get the idea. All made from found objects and recycled fabrics which I was happy about!

Hope everyone has a safe and happy Christmas.

xx

Waiting at the Alter

Well the Groom is ready and waiting for his big day. The bride should be along shortly, she just needs some legs to walk up the aisle. Playing around with a couple of shots here for potential invitation images. Plenty to do and running out of time!

Inspiration - Maurice Denis

The Muses (Les muses) 1893

When we were in Canberra recently we went to the Masterpieces from paris exhibition which was awesome. I have finally seen some of Van Gogh's paintings in real life and they are amazing - the texture and intensity of colours was fantastic. However the highlight for me was discovering Maurice Denis who's paintings feature in this blog. I just loved his work, beautiful colour pallete and art noveau lines. Have to find out more on him!

Panel for a girl's bedroom: October evening 1891

Panel for a girl's bedroom: September evening 1891

Season's Greetings

Well I've been on a bit of a blogging hiatus due to being away for a couple of weeks and crazy christmas time. We attempted the huge drive from Melbourne to Sydney over 2 days with a young baby who was not impressed. She hates going in the car seat now even for a short time!

I didn't realise if you miss your daily blog reading for a week (and you start to follow a million blogs) then you end up spending hours trying to catch up - not wanting to do a bulk delete incase you miss out on that special post with some great inspiration or info. What I do realise now is that I am addicted!

Plenty of making, ideas and inspiration going on here which I will post soon. The above image is of a snowman decoration I bought Audrey as her first cool X-mas decoration to collect. It reminds me a little of Tim Burton.

What have you been making?

Playing along with Meet Me at Mikes - What have you been making? Have been ploughing away at trying to make the bride and groom toppers for our wedding cake and it is doing my freaken head in. I can't seem to get the veil working right - she looks more like a nun bride at the moment.

Also trying to make a cat for the softie for Mirabel Charity for Meet Me at Mikes. It's better then the first attempt but still has a ways to go - it's my interpretation of a cat! Was initially trying to do green cat eyes but opted for the much more super friendly brown eyes.

What have you been making?

Ode to Hundertwasser

(image source)

Hundertwasser is one of my favourite artists of all time - i just love his work and i wanted to share him with you. I finally hung up a painting one of my best friends (Andrew Battye - awesome painter with Uber Gallery Melbourne) painted for me inspired by him which you can see below. You should check out both of their websites (although their work is not similar at all!)

Cake Toppers

A little update on the Groom I am making for the top of our wedding cake for next year, also a sneak peak at the bride and some of the fabrics I want to use. I have temporarily used Pollo's eyes till I make some better ones for the groom as the last pair were way too big. If all else fails with these birds I found a pair of cute robots I could use!