Spring !

It is nesting time again. 

The birds are getting busy in the garden and I am making some larger nests using twigs to give some added structure.  I love this season. With the warmer days I feel inspired to create, imagine and of course enjoy the garden.  Hope you are too!

Maps, Maps, Maps

If I can't travel the world I can use the world in my work!  Old atlas pages and maps are becoming swallows as I make garland sets for 'The Maker'.

 

Pages of text from old vintage books make swallows that are ready to fly across walls! I have simply packaged them in a transparent stitched envelope.

Paper flowers

A friend recently asked me to make her some paper flowers and two small eggs.  She is going to use them to create a mobile for a new 'little poppet' she knows, that was born quite prematurely. On the eggs I have stamped her name and the words cherish and love - now I can't wait to see the mobile come together.

The days are cooling off now and autumn is beginning to reveal its splendour. Perhaps something inspired by autumn will be on the making table next!

I have been making text, map and music eggs for a couple of shops since last Easter but recently I found some really large eggs and created a special one as part of a wedding present for a relative. 

Then, of course, I had to cover one in text!

Swallow garlands have also been in demand lately so I have been busy cutting and stitching them from text and maps.

Now it is back to more egg making ready for Easter coming up!

Yuletide

A late Christmas message to round the year off and begin the new year!

Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.  ~Michael Josephson

Here's to a creative and inspiring 2013.

November

I have recently sent some work through to the gorgeous store 'Nest', in Penguin, and was thrilled to see a close up of one of my nests as the header on their Facebook page. The shop window is beginning to look like Christmas and has some of my text paper balls hanging in it too.

With Christmas Day rapidly approaching, I am beginning to wish we had a few more weeks up our sleeve. There seems to be so much to do and so little time in which to do it!  So, it is back to the 'making' table to try and beat the clock!

SPRING

We have been watching the resident blackbirds make their nests in our garden over the last six weeks. It has been such a joy to watch them load their beaks with twigs, moss and straw and then disappear into the banksia rose to fashion their incredible nests.

I have been sending quite a few eggs, stones and nests into The Maker in Salamanca lately and these are some of the images they have put on their blog recently.