Moline

Getting crafty

So I really managed to open the shop again and add some crafty items. I decided to use my love fr colour to put together lucky parcels fo paper crafting. To make a series I decided to call the "twentysomethings" because the buyer will get at least 20 items to craft with. So the final number of items may vary. Maybe there will also be 30 somethings or so - we will see. 

 

  Paper makes me happy and it is a bliss to go into your own craftroom on a rainy day, rummage through your stock and creating piles of nice paper...
 

 

Dottie Angel

Dottie Angel
Originally uploaded by moline (resting again)

There are many reasons why this woman can be an inspiration - here are mine:
- she makes lovely vintage looking teatowels with linen, doilies and embroidered squirrels on it (as if that was not reason enough to really like her!)
- she has an airstream trailer in her garden
- he named "her" Gladys
- she is the proud owner of a light blue pick-up-truck and it really is a 68 Ford!
- she named him Winston

- even her sewing machine has a name: Miss Ethel

- her use of Orla Kiely patterns

- she has padded hangers in her closet (fabric padded and crocheted ones)

- she makes me look at hanging laundry in a different way with her garland-like washing line in her garden
- the way she travels with her old suitcase and tote
- that her used dog and the new one "Olive" are pampered with lovely granny square blankets (even dogs should be brought up in style!)
- the lampshade-teatowels and cushions she made (reminded me that I also once was into lamps 
- the patchwork covered shelves (why did I not have this idea? I just always use plain fabric and seldom mix them when covering up shelves...)
- her love for the English countryside
- her love for granny sqares and crocheting and knitting and doilies

I think I could go on for a while but I want to leave also a bit of thinking to you so I can go o and read her blog

See you soon!

The remains of the day

The remains of the day
Originally uploaded by moline (up again)

Lately I added some more colour to liven up our daily routines. I never was a Yellow person except having had a sunny yellow dining room in our old appartment in Constance. but then I thought there was some Yellow missing here in our house, namely right in the middle of it.
There were health issues and they are still going on and see: no Yellow in the middle! readers who have heard of Feng Shui must have heard it before. I am practising it normally and it is so incredible how I seem to have forgotten about this yellow health issue in the middle of everything.
So then I looked for some pretty papers and artwork and it was easy to find some to brighten up our wall in a former dark hall area with nearly no light. I've been eyeing the Paris print from Irene Suchocki for a while now and got it for my Birthday (told my parents, I needed it as well as the Katie Daisy print on the right side!!!)
Now I am greeted every day by a cheering up wall whenever I pass (and that is VERY often!). And at night when we had our tea in the upstairs bedroom and in between brushing teeth and putting away the tea tray (the ttp://www.flylady.net/Fly lady style - thank you!!!), I stop and look and I am just happy then...

Blue giving way to the cheerful Red

The Blues are gone! After some successful crafting in Blue I decided to go for an unusual colour for me: Red. Not that I've finished everything I wanted to craft in Green or Blue but you know - the usual problem: not enough time! But I am so happy I started this colour-challenge decision because it keeps me moving at the moment. Out came these for a start:

And two of them already have been sold in my wee shop .
And now comes Red and I am surprised at how much I like it. Seeing it in the mosaic makes me smile and to be honest: who can resist the cuteness of toadstools anyway, or strawberries and cream?

And again I was searching the house for Reds and could trace these:

Ad I am curious myself at how all this cuteness can possibly influence my craftyness...

Another blue week

Last Sunday I decided to have a nother blue themed week. I could simply not get enough of all the pretty Blues around me.
There were playful Blues

I found Blues amongst my contacts

And I also went through the house again searching for Blues

And I was happy that even Anastasia fell for it here, here, and Mervi here, here and here. Thanks for joining and please join me in some of the other colour weeks, too!

Into the Blue

To search for a new colour theme wasn't easy. I had so much on my mind: should I take one of my favourite colours to make it easy or do I need a colour challenge with a colour I am not so familiar with? Iris opted for purple because it would not be so easy. I was also thinking of it. So was Anastasia. She voted for purple and white or just purple. Finally the decision maker was Jakob: he showed me unmistakebly which colour he wants:
So shall it be: BLUE for the next week!