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Oh gosh, your work is lovely. Am so glad to have discovered it via Julie and the blog hop. Bookmarked and heading off to explore the rest of your blog.
what I'm working on, May 2014 [blog hop!]
Okay! It's blog hop time! I was contacted by Julie of Notes on Paper, a prolific blogger and pretty funny lady, to join in a "what I'm focusing on right now" blog hop. It's always good for me to have a clear blogging goal, since you know keeping up with the ol' blog isn't always my strong suit. ...
Happy new year, Kajsa!
Welcome 2014 and very welcome sunshine!
Happy new year everyone! We had, as they called it in the newspaper, a black Christmas. It's been dark and rainy for weeks now and we are all getting so tired of it and looonging for snow and sunshine. I keep checking the weather forecast for the weekend (I am quite addicted to that app on my ph...
Such a great post, and especially interesting to people (like me!) who are thinking about products which are hand-designed, rather than hand-made.
I'm also trying very hard to justify a new chopping board right now . . . they're SO lovely, especially the peas. :)
New cutting boards and some business thoughts!
p.s. If you take the time to read this post you get a coupon code at the end. Scrolling down is also allowed :) d.s I think it's been two years since I first got the idea of having cutting boards with my appliqué prints made and now they are finally here! There are a lot of products that I could...
Some days it's impossible to decide whether your pages or your stories are the most wonderful. Let's just say you're exceptionally good at both and I, for one, love coming here to read and look at them.
Also, your grandson is utterly adorable (but I'm guessing you already know that)!
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Monochrome moods
Move into monochrome, said Ms. Smith's prompt in her Just One Sketch class. Banish bright contrasts, and choose tones and shades from your photo ... Taking the background colour of the sofa and wall into the adjoining spaces in the flipped design (using the eyedropper tool) was the work o...
T-shirt Appliqué
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Clothespeg angels
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Wonderful. Obviously...
Am especially enamoured of (and inspired by) your stitched panorama - a glorious view, and just as beautifully captured.
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W is for ...
weekends and wishing I could have them all week (obviously)! whiling away happy hours with contented parents in a café and an art and craft exhibition whingeing about the upgrade to Apple's Lion operating system which means paying to get Snow Leopard first and then not using it :( winter house ...
Wow! That's the kind of amazing story you'd claim was far-fetched if someone had made it up. ;)
And that Julie is definitely a tiny-but-mighty serendipity magnet. You wouldn't believe the trail of coincidences and commonalities we've discovered over the last few years.
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Serendipity times a googleplex
Googleplex? No, not another Internet product, but a number that looks like this: 10googol, i.e. 10^{(10^{100})}. I know, I was amazed too (-ish: I'm a linguist) when I actually, err, googled it. For decades, it's been our family's shortcut for expressing anything huge. I've got a googleplex-wo...
He is oh-so adorable! Hope you're enjoying every minute (and remembering you can sleep for a week when he leaves - or is it just me who does that?!).
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Honestly ...
... when the days are full of little people and big people and everybody-in-between-people, all a simple scrapbooker has time for is a quick photo and a few words: And that's just how the cookies crumble here today. Speaking of which ... :)
Dear Alexa,
I'd love to reciprocate with a comment as lovely and eloquent as those you always leave for me, but just now I am at something of a loss. What I really want to say is 'this is awesome', which is neither eloquent nor particularly lovely. But it is heartfelt, and I do have every intention of taking inspiration from your smart and hugely entertaining post. By which I mean, copying you and doing one of my own very soon (with credit, obviously - isn't that how plagiarism works these days?).
Yours (a little) shamefully,
Kirsty
Delayed and lost (2)
Having come across the delightful Today's Letters and Wilna's lovely take, I thought I'd try one of my own... Dear Beverley, thank-you for being so patient and kind about the mail-art-lost-in-the-post saga and for being content with the photos I took of it before it was entrusted to the care clu...
Love, love, love your washi-taped planner makeover - it looks fantastic.
And also, I know all too well what you mean about too-pretty-to-use notebooks. I have half a store's worth on a shelf in my office, waiting for the *perfect* thing to do with them (and all while my desk is weighed down by scraps of paper, envelopes and old receipts crammed full of notes and sketches which should - obviously - be in a notebook). I should maybe give my therapist a call... ;)
intervention & another washi tape project
My friend Amy and I have been joking with each other about needing various types of interventions. She says she needs a yarn buying intervention, I say I need a fabric buying intervention. Today after I came home from Target, I decided that I may need to add notebooks/journals to the interventio...
Completely beautiful! The linen plus small amounts of colour/print is perfect, and I love the butterfly-ish triangles, too. Quilts are such a great baby gift, I think, but the fact it's not 'babyish' in any way hopefully means it will be loved and used for a very long time to come. :)
baby quilt - purple & linen
I am so pleased with how this baby quilt turned out!! The inspirations for the pattern came from here (yes I saw it on pinterest). I think the pattern looks like little bowties or butterflies. I loved the idea of doing a linen background with fun prints and colors. My friend told me his wife lik...
Gorgeous house + images. I love how you've mixed clean and calm white/neutrals with lots of small, coloured details and accessories. It looks beautifully 'collected' and like it really reflects your family. Am well and truly inspired!
my nest, 2
From a couple posts down (the Creative Type post), I thought I'd share a couple pics I've recently taken. I feel like our home is finally coming together, there's some spaces and areas that still are bare and in need of some decor tlc, but here's some pics...
I don't scrapbook, but your layouts always make me wish I did. They're beautiful!
I scrapbooked today...
(I thought I had posted this last week, just saw it, duuuh...)Today was the first day this summer vacation where I haven't had a kid(s) other than mine over at my house all day. It rained a lot and the girls watched old movies from my days of summer vacation ( Never Ending Story and Lucas), and ...
These are so, so beautiful! I'm especially smitten by how a relatively small detail - the way the sleeves are finished - gives the two blouses such a different look.
Now I just need to convince my friends to start giving birth to girls instead of boys so I have an excuse to buy one...
Autumn/Winter
Grey and white spotty cotton blouse with unbleached cotton eyelet trousers, lined with natural linen. Liberty Lawn baby blouse. New for autumn/winter. Working on plaids, tartans and wools, in greens, greys and yellows.
OK, first Julie and now you - with two such discerning fans, I really do have to plan myself a trip to the Sculpture Park and soon. Although I'm guessing it's even more amazing in person, your layout is beautiful and really does do justice to the atmosphere and spectacle of the place. I might just live without the liquorice ice-cream, though...!
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Bunny girls ...
... are not really my thing", observed Himself - though I think I'd have fallen off my tussock of grass if he'd divulged the opposite. "But I don't suppose you could take a photo of me with this one, could you?" I didn't quite like the way he seemed to enjoy snuggling in and hanging onto her leg...
This looks beautiful - really looking forward to seeing pics of the whole thing. :)
quilt complete
I finished the quilt. It's a 30"x30" baby quilt for a friend of mine that lives out of state. He just had his first baby last weekend and I cannot wait to get this in the mail to him. I'll be back after my busy work weekend with a full post and better photos.
Every bit as much - maybe even enough to make me wish dull, rainy November was almost here! That quilt is especially gorgeous...
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I need a LOTTA this fabric
ok... yes my title is a little cheesy, but seriously... I need this fabric A LOT, and I need A LOT of it. Holy cow, Kerry (and all you readers who love fabric) have you see Lotta Jansdotter's new line of fabric? I have loved her simple organic designs since I first spied them (in a book on stenc...
Happy birthday, Mr Alexa. I hope it was happy, as well as so elegantly recorded!
WIML (Sunday 31 July 11)
Those of you who pop in regularly will have met, in a manner of speaking, Himself. Often he has a subsidiary role on here, a prompter, a backroom boy. Well, today he's stepping forward in this page of A Week in My Life (Sunday 31st), and I hope you'll send him a smile and a wave as he opens his ...
So sorry you had such a rough day, Alexa, and hope things will pick up from here on in. It's so interesting to see how you're journalling the good and not-so-good side by side as a record of this point in your life (lives). I don't know if writing it down makes things easier (the old getting it off your chest thing?), but I'm guessing it will at least be fascinating to look back on when you're further down the line.
I also love that picture of your mum and dad in the last layout. Is it wrong to call parents adorable (because I think they are)?!
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WIML (29 July 11) and Happy Birthday ...
to you! ... the 'you' being Jemma, of Just Jimjams! Exactly a year ago today, Jemma's first post popped into the blogosphere with four short points. Here's what it said (hope you are happy for me to do this, Jemma!), and my thoughts in italics: To join in the celebrations and a lovely give-...
Beautiful photos, great approach to the journalling (it seems very Monday-ish somehow!) and a beautiful, clean layout as ever.
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WIML Day 1
Still keeping up! As an alternative to taking a week to record and document, then another to put it together, I'm using the fortnight slightly differently, working in pairs of days: collecting photos and making notes on day one, then putting that page together the next. Mine will be Monday, Wedn...
Geeeenius! This is too perfect, and not least because Smash books are rarer than sunshine here in the UK. Thanks so much for sharing such a great tutorial - has jumped right to the front of my 'must make soon' queue. :)
Tuesday To Do | DIY Smash Style Book | Summer Journal
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Such a great collection of images, and I love that you're both pilots who write a blog together. This is my first visit here, and I'm even more keen to look around and find out a bit more now I know what you do (is that very shallow of me?!).
Those WW2 photos are amazing, too - I saw a documentary a few months ago about the female pilots who flew planes between airfields and military bases here in the UK during the war, and it was incredible. Quite a few of them were still alive (obviously very old by now) and spoke really movingly about their experiences. To realise what they did and how much they must have experienced during their lifetime was properly awe-inspiring.
pilot art
So... Kerry and I are pilots. Yep... we are female AND we are pilots... crazy huh?!?! well... some people seem shocked when we tell them. Anywho... it's not that easy to find stylish pilot-type art. This post is inspired by this super cool pilot meerkat that Kerry recently picked up on etsy. {...
This is so lovely, and a gorgeous picture of your mum too, Alexa. Wishing you the very best in settling in to your new routines and hoping they include many more happy days and memories like this one.
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Settling in ...
... to a new way of life takes time. And energy. And goodwill on all sides. It's the first which is in short supply at present. And so I was delighted to catch Paula's ad inspiration in a little pocket of time in the midst of our new routines and commitments. A few photos from last weekend, and ...
Thanks so much for featuring this (along with my little illustration!), Tamar - I know Anke has worked really hard to pull everything together, and I'm excited to see the finished results, too.
Am also glad to have found your blog, and am off know to find out what Teapot is all about...
Thanks again.
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Cute New Planner
via kirstyneale.typepad.com I love a good cute stylish planner - I'm addicted to Kikki K and Typo and Smiggle to a lesser extent. When I lived in Japan I spent every sunday wandering through the stationery floor ( yes floor ) of the loft. Love it so much - so when this little gem popped up in ...
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