UK etsy street team

I am a member of the UK street team for etsy and the members have been working hard to give the blog a fresh new look. I have just writen an article about summery things to buy on etsy, just click here to read it. My favourite item is by the very talented Cherrypips, she makes the most beautiful brooches and this mimosa one is just one of many I could have picked.

White

I have always loved colour and hardly ever use white in my work or infact have anything white in my house. For my day2day photos this week I decided I wasnt to look at the texture and light in my photographs rather than the acutal image or item in them. Last month we moved into a different flat in our building and this flat is full of orignal victorian features. So in these photos you can see all the white features in the architecture of our building. Quite different from my last set which were all about nature, but that is the whole point of experimenting with my photography skills.

Dying beauty

So in my last post I said about this new flickr group which I have joined to hopefully help improve my photography. Well it is the end of the first week and so I have finished my first set of 5 photos. I am actually really pleased with how they came out. I normally take about 30 photos just to get one which I am happy with so with these I decided that I would allow myself a maximum of 5 per image just to allow for my shaking hand.

Well judge for yourself, they are all based on dead or dying plant life. Suprising beauty in ordinary places is the theme of the group so I hope you like my representation of this. Just have to think what I will do next week now.

Day2Day

I have decided to take part in a new flickr group set up by Abi Bansal which consists of taking a group of 5 photos during the week of everyday things. I really like this idea as I like natural photos and like the idea of a non stressful way of improving my photography. I think that too often we miss some of the most beautiful things as they are items that we might see or use all the time. I am hoping that this group will give me motivation to find inspiration in other areas and futher my design work as well as my photographs.

So the photo above is my first entry, a deadheaded rose from my balcony. I decided to look at nature, a common inspiration to my work, but in a different way. I love this time of year when all the flowers are appearing, but they do not last for long. This week I will be photographing the beauty and sadness of dead or dying nature. We will see where it goes as it is totally unplaned and none of the photos will be styled in anyway. I hope you like it. Take a look at the rest of the photos from other artists, there are some lovely ones.

veggies

So this year I thought I would be really good and grow some of our own veggies and herbs. So as it has now decided to stop raining I thought I would get out in the garden on my day off yesterday and plant some seeds. I planted some rocket and cos leaves plus some tomatoes and carrots. I also planted some tarragon, sweet basil, rosemary, oregano and thyme together in one pot. They currently don't look like much, as you can see, but hopefully by the end of the week I should have some little shoots and can start to thin them out and eat the shoots. YUMMY!

I havent been able to blog much recently as I have been super busy but I am hoping to get back into it regularly soon. Hopefully with photos of lots of veggies

Belated birthday post

So it was my birthday on tuesday and I was spoilt as usual. Richard got me this amazing chest of drawers and a super wicked lamp. I also got my yearly update of shoes, clothes, books and new perfume which was handy as mine ran out tuesday morning. Rich also got me a cupcake with a little bear on top and wrapped my vans up in the coolest darn Petra Bowse paper. Aren't I a lucky one!

I have also had a good week of making things and have new bags and brooches to send to stockists and put into my etsy shop. There is one sneaking in the background of the photo of my new lamp. So all in all a good birthday week, plus it didnt rain which is a first.

good mistakes

Isnt it strange sometimes how things are arent quite right or not what you were expecting are really nice. I was taking photos in the garden today of my new bags and I really love how these shots came out. It wasnt the right angle and the colours are slightly wrong but I love them. I especially like the sky in the second one.

Good mistakes are nice suprises.