Happily Pinterest-ing Along

Have I mentioned to you before how much I love Pinterest?  How I love collecting amazing and beautiful images?  Yes I have.  I know this, but sometimes things just have to be said over again.  I don't have oodles and oodles of images, but the ones I do have I just adore and I can lose myself in!!  Thought I might share a few recent favourites with you.

I'd like to invite you over.  No need to give you an exact address.  We're the last house down the unmade road, over the slight rise and then beyond the old shed with the fallen in roof.  Park at the gate and walk up to the side door.  Excuse the squeak (must get that seen to).  Sorry there's no path, but the weather hasn't been too bad lately so there shouldn't be much mud about.  You could bring your gumboots, if you like.  No harm in throwing them in the back.

Do come inside.  Oh, you've brought homemade jam?  How gorgeous of you!  Raspberry, my favourite.  Do sit down, you must be a bit weary.  Hopefully the cushions make that hard little seat a bit more comfortable.  Sugar in your tea?

Which cup?  Do you have a preference?  I rather like these little mustard flowery ones, but do choose.  I think it's rather important to have just the right cup, don't you?  Now, you said yes to sugar?

If you don't feel like the long drive home I've set up the spare room for you, just in case.  It has a lovely outlook.  I'll just grab that basket of wool out of your way.  You'd like to do some granny squares?  Yes, that's fine, brilliant in fact.  I'll put the jug on again and we can settle into some happy playing with wool.

Thanks for visiting!  Come any time.  I'm always here!!
Trudy

photo sources :
ana-rosa.tumblr.com
danglingconversations.tumblr.com
firstyouhavetorowalittleboat.tumblr.com

Made in a Day

Do you ever have those days when you want to put aside all your major craft projects to start something brand, spanking new?  You know that you have a gazillion hours left to finish on each and every one, so you want to choose new fabric or wool, or paper and start playing.  You want to sit down and go through the entire process in one day, and at the end have a finished product.  Do you have these days?  It's not just me being fickle, is it?

Sometimes it doesn't matter what it is.  It's simply the newness and the satifsfaction of creating something in a small space of time.  Well that hit me today!  What to make?  I found inspiration on my Pinterest boards from creative people such as Julie Arkell, Cathy Cullis, Jessie Chorley and Rebecca Sower.  Absolutely adore these gorgeous creative women.

I gathered some wrinkly linen, old doileys, buttons and thread and started sewing it all together.  This red button didn't make the distance, although it looks rather pretty here.  Any clues as to what I'm making?

 

 

Blue button instead of the red.  It's so much fun, just doing exactly what I want.  This stitch here, a running thread of red there.  One more photo, then I'll tell you what it is, or have you guessed already?

It's a cuff.  For around a wrist!  Purely decorative and fun.  To make a statement, of the Granny Chic kind.  Bit tricky to photograph without my wrist in it, but you'll just have to visualise how fun it looks!!

 

 

 

Okay, I'm happy now.  I have had a play today and thoroughly enjoyed the process.  I've started something, designed it, tweaked it, finished it ready to wear, and now I'm ready to get back into my long-haul projects.

 

 

Bye for now!

Trudy

Pinterest

I have been a collector of images for as long as I can remember.  Anything that catches my eye or takes my fancy is kept and treasured.  I adore the clever and the beautiful, the sumptious, the quirky, the colourful.  They can be images of fashion, interiors, animals or people that grabs my attention.  No old and outdated magazine is safe from my scissors.
   

Then, with these images in hand I like to paste them into books, in theme order or colour order or whatever-I-please order. I think I have this overwhelming need to be constantly cutting and pasting because I never went to Kindergarten! I didn't learn my cutting and pasting skills then and I've been playing catch-up ever since!!

I have books full of wonderful images that inspire, get my heart jumping and my mind racing.

Images that have me swooning, day-dreaming, planning, wishing and hoping.

Books on fashion that are so dated now they make me squirm, and scrapbooks of interiors and books of images that just make me smile.  So why has it taken me so long to join Pinterest?  Pinterest, this thing I've been doing all my life, but online, and no scissors or glue needed.  Why has it taken me so long?  I have no idea, I'm loving it!!

I can categorise all the images, mine and ones I pin from others, and I can have everything in the one place, and then I can skip and hop over to other people's "boards" and see what they have!!  My oh my, I am totally in my element.

It has been fun setting it all up, thinking of category names "wool + hook", "swoon + yearn", "here + there" etc. etc. and slowly starting to add pictures into each group.

I have three followers already, Pixie Kaye (you are my Style Guru!), Serendipity Patch and Viv @ Hen's Teeth.  Thank you for showing an interest in my images.  Thank you for your inspiration peeps!!  I've already "pinned" from you : -)

If you want to scoot across and have a look just hit the link on my sidebar and you'll go straight to my page.  And with all this time on Pinterest something has to fall by the wayside, I'm thinking it could be the time spent feeding the children, or cleaning the house ...

Are you on Pinterest?
Do you enjoy looking at oodles of different images?
Did you have scrapbooks when you were little?  Or now?

Trudy