30 Days of Creativity - Living Space

Day 6: How does your living space reflect your creative nature?  Share a picture if you can!


I love having a kinda of quirky room. It seems to be a mix between a dumping ground and an outlet for my creative side! Strangely I decided to paint my room a sort of dusky pink when we moved in 4yrs ago... I hate pink... but I had this image of a dusky pink room with brown accessories & I love it. 

My 21st Birthday Bucket List

I wanted to do something really memorable for my 21st but without a lot of money I couldn't do anything spectacular, So I've decided to write my own bucket list. These are all the things I want to do before my 21st is over:

1. Hot Air Balloon Ride
2. High Ropes
3. Skinny Dipping
4. Camping
5. Go horse riding
6. Watch a sunset
7. Watch a sunrise
8. Watch a solar eclipse
9. Fly a kite
10. Ride a roller coaster
11. Go indoor climbing
12. Milk a cow
13. Have a reiki session
14. See a psychic
15. Get a tattoo
16. Get a piercing
17. Learn to crochet
18. Go to a Zoo
19. Go Skiing
20. Go Ice skating

My to do list of 2012:

To Do List:

• Learn to Crochet
• Get a new job
• Hot air balloon ride
• Get folksy store off the ground
• Learn to knit in the round
• Make a patchwork cushion
• Go on a high ropes course
• Keep some plants in my room... alive.
• Commit to A Make a Month
• Go horse riding
• Go to a new country
• Update my blog more
• Go to a craft show
• Add more to this list!
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Mushi Monster

If you already know me, you will know I'm like a 2nd Mother to my little sister Sienna... For those who don't know me... Sienna is my 6yr old Sister. She is a gorgeous little girl who is full of personality and quirkiness & I adore her right to my very core. I was there at her birth, I have changed her nappies, done her night feeds, soothed her fevers, watched her grow & become a very proud second Mum.

For about a year now Sienna, like most children, has become scared of the dark, but only around the house. Now, I've been through all the obvious ideas... a torch, encouragement, stories about the dark, a step so she could reach the light switches...nothing worked. Recently we have just ignored it hoping she will grow out of it, but last night I came up with an idea... It's probably already been done (I will google it in a min), but I'm hoping it will work. A monster of her own. A good monster, that scares any bad monsters away!

I told her this evening about my idea & she was very excited, especially when I told her how we were going to make this monster magic... (Secret I can't share!). Together we chose a sewing pattern, Picked out materials & put it together. She even had a go at threading a bobbin, which she loved!

This is Mushi:

Mushi still needs some more stuffing, stitching & the special magic ingredient, but fingers crossed, we may have found the answer!

Have a look at the original sewing pattern here... Revoluzzzionary Monster

A Make a Month 2012

In order to get my craft on in the new year I have pledged to make at least one item a month in 2012 along with  The Felt Fairy! This gives me a chance to try out a lot of new crafts and also get used to my brand new  computerized sewing machine... Yay!

30 Days of Creativity - Favorite Artist

Day 5: What artists do you seek out for inspiration?  Create a small something based on your source.

My most favorite artist has to be Fiona Rae. I adore her style, although her name's, sadly, is not widely recognized.

A little bit about her:

Fiona Rae is one of the YBA's (Young British Artists), born in 1963 in Hong Kong.

Her preferred medium is paint, with which she creates wonderful, quirky & very abstract canvases, as you can see above.

She has participated in the infamous Freeze exhibition and also been shortlisted for the Turner Prize.

A few of my favorite pieces:

30 Days of Creativity - Doodles

Day 4: Do some doodling... share it and write about it!

Please excuse the awful quality... but this is my latest doodle. I've began drawing up tattoo I've wanted for a long time, ready for my 21st. Over the next week or so I will be adding some Victorian style scroll to it & possibly a very tiny spider. Watch this space.