Yes, I know it’s Thursday but I was so busy yesterday…
Images
The humble cardboard box – reimagined
It’s a long way from a discarded pile of rubbish now.
New Font and New words of the week
I love this American Typewriter font – almost makes me nostalgic for typewriters – until I remember the ribbon palaver, the jammed keys, the inky fingers and the frustration of getting almost to the end of a perfectly typed page only for the inevitable gibber and splot to ruin it all.
In other news, I have discovered Fat Quarters and I’ve fallen in love with the name and the objects – I’ve taken to ogling and fondling them in Harberdasheries this week. Well, it’s a change from ogling and fondling things in Hardware shops. I am embracing this new found girliness and love of all things fabric – including folldolls, furbelows and titifalalfalloos…
Languid Lavender Labours
It’s taken me all day to make these lavender lovelies – It’s very hard to focus when working in its lovely soporific miasma.
Mmmm, I love the smell of PVA in the mornings…
Time to get micro with the next Salvage Cardboard Parquet project…..’cos one woman’s trash is another woman’s treasure chest.
Floating Jungle
Knitty Mirror
One of my best creations
My pride and joy for my pride and joy
Cupboard Drawer detail
“Burr Oak and Walnut” veneer made from layers of hand painted salvage cardboard. Art deco inspired decorative armoire a la raidy
