audience; prizes and above all opportunity
There is still time to enter the Umbrella Prints Trimmings Competition 2012 but order your Trimmings now.Maybe you are a creative person who has some skills you would like to show off?If you would like...
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I have been drawing a lot it makes me feel connected and energised. Most of the time I have no idea what is going to come out of my pen tip but if I get stuck I just wait until the pen starts or...
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I love the Finders Keepers markets so its heaps of fun to be asked again to suggest some of my picks for Autumn inspired gifts. When I think of Autumn I think of warm colours; staying in, tea, forests...
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Source: neststudio.typepad.com via Amy on PinterestEvery Mother's Day at Nest Studio we hold an exhibition of the children's paintings from last term. All the Mums and Grandma's and families come along...
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Source: histoiredesoie.blogspot.com.au via Amy on PinterestThe twins/life work balance is a little tricky hey :-) I have had to juggle things more than ever before which means sometimes my blog suffers...
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Photographs from Stirling Autumn Festival 2012 with Sarah, Dad, Rose and Eve.
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Some days with baby twins are really hard. The more you fight sickness, mess, and sleeplessness the tighter the knots get. So its better to just give over control and go with the flow. I happened upon...
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Handsome window just in time to celebrate Father's Day at Nest Studio. Brass cranes, Wrap magazine, prints, clay mice, Hornsea ceramics, clock towers and pink grapefruit, lime & Australian yellow...
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Granny Jane aka my gorgeous Mum... her house, pin board, her drawing, her garden and her making triangle sounds for the bairns who are always enraptured by anything that comes from the music box.
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Source: wikipaintings.org via Amy on PinterestPablo PicassoI just love coming across work I have never seen before by someone so awesome.
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We (Umbrella Prints) were up late hand dyeing these pieces of hemp/cotton and up early to see the results in the sun. Different depths of Light Clementine in hemp/cotton and over-dyed pieces galore....
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Source: overduinandkite.com via sea4sky on PinterestI love this. It's by Dianna Molzan.
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Despite being in the shadows of a huge tree these flowers caught the sun and buzzed with attention from me and the bees. Adelaide Botanic Gardens yesterday with my Dad, Rose and Eve.
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There was no way I was going to miss Leslie Keating's Handprinted: a fabric swap III this year. I had so much fun receiving beautiful fabrics in the letterbox and thinking about what I was going to...
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Mother's Day 2013; G and I always go visit this miniature rose bush in the middle of dry patch suburbia. It's our own little oasis.
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How can I be angry at G, who is 8, for secretly taking off with my camera when she takes photos like this? G is looking at details and patterns, closeups of surfaces, the textures of everyday things I...
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One of my favourite artists has opened up her own flower shop called The Tenth Meadow.Morgan Allender's moody arcadian paintings of cats and landscapes caught my eye many moons ago and then her large...
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Getting back in touch, in the studio, twenty minutes, no time to think, just go, feels good.
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