I love books and I mean real books not the iBooks or Kindle variety, whilst I understand they do have a place and in particular for holidays or commute travels they are ideal. For me at home have to have a proper book to open.
Over the years my reading has changed from Kathy Reichs with Temperance Brennan and gory murders to Debbie Macomber and Cedar Cove, with more authors in between. Still love the Agatha Christie murders with Miss Marple or Tommy and Tuppence as these let's be honest are gentle murders. Also the murder books by Joanne Sheen, the lovely lady who produces fantastic CD roms for card making from Create and Craft.
My Latest read is The Teashop on The Corner by Milly Johnson
This book is about a teashop, yes on the corner, the lives of the people that meet up there but for me the most interesting part are the gifts sold in the tea room, all literary based. A light bulb went on for me and thought why not interpret into some fabric creations and jewellery. A new notebook started and filling up with ideas and sketches. May take a few weeks to complete but my brain is working overtime with ideas, let's hope I can pull it off to produce something that is of interest to other lovers of books.
Funny the way things happen and I am a great believer they happen for a reason, this book found it's way into my online basket along with others similar and just clicked.
As you gathered this is my theme for May. The new plan and super organised me (lol) is to think of a theme for the month,start planning and ordering the month before, that way have everything to hand and don;t have to spend ages waiting for deliveries.
I work well with themes as can focus my attention which does tend to be like a butterfly, flitting from one thing to the next. How do you work best? Themes, let the flow take you, structured. I have to have a passion and be fascinating in what I make and normally where possible to follow life or in my case the past as love vintage from Victorian era to about the 50's.
Well back to the makes done so far for the Literary theme starting with Alice in Wonderland. I am sure most of us have read the books and dreamt of falling down a rabbit hole to a new world, with all sorts of adventures. Well I did as a child, always the dreamer and wanted to go to Narnia.
Showed this length of fabric to you the other week, now all made up:
Frame Clutch bags with vintage gold tone A in W charm and a blue bow.
Pin Cushion books, fun to do and drafted my own pattern, plus worked out first time, miracles.
Mad hatter Tea Party tote bag
Lavender Sachets with faux silk crushed ribbon and a teacup or teapot charm
Couple of mug rugs one monotone the other design coloured
Alice in Wonderland Cards, printed onto fabric and mounted onto kraft cards
Vintage style Bookmarks
These will have more of a home in the Jane Austen collection, which will be coming soon, I hope. I say I hope as I get distracted and move on
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That's all for this week, hope to see you again next week,
