HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !
First thing to mention is the Kim Family Auction which starts today - and GOODNESS ME there's some lovely stuff over there - anyone who's hopped over here to see more of my contribution, please scroll down to the post below. : )
We've had a lovely Christmas and I hope you did too, I'm bored with it all now though and the children went back to school today so it's full crafting steam ahead.
My creaky cranky very old steam-powered computer is finally giving up the ghost and is being replaced by a brand spanking new sweetie this afternoon. Yippee . For the past fortnight I've had intermittent internet access (try saying that when you've had a few), and my e-mails have been blocked by an over enthusiastic anti-virus system that appears to have developed a mind of it's own, so it's time to chuck it on the scrap heap. I'm a harsh woman.
I've been frantically saving my favourites before the switch over and spent hours last night looking through them all. Here are a few of the ones that are inspiring me today.
I Love the crafts and illustrations here .
Rei Komurasaki's stuff. I want to do some toy-making workshops at the children's school and I think these will be a great inspiration. Also checkout Deborah's lovely blog, she mentions Rei's work, as well as linking to lots of lovely illustration sites, and Deborah's own work is so colourful and wonderful.
I'd also love to make a quilt like this with the kids - isn't it fantastic.
Marion's illustrations and toys are just too cute.
More lovely illustrations.
And more.
This is fun.
And I fancy doing some more papier mache, so drooling over Julie Arkell's work is a must.
There are lot's more I've been looking at, but the noises this computer is making are scaring me, so I'm going to save this post before it disappears...
Hopefully I will be back on Friday with some photos of the Japanese craft books and very cute fabric Father Christmas brought for Molly and Me - he's very clever that Father Christmas - he knows exactly what to give. : )
My New Year's resolution is to stop stressing over the grammar and correctness of what I write on this blog, and to just get on with it and maybe not even read it back to myself . I had a great English teacher once, who said that the secret of writing a truly personal letter, was to write like you speak - and never check it for mistakes.
So you have even more mis-spelt badly punctuated rubbish to look forward to this year.
I'm looking forward to another blogging year, and I'd like to take the opportunity to say thank you so much to everyone who drops by, and thank you for all the lovely comments, and thank you for inspiring me with your lovely work and thoughts, and most of all thank you for listening to me prattle on about bugger all.