A Day Indoors

Well who'd believe it?  4th April and it snowed ALL DAY!  nothing for it than to put the fire on, and the radio and get down to some creating.  It all started fairly well.  I made a video tutorial making paper flowers for a book sculpture...but then it all started to go to rats :(  Try as I might i could not work out how to upload to my laptop.  I have a MAC and whenever I connect my camera it automatically opens in IPhoto.  Fine for very short videos, done those before, however 600MB didn't want to play at all.  I tried closing IPhoto and looking for my camera as a device but no matter where I looked on the hard drive I couldn't find it.  So in the end I gave up and  took stills and sequenced them in Photoshop!  Then I turned my attention to the making of the wedding ring cushion that had been floating around in my head for days, the one to match the bridal purse I made on Saturday.  This, thankfully, went well and ta da!  Here it is

 

I also managed to almost complete a sweet midnight blue devore velvet evening purse which will be on my bag page soon!

ring bearers cushion

ring bearers cushion
Originally uploaded by Rona Gregory

Someone asked the other day how I found time to make all these things when I'm preparing to move my home and my whole life across the world. Simple. If I sit still and do nothing my mind gallops around the house worrying about everything that has too be done. As a lot of what is left to do cannot be done just yet it helps to focus on something else. In other words it helps me relax! This week's offering is a ring bearer's cushion I have made for a friend who is getting married very soon. I got the idea for ribbon weaving from Susan Niner Janes' book New Ideas in Ribboncraft and then chose different fabrics to make it my own. As is fashionable I up-cycled a blouse that had a wee hole in!

With the remainder of the blouse I am going to make a beautiful evening purse.  Watch this space!