hARTylittlepeaces: enJOY the journey

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

enJOY your journey

i'm wondering if i can explain my absence from this space

and add a thrifty reference or two?

a journey of new found items & ideas

both worthy of the treasure

collecting the 'interesting' is a part of me

i adore the adventure & the thrill

the fact that they have been someone's previous story is cool too

so over summer these are a few ... from near & far

up-cycled colour & clothing to adorn & wear

practical & cute vessels for a purpose

fun elements & stories that enrich

ethnic elements that tell of a passion for culture

yeah i've been missing from here for the longest while

i've been on a little journey of the heART

i've been enJOYing that journey

trying to decide if my hARTylittlepeaces blog

has come to an 'end of a season' ??

or maybe just needs to 'be' a little less than before

i have lots of balls in the air you see

creatively of course the main one is my

little smARTy's studio

its my passion & i hope that this shows through in all i do

& in the recent, paraphrased, complimentary words of another::

"running small is becoming more rare

when others see what you're doing, they want to be a part of it to

you have the right core values & i think what you're doing is amazing"

& the feedback, support & actual number of student enrollments

shows me that i am .... i have mostly full-to-the-brim classes

the few holiday workshops were so in-demand, that i added more

& i have a waiting list for some of the weekly groups

#mycuprunnethover #iloveteachingart

currently most of my head space is filled with this focus

it truly is a dream come true

so finding a fresh balance in this moment is where i am

i still want & need to feed my soul & be creative myself

& i'm hoping to paint again ... you know, i have my own STUDIO
to actually paint in ....
& i have so so many things i'd like to sew .... & make

and so to blog or not?

i will be blogging more over here

& these days i'm on fb a whole lot more

& i have a new love in ig as littlesmartysstudio

which kinda makes sense - since my world is v v visual

i really want to love what i do

not let it rule what i do
balance
i think i'm finding it ....

Monday, February 3, 2014

five

5 years

its been since i started writing this blog

i honestly had no idea where it was going to take me

been looking back at those very first posts

i remember how excited i was about getting back to making again

actually making time to make

it was at a time when i'd stepped back from a leadership role

to spend every moment i could with our growing baby boy

in starting my blog i think i had the idea that it might help

to ground me in my role as a sahm

but it also opened up a community

of real people whom i have a lot in common with

at first i really admired the more predominant os creative bloggers

now i'm more about my blogging friends

people i now know & have spent real time with

the meeting real bloggers really began with this amazing patch-worker

as she responded to a block swap i organised

i should thank her for the kick to go on

a bloggers weekend in Sydney

where i met a stack of girls .....

now i'm not great at grasping names straight off & you know

some were more memorable than others hey! (cheekily said!)

from there well .... i made an incredible friend

and have spent a few wonderful weekend retreats

with more creative minds

love being part of this wonderful community

.... here in the world of blogs & on FB & also IG

love your work lara, tan, kylie, anna, annie,

jodie, nikki, nicole, cath, gina, kathryn, rach & kathryn

& lots of others xo

part of my online 'village'

its been a fabulous 5 years

i have wondered a bit lately as to why i still blog

i think its now as much for me as it is the few people

who read along ... yep

so if you do read along

i'd love a comment or so along the way xo

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

photo tricks

lots of firsts this summer

fun with friends

at 'our' riBer

love this pic above
it has us all in it! plus ....

have you spotted the

'trick' yet??

have another look ....
and here are a few other very clever ones ...

how you ask??? ahhhhh .... very tricky hey!
clever iphones

thanks ellen!! great fun

Thursday, January 23, 2014

wk 4 :: 52

a portrait of my boy

once a week

every week

for 2014

4 :: 52

drawing & painting

a lion in our little smARTy's studio

wonderful times

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

my village

love the 'village' reference

the people in our village are like gold

they make our lives

little slide show of some of what happened

in our village in 2013

its a good thing to look back to help you look forward

happy days ahead

enJOY your journey

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

quilt tops

kinda joining in the top 5 lists

.... so going with the no rules thing

here's my top 5 handmade tops .... plus a favourite parrot

..... & a short reflection

in vague calendar order

top left :: swing it sister

top right :: bamboo wonderland

middle left :: scrappy wip

middle right :: one a penny two a penny

bottom left :: party like a parrot

bottom right :: acid spotty coin stack

its been a big year of plenty of creativity

in the planning & execution

just not a mountain of quilting going on

lucky me acquired both an overlocker & steam iron

this year so this has spurred a re-newed passion

to make clothing for me!

we traveled os & this always does something weird to my sewing focus

oh & if you missed it .... i started up a new business

so yeah .... not so much patchworking going on

but as always there are things happening in the background
i've noticed in going through my blog posts
& looking through images that i
have a true colour story going on
i did know this but its taken me a little by surprise :: nice to look at it all side by side
i'm very heavily biased to 'winging it' my way ... aren't i?
funny ... when you're in the midst of things sometimes you don't see it!?
(not intended as a bad pun but i don't mind a duality! he heee!)

oh & technically the one-a-penny ..... is not a quilt top
but i'd like to make one that way sometime ...

so wishing you all a happy and blessed

2014 .... enJOY your journey

Monday, December 30, 2013

little smARTy's studio

total immersion in colour & creative minds

it has been a wonderful begining

my cup runneth over

Sunday, December 29, 2013

enJOYing our journey

a few pics that tell some of our

journey of late

the blue & pink fairies at our Playful Market

mother's group friends

family holiday escapes

a plane does a fly-by over the sheep gathered in 'the stable'

pattern wrapped parcels

love my pink christmas tree

precious little baby Amy May

hand on my hand

some summer time beach sunshine & reading

lost teeth

enJOY your journey

the case of the missing mojo

yeah .... i've had a couple of 'blocks'

with my sewing of late

& that has translated into few blog posts!

the "post-os-trip-block" ....

this has happened to me before

the whole travel adventure switches my thinking

& then i find it tricky to switch back for a while

but this has been a long while

as our amazing northern sojourn was way back then

the other ...... "i-started-a-new-buisness-block"

and i have been completely focused on creating something wonderful

little smARTy's studio is a dream come true

one term in & i love it

of course i've started a blog for little smARTy's as well

yeah .... on & then there's been plenty happening in life

which is the way i like it

days for girls, full circle, the playful market

riBer trips, family times, a sewjourn, some hijinks, gallery visits,

milestone finishes, lost baby teeth, & teaching .... loving it

so last week, just in time for some handmade gift making

the sewing mojo just 'had' to be found

thankfully is was

it wasn't like i stopped dreaming up new ideas

they were flowing .... it was the application

sew .... i made a whole heap of

pillow cases

gifted to various friends & family

i'm quite pleased with them actually!

there were co-ordinating colour matches to consider

fun fabrics for kids thinking of personalities

& some 'top shelf' choices

my lovely overlocker made these a fast, neat finish

of course ..... just need to make some for our bed

the count is at 22 .... not all pictured!

so yeah .... i'm back blogging
but you can also now find me
with a new passion over on IG
as littlesmartysstudio

Thursday, November 14, 2013

heide grey scale

a grey day at heide

with pops of colour

....chase you round the rabbit hole?

see art works just simply can't be

just .... black & white

its a sliding grey scale isn't it?

and can you make yourself tall

like this lady?

... have always loved the amazing architecture

that is heide

for its story, is interior and exterior spaces

... sculpture below is titled : "Seed"

it did plant a seed a long time back for me

can a visit & a 'play' in the sculpture gardens

plant a new seed in young minds?

maybe?

oh & i have always adored those cows

.... quick noted lesson on perspective!

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

spring sewjourn

seriously love going to sewjourn

besides is being a sweet australian cottage

& the wonderful light filled space that is the studio work room

its about people & making together

started out way back going along with a couple of real life friends

but now i feel like i know everyone somewhat

you know its that time forged thing that carves out friendships

Lara has summed it all up perfectly

all part of my village now

go on wear a chunky belt & some acid yellow beads with that

show your curves

some garments were made

yay .... tops & dress finishes ...

& a new quick and simple 3 piece top pattern that i adore

so i sewed up x10 smocks ... about 2/3 the way

a black & white stripey quilt binding

half square triangle quilt was worked on .... wip

that means i've started on the 544 hst's that i have

that is going to be a marathon as every single

mini hst block needs to be carefully pinned so the corners line up

but you know ... i live for the journey!

another chunky oversized scrappy stacked coin strip

ready for another double sided quilt top

and

some free form blocks for shannon

because if i lost my home & the things in it

that are special to me i'd love a quilt too

enjoyed making these alongside annie

Sunday, October 27, 2013

pretend sewing

another

very sweet 'toy' sewing machine

pintrested an age ago

but love it & after the post on friday about fp

had to follow up with this

there is even a tutorial
about how to make it
it does require a few special pieces
cute huh!
so yep ...
i have a heap of smocks to make
should have had them made 3 weeks ago ...
they are all cut out
just haven't made a start with the sewing bit!
mmm .... today is the day!
that way i might be able to
actually blog about something
i've um ..... yeah ... made!