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Showing posts with label Eye ♥'s. Show all posts
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Thursday Themes: Textures
Do you remember that Seinfeld episode when George got in trouble because he could not resist the urge to touch a strangers clothes?
I was a bit like that up into my teens (when I learnt that it's just not appropriate to go feeling everything). I had to touch and feel something to understand it better. I love texture. I love textiles especially.
I think it is often the mix of texture with colour that is most captivating. You can have interesting textures without being able to see them, and touch is the physical feeling you use to explore texture but for me the way light enhances the visual aspect of textures is what makes things so beautiful and interesting.
I love natural forms and synthetic. Nature produces some of the most amazing textures. But man made items can also produce texture and colour combinations that get my senses and emotions going.
We've been having a bit of trouble with the cameras, computer and iPhoto recently (and Blogger is doing something funny and I can't upload side by side today), so here are some previous pictures I have on file that I have taken - simply for the love of the texture, pattern and colours. Excuse the huge quantity of photos, very hard to stop when I start. Like I said I love this stuff!
Double click to bring up better size photos for seeing the detail/textures.
Grass.
Quills
Dog scratches on frozen lake.
Vine
Smashed Bus Stop Glass
oops upside down - you can still see the wood looks like skin (or a shaved cat perhaps?)
Tree Bark
Tree bark
More Tree bark
I use to do a lot of rag weaving.
This is from a rag weave I started when I was about 14.
These next 3 are close ups from a piece I exhibited a few years back.
Enlarge this one to see the mixture of fabrics and raw edges mmmmm, good stuff!
I was a bit like that up into my teens (when I learnt that it's just not appropriate to go feeling everything). I had to touch and feel something to understand it better. I love texture. I love textiles especially.
I think it is often the mix of texture with colour that is most captivating. You can have interesting textures without being able to see them, and touch is the physical feeling you use to explore texture but for me the way light enhances the visual aspect of textures is what makes things so beautiful and interesting.
I love natural forms and synthetic. Nature produces some of the most amazing textures. But man made items can also produce texture and colour combinations that get my senses and emotions going.
We've been having a bit of trouble with the cameras, computer and iPhoto recently (and Blogger is doing something funny and I can't upload side by side today), so here are some previous pictures I have on file that I have taken - simply for the love of the texture, pattern and colours. Excuse the huge quantity of photos, very hard to stop when I start. Like I said I love this stuff!
Double click to bring up better size photos for seeing the detail/textures.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
What's new Pussycat? Made It Eye ♥'s.
Ooooh I love love love this skirt! I dont have a spare bit of cash right now to buy it - but wish I did. What fantastic fabric! 1970's screenprinted cotton. I wonder where she found it?
Friday, January 21, 2011
The Doily Tree
My dad taught me how to make lace when I was a young teen. He even hand crafted me some lacemaking bobbins out of bits he found around the house, used toothbrush handle, wooden and plastic chopsticks etc. He threaded wire and beads on the ends and they were quite cool. Regretfully I chucked them out years later when I was sifting through things to come with me overseas and things I didn't need anymore.
I haven't made lace for years, and I've never learnt tatting and proper embroidery. But my dad knows (among many handcrafts) these things. I do not know how to make doilys, but thats ok. I don't know if I'd have the patience for it anyway. And after seeing this amazing tree on Gertrude St in Melbournes Fitzroy soon after we moved to Australia 2 years ago, Sam and I decided I'd collect 2nd hand doilys to one day create our own doily tree.
We don't have the right kind of tree yet, but the collection is growing. Some will one day go on a tree when we get the right house with the right tree. Some I am keeping for making other things to give them a new life. Some I just want to collect and look at every now and then. I think I'm drawn to the fact that someone sometime sat down and spent time making these. There is a sort of life - an untold story in them.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
End of another year.
We had a quiet Christmas and New Year. Quiet but fun.
It was D's 2nd birthday during the week too (lucky little fella got a Wishbone bike), and with Sam home from work we have been out and about doing few visits etc but also just hanging at home, realizing how much we need the rest.
Off for a walk soon, but here are a couple of pictures of my lovely boys during the past week.
It was D's 2nd birthday during the week too (lucky little fella got a Wishbone bike), and with Sam home from work we have been out and about doing few visits etc but also just hanging at home, realizing how much we need the rest.
Off for a walk soon, but here are a couple of pictures of my lovely boys during the past week.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Christmas Stocking fillers Eye ♥
This time next week S will be a few hours off finishing work for the year. I wish he were home for a couple of days before Xmas, but having Christmas Eve off is great. Like birthdays, I feel that Xmas Eve should be a holiday.
Anyhow, as we get closer to Christmas, and I await the opportunity to wrap and place pressies under the tree I am still browsing online some of the neat things around.
Here are some bits I come across in the past week that I would be happy for Santa to drop into our stockings.
Hector Serrano http://www.hectorserrano.com/
This designer has innovation. And fun. Check out his site for more great things, but here are a couple of my fav's.
Anyhow, as we get closer to Christmas, and I await the opportunity to wrap and place pressies under the tree I am still browsing online some of the neat things around.
Here are some bits I come across in the past week that I would be happy for Santa to drop into our stockings.
Hector Serrano http://www.hectorserrano.com/
This designer has innovation. And fun. Check out his site for more great things, but here are a couple of my fav's.
Monster Hands Temporary Tattoos
Dress for Dinner Napkin
This guy has a website apparently but I can't find it. However plenty of links (get it?) online for his mens jewellery and at his etsy store.
Lego Cufflinks
Grove Made do design and craftsmanship as it should be. This company have beautiful laser cut bamboo iPhone cases, and you can get custom made cases too! A thing of beauty.
Grove Bamboo iPhone 4 Case
Lifes A Stitch (haha - I love that name :) ) http://www.lifesastitch.com.au make probably the best toy food I have seen. These 2 Aussie sisters make cool tactile playfood from fabrics such as wool & cotton. Well priced and great options such as Fish & Chips, Eco shopping bag, Fresh Fruit.
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