What to do with old books?

Build a counter!

I ♥

I am in love with these patchwork curtains. Looks like they have a story to tell...(or a couple).

Patchwork items can so easily look cheap, with little scraps sewn together. But these curtains look sophisticated, thanks to the solid deep purple section at the bottom of both to tie them together. Beautiful!

Image via www.absolutelybeautifulthings.blogspot.com

Look what I bought...

On an incredible impulse, I bought myself a sewing machine. I was on Gumtree and stumbled across the ad for a sewing machine and thought "Hey, I could use a sewing machine". So there, 4 hours later, I was driving home with a sewing machine that I had no idea what I was going to do with!

But now I'm inspired to learn and make things. What things I don't know quite yet, but at least it's fun!

I'll be sure to show what I've made!

x amanda

An amazing find

I've stumbled accross Etsy.com. Now for most bloggers this is probably old news, but some things take me a little while... :) I kept on seeing 'found on etsy' and 'visit my etsy shop' on other blogs, and normally admired the photos of objects I saw, but never actualle logged on to etsy.com....until last week.

It's the kind of site I've been dreaming of! Go check it out www.etsy.com. Hopefully I will soon have my own shopfront!

x amanda

Gestop in tyd

Ek het so bietjie lanklaas 'n verskyning gemaak, dinge was maar dol. Ek sal opmaak vir my afwesigheid!

Ek was baie bevoorreg om Marieke Prinsloo te ontmoet. Sy is 'n pragtige mens, met 'n siel wat jou dadelik inneem en laat tuis voel. Sy is borrelend, vriendelik, en gretig om alles met jou te deel. Sy is ook, by the way, een van ons land se mees talentvolle kunstenaars.

Marieka is 'n beeldhouer, en haar werk is asemrowend. Haar beelde van vroue is so eg, so vol emosie, dit voel soos 'n egte persoon wat vasgevang is in daardie oomblik.

Hierdie foto's is van haar 'Prima Vera Dancing Girls', gebaseer op Bottichelli se 'Prima Vera'.
Kyk net die detail op die rok (die kant), die beweging in die rokke, die absolute emosie.

Ek beloof om nog van Marieke se fanstastiese werk in die toekoms te wys.

Kyk die detail op die linkerste rok, lyk kompleet soos 'n sagte kant rokkie

En ek is natuurlik mal oor haar studio muur, kyk net al die sement hartjies en figure. Pragtig.

Tot volgende keer,

x amanda