Mar 23, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - sculpture
Design-in-Action Over the years I photographed how I went about creating my unique bedheads. I used to call this section of my web-site ‘Design in Action’ so clients could see how I managed the custom design process for any of the Fantasy Dreams artworks....
Mar 23, 2013 | Browse and chat, That Creative blog
There is a terrific commercial on Melbourne tv at the moment, the teenage son finally moves out of home and guess what .. he returns! Surprise surprise on the parents face as he storms off to his bedroom only to find .. even more surprise, the parents had converted...
Mar 22, 2013 | Browse and chat, Creative inspiration, Renovate & Decorate, That Creative blog
For some reason I skated through life not ever thinking about hanging a nude painting or art in my home, either I never thought about it, or it didn’t inspire me, or was I a closet prude and didn’t even realize it. So which are you and would you hang a...
Mar 16, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery, Work-in-progress
At times I get inspired to pull a cluster of beads together, a ramble of colors which just speak to me usually when I have no time but to gaze absent-mindedly at colors and not think. Times like this I fiddle with the beads, relaxing, and then bag them to be made up...
Mar 16, 2013 | Browse and chat, That Creative blog
This morning I am feeling old and creaky .. my mind, heart and soul is feeling young and fresh, wish my body wanted to keep up! My day job is in the office – sedentary, my hobby is sitting and creating – sedentary, my relaxation is blogging – sedentary. I have a...
Mar 11, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery
While creating designs for the ArTTable, I was asked one year to be gust artist at the Melbourne Craft Expo along with a beading partner of mine at the time Leeza Silverman. For 3 days we sat beading a vase as part of my series ‘Sharing My Backyard’, there was no...
Mar 9, 2013 | Browse and chat, That Creative blog
I have decided to start a regular Saturday coffee chat; my musing and sharing session .. every Saturday morning. Ray goes to work, I’m home and usually have time to stop and think in my own quiet time. I love nothing more to grab a coffee and have an online chat...
Mar 3, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery, Work-in-progress
Recently I did a post called ‘Inspired by Wattle’ .. well it was enough to inspire me into making a green and gold bracelet. Whilst I was writing the article I dug into the bead box and pulled out what I had that made me think of wattle .. green and gold...
Feb 27, 2013 | Creative inspiration, Renovate & Decorate, That Creative blog
So I have enjoyed collecting dead bits since I was a kid. Dad gradually added to my eerie collection of rabbits feet, ducks feet where you would pull the tendon so it opened, fox furs and all types of found feathers and bits. As a youngster I then pinned beetles and...
Feb 22, 2013 | Renovate & Decorate, That Creative blog
Decorating our homes is always a balance of budget, uniqueness, personal identity and a love for all things about you! Finding affordable art is generally unobtainable, by the time artists emerge and produce the most beautiful of their works it becomes highly...
Feb 16, 2013 | Creative inspiration, That Creative blog
One of the easiest methods to create a new design is to borrow from nature! The enormous combinations of colours and shapes are already preformed in nature and therefore creating art which emulates the key ingredients of nature quickly resonate with the human...
Feb 16, 2013 | Creative inspiration, That Creative blog
For years I had no budget to buy anything, having young children, house mortgage and all the usual overheads of a young family I had to make my own at everything. Sewing curtains, quilts, pillows, painting floor boards and making my own art on a shoe-string....