Showing posts with label triangles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label triangles. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

the best laid plans...

The lesson I am learning this week (though I probably should have got to grips with it a while ago) is that if you plan stuff, it rarely works out.  On Sunday I was supposed to have time off from the kids to get some sewing & blogging/photographing done, but for various reasons I ended up with my boys out in the sunshine - not a bad result, but not the one I'd been anticipating! 

Today at the last minute Fgot some time off and decided to take our little one out to the zoo, so I managed to get some sewing done after all, along with a quick trip out to the local junk shop for a rummage - it's so rammed in there you can't get a buggy through the door, so it's not normally an option for me.

I didn't buy much but I took some photos of the teetering piles of vintage chairs and suitcases, which I wanted to share with you, as well as photos of the cushion cover that I made....but no, apparently my camera and PC aren't talking to each other, so the photos will have to wait for another day.  Instead here's a few of my recent pins on Pinterest, just to give you something nice to look at! 

My most recent object of lust:



a lovely vintage travel poster:


and lastly, a lovely triangular pattern by graphic designer Gary Andrew Clark:


So there you go, some pretty pictures just for the hell of it; here's hoping that my camera and PC make friends again so I can share my thrifting and sewing adventures with you another day.

Happy Tuesday! Rach x

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

just a few of my favourite things...#2

Half term is here and I'm wading through a sea of lego and being asked for snacks every 2 minutes, but despite the chaos I'm managing minutes here and there to collect inspiration; here are a few of the lovely things that have made me go 'ooh' this week...


this lovely print from the wonderful mrs eliot books, which is continuing my yellow theme, and just feels really fresh and lively.  Chevrons, zigzags and triangles are really appealing to me at the moment - here's a contemporary fabric I'm loving today -



It's from Hus & Hem which has got lots of fantastic Scandinavian design for around the home; I also love their prints and greetings cards.


While browsing Hus & Hem I found something to solve a crafting dilemma I've had for a while: 

it's a diy mobile - I wanted to make mobiles when the boys were babies and thought about doing it with sticks, but didn't want it to look too 'handmade' - these lovely coloured hangers are perfect for hanging things made out of anything you like - paper, fabric, shrink plastic...time to play!

Speaking of playing, it's time to go...the lego is calling! 

Have a lovely week, 

Rachel x