rediscovering my artistic mojo..

Strange how the creative urge seems to switch itself on and off.

Since the beginning of summer my mind has been firmly fixed outdoors, i.e. taming the wilderness in the garden, which is inspiring in itself, but also exhausting.

We have had a busy summer elsewhere too, visiting exhibitions, gardens and museums and storing up colours and images.

So inspiration is always there, and must have been getting into my head, and
I never stop drawing, although the weekly life drawing group I go to has stopped until September. I always have a small drawing book with me though, and use it as a notebook too, an addition to my memory as well as a visual record.

But I would really like to give credit to lovely Jenny from Handmade Happiness:

http://jenny-handmadehappiness.blogspot.co.uk/

for restarting my creative mojo. Her shop (in my drawing above) is always full of beautiful and unusual hand made things, and she has been urging me for ages to make more items for her.

Here are some small purses and pouches I made last week, inspired by 'boro' stitching, and by the patches I have been adding to Mr P's gradually disintegrating jeans...

I have also made two enormous cushion covers this week for two big pillows we bought once in France- why are pillows so huge there? I haven't noticed that French people have particularly big heads.. A good use for some lovely velvet fabric samples I have been hoarding for ages, and the cats love to snuggle down into them.

Now I find I have lots more ideas for sewing and making. Its true that you just need to start and you open yourself to more. I hope to be back here more often from now on.