feeling creative again!


Today Ben and I took a little photowalk around our city, where I took the above photo in a little park. It is actually an apple tree according to a sign in the park, and is so fascinating with all the different ways it branches off. Every different angle you look at it from makes it seem like a completely different tree…

I also managed to take this lovely photo…

I love butterfly’s, which is fairly amazing since they are a bug and I hate bugs:) They are just so beautiful (even the ordinary monarch ones)…

My creative mental block seems to have disappeared completely in both my photo taking and my sewing! :)

I decided that even if I couldn’t make a bag to hold my camera I at least wanted a new purse. So I made a little prototype first out of some muslin to see if I liked the shape I had in mind. That turned out so I decided to go ahead and cut up some linen and nice cotton fabrics…

I did actually pad the bag pretty well with fusible fleece, so it is padded enough to carry my camera for short periods of time… I think I will probably use it mostly as just a purse though.

Oh and look what I ordered off etsy the other day!

A beautiful print by MarmeeCraft! I haven’t framed it yet, but plan on doing so soon. I think I might have to put it over my desk so I can look at it often! I love the colors and the owls (which I seem to be obsessed with lately:)!

17 thoughts on “feeling creative again!

  1. The bag is great! I am glad that the creative funk is lifting!! I was at Woolfest this weekend in NW England and saw so many wonderful things – I hope I can pull myself together to make some of them!

    Love the picture too!!

  2. Your butterfly picture belongs in National Geographic magazine (or something). It’s stunning!!!

    I think your new bag is great. I’m glad my little suggestion was helpful.

  3. lovely bag, indeed! And I’m so very glad you like your print! :) How sweet of you to blog about it! Thank You! : )

  4. I just had a BAG-GASM! A bag orgasm that is!! Love the fabric…expecially the birds. How tweet! I mean, sweet! ;)

    You have talent my dear!

  5. lovely bad and photos. that apple tree is incredible- must be very fun for children who want to swing on its ample branches.

  6. Just taking a small break from hammering!! Your bag is so pretty! The bird fabric is so pretty with the dots.

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