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 23, 2013 | Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
In my last post we looked at how to design your garden lights. In my yard I had come up with the following design and was now armed with a shopping list to take to the light store. I required: 5 garden lights, one pillar light for the driveway, 2 house lights...
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....
Feb 15, 2013 | Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
Being an amateur gardener I had to draw on my creative skills to design not only the landscape, but also the garden and the garden lights. Nil experience, nil knowledge, so armed with google I was ready to give it a go. I knew I didn’t want to repeat the...
Feb 2, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery
The end result is beautiful! This is my final post in a series of ‘how to make a rainbow bracelet’. I don’t really do rainbow myself, I prefer to select a natural palette, more organic inspired. Rainbows to me are bright, colorful things with...