Apr 25, 2013 | Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
I have to say Autumn is my favourite season everywhere, always. The colours the different breeze, the fresh nights, the sunny days. Most of all I love the transformation in the garden. Since moving to Melbourne, my greatest delight is watching the...
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 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....
Jan 27, 2013 | Browse and chat, That Creative blog
The Black Saturday bush fires haunted me. They did the day they happened, they did that night on the news, they did every day afterwards, when we visited 6 weeks later, and again 3 months later and still two years along .. and I wasn’t even there....
Jan 12, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - sculpture
I have always loved walking through peoples gardens and finding little surprises. Not the garden gnome type surprises but I am a sucker for little fairies, sculptures and organic art which is melting into the garden itself, not obvious, but a delight when...