Feeling inspired...

I had a lovely trip into town today with my friend Sarah, she has a blog too check it out! See The Sky
We had a little wonder around with our cameras looking for interesting things to snap

Heres a few of the things i liked!

My first craft fair...

I had a lovely time at the craft fair in Catforth! Myself and my friend Gemma from Frostylock's Bakery, who makes the most amazing cupcakes, decided to have a stall together in Catforth Village hall last Sunday!

There were some lovely stalls including fellow Pad Gallery artist Lynn Wylie and Pauline Parker from the Creative Stitch Studio. Pauline had actually seen my textile sculptures at the LACI exhibition in Clitheroe last month so we had a good chat and i bought myself one of her lovely little notebooks!

I had for sale my usual fascinators and some new customised purses iv been working on, i didnt make alot of money but i got some really good contacts from Pauline and really enjoyed my first experience of a craft fair!

I think next time ill make more of an effort to dress my stand and have everything displayed beautifully! I didnt get chance this time around but hey lifes a learning curve after all!

New folksy shop :)

I finally did it! I now have a new folksy shop and here are the 3 items iv listed so far! (more to come obviously)  :)

Wednesdays junk lovin!

Second post of the day, i am catching up!
Lovely old sewing repair kit given to me by a friend, it has all the pieces still, i dont think i could bring myself to use it though its too precious!

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Untill next week

xxx

Eight brooches later.....

Im slightly late with my weekly target, i had intended to make five fascinators by the 18th april, but i decided on brooches instead and made eight of the little lovelies!
Look out for them in my Etsy shop!
Here are the fruits of my labour this last week (and a bit).

Time flys away..

Im so sorry iv been a very poor blogger recently! Im not sure where the time went. A little update then..

• My sculpture's are still in the LACI exhibition at The Platform Gallery in Clitheroe (uk).
• I have had a little holiday from work
• I went home to Hull for a few days to see my family and catch up with some friends
• Iv been to poole again for another managers meeting
• Iv done some more work on my house (stripping wall paper etc!)
• I made a fascinator for a friend for Aintree Races!
• I went Pole dancing (i do this weekly at my local gym, i have already noticed a difference in my strength and tone after 1.5 hrs per week for 6 weeks :)
• I climbed mt snowdon! (with my boyfriend Jeremy, i think iv caught the climbing bug!
• I read Girl with a one track mind, by Abbey Lee
• I started reading a book called Focus, its about being more focused to get the most out of life.
• Im back to my working reality

Im positve that this week will be a more productive one in terms of The Crafty Creations Of Carriemariah.
I will endevour to make 5 fascinators this week (if i set a goal hopefully this will help me to focus better).
I also intend to update my blog twce a week and catch up with Link Love on Facebook.
Ill leave it there for now (ned to set realistic goals around my 40hr working week)
Heres a little look at some views from Mt Snowdon!

Ta ta for now xx

Junk love wednesday

Appologies for missig last weeks Junk love wednesday! I was away in Poole again with no internet!
Iv had a lovely week this week, despite it not been a very creative one, i went home to Hull for a few days and spent some time on the beach at fraisthorpe walking my mums puppy ill save those pics for another post but It was lovely been at home and i managed to have a catch up with some old friends too.

Back to Junk Love...Iv not got an object as such for my post this week, but i took these pictures a while ago and havn't done anything with them yet. So i though Junk Love would be the perfect place to put them for now untill i do something more creative with them.
They were taken on a trip to London, it was when we were there for New Designers actually. Well, being in London naturally we spent a bit of time riding the tube. Im not a huge fan of the tube, there is no air and everyone gets squashed in like sardines in a tin, but we dont know London well enough to navigate anywhere quickly on foot or via bus.

This particular trip on the tube proved to be quite inspirational. Im one of those people who can find inspiration in almost everything, not everybody 'gets' that so i think it must be a creatives thing?
Here we go...

These first four are beautiful textures i found on the platform walls while waiting for the tube, i had to be quick taking these as the platforms fill up really quickly, i got a few sideways glances from people no doubt wondering why i was taking pictures of the wall!

I love the cracks and old peeling paint so fragile and worn almost delicate.

 

These three are what was left of torn down posters or advertisements, i loved these as they were huge and i could imagine them hung in a gallery space. I love that these torn down pieces of wall are now captured by my camera and now probably have a shiny new poster over the top of them.

I think i would like to re create the textures of the wall onto a canvas someday when i have the tme.

   

Junk Love over and out for this week, if you like junk and would like to write about your junk then join the Junk Love Club over at emmaroseart and meet other junk lovers!

xxxxxx

Junk Suprise!!

I wasnt sure what i was going to post about on todays Junk Love and then yesterday morning i got a little suprise......

A little star spotted package came through my door which i recognised immediately as the handy work of Jess from nellie&elsie. "what is this?" i thought "have i bought something and dont remember" its possible!!....
But no, i hadn't bought anything, it was some lovely suprise junk! Jess had had a little clear out and rather than throwing her unwanted away she sent me them to use on my fascinators!!!

Check out my junky treasures......:) Ill be making good use of these little cuties thanks Jess! love ya xxxxxx
(sorry for poor picture quality again this week, my lovely camera got left at work AGAIN... im so scatty!)

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Exhibition time!

Im getting ready for an exhibition at the moment! In fact i have to deliver my work on wednesday! eeeek. Iv been dyeing fabric for the last week in the few hours i get each night, tomorrow is a work free day so im hoping to get ALOT dyed and lots of sewing started.
You may not have seen my sculpture work from when i originally set up my blog at uni, but heres a few, ill post the others once iv made them ;) x

Wednesdays Junk Lovin..

Junk Love was nearly a no go for me this week, i left my camera at work so hve frantically destroyed my house trying to find my old one! I finally found it and after a hunt for batteries managed to take some photos of my junky treasure this week....however then i realised i didnt have a memory card in my camera so would need to find my usb cable! I havnt used this camera for over a year so again more house destroying took place, finally found it..yey! Here it is....

Lovely Lovely retro curtain and what i think is a bed throw...both finds from last weeks Oxfam lock in :) both again £5 not half bad id say :)
Also the lovely hamper basket is from my partners mum and dad, they get a christmas hamper every year from some friends and they have a dozen of these beauties in the attic, I have one so far but im planning to aquire the rest at some point, much prettier than plastic storage boxes ;)

If your a lover of thrifting junky finds, pop on over to EmmaRoseArt and join the junk club!

Untill next week my lovelies xxxx