Saturday 15 February 2014

Focus On Life - Collage of Love

The theme for February over at the Studio Sublime has been cabin fever.  This week is all about beating cabin fever and creating a collage of love.
 I have had rather a long stretch of artistic inactivity, but the greyness of winter, the appalling weather conditions and the dark, cold evenings have encouraged me to nip off to my studio and make things!  So I decided to photograph some of the little areas of my studio (the not so messy areas actually!). 
I love my space, I love working here and I love the bits and bobs around me that I've collected over the years from flea markets and antique fairs.   

When the lid got smashed my great-grandmother's sugar bowl became my new brush pot! I know the bottle is a bit wonky but it is very sweet and I can't bear to chuck it out!

I have a weakness for anything arranged in colour sequence - I think my OCD tendencies come to the fore when I'm sorting and storing ribbons!  I also have a weakness for sari silk and I like to have jars of certain colours on hand to grab when needed!

18 comments:

  1. Your precious things are lovely! I have a few things like that....meaningless to everyone except ourselves :-)
    And I like things in colour order too...randomness upsets my OCD!
    Xxx

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  2. What a lovely display of creative stuff!

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  3. What an eclectic mix of goodies you have shown us from your studio. Looks like a fun place to be creative. I use an old teapot whose lid got broken as storage for brushes. Can't let a pretty dish go to waste.

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  4. I love all of your "goodies' the basket next to the books looks like I made fifteen years or so ago.

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  5. What awesome collages. It would make me happy creating in the midst of all those lovies, too! :-)

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  6. I have that too! My closet is color arranged - and I love it that way! I used to have jars of colored polymer clay displayed on the shelves in front of my work station. I love what you have done with the jars! I may have to steel that!!

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  7. Great collage Diana, I love getting to peek at other people's creative spaces.

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  8. What wonderful treasures. Thanks for sharing them with us xxx

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  9. Lovely, lovely photos - I see we have similar tastes of things we love :)

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  10. A lot of the time I love to spend rearranging things and generally looking at all my precious and not so precious finds. Your pics are like Aladdin's cave Diana.

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  11. That was fun Diana! I enjoyed seeing your 'bits and bobs' ...... I have a small collection of hat pins :)

    Karen x

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  12. I love seeing your studio! I think I'm OCD also because I also sort by color and love seeing them all arrayed in order! Your collection of sari silk and ribbons is to die for!!! Beautiful.

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  13. What a beautiful collection and beautiful photos. Your studio looks full of inspiration.

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  14. very pretty. l like things arranged in certain ways also...colors look calmer when grouped together

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  15. I love your photos, Diana! I can see why you want to be there creating. I enjoy seeing other's creative spaces because it's so personal and shows a glimpse of the person who creates.

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  16. How fun - I love seeing others' work spaces. And I might have to borrow your idea for storing your silk ribbons. It keeps them clean but the colors are always there as inspiration. Wonderful!

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  17. Gorgeous! Makes me want to go sort things. I like order in my color as well. :) Have a great week.

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