Heart Weaving

Hearye’ hearye’, behold, my first woven heart! Go forth and make lovely!

Aw, so myself and Stephen went for a lovely walk the other morning (and stone collecting on the beach <3). Before I left i stuffed one of my hand wound balls of wool into my jacket pocket and forgot all about it until we were out and about. So, we took a detour on the way home, and I got my first heart weave done. It feels good after wanting to do it for so damn long let me tell ya. Guerilla heartlove MakeLovely packs are underway. Approx 10 made and packaged for Christmas, and about 50-100 more to come! Keep your eyes peeled as well lads, 2010 is gonna be a good one. I am currently itemising and organising shopping lists and researching craft fairs in Ireland. It is New Years Eve. Lol. If this is wrong, I don’t want to be right because I absolutely love it.

I will post pictures of the heart weaving packs when I have some more done
Godspeed lovelytons, godspeed. Everything should be lovely… Go tell it on the mountain.

P.s. loving the blackboard paint.

The Watcher

The Tall Man At Night

Check out those shoulder blades. That gym membership I got him for his Birthday last year sure is paying off, eh? ………. *tumble weed*. Don’t chew my blanket again Rolo, I got it the day I was born and I love it to bits so it can do without you gnawing on it and that horrible fibre gritting noise you seem to be able to make when you are ‘playing’ with Shaun sheep plush toys that you went on to destroy and the likes. (You know there’s been similair situations, remember that scarf?) ktnx.

*High Five*

I will leave you with a song. And not just any old song!…no no! It is the one I want to hear EXACTLY at this very moment.

Initiate. *Robot Noises*

1. Get debit card organised.
2. Clean / re – organise goods in sitting room to be used in up coming project ideas.
3. Get sewing machine needles.
4. Charge battery for camera, clear off memory cards.
5. Get brushes and painting gear from shed.
6. Paint blackboard in my bedroom. Painted it in the Sitting Room / Slowly-Becoming-Studio.
7. Buy some chalk (found some that will do for the time being! yay!) and a duster. (might hold off on the duster for a while yet – I will see how it works with a cloth…)
8. Go to the shop in the village and get some dolly pegs.
9. Mindmap / Organisation on blackboard so when I wake up in the morning I will see it immediately and get cracking.
10. Tissue paper for garlands.
11. Fold + Cut awesome doily star iceicle shapes on Crafting Monday with Caitriona. (Small scale.)
12. Put card details into etsy and maybe list one product. (Ooh exciting!) Maybe I should hold off on this though, and focus on getting a shit lot of stuff made for an up and coming craft fair….(which I am yet to find?)

edit: additions to list! (5 hours after writing it) ;
13. Compile, gather and print updated inspiration for desk wall (Ongoing)
14. Take down the old stuff, and keep in mind some sort of new storage solution.
15. Roll more balls.
16. Sort out Flickr. Start uploading.
17. Start a group for the balls. (Sounds odd, I know. You will see.)
18. Recieve Gocco
19. Order cards
20. Go to town to eye up supplies
21. Blank card stock
22. Lino print
23. Research tileable images, sketch some.
24. Find a local xerox copier
25. Go to Lidl and ask nicely for their cardboard sturdy promotion display stand (Stephen you are needed here hah, shit one :/)

So yeah this keeps getting added to but I think that is enough for now.
2010. The year of short term, achievable goals that will put me on my way.
I hope?

Awesome.

High five, anyone?

Remember to: Register a pro Flickr account, and look into domain hosting etc but I will leave this to rest for now. Ah gotta love the ‘note to selfs’, eh?

<3

Note to self :
Buy these. A.S.A.P. (Re: long term love affair with stamps, handprinting and fabrics/textiles).
I’ve got ideas. I’ve got an iron. I don’t have ink. I don’t have cutting tools for my lino print block. Guess what’s on the shopping list?
Mmmhmmm.

available here at their website. I haven’t however checked out the shipping costs yet, and just know that the Art & Hobby shop over charge for this sort of thing. *Sigh*.

We will see, we will see

Newly reminded of as of ten minutes ago:
Polymer clay stamps.
Silver Clay

and the fact that I would quite like a cuppa tea right now.
Unfortunate it won’t be out of the cups I handmade in pottery that didn’t get handles… or fired… or glazed. Eugh. Come on Vici! Get flying. I will drink the tea from my 25cent charity shop groovy mug instead. Picture to follow?

I love today.

Ok so it has definetly been a while since I have posted.
So much has happened, there has been so much done and so much researched. It is my new years resolution to post decent posts more frequently, for my own good. Things are gaining a seriously exciting amount of momentum on this side of things and I am beaming on the inside the last few days. I feel like one of those little wind up toys that has been wound up for the past 5 years and is about to be set down on an amazing super gigantic handcrafted trestle table…. icing mountains…….button valleys…….brocolli forests………freshwater cellophane lakes…there are huge craft continents to explore and construct, each continent with it’s own beautiful ways and cultures and ideas and ethics and languages and styles and fonts and methods….ohhhh Pangea, I would love you so….. So yes, I am itching to get going with the *Actual* making of bulk objects with the sole purpose to test the selling waters, and I am going to run free with brut force from all the winding!

I have been bookmarking the shit out of the internet, saving images like nobodies business (for the last 3 or 4 years….) and have ordered my Gocco and inks. Absolutely delighted, and seriously seriously can’t wait to get going when it arrives. I am sourcing papers and envelopes at the moment, gathering up the ideas and researching tools and ideas to make my heart beam with happieness. Excitement is rushing through me… I can’t wait to get going. 2010, I adore you already. On the note of adoration, Finbarr… words have no meaning in this situation. You are an official MakeLovelyton.

The list of things I want to make is literally bottomless, and the more I live, the more it grows. I am on an exciting chase and super enjoying the run and the joy of trying to catch something I really want. It is however extremely overwhelming, so this is something I want to try and overcome and try get my logical hands and headwarmer thought fleece on whatever the hell that means.

I hope this blog becomes an archive of the growth of my beautiful cottage industry of the future.
I hope I don’t forget the amazing ideas i’ve had that I am going to work so hard to make a reality.
Sometimes I feel like i’m going to burst i’ve so many ideas and thoughts. I have put my faith in the universe, am prepared to do some bloody hard work to do what I love to earn a living. I trust that all will be well. Things always turns out better than I could ever imagine, no matter how shit things get at times.

So yes. I need to put up some posts about the projects I have been working on as of late, with pictures. (Stephen, ever greatful *camera noises*). It will be nice to be able to look back on things like this in a couple of months and hopefully some people might get inspired and take up some new hobbies and ask some questions etc! Fun for all?

Oh, by the by, the lovely and super fabulous Caitriona is now making her ‘Crafting Mondays‘ a monthly event. This is the start of something beautiful. I will keep you guys informed of the goings on and will have photos to post soon enough, once I get them all organised! Save Draft? Hah, gonna have to cuz this shit is gonna take days, yo!

Oh, another thing just before I go (realises this is her second “oh”), but I have decided to just streamline this blog and post everything on it, using the tags to differentiate between the sectors / different areas. These tag titles will have to be decided asap to make sure things run smoothly from here on in.

So, God speed lovely ones,
I hope you had a lovely 2009 and learned from all the madness that took place, I sure as hell know that I did.
Happy New Year

What did you love and hate about 2009? New years resolutions? Do you have a project in mind that you are planning on getting done soon? Drop me a comment, would love to hear from you

Repéter aprés moi s’il vous plait

All together now! ‘If it’s not positive…I didn’t hear it.‘

Butterfly Effect

I know I have probably sent this video to a lot of you but I am going to post it here and hope someone gets to experience it that wouldn’t have found it otherwise! This video brings me unspeakable amounts of joy – it’s a guy dancing like crazy on his own not giving a shit at all what’s going on around him. You should watch to see what happens, it’s beautiful! Even when people are try taking the piss he just bounces back off them like a mirror of love or some shit. Pewpew!

A new way to say Hooray.

4 good eyes, a camera and the trusty Autumnmobile, what more could I ask for!

I’d be smiling too if i lived there!

P.s. I love you

Baby Steps

I am always wondering why our surroundings aren’t more interactive. This video made me smile, and is definitely something I would like to encounter in my daily life.

This is obviously a project which would cost a lot of money to implement, but I feel the message it reminds me of is that our environment is ours to use and it can be whatever we want it to be. It doesn’t have to be dull to the max! That shit’s for lamewads, yo. We need to start leaving little trails of human in our concrete jungles. Perhaps spread some love whilst doing something creative and expressive.

In ‘Inspiyear’, a project I did for college last year – I was encouraging interactivity with our environment through type… the kind of thing that can make many peoples day by doing one simple act. Hope, in my opinion, can be restored in a heartbeat.

Below is one example from the project where I was encouraging people to do an ‘Amélie” style stunt, where they would leave passport style photographs around the place to add a bit of creative fun to the day of some randomer!

Another idea I had was to tape one line lyrics to surfaces; the purpose here being that the lyrics would seem abstract to anyone who didn’t know the song – fun to those who did – and for those who don’t care about music – that they could appreciate lyrics in a poetic way and wonder why and how the hell the whole scenario happened to be. Regardless, it gets people wondering – which is never a bad thing.

Rocket, Salad. Stay tuned.

Mimealady

Bonjour, MakeLovelytons!

I have this burning passion (Lol) for French film. It seems to be the only genre of film that really appeals to me, and the only film that I feel I can take something valuable from to enrich my life with. I.e / not feel i’ve wasted some time or baught in to some marketing venture that is trying to rape me and has product placements all over the shop. You know. On this note, I recently re-discovered the joy of the movie ‘Paris, Je T’aime’. And yes, Paris, Je’Taime.

In brief, it is a collection of short films by a number of directors and with a range of actors all about love. Each of the short films has a great message and each delivered in the most beautiful and creative way.
This one in particular just makes my heart melt! The tiny kid, his huge bag. Perfect. I hope you enjoy and would love to hear any feedback, or recommendations for French movies.

In the beautiful words of Bob Marley, my favourite musician in the whole world …. ‘You better Lively Up Yourself, and don’t be no drag.’, Play us out Bob….play us out!

**dancing**