Inspired by the Danish

Those great Danes are always coming up with innovative modern, yet livable, design. The following pictures are out of a Danish magazine called 'Bo Bedre' (Live Better); I picked it up in Norway in December 2007. They are currently hanging above my desk in my Inspiration Space. Loving the mix of textures and colors - if I could 'teleport' these living spaces into my home I would! I'm a sucker for Scandinavian design.

Back to the drawing board - Literally

I'm a visual person and I often run ideas through my mind and visualize them in their entirety before I put them into practice. Sometimes I get a minute to jot down the ideas or draw them. This week I'm visualizing the table setting for a birthday party.

Here are my sketches:

'Thank you' bags full of goodies on cork-board - Amy Atlas style
Food table setting

Watch this Space

With the sewing machine in the shop and sewing projects on hold, I thought I'd take advantage of the time and space to rearrange my workspace. I got a new desk, lamp, and chair to make this space more conducive to my craft. Previously I had the sewing machine on top of a chest of drawers and I would take my swivel chair to one room to work on the sewing machine and take it back to the other room to work on the computer.

I love this space! It's still a work in progress but I've outfitted it with some inspirational things. I've been keeping clippings of inspirational pictures or designers from magazines that I've been collecting from places like Russia, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Norway and America. I brought back some a kindergarten art project of my handprints back with me from the States - I framed them and put them on my desk to remind me of what I used to be like.

Until I get the sewing machine back I'll be trawling resources for inspiration, so watch this space!

Out of Order

I took in my husband's grandma's old Singer sewing machine in for a service today (see picture below). I love using this old machine and I'm already going through withdrawals since I won't be able to sew for 3 weeks! I found some great free patterns on Amy Butler's awesome website that I would love to try out, but alas I'll have to wait. *sigh*

Birthday wish-list

It's my birthday in a couple of weeks and I'm really looking forward to it this year. It's my first birthday in Australia and with a whole new group of friends and I have a winter birthday instead of a summer birthday. Growing up I used to have big pool parties and then lunch in the park and pony rides but now we'll be huddling around a hot meal and playing some fun games inside.

I've created a wish-list for my husband because he asked what I want for my birthday. For some reason I don't think I'll get anything on the list (I usually dont) but he'll think of something special :o) On the list I have some practical and impractical things.

via Amazon.com here
via Amazon.com here

via Amazon.com here. I've wanted this ring for a couple years now. Doubt I'll get it :o)

Fun Quiz

Found this quiz featured on of my favorite blogs and I had to try it. Don't know if it entirely accurate but it might have captured the kind of decor style that I aspire to have.

At the end it features your name on a Magazine cover!

Click here to take the quiz.

Filling a void

Upstairs near our bathroom we have a big wall in the hallway that I could never get quite right. We are renting and we don't want to create any holes on the wall if we don't have to so I am using the existing nails where the owner's pictures used to hang. I had some art work in frames in this spot previously but it didn't look right. So I got some cheap canvases and decorated them with some figures that I cut out of scrap-booking paper. I think they're cute, my husband thinks they look amateur, but I like them - simple, pops of color, and a little cheeky.

Found on Ibu Trading

I'm loving the latest website that I found called Ibu. It has lots of options for eco, sustainable, original things for everyday life. I LOVE this table/bench from Zaishu found through Ibu Trading. The antique kimono design is gorgeous but the price tag is a little steep - that's what you pay for quality sustainable products, but my pocket book says Ouch!

Eco Living

Found this company called Oiko on Ibu Trading which prides itself in selling original, ethical, and eco-logical goods. Oiko makes handmade hemp fabrics in different colorways and creates really cool things for home and for everyday living. Love the colors!

1 Year old today!!

It completely slipped my mind but today this Revision Design blog is celebrating its 1st birthday. I was browsing other blogs today and I came one that was announcing their blog's anniversary and I thought I better check to see when I started mine and lo' and behold it was one year ago today! I was sitting next to a window in a little apartment in St. Peterburg Russia making cards and taking pictures of them and decided to create a blog to report my crafty happenings. One year and a whole lot of projects later I am still bloggin' and loving it.

Thanks to all my readers!! I'm having one of these is your honor :o)

Here's a picture from my original post on July 16, 2008

click here to see where it all began. Cheers!