Today’s creative space is rather similiar to last weeks only on a bigger scale.  I’m currently embroidering this image from Andrea over at BadBirds.  I was originally intending to do it all in red, but then I started and for some reason I picked other colours.  (I did chuckle that the colour I originally planned to use is number #666 from DMC.  It’s the red in this photo.)  I’m hoping to have it finished this week before I head back to work next week.

To add to the wonderful experience I’m having with stitching at the moment my little present from Etsy turned up today…

I purchased it from Namolio and it’s just as divine in person as it is in that photo.  I’m not sure I’ll be able to bring myself to actually use it, it’s just too wonderful.

If you’d like to see more Creative Spaces, or even add your own, head over to Kootoyoo.

Megan @ Simple Pleasures

Thank you to all who took the time to read, comment and enter.  Your lovely comments mean the world. Thank you!

This is why I adore Twitter so much.  One of my Tweeps sent me this message:

Click on the image link and I was greeted with this:

This is all kinds of wonderful!  Thanks @elimaschio you made my day!

1. Ring of stitches, 2. leaves in technicolor 004 copy, 3. wonderland white rabbit embroidery WIP original design by isewcute, 4. Felt embroidery, 5. “Money Matters”, 6. pink dahlia felt embroidery

Today’s mosaic is sponsored by my new found love of stitching.  I’ve spent the past few days stitching to my hearts content.  I hope one day I can be in the same league as these stitchers.

Want to see more wonderful Flickr flavoured mosaics? Head on over to ArtMind.

Gotta love something simple.  This made me chuckle.  I love a good dinosaur joke.

I’m a little late with todays music, but I have a good excuse it’s a public holiday and I forgot it wasn’t Sunday.  See, I knew you’d understand!

This weekend the weather has definitely turned autumnal.  It’s wonderful!  I love the change from summer to winter.  I’m already thinking about which scarves to get out of storage.

I have been loving this song for the past few days.  You just can’t get enough good banjo these days!

I’m loving this tune so much at the moment that I’m even thinking about how to incorporate some of the lyrics into my next work of craft.

But enough rambling, I need to get this posted before the clock clicks over to midnight and I become a pumpkin!

I’m a little late with my Creative Space this week, but I’m hoping you’ll forgive me when you see what I’ve been working on.

Lately I’ve been really moved by some of the embroidery that I’ve been seeing on the great creative blogs out there.  I’m especially crushing on Carina’s Craftblog.  Which is lucky because Carina has published a wonderful ebook on embroidery.  I purchased the book on Thursday night and I’ve been searching for a way to use it ever since.

I hit the jackpot when I stumbled on to the blog Feeling Stitchy.  It’s a massively wonderful resource for all things stitched.  I fell in love with so many of the projects on there but I still wasn’t sure what to do so I went looking for more inspiration.

I was lucky enough to come across Vintage Transfer Finds and there I fell in love with this little birdie.  I stitched it up in no time and I’m so proud of it.  I even managed to do my first french knot and it worked!

I’m so smitten with it.  I decided to turn it into a little coin purse based on the tutorial on Cat Taylor which I found through the very amazing Creative Space by Megan at Simple Pleasures.

I used some of the new fabric I picked up this week at Addicted to Fabric and lined it with a bright purple just for something fun.

So what do you think?  I’m thinking that it would be a great little giveaway to one lucky commenter.  So if you’d like a little blue bird to keep your change happy just leave a comment on this post letting me know where you’d take the blue bird on your adventures.  Comments will be closed at 8pm AEST on Tuesday 9 March 2010.

Aren’t these book covers amazing?  Penguin Classics has teamed up with Aids Awareness Fun (Red) to produce eight new covers for a sample of their penguin classic books.  I would love a set of these books, not only to red but to lovingly gaze at.

I’d also love posters of these covers, they’d make such a powerful statement hanging on the wall.  Once again Penguin has proved why they’re a literary powerhouse.

Today’s Friday Fancies is an unusually long one.  I didn’t realise that there were so many variations of one of my favourite symbols out there.

1. Epershand Earrings 2. Harrington Earrings 3. Ampersand 4. Glass Marble Necklace Ampersand Symbol 5. Ampersand Ring 6. Sterling Silver Block Letter Ampersand Necklace 7. Silver Helvetica Ampersand Earrings 8. The Super Ampersand 9. Harrington Necklace 10. Aluminum Ampersand for Wall or Shelf 11. Ampersand Script Font 12. Land of Ampersand 13. French Style Petit Coterie Ampersand Burlap Pillow 14. Ampersand Gocco Print 15. Coral Ampersand 16. Ampersand Cushion 17. Ampersand Cross Stitch Kit 18. Wire Ampersand Symbol 19. Ampersand 20. Ampersand Necklace (Black)

Image source: Studioloo

I want this yarn, and not just because it’s called Candy Sprinkles.  I swear!

How beautiful does it look?  I’d love to make something funky out of it.  Not sure what… a scarf maybe… oh the possibilities…