As you all know I’ve been busy making lots of stuff for my up and coming craft fair and one thing I’ve been using a lot is my sewing machine to run up lots of paper garlands. Well it’s a very very old machine (older than me) and the speed on it has always been […]
Author Archives: Milomade
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Jul
Jul
Thanks to Jill Calder for coming up with the rain theme for this week’s Theme Thursday – it’s quite appropriate as Fife is a tad wet today! We could all do with looking at her brightly coloured illustrations to get some colour back into the day. Is summer over? The rain is here and it’s […]
30
Jun
Jun
Not only have I been working away like a busy bee on envelopes and my shop keepers dummy display, I’ve also been busy making more paper garlands and coming up with a neat way to package them up. My old sewing machine is on it’s last legs though and the tension control is not what […]
30
Jun
Jun
I love making envelopes – I can’t stress that enough and over the past week or so I’ve been cutting maps, sheet music, pages from comic annuals etc into envelope shapes. I’ve then been folding and gluing and packaging them up – it’s been hard work, but I love repetitive tasks like this and I […]
30
Jun
Jun
I’m going to be setting up a Milomade stall at Summer in the Loft on the 10th/11th July – details on the homepage – and I’m very busy getting stock ready for that. Every surface, including the floor is covered with work in progress or work waiting to be packed or finished work waiting to […]
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Jun
Jun
Did anyone catch the latest episode of Imagine on Tuesday night on BBC One? It was brilliant. Entitled ‘Art is Child’s Play’ it delved into childhood experience of play and tried to make a connection between early creativity to artistic endeavours later on in life. Lots of Britain’s leading artists were interviewed about their practice […]
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Jun
Jun
It’s a lovely sunny day and I’ve just discovered three little tomato buds in my greenhouse – they weren’t there yesterday when I was photographing the yellow flowers, so they must have developed over night and this morning – I’m really excited! So to celebrate this and the lovely sunshine here’s a Mellow Yellow theme […]
22
Jun
Jun
Just a quick little post to let you know that I got interviewed for the ‘Meet the Maker’ slot on the Makers-Online blog recently and it got posted on the site this week. You can follow this link to read all about “me me me”! I don’t know how to edit, so it’s quite a […]
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Jun
Jun
I was asking my Facebook fans to help me out with a dilemma yesterday and although they came up with lots of lovely suggestions, IKEA had the solution in the end. I’ve never really known the best way to display my hair bobbles and everytime I do a craft fair, I really struggle to find […]
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Jun
Jun
I drove through Aberdour for the first time in ages the other day. The road has been closed for months due to repair work – I think there was a landslide when we had that bad stormy weather in March. It was so lovely to see the fields of poppies along the way and I […]