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A Gourdy Detour …

March 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment

So I went to Toronto to celebrate and I had a wonderful time!

Thank you all for your lovely messages here, there and everywhere – It was a lovely day!

While in Toronto I realized that I might be close to this one place (the only place!) that sells gourds in Ontario!

Remember “The Seven Sins”?

The Seven Sins – which in my case is “The Seven Travellers” – they live inside Pandora.

Pandora is a gourd!

I had to order her online at the Northern Dipper as there is no place here in Ottawa that sells gourds – which makes me sad as it is a lot easier to decide on a gourd when you can actually see it!

Anyways – I had to try to describe how big Pandora needed to be and that she had to have lots of little people inside her.

Last week my gourd arrived in the post ….

This mama was B I G!!!

I panicked a bit (read lots!) because not only does the gourd need to live on my board – the seven travellers need to live there too when they are not sleeping inside her tummy – and also … this is the board I was hoping to decorate with buttons from my lovely friends and family from all over the world!

I was sad – because as you can see – there wasn’t much room left for anything once Pandora arrived on there!

But then Marilyn told me how to sort it and then I was somewhat happy again.

Then while not being able to sleep at the hotel (am I the only one who just cannot sleep in hotels – crikey I lie awake what feels like all night long and I’m not coming home rested – instead I come home sleep deprived!) I had the idea that maybe – just maybe we weren’t so far away from the place where I had ordered the gourd.

I called – we weren’t that far and I arranged to come see them yesterday on our way home from Toronto!

Let me just say – the car was already packed to the rim with all our stuff – and all the fantastic fabric I was given by a super generous family member on Friday – and also Clara (who had to come along for the ride to be shown off to all the lovely family in Toronto !) … so there really wasn’t a ton of space in the back of the car.

Well – how was I supposed to walk into this Gourd Farm and only leave with one gourd (something a little smaller than what I had received in the post last week!)?

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Whoopsie Daisies …

But they were so pretty …

Big Gourds …

Small Gourds ….

Funny Gourds …

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Luckily Mr. Hubby didn’t mind that he couldn’t see out the rear window while driving all the way home  - gourds and all.

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I Keep Thinking …

January 16, 2012 By 1 Comment

… that I should show you something crafty I’ve done.

Or at least tell you about something crafty I’m doing – because BMDesign was started because I designed those gorgeous little witches – and then the Elves and the Angels … and you might now think I’ve stopped … which I have – and I haven’t!

Because in the beginning of January I was all about the Chicks … Easter Chicks that is.

And I went out and bought styrofoam eggs, and yet again I ETSY’ed and bought fancy feathers and I have the total idea of how those chicks have long funny legs – and a fairly good idea about how their faces will look once I get the time to sit with them and model some Polymer Clay.

Let me show you how the first egg kind of turned out though … disaster …

Basically that styrofoam did NOT like being poked and prodded and as you can see I have a lot to learn about this technique – however to my defence … I have never done this kind of Easter Egging before and although it looks bad – I have still gotten a lot of impressed “oohs” and “aahs”.

I need to work on the size though because it is tricky with such a small egg to get all those pieces of fabric into the styrofoam – anyways … I gave up and almost ordered 200 eggs from Denmark in a different material than the styrofoam.

But then I remembered that there is a French craft store and the French are much better than the Canadians (not really!) and so I managed to find other kind in there and tried a different technique and this is what I came up with instead.

So I walked around looking at this “guy” for a while … and it’s not that I don’t like him – I do!

And I honestly think he has potential – but … as I was sitting here one evening looking through a lovely (- if a little (read very!) different kind of art than mine) magazine, Prims, an idea took hold of me.

I’m telling you – it absolutely exploded in my head.

Kind of like the first time I saw the witches.

I knew I just had to create.

And so this is why I’m telling you – because I am almost done purging … only need them curtains and that island which I’m sure will happen in the next month or so.

I want to share with you what my idea is – however … for now I’m going to keep you in the dark.

Not to tease, not to annoy and not to play coy – it is simply that I need to spend some time with it myself.

I need to play with it and get it to how I want it.

It’s a slightly bigger project than the little witches – in size and in work and I want to get it right before I show you.

I might still play with the Easter Chick – but I cannot promise you that they will be born this year – simply because I want to try to really get this new idea right. I want to spend serious time on it – make sure I’ve got it totally right and then I want to share with you and the world.

Because I think it is that good – I love it and feel it is so me … that is a good feeling and I can’t wait to get started.

I will of course share other crafts and ideas as I do them – because rarely do I have a week without something fun being created – this week I have a little project for a neighbor who is doing a baby shower for a friend. I have been commissioned to do the cupcake topper – and I’ll be happy to show on Thursday how they turned out – it is back to the owl theme and I am excited to play with my feathered friends again!

So – still crafty, still creating and still wanting to share … I promise!

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