When is comes to this time of year, my mind goes into creative overdrive. I realize my posting is much less now that my original goal has been met, but believe me, I am still making stuff. There are about ten Christmas gifts in the works as well as my calender drawings. Current projects involve sewing, crafting, drawing and crocheting. I am proud to say that a good chunk of gifts are already done or close to being done, yeah! Working in a fabric store has definitely boosted my creativity and some days too many ideas are crowding my mind. Because funds are still low for us, I have been buying things bit by bit every payday. It helps to not have to blow an entire paycheck all at once. This also is good because with my discount on top of sale price, I have gotten some incredible deals. Add caption Today, my post will be the first of my calender pages. There are two finished so only ten to go!
With every decade there are trends in decorating. In the nineties there was southwestern, cows, pigs, apples and my mom's favorite white geese. She had just about everything you could imagine with a geese theme and the color that was associated with them was a cornflower blue. Seriously it looked like the theme exploded in her house. She even had sheets and a bedspread with the goose motif. This was is a mail holder that I got from her, it was in the basement collecting dust and I decided to do my magic on it and update it. This is once again a project that I painted in a different color before settling on the brown. I love accenting brown with light blue because it looks great together. I am not sure if the original purpose of this piece still works. With the color scheme it would look nice in my small bathroom and maybe useful for something other than mail. We will see what becomes of it, but it really looks more modern without the geese.
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