My nearly finished pin board/memory board.

I love memories, and i love preserving memories, especially family moments, moments with friends of times of happiness.

Here I have created a fabric pin board that is wadded to allow for pins to be inserted. I have used pale and pastel colours to allow for whatever is to be pinned in the foreground to stand out and not get lost within the background. The ribbons have been placed in adjacent and parallel lines creating diamonds that have been secured down where each ribbon crosses over with drawing pins, these will soon be replaced with pearlescent buttons and beads to reduce the brassiness and co ordinate with the pastels.

As well as simply pinning images and notes to the board they can also be simply slotted underneath the ribbon   to protect it from been constantly pricked with the pins, it will effectively allow it to last that little bit longer.

Image board with photographs attached.

In the future i am going to look into making different shapes and sizes, with different coloured and patterned fabrics. Making to order for different occasions, events or even fashions. Suited entirely for the purchaser.

WILL BE FINISHED SOON!

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Just because I'm a complete Fruitcake!

Things are gradually getting there =/ ish.

A few things have been checked off my list now anyway (at least they would be if i could find my list and my diary!! typical me!).

I finally found the complexed mishap of Etsy, i found out where my shop had disappeared to (turned out it never actually disappeared anywhere and it was actually just me and my blondness which sounds about right anyway.) It turned out that i had actually created two different Etsy accounts without even realising and noticing, one account with a shop open and the other without. I had been signing in and out correctly for at least the last two months then all of a sudden i decide to log in to my other account with DIFFERENT log in details without even realising anything was any different to normal. I login and there we have an account with no shop and i think it has just magically vanished cos i don't know I'm on another account.

Just because I'm a complete fruit cake!!

I've also managed to get Pinterest working a bit better now, i still have no idea what was wrong with it and why it wouldn't let me upload my own pictures, however now it is and every things fine so I'm not questioning it!  I think it has something to do with the size or file of the photograph, i don't think it is meant for too high quality images. Who knows, i love it anyways, it is such a good idea, i can find inspiration from anywhere, all over the world. i can see what work my uni mates are getting up to, i can create wish lists with images for absolutely anything imaginable, products, designs, interior ideas for my own home or projects. I would recommend it to anyone in the creative industry no matter what your forte.

Family

A fabric, wadded photo frame with photograph sewn into it, this was inspired again by the button project, my inspiration was all memories and trapping them forever, i feel it's very different and unique but also really effective. The image is of my mum and her brother when they were younger, i used old floral fabric from an old bed cover and a small collection of buttons. The images was transferred onto fabric and the edges simply wadded and sewn up. It was very simple to make. 

I'm thinking about making them to order in any kind of colours and fabrics desired, only one way to find out if they will sell or not though really.

Granny's button box Part 2

My Granny's Button Box.

Dedicated to anyone who has/had a Granny that collected buttons :)

Here is the final version i created, after a lot of course work and changes i decided to create a book that was usable, instead of putting everything on the inside i gave it a front cover which i felt worked best as the title page rather than having it inside like the first draft. 

Here is the inside of the book, it is a lot similar to the first draft inside with a couple of the same photographs as they were my favorite, however it allowed for more content, a couple more images and better spacing within. Included is a miniature diary which can be opened and read and to the bottom right hand corner the page has been curled and held with a jeweled button to give the effect of more pages.

Close up of the front cover, image of the very tin of Granny's, and a handmade button created by myself in the style of a Dorset Button. The colour palette doesn't really help with the crappy quality of my camera however for anybody interested in Dorset buttons research them in Google they are really easy to make and look really cool.

Close up of each of the pages inside

My Granny's Button Box

Dedicated to everyone who has/had a Granny who collected buttons :)

A project i did whilst at sixth form, it is still to this point one of my favorite projects as it is the most personal, dedicated to family and memories. I created a series of fabric books inspired by old family photo albums and scrapbooks combined with the history of where all the buttons my Grandma kept came from such as old school uniforms and work uniforms etc, some were even considered antique. This book was my first draft before my final piece, it was designed to be seen as a book that would be left open as though at a favorite page of a photo album, it is embellished with old photographs printed onto fabric,   old looking fabrics and lace to keep the theme of Vintage and many buttons including ones handmade by myself.

Modelling

Print Screen of my Tumblr,

My little cousin Elle modelling my headband, the backlight was a bit bright and reflected off the white of the headband and so i stuck the photos in Photoshop and gave them a few effects each. I really find these images effective, i like the innocence in it and the angle of her looking away from the camera. 

The images are not ideal for advertising my Headband however i like the images.

If it's not one thing...

...It's another.

If it's  not one bloody thing it's another, all the time with me, just constantly there is something that is standing in my way of doing something... ANYTHING. It doesn't even matter what it is could be the smallest of things.

Take today for example, i have come online for the first time in a couple of weeks, to finally try and get Vicki Poem into action. I have been creating some products in my spare time, building my collection up. I took some photographs of them and then logged into Etsy in order to post them up into my shop when BANG.... my shop has dissapeared! POOF! simply vanished from the face of the earth. My shop no longer exists on Etsy, completely dissapeared as though it never existed! I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THIS CAN HAPPEN!!! how how how???

It is extremely annoying and frustrating as it took me so long to open the shop in the first place as i didn't have the required amount in my bank account to verify my account and identity and now as i have gone on to it, it is  asking me for my bank details yet again... and yet again i no longer have the required amount in my bank again so i am going to  have to wait AGAIN until i have got paid! It is so annoying and i feel it is blatently unfair i've already been charged once and now they are asking me again and i can't sell anything if i want to until i have done this.

I have sent an email to Etsy asking what is going on, i'm not sure if it is because i had nothing for sale in my shop so i don't know if it gets automatically closed down if this is the case i have no idea, if this is the case i think i may have to have a look at Folksy.co.uk and take my business elsewhere as i think this is ridiculous. However i will hopefully find out eventually when and if they ever reply to me.

Another problem is i now cannot for the life of me get Pinterest to work, my account is all set up and working, im following people, people are following me i have pinned images from other people on the site but it is not letting me upload my own images of my own work and it is driving me crazy!! It's like my work wasn't meant to be on display! :/ hmph!!! It's not exactly a mentality boost :(