Artist's We Love

I want to share with you all a wonderful artist who is one of my Madeit and twitter friends. On Friday this beautiful framed drawing arrived from Michelle and I had to share her wonderful talent with you all. Not only can Michelle draw but she takes the most beautiful photos of flowers.

Name: Michelle Soldatos

Shop Name: Michelle's Art & Photography

Your daytime Job: Graphic Designer

A bit about yourself: I'm 37, single girl :) I enjoy a Saturday morning in the lovely city of Melbourne window shopping and taking photos. I eagerly anticipate a big exhibition at NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) I absolutely loved the Dali, Dutch Masters and Pissaro exhibitions. I'm a tea lover ... love my cups of tea, I'm slowly building a T2 collection. I love roses I have a rose garden full of different varieties with my favourite being the Peace rose.

How did you first get into art and/or craft: I started art in High School, I always seemed to ace my art classes. It sort of became my identity, to mention Michelle it was "the girl who does those drawings". It just came naturally for me but as it didn't bring in an income I ended up becoming a graphic designer and didn't draw again until 20yrs later. I got into photography at University it was part of my graphic design course. I just had an eye for it, it's something I continued to do throughout my graphic design career but it was more for myself.

What is your creative process, and what inspires you: My creative process usually starts by being inspired by something. It could be a number of things like seeing something in a magazine or an exhibition or even something in a store. My passion for photographing flowers started with a card I picked up at a florist in Brunswick St back in 1995. It was a closeup photograph of a bright sunflower and just the size and placement of the flower inspired me to create something that would give the same effect.

Any tips you would have for people starting their own shop or for someone looking at getting into photography or drawing: To be brave, it was difficult for me to start my shop. It all seemed overwhelming and I thought I wasn't good enough and wouldn't understand it all but once I got started I really enjoyed it. For anyone starting drawing or photography I'd say take it step by step and enjoy it the more you keep at it, learning and practicing the more you discover how far you can go. It's very exciting to realise you can accomplish something you believed was way out of your reach.

Michelle's Madeit Shop
Michelle's Blog
Michelle on Twitter

So Sad ........

Tonight I'm in mourning ........

For my beautiful sunglasses (The photo really doesn't do them justice). It sounds so stupid but I love these glasses. The fit, colour and style are all perfect, they are going to be sadly missed. Being a person that cant even go to the corner shop without my sunglasses I hope that I will be able to find a fabulous new pair.

AND THE WINNER IS.........

SOPHIE AND JACK

Thanks to everyone who entered and everyone's lovely comments.

New Supplies

So yesterday I blogged about the wall at The Purl in New York, well today I had a fantastic trip to spotlight and got these get supplies for the project. Along with some fabric from my stash I think I will have some really beautiful fabrics for my wall.

One Amazing Year

One year ago today I started my shop on Etsy and Imagination In Flight was born, it's been a really amazing ride. I would have never thought a year ago that Imagination In Flight would have gone in the direction it has, let alone being on twitter and writing my own blog. While I still find etsy very overwhelming, finding Madeit has been a real blessing. The wonderful community of fellow crafters of Madeit with their support, advice and friendship have really helped along the way. I also have to thank all my fantastic customers for their support over the year. It always gives me such joy to check my emails and find I have made a sale.


To celebrate Imagination In Flight's first birthday we will be having a giveaway and a sale.

Giveaway
To celebrate we will be giving away one of my new Mini Floral Bunting, 1 Multi Purple and Cream Crochet Headband, and you choice of 1 Personalized Pencil Roll. With the pencil roll you can choose between either Purple Floral & Denim, Japanese Writing & Denim, and Denim on Denim.

Ok so here's how its going to work.

You need to be a follower of the blog. If you are not already a follower of the blog, click on the follow button to the right.
Leave a comment below to enter the giveaway.
If you tweet about this giveaway, or mention on your blog about this giveaway you will receive an extra entry (you will need to leave a comment if you do either of these so that I can keep track of all the entries).
You will also receive an extra entry if you order something from either my Etsy or Madeit shops.

 The giveaway winner will be randomly picked on the night of Friday the 23rd of April 2010.

Sale
Starting tomorrow (Saturday the 17th April) morning until Friday the 23rd of April there will be 15% off in both my Madeit and Etsy shops. Also stay watching on twitter and this blog for codewords for bigger savings.

Its been a wonderful year and I hope that it just keeps on growing from here. Thanks all.