Finders Keepers Market

We just got back from the Brisbane Finders Keepers Market and I wanted to share with you all the wonderful goodies that I found.

1. Print from Sweet William
2. Hankie from Edward and Lilly
3. Bird from Sharon Muir

I could have spent a lot more money but I was trying to be good.

Fun Friday Nights

Its been a long absence but I am back to my blog and I thought that I would share with you all what we will be doing tonight.

We love playing cards. I think it all started with me playing rummy with my Gran growing up.

We have heaps of decks of cards but here are our favourites. Jumbo cards, Normal size with our faces on them and Mini cards (they are always great when we are traveling).

The older my son gets the different games that we play have grown.

We now also play Phase 10, Uno and Skip Bo.

The older that my son has got the better he has got at all card games which is great because now it is a real challenge for me to win.

When we play cards we normally watch a movie and have a bowl of wrapped lollies.

Wrapped lollies are the best because they take longer to eat and time to unwrap so you dont end up eating too many.

So the last thing that make up our Friday nights is my iPhone and my sons iPod touch.

So to add to our old school games we also like play games on our iPhone and iPod. Most Fridays we pick our a new game from the app store and both have go to see how well we can go.

I think that they had it right back in the day with puzzles, card and board games. These days there are a lot of kids that spend a lot of time holed up in their rooms by themselves. Not wanting to end up this way with my son I introduced him to the love of these things early and now it has been a big part of having fun for my son and I.

So this Friday night I hope that you and your family spend some time together.

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.