I'm about to start decorating my new craft room, well, it was my therapy room when I practiced reflexology a few years ago and then it became somewhat of a ' squat ' for my almost 18 year old son ( if you have a teenage son then you'll know why I called it a squat ). My eldest daughter is about to fly the nest which is exciting for her but it means that my son moves into her bedroom and I get my room back, yay and yippeeeee. This time around it's being painted white, yes, plain old white. However, there's a good reason for this in the shape of some gorgeous vintage 1970's wallpaper that's on it's way to me as I type and I'm going to use the paper as a focal point on the main, largest, wall in the room, almost as though it's been framed. I obviously can't show you until it's done so you'll just have to imagine for now but trust me, it's going to look amazing.
Spring has well and truly sprung now and some of my first bulbs have already blossomed and started to whither but fresh ones are always coming through and I spent some of last week out in the garden, in the sunshine, planting some gorgeous plants in my secret garden, I even have a rose bush now, yay!
I love the spring so much, the world seems to come to life again with colour, but I don't forget the winter time as it's a moment full of colour too, darker colours yes but still colours!
I've been run off my feet lately, bursting with new ideas, and just haven't found the time to get them all going properly but have been treading the water with them bit by bit and am feeling rather proud at the start I've made. I think the biggest thing I've been doing has to be hand sewn embroidery. I've been doing this for as long as I can remember and adore it but it's just so time consuming and considering that one cushion design can already take me anything up to 18 hours to achieve then is it any wonder I've not yet considered adding some hand embroidery into things? This spring I've forced myself and so happy I did, the results are astounding and I've loved mixing machine appliqué, freehand machine embroidery and hand sewn embroidery together, what gorgeous results!
I'm only going to talk about my latest cushion design for today though ( if you'd like to know a bit more about the other things going on then take a look at my blog over on my website, www.buttonfayre.com ) and what an amazing design it is too, something really and truly unique. I've used my appliqué and freehand machine embroidery skills to bring something already gorgeous into the world and not only that but I spent, quite literally, hours on some hand sewn ideas. We're talking sequins, pearls, beads, in fact, anything sparkly and creative that adds colour and real life into the design.
Take a look for yourselves and it's available to purchase on my Facebook page or Button Fayre on Etsy, I've not had the time to add it to my website yet but will do so asap.
It's such a stunning design and almost 20 hours of work from start to finish which is why I feel so proud, whoever purchases this is kind of purchasing a piece of Button Fayre history too, it's wonderful.
I love flowers and I love sitting here drawing them and then cutting them out to use as templates. Some of the flowers I used in this cushion design are cut out from vintage flowery fabric but the rest have been cut out from my very own templates ( and I use my templates a lot throughout all of my designs ).
I hope you like it and I almost forgot to say about the giveaway over Button Fayre's Facebook page! It's gorgeous and you could win a fabulous newly designed brooch, a ' House Meadow ' design, super pretty with some machine and hand sewn embroidery work.
Happy Easter Monday to you all!
Lucy x
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