tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29926424496592358572024-02-07T08:48:19.559-08:00patchwork butterflyI am inspired by the mundane, insane, gossip, beauty, love, life and all the other stuff that surrounds us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992642449659235857.post-85629562733607648522013-01-24T10:58:00.004-08:002013-01-24T10:58:52.864-08:003 muscari<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992642449659235857.post-69711944743238991902013-01-19T06:15:00.000-08:002013-01-19T06:15:00.166-08:00Bessie Keirle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and New Year, full of love and laughter!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This a collaboration between two people who believe in the truest kind of love patchworkbutterfly and my dear friend <a href="http://www.alabamawhirly.co.uk/"><span style="color: #21759b;"><span style="font: inherit;">alabamawhirly</span></span>. </a>We have collected the most beautiful vintage tins and boxes and filled them with the hope of love and kisses. A gift of love with knitted eternal mistletoe and a hand embroidered heart with the words kiss me quick, squeeze me slow underneath the mistletoe.To give to those you love, or those who don't know you love them yet, or those who you just want to kiss.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can find these tins in my shop <a href="http://patchworkbutterfly.co.uk/?wpsc-product=the-tin" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 13.600000381469727px; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>patchworkbutterfly.co.uk/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>?wpsc-product=the-tin</a></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992642449659235857.post-3151613356177815452012-10-16T10:39:00.000-07:002012-10-16T10:41:55.423-07:00who cares about the microwave and the table<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where do you start in trying to sort through a lifetimes collection. Over the past few weeks this is what we have been trying to do. Making sense of another persons life through the things they have collected throughout their life time and now left behind. From the everyday, mundane, junk to the precious stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have a life, how much of another's possessions do you want or need in your world?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well for me it was the places where people put things that they may not want found. In the secret drawers in the ottoman at the bottom of the bed which seemingly looks full of blankets then you look and you find diaries, things they have made and photos.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It turns out most of the things I have kept are the precious things, they are seemingly the mundane things but for me they hold the most meaning as they were the things that had been kept for years, like a beautiful vintage stapler and hole punch they look so beautiful, the tea service used on high days and holidays, your button box, the diaries, the roses dug up from the garden as they hold a very dear and special place, the sewing box all ragged and just as you left it the day you left this life, half sewn things, little bits of lace, threads and scraps of fabric, your little tins of stamps. I didn't give a toss about the table or microwave I left that to the people who care about that stuff, but they miss the details of what makes a person who they are. You look so beautiful in your photo I would love to have known you then!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thankyou to <a href="http://www.medusa-apothecary.co.uk/"><span style="color: cyan;">Medusa Apothecary</span></a> one of my favourite little places in the world, has yet again introduced me to something beautiful, astounding, challenging a book of perfume. Each perfume by ETAT LIBRE d'oRANGE a chapter in a story for the nose. They have created remarkable and unusual scents that have a timeless potential, they talk of their scents being "luxurious and daring elegant and subversive honest and mysterious"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forget ostentatious packaging they are all a about simple elegance, and then there are the scents, they took me to so many places, they are not for the faint-hearted, they challenge, evoke deep forgotten feelings and bring about spontaneous urges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You just want the stories to scent the air as soon as you stumble across ETAT LIBRE d'ORANGE, with over 25 perfumes to choose from you are spoilt for choice, some of my favourite for their scents or just pure devilment are Delicious closet queen, Jasmin et cigarette, Secretions Magnifique, Vraie Blonde</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">As I said not for the faint hearted thank goodness! These are exciting, refreshing, challenging, liberating and scents that give you freedom to play. I love them! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little drawing inspired by the not so common sparrow, these days. I love there funny little song a chirp,chweet, chrrup and a chirrup. Beautiful!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992642449659235857.post-11885002892568188972012-07-13T08:01:00.005-07:002012-07-17T00:45:11.931-07:00a few stitches later<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first hydrangea of the year has bloomed. I love them simply because my Nang (grandma) loves them so much and over the years her love for them has become infectious. I will always remember planting new ones with her as a child, adding along with the soil just the right amount of measured out rusty nails to achieve her perfect blue. She always throws in an extra one for luck. Her little garden now, is still full of them, all blue and very much enjoyed!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992642449659235857.post-40052672769331586512012-06-28T13:00:00.001-07:002012-07-17T00:47:38.486-07:00dreaming of sleep<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Bank holiday was Reading carnival which I have visited for as many years as I care to mention. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year I walked a different way to the carnival and saw something I hadn't noticed before. The grey concrete of the tower blocks on a grey rainy day juxtaposed with the vivid colours of the carnival, seemed to make them all the more electric. Love those contrasts.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992642449659235857.post-34963424142978018802012-06-05T07:11:00.003-07:002012-06-05T07:13:32.637-07:00carry on regardless<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rain fell a little then the sun came out, then the rain fell a bit more, but in good old British style, people turned up in their wellies and carried on regardless to venture my open garden this weekend. Beautiful day of sharing with friends, family, cakes and wine.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992642449659235857.post-28974645377877444782012-05-03T10:54:00.002-07:002012-05-03T10:54:39.201-07:00collections<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the last few weeks I have been working on a series of drawings about birds in conversation with women.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were inspired by a morning in my garden back along, when I am sure this blackbird was chirping away to me. It was really quite lovely and it made me think about this series of drawings.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">I will be exhibiting them at </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><a href="http://www.readingcontemporaryartfair.co.uk/">Reading Contemporary Art Fair</a> </span><span style="color: white;"> this weekend.</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992642449659235857.post-70660796827746193872012-04-23T00:15:00.002-07:002012-04-23T00:15:12.468-07:00Inbetween the April showers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Saturday afternoon listening to the radio finishing all the details and trying to do a bit of gardening in between the beautiful April showers.</span><br />
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