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Challenge of the week: loosening up

March 17, 2009 – 2:40 pm

It won’t be unkind to myself if I say I am messy. Very messy. My study cum studio has towering, precarious piles of books and magazines, knotty stashes of ribbons, bursting folders crammed full of ephemera, and boxes and pieces of papers everywhere. It is partly because I never throw away anything, partly because I [...]

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Inspiration of the week: old wrought-iron bed header

March 16, 2009 – 12:57 pm

I was up in the mountain at the weekend, making the bed, when it suddenly struck me. Our old wrought-iron bed header with its sinuous curves and slightly peeling paint, would make the perfect stencil for a background. I can’t believe I haven’t noticed it before. I have been staring at it for an entire [...]

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Technique of the week: easiest spring background ever

March 12, 2009 – 2:09 pm

It is almost embarrassing to write a tutorial on this because it’s so easy, but just in case someone hasn’t thought of doing it before, here goes. The prettiest way to come up with a background in fresh spring colours is to use watercolours because they have such a transparent quality that immediately evokes the [...]

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