Away with the Fairies...

All my life I have loved making things... My earliest memory of crafting is a little pink sewing machine for children that I had when I was about five years old. I remember it had a foot pedal, but I preferred using the hand crank and watched mesmerised as the needle went in and out of the material. Since then my love affair with all things creative has evolved as I added sewing, knitting, needlework, embroidery, beading, wire jewellery, writing poetry and photography to my list of passions.

One from the Fairy Book

In the summer I bought a book/ kit called 'Fairies- Petal people you make yourself' by Rachel Haab from www.klutz.com and had a great deal of fun making fairies with my daughter.

Bride version 1

Except it didn't stop there. I started using wire and beads from my jewellery making stock and designing more grown up versions of the fairies. And before I knew it, I had modified the basic design a few times and was putting my fairies in mobiles and hoops and giving them away as gifts.

Bride version 2 

 I've decided that 2012 is going to be the year that I challenge myself to find new ways to express my creativity, to find inspiration in new places and to start believing in my own abilities. I hope you will take up the challenge too and be encouraged too try something new, who knows where it will lead you...