I delve into my bags of scraps and thread and start stitching. When I embroider the stitches I use are very basic and rough.. I want to make things that are beautiful but not perfectly beautiful. In fact very imperfect. I use blunt scissors and work in quite a bit of chaos. Kitchen table covered in all sorts of mess - so I push it back a bit and make a space. I have a box of beads that over the years have become more and more muddled. I always am amazed when there is an article about an artist or crafts person with a photo of their perfectly ordered studio. I wonder if they have spent a week cleaning or if they really do keep all there supplies in neat little boxed shelves. I look at my beads and think I could sort them out but somehow never get around to it.
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| My favourite one |
The one I like best is the orange one. Orange being my favourite colour. Its the least ordered and has some fabric beads.
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| second favourite |
The next one has appliqued petals from paper flowers I dismantled and then added bead centres.
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| third favourite. |
The third one is pink and aqua with lots of gold trim.
I used to wonder where my taste for ornamentation came from and then realised it was all my formative years spent in the catholic church. Priests in brocade and alter boys in lace. Side alters with statues of saints in pastels, festooned with flowers, all bathed in the glittering light from candles and stained glass windows.
