Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
Stiches & Craft Show, Brisbane 2009
Yep, that’s where I’ve been! The Stitches & Craft show! I went the other weekend with Mum & Felicia. I am just buzzing with creative ideas and inspiration, not to mention a whole swag of new blogs to check out!
Want to see what I bought?! Here you go!
A mini scrapbook which I am going to use to make a present for someone special… can’t give it away as they will probably read this post (Clue: It’s not Luke).
A book of VERY cute patterns for some stitchery!
A VERY HNGRY CATERPILLAR material panel!
I’m SO looking forward to using these! I need to buy the matching material for the very hungry caterpillar material (it’s off the food that he eats up). I think it is ADORABLE, and I’m going to make a wall hanging out of it. It would probably look a little funny in our house, so I will put it away for out yet-to-be-conceived first child. Who knows, I might not actually get it done until he/she’s born in a few years anyhow!
A big thankyou to all the great stall holders for their inspirational stalls! I’ve got a bit link crazy and linked below to all the people who’s business cards I took. Have a look and let them know how adorable their things are!
Tags: baby, blogs, brisbane, child, Craft, hungrycaterpillar, inspiration, links, needles, quilt, stalls, stitches
Tips for keeping ideas safe!
I’ve been reading a lot of various craft blogs lately, and a few people mention writing down their ideas on pieces of paper. Well, I thought I would share how I record my ideas and inspirations!
Tumblr. (If you don’t have a tumblr account, it’s REALLY easy to set up) You can put a really simple ‘Share on Tumblr’ badge in your bookmarks, and that way any time you come across a pretty thing you want to make, you can click on that, select ‘photo’ choose the picture you want to save (it loads all the photos on the webpage), and it’ll automatically put in a link to the page you’re on!
Here’s how:
Once you’ve signed up for an account, click Goodies.
The first option is to add a Bookmarklet.
You’ll need to drag that ‘Share on Tumblr’ bookmarklet into your bookmarks toolbar. It should apear then like this (second from the right):
Once it’s there, you can go to to a page that displays a tutorial, or craft you want to save, and post to your tumblr, and click on the bookmarklet. When you do this, a new window will open where you can select if you want to post a link, text, quote, picture etc. I usually choose picture so that I can easily see what crafts I have saved.
It will automatically put a link in the text to the site you’re on (if you’re linking to a particular blog post, make sure you are on the post page, not the homepage (http://taliacarbis.com/2009/04/28/tips-for-keeping-ideas-safe as opposed to http://taliacarbis.com), and you can select the photo you want to post (it will collect all the photos that are displayed on the page).
All you need to do then is select ‘creat post’ and Hey Presto! It’s done!
I find this a really effective way of keeping together all my ideas and tutorials that I find online in one place- and a great thing about it is if I loose a pattern, I can just go through my history on tumblr and find it again!
You are welcome to check our my tumblr here: http://sunshinetalia.tumblr.com and follow me. Let me know if you decide to make one too so I can follow you!
Tags: howto, ideas, inspiration, photos, sunshinetalia, tumblr, tutorial, web2.0, website
