Tuesday, August 28, 2007

bright style

I found these twelve squares of bright crocheted goodness at the op-shop recently. The colours make me so happy. It’s crying out to be made into a little clutch purse - it just needs some lining and a zip.

I can intellectually appreciate minimalism - that style which is all about neutrals, black and white and grey...but emotionally...spiritually...colour makes me happy.

I prefer houses with character, with old things, objects with stories behind them, wabi-sabi, the beauty of the worn and the battered.

One of my friends almost shudders when he visits - I can see him mentally de-cluttering my surfaces as he sips his tea...we affectionately tease one another about our disparate styles, but I like the quirky little objects gleaned from op shops and junk shops, handed down from family, gifted from friends.

I guess I’m more Bloomsbury Group than Urban Minimalism.

Anyway, not sure where that rant came from - except that this is a new colourful thing in my life - and it makes me grin to look at it’s obnoxious colour. 

they are lovely
it would make a cool clutch purse

I like old houses too
and I often wish the walls could talk and tell me the history of the house

they have some beautiful granny square blankets for sale on high street, craft is so posh right now

glad you know what surroundings bring you joy, I think people often don’t understand how much the space they live in effects them on an emotional-well being level. Yet it is so essential! This is something I’ve started to ‘wake up to’ recently.

so bring on colour!

-kimberlee

i like colour too. there’s always something so obnoxious, yet darling about those granny rugs, isn’t there?

wish i could crochet.

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