Wednesday, April 18, 2007
I'm just a tag-a-long
I became somewhat obsessed by the Grandma's flower garden craze a month or so ago. I say "became" because I no longer feel the nagging urge to make more ridiculously tiny hexs. I made my piece and that's pretty much it for me. This project served it's purpose in being a great small take-a-long project for my long long, no-sleeping cross atlantic flights. And I spent at least an hour every night working on them while in Barcelona. And my mom even had to chip in some time, too.
I was inspired by the Craftzine link to Sunshine's site. She made it super easy. I didn't even have to read the destructions. There were plenty of pics to go around. Now I think there is even a flickr pool dedicated to the Flower Garden. Liesl from Disdressed posted this week about the torture of doing tons of work for such a small outcome.
The fact is, sometimes I like to really dig in and indulge my perfectionist, neurotic need to do really teeny tiny things. I love itty bitty things, as I believe I've mentioned before. Now I'm done. I feel no need to do any more of these. I scratched the itch, and that's all I need. I think I'll just paste it onto something else.
After I started doing these hexagons, I started seeing them everywhere. Here is a pice of tiles designed by Gaudi that were all over Spain. I really wanted to buy one, but I didn't want to haul it back.
I'm including another bad photo of the stinkin' birdcage. I just don't have the right spot to shoot it, I think.
p.s. See those handy little yellow scissors up there? Yeah, they made it through my carryon luggage at 7 different airports' security counters. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, but I was happy not to use my fingernail clippers to cut things with.
Labels: handmade, obsessions
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The "stinkin' birdcage"! ROFL! We say "the stinkin' _____" (insert whatever we are talking about at the time) all the time here, and I never hear anyone else say it. It just made me crack up...maybe I'm just a stinkin' lunatic or something this morning! ; ) But I still love the birdcage!
And I can only imagine the frustration that would insue if I were to try those hexagons! They are cute and beautiful and I love them and I REALLY appreciate all the work that goes into them, but I just would never have the patience. I'm thinking you should frame what you've done and hang it on a wall...all in white, maybe? White matte, white frame.... It would be gorgeous!
Oh, trust, me I wanted to use a stronger word, but I figure you're all nice folks, no reason to offend you all so early in the AM!!! :)
The hexes weren't so bad, it just took FOREVER to get anything of any substance done.
What you have done is lovely would be lovely added to something else, applicade (sp) onto something else.
Take care
Sunshine