I like up-cycling! There it’s out there .. I’m a creator … not of content but of stuff. I’ve got a massive set of hardwood drawers that are filled with paints, bits of this and that, glue guns, ribbons.. you name it, it’ll be in there. On cold winter nights, I’ll be sat doing something crafty. On hot Summer days, I’ll be outside in the garden, spraying another piece of furniture. My current passion are lampshades – vintage ones, that I paint, in all colours peacock. I’ve got quite a collection now, and on Saturday – some of them will be going to my unit at Dagfields to be put out for sale, a pride of lampshades – peacocks come in a pride don’t they? Greens, purples and blues, I’ve been funking them up for weeks, if not months. I love the process of knowing each one is absolutely unique and individual! My garden table is now a mosaic of peacock colours from all my creativity. It’s an art form in itself, truth be told!
Do you create? Do you get that sense of pride when you make something from scratch, or change something. So that it becomes an extension of you. It’s therapeutic, and it’s calming, and it’s a process. Sometimes, you need patience – literally watching paint dry … I’m waiting now .. I might jazz one up a little more with some edging, then again I might not. That’s the beauty of crafting, only you get to decide 🦚