Be Inspired

Dear, internet/phone/cable provider.  Good timing.  Just kidding.

So I start this blog and most of this past week I have not had internet service (or phone), but I’m glad to report that I now have internet and phone.  So, thanks for your patience waiting for my second post.

I want to encourage you to be inspired.  

If you have things you love, use them!  

Don’t save them for that perfect thing.  

I sometimes hang onto treasures 

and then get tired of them after shuffling them around.  

A perfect example is this little stack of treasures.

I’m into canvas right now, and I had some left on a bolt I had purchased.  

Then the linen was beautiful, 

it was the only piece of linen I discovered in a sweet quilt shop in Vancouver.

It was high quality and made me feel happy.  

Lastly, the vintage sheet music which I also love 

(and there are so, so many things 

you can do with perfectly aged sheet music.)

First I made these adorable little flowers out of the sheet music, 

and they’ve been quite the conversation piece 

just sitting in this bowl in my house.  

Next I started ripping the canvas in strips 

and also a little bit of my prized linen.  

The linen became a bow 

and the canvas I loosely hand gathered

and then hot glued onto a wreath. 

Now, accent with the linen bow and sheet music flower, 

and I have a sweet little wreath which I have hung above my bed.

So, take the things you love, and use them.  

This wasn’t originally what I was thinking of for these little treasures, 

but I used them while I still in love with them, 

and it has made a nice little addition to my home.

affectionately, Miss. Worm