Unusual Bird: Inspiration

I need to be more creative. I need to pay more attention too and not forget to change the daggy typeface that I first type this blog in, like my last entry.

Anyway, my girlfriend Tiara has decided that this is the year of an interior life. The year to do something more closely connected to things one feels passionate about and to nourish oneself. Well, I've expanded on that last bit but I'm sure she agrees. So I'm going to join her on that and do something too. She's going to write a short story a month and I'm going to......... mmmm

I don't know what. Yet.

I have to the end of the month to do it, but I know better than anyone that that will come around in a flash. So far she has given me some great reference to be inspired. Which I have been. Once I got over feeling completely uncreative by comparison!

Embarking on this project means I will have to give up on my love affair with Edward Cullen. (Don't read the daggy inscription at the bottom of the picture.)

And then of course also his alter ego, the absolutely divine Robert Pattinson. Yes shame, guilt and all that. I know it's embarrassing...

So below is something to kick start me off. Nature themes. Butterflies mostly. The black butterflies are the work of Carlos Amorales who I think did an installation in Dior Homme. I'm not sure who the others are I'm sorry.

I think I would need more than a month to do anything even remotely like these. I might have to work my way up to that. Plus I don't want to do butterflies. I'll think up my own themes. The idea is to make things that relate vaguely to what I do that I can just put around my studio. Maybe make window displays out of them and so on. I just want to tinker with my sewing machine and fabrics and make things that are purely for interest and fun. Well, in theory I do.

Anyway now that I've said I'm going to do it, I have to do it.....