Maree('s) Muses

So, I finally got into a little bit of cardmaking again. It's been too long. But it always is, when I first need to clear my desk area to pull out all the paper crafty supplies. When I finally did, I wanted to make something autumny. My sister has asked me to make a get-well card for her friend and it took me a looooong time (my sister could tell you how long) to come up with a suitable idea. In the end, all it took were some buttons and white gel pen (that I gad to make a special trip for, because the one that I had decided to die on me. tragic loss.). I think this is the most autumny card I've made so far :) I'm very happy and proud of this baby :) This next card is a little something that happened quite spontaneously. I was on a train,

How very lovely it is to see all those bright coloured leaves! If it was only for this, autumn would have to be my favourite time of the year. But there is more: sweaters and earthier tones in all the new fall/winter collections arriving to the shops and the slightly lazy sunshine which gets ever so precious every day we have it. One thing that I am not so fond of is the temperature drop. I don't like change very much. If I get used to a certain temperature range, it bothers me that it then changes and keeps jumping up and down and one has to keep both the light and the warmer clothing close at hand, ready to switch between according to the latest weather whim.  I decided to share with you some of the things that have been making me smile in the past couple of weeks. Warning, this post contains girly things like nail polish and clothes. And I've got photos! :) Here's one:

I am not even going to try and come up with an apology for this article being 2 weeks late. It just is. Deal with it :) Why not take a little mid-October brake from digging in the back of our closets, searching for where the heck are all the gloves and scarves and warm wolly sweaters, make yourself and nice cuppa of something warm and listen to a couple of songs I assembled last month. As always, it's a little bit of everything: mainstream, indie, folky... I hope you find something you like. First up, yet again, Hudson Taylor . One more song and then I'll shut up about them. Haha, as if :D  First they would have to stop producing such lovely and heart warming music and that is unlikely. (New EP is out now, go get it on iTunes!) Anyway, this is about September and there was one song in particular that spoke to me more than the others. It's one of their oldies, from a couple of years back, and it's called "Concrete Walls" . Sadly, I must say that a lot of t...

People! I mean pretty little people. Geez, Maree, what are you talking about? So I was picking up my niece from school the other day. Coincidentally she goes to the same school where I used to go for a couple of years when I was a little cutesy girl just like she is now. Doesn't seeing your old school always fill you with nostalgia? I found myself pining away for the times when my life was worry-free, easy and predictable, and the main responsibility I had was to do my homework. Anyway, back to the point: as I was waiting for her, I'd been watching all the kids coming out of the building. Not in a creepy way! :D and I noticed that the overwhelming majority of them was very well dressed. They were all so stylish, the little buggers, that I had to containt myself not to comment aloud with "Ooh, that's a lovely scarf", "I love your jacket" and "This hairstyle really suits you". And that goes for both girls and boys. It made me won...