Maree('s) Muses

It's been painfully long since I ventured into any papercrafting and I've been missing it sorely. Come spring, my mum had an important birthday and we were giving her concert tickets... Naturally, it fell to me to handcraft a birthday card/ticket holder. For your esthetic pleasure, I am here to share the result :) I had a colour scheme, then I went a bit mad in a craft shop when I bought anything and everything that could potentially be used for the colour scheme and spring mood... The finished card turned out rather well, I think :) I particularly enjoy how the yellow striped paper, unexpectedly, works well with the butterfly pattern :) One thing that I've learned from my online crafting gurus: mixing patterns is about colours, which obviously need to match, and the size of the patterns, which need to be different. The inside with the tickets looked like this:  I still had a lot of the material left and was in a spring creative fit, so I decided ...

Major throwback to summer 2014. You know, that time I went to London and never finished my blog posts on the trip. Well, I'm going to London again. Very soon! Turns out, that's what I needed to kick me into finishing all these. Even though it's strange seeing how much of a different person I am now, but I feel like I need to stay to true to the notes I wrote down 2 years ago. I promise that this time around I will be wiser and make a more realistic blog post plan. Back to the lovely day on South Bank . This is an extra music-y blog post about all the lovely buskers along the Thames that made me smile and generally made my life much better that day. It's no secret that music plays and important part in my life and these boys provided a much needed comfort to me, for which I shall be eternally grateful. If you enjoy acoustic guitars, click below to check them out and have a listen. 

It's only half of April, that's not too bad for March Music Monthly, is it?  And it's finally begining to look a lot like... spring! Without further delay, let's listen to some music. For me March was slightly more on the contemporary radio pop side. but we don't mind that, do we? Click below to read more and listen to X Ambassadors, Duke Dumont, a bit of James Bay and more ;) Here comes the sun...

Shh, let's pretend there's been a distortion in the fabric of time and somehow this was posted at the beginning of March. I've been at a loss about what to put in February monthly collection. The  respective note section in my calendar was glaringly empty. I thought about it long and hard, tried to remember what I listened to at work, what I sang to myself when waiting for a tram... And then the theme was clear: musicals. I usually go through a "musical" phase during witner time. This year has been no different. So I suppose this is something between February music and a compilation of my all time  favourite musicals. Here they come, in no particular order: