i’ve started blogs many times before – SO many in fact that now, when i go poking around the blogging sites looking to create something new, i often can’t get the username that i want, or find that my email address is “already in use” -from an old forgotten blog that i can’t remember the log-in for! None of them lasted very long – just like the diaries i would be given for Christmas when i was a kid. i came across one last time i was at my parents’ house; the first couple of weeks were filled out pretty regularly in my kiddie hand-writing…then there were more and more gaps, the handwriting became my Mum’s, and by the middle of March everything went blank.i think its just laziness. i love talking about myself online as much as anybody else, but sitting down and typing away industriously…not so much apparently. So, THIS time i intend to focus more on one of my big sometimes passion, crafts. Hopefully wanting to show off and share my latest creations (or receive sympathy for my latest failures!) will be a good motivator to get out into the blogosphere for real this time. Of course this is also going to require my taking photos of said crafts, which is something else i’m not very conscientious about! But who knows, maybe if i stick with it someone will “discover” me and want to put something i’ve designed into a book some day. That would be super super cool.
Why purplegreen? Coz when they are together they are the most beautiful colours in the world. In fact the only thing better than purplegreen is purplegreenturquoise, but that doesn’t look so hot as a blog name!
As usual i don’t have any really current photos of my crafts on the computer, so i will post up a couple of the teddy bears that i used to design, make and sell. i’m not really quite sure why i stopped – i did them for about 10 years, so maybe it was just time for a change. They were really time-consuming too -make a design, cut the (very expensive mohair) fabric, fray check, hand-sew all the parts, install joints, stuff, close seams, make the face, embellish, photograph, upload, sell…it took a lot out of me and i got burnt out i suppose. That said, i still have a lot of affection for my designs, and i haven’t been able to bring myself to sell off my mohair fabric collection yet, so who knows….anyhow, hope you enjoy them!
