My studio...

I am fortunate enough to have a whole room to use as my studio. I do share it with a couple of bags intended for Ebay and shelves worth of the boy's old WWE wrestling videos. But in all it's my own little room to get  creative in.

I often feel guilty that I don't spend enough time in it. Our house is always cold and the thought of leaving the living room (especially in the winter months) is never very inviting!
Today however, rather than dashing up and down the stairs grabbing materials and tools, I've settled my self down working. And it inspires me so much.

I'm actually sewing t-shirts for our WEARECHAMY Etsy shop. But when I take a moments break, I find myself rooting through my desk remembering pieces of art I want to make and in a couple of cases need to finish!

I'm pretty messy when I work. But it's just me, I've tried a billion and one times to put things away as I go but after about 5 minutes it's a bomb site again! Really I think it's the nature of my work and myself. It's very eclectic and having bits around me inspire me!

So today I thought I'd show you a few bits and bobs that are lying around before I give it a spring clean... (the pictures are a bit rubbish they're taken with my iPhone)

Blonde hair, Black hair me

  

Frames that need filling

      

Old Full Sketch books and my current one

                                                        

          

My dolly from my pram when I was a wee lass.

 My Beautiful Diana Mini (who needs using more!)

and an old altered ornament made by me.               

                                                                                            

The artwork from my little sisters tattoo,

an old piccy of me and my best buddy Cat.

One of my little antique box of treasures!

 This is where I've been working today on my beautiful old Singer.

And the company I've had today... 

Little Turk giving me the Stink eye!!

Amy xx

         

What I've been up to...

My critics (my mother!) said I wouldn't make it but I did! Against nature and it's snowy glory I made it all the way from Devon to Hereford and then all the way to Leeds and then back again all in one piece. I had a lovely time with two of my best girly friends from University.

Natassia who lives in Leeds, is now a tattoo artist. She is one very talented lady and she put a lovely tattoo on my foot, which did make me twitch lots (whilst in progress) and I had to walk about like the elephant man for a couple of days!! But it was completely worth it to have some of her brilliant artwork on me forever!

This is what she did -

By Natassia Wild at Ultimate Skin, Leeds

Now I'm back I have a whole week off of work which I am going to fill up with being very creatively productive!!!

Today me and the boy have been making t-shirts for our etsy shop WEARECHAMY. My old electric sewing machine died on me a while back, but Chay bought me a beautiful old hand crank Singer sewing machine a few Christmas' ago which I finally got to give a spin today! and horaaah it worked!

This was the outcome - 

We're going to crack on with it so that we can have them in the shop by the end of the week!

And now I am doing another painting for the shop, maybe to put on some totes??? I'm also putting together some art work to put up in the cafe I work at. So I will more than likely be making these into prints. Will put a piccy up next time.

Until then, 

Amy xx

Today's the day...

So here we are! Today started out as a painting day, but after getting very frustrated I decided that today was the day I would actually create my first blog post!

Firstly I would like to share with you my aims for this blog.

- I hope to share my creativity with people. 

I own two on-line shops. One for my art work and the other a shop (that I combined forces with my boyfriend with) for odd bits of creativity that don't fit into my art shop.

- Encouragement.

I hope to gain followers that are interested in what I do, so that it encourages me and pushes my boundaries. Self belief is a difficult quality to constantly have! 

- Get involved with like minded people.

I hope you enjoy the blog posts to come, I'd love to hear any feed back you might have.

Now i'll reluctantly get back to that painting :(

Amy