Pastel And Purple Favourites

The following photos are some of my all time favorites. You may have seen them on prior blogs or on my recent tweets or facebook posts. Some are whimsical, some inspirational. To me some are metaphoric and some just plain pretty.



While just beautiful, this also represents to me that the unexpected in life can be the best wows of life. It reminds me to think outside the box in all I do.



Sometimes I find my best creativity just flows naturally. Without too much thought. Just letting pretty things find pretty things, creating beauty.



My fleamarket travels gives me a wonderful resource to searching and finding treasures.
I particularly love finding theatrical props. For their scale, handmadeness and window to fantasy......



Ballet shoes are timeless beauties. I have always loved their qualities and patina. Silk and pink. I had many hours of joy sewing in the ribbons for my daughters shoes, all the while giving me inspiration for details that I have emulated in my own design work. So often I have matched the color of ballet shoes in my fabrics.



A pink fantasy. A perfect vehicle to imagine the "if's and maybes" of life.

Sometimes I come across a place or a thing, that simply leaves me in awe. Wondering "how and what" and just humbled by the found beauty.



Every time I look at this amazing house in London, I see something different. Sometimes I see a faded elegance of days gone by. Imagining what life was lived during its stages of decay. Sometime I simply see the multi layers of pink and red. I have also sat on the pavement outside this house, and just stared and stared.



This purple carpet is the perfect metaphor that life is about the journey. In this case a wisteria journey.



And then sometimes life is about the destination. Where the journey is less significant.

Please forgive me if these photos are not new to you. But I wanted to see all my faves in one place.

Over the next few weeks I will be traveling for my book tour so will bring some new adventures and new wows to share.

Please click here to see my book tour schedule.