Bower Bird Top Tip

Today's tip of the day - sometimes you have to do things simply.  Take less time not more.  Not just add but taking away.  De-cluttering to make way for something to happen

Landfill

Keeping up to date on why it is important to think about materials and what we can do with them

www.guardian.co.uk/environment/landfill

Kew Orchid Inspirations

Exploring the creativity of nature

A great blog to inspire your collecting and making tendencies

http://exploringthewondersoflife.blogspot.com

OPENING OFFER

GREAT NEW, INNOVATIVE ON-LINE ART SHOP  SELLING BEAUTIFUL HANDMADE WEARABLE ARTWORKS FROM RECLAIMED MATERIALS IS OPEN - www.bagsofpotential.net

'Bags of Potential' is a great new, innovative on-line art shop  created by artist, Linda Jane James from London, England which openend in April 2011.   The shop sells high qualilty, imaginative
 artworks ‘made in Britain’ from reclaimed materials. There are ‘Bags of Potential’ for those of you who want a professional artist to make something from the things that you love and care about and exciting, thoughtful projects that you can take part in if you want to develop your own art practice. 

‘Bags of Potential’ are small handbag sized
calico bags created to encourage you to find things
 in likely and unlikely places- fill your 'Bag of Potential'
with materials that have memories or mark an occasion
and let our guest artists make a small artwork that
will give pleasure as a gift, or
something special to keep.

TIme to be inspired

Yesterday I took some time out to meet a fellow local artist and she inspired me to connect to an artist called India Flint ....... she uses all sorts of natural materials and found materials to make responses to the environment
http://www.indiaflint.com/

Bags of Potential Opening