Lots of Cardboard and 9 years worth of imagination:: Caine's Arcade

Have you seen it yet? Caine's Cardboard Arcade. Its heartwarming and will make you smile. Made us smile. The imagination and resourcefulness of Caine is pure magic. Caine cuts, folds and sticks cardboard together to build THE greatest arcade ever. All done whilst hanging out with his dad at his Auto Parts shop. Caine created the games, tickets, the ticket booth and even designed his t-shirt proudly bearing the words "Caine's Arcade" on the back and "Staff" at the front. Caine was set. All he needed was customers.


Caine's Arcade from Nirvan Mullick on Vimeo.

What happens next will make you smile.....and take you back to your childhood. A time where everything felt possible and achievable.  Something we may (sometimes) forget as adults.......

Words from the heart.....

via Pinterest

Mop and Llama love.......

Paris, April 2004

This week has been a great week for planning and design inspiration.  We are now counting down the weeks till we jet off on our Northwest USA trip for some much appreciated time off.  We are very excited at the prospect of seeing some artists/crafters/makers we have been reading about. Good times.  I have also continued taking pictures for my craftyclaudes project 365 - 2011  which always gets me excited about creating.  Seeing patterns in simple things, appreciating colours and designs always guarantees the creative juices will continue flowing.

I have also started designing a couple of new softies that I would like to experiment with a llama and a mermaid.  A little different from the owlies but fun all the same :)   They both began from some sketches and now am working on designing a pattern to start creating him/her.

"Luisito" the llama awaiting pattern design

Also very excited as I think I have found THE perfect fabric for the foot stool I am reupholstering which I rescued from The Bower .

Oh and some chandelier and mop love.....Check out this very clever installation by design students from Stockholm.  At a recent furniture fair they were given the task to decorate some chandeliers that were over 150 years old.

all pics via here

After treating each mop with fire retardant and using chicken wire to create a frame on which to suspend the mops on

 this was the end result. 

A  M  A  Z  I  N  G  !

Intel Visual Life - The Sartorialist

I love reading and learning about modern artists. Of course if I can find a video about them on YouTube even better! Imagine my delight when I found the video below. I think one of the most wonderful things the Internet has made possible is the sharing of everyday life. Watching an artist at work whether it be at a sewing machine, behind the lens of a camera, or in the kitchen is a real gift to all of us. Seeing a person just like you and me doing something they love is a great way to fire up the creativity. To them its like breathing, and that is where the gift is for us. What these wonderful people teach us is that no matter what you do, if you do it with love in your heart and fire in your belly, it will always look effortless to others.

Here is my favorite photographer at work Scott Schuman - The Sartorialist