Colour Inspiration

 

Crazy about colour!

Colour motivates me to create.

It excites and inspires me to try out new ideas

and test new boundaries mixing colour, pattern, prints and textures.

Follow your heart, follow your interest, pursue your passions. 

 

Melissah xox

Images via A Creative Mint 

Check out Scrapbook on tumblr and Pinterest  

Collect and Create

Surround yourself with what you love ... 

I'm a bowerbird of all things beautiful :-

I collect everything pretty from fabric cuttings, to colour swatches,

cards, ribbons, stationary, wrapping paper, magazine clippings,

shopping bags, invitations and business cards

Anything that catches my eye or take my fancy. 

I keep them in pretty boxes or add them to my pinboard.

 

Loving these inspiring home offices!

Melissah xox

Collage photos A Creative Mint :  Pinboard concept by Torie Jayne : pics via 1+3, 2

Check out Scrapbook on tumblr and Pinterest  

Design Inspiration

A Passion for Design

My design studio is bursting with colour :-

Derwent pencils, paint chips and fabric swatches.

Colour is a personal intimate experience.

Everybody has their own special colour :-

mine is pink, but I'm one of these people that 

loves every colour in the rainbow and beyond!

Melissah xox

Images via A Creative Mint 

Check out Scrapbook on tumblr and Pinterest  

Collections of Love

A Passion for Collecting

Collect things that inspire you.

Surround yourself with objects, books and art you love.

Having things around me I love has always been
a great inspiration for upcoming projects.

Follow your heart, follow your interest, pursue your passions. 

Over the past few years I have collected cards, buttons,

ribbons, magazine clippings, books on fashion and design.

I make scrapbooks, my own artwork and homemade cards.

All of these creative little hobbies are good for the soul!

Melissah xox

Photo credits A Creative Mint :  Pinboard concept by Torie Jayne 

Check out Scrapbook on tumblr and Pinterest  

The Artist

With glorious summer days and time to relax, I am feeling inspired to get out my 

watercolour paints and brushes and get creative.

Hope you have a lovely Sunday!

Melissah xox

Images via 1, 2, 3, 4

    

Painting Classes

Having studied fashion design I have had my fair share of art classes but have never really done anything with it. The other day I commissioned an artist to make me three pieces to freshen up things in my beach house. My husband and I went to visit her in her Portsea studio and I fell in love with her sunny, creative studio and her amazing artistic talents. I left feeling so inspired that I am going to get out my paints, brushes and watercolour papers and start creating a little artwork of my own to hang on the walls!

Melissah xox

Images via 1, 2-3, 4 

Butterfly Dreaming

These last few days my garden has been a mass of the prettiest tiny white butterflies dancing all over the flowers. It was a very romantic vision until someone told me they are in fact cabbage moths and will strip my garden bare if I'm not careful! With this influx of pesky little moths I have also seen lots of the beautiful Monarch butterflies on my daily beach walk. To see seven or eight on these beautiful  orange, yellow and black winged creatures sitting on a single branch is a heavenly sight. I fancy myself in a long floaty dress skipping around with a butterfly net catching these pretty things but somehow I doubt if I'll find the time!

 

Images via Creature Comforts

Melissah xox