I am going to start blogging more the themes and “things” that I do, not from a “lets jump on the blogging bandwagon” point of view, more from a google point of view, which I harped on about an hour ago on my New York New York blog. So…..this theme, to understand a bit more about me, I DON’T take on any theme that comes my way, or themes that are too difficult (dogs!!), or clients who are so set in EXACTLY how they want it to look. I can’t work like that, give me your ideas and I will absorb them into my thought process and create something stunning, but pick me up on the positioning of stars, and you’ve lost me. The job no longer is a joy, it becomes GCSE Chemistry homework, 10pm on a Sunday night. You know you have to do it, but you are frightened to do it, in case you do it wrong and get shouted at. Anyway, I’ve become sidetracked…FAIRYTALES!
This theme started out as a Butterfly Table Plan, now, I never used to do butterflies as it just seemed so trite! I started out in 2003, so just prior to the big handmade BOOM. At the time handmade wedding stationery was a card blank and a one dimensional butterfly thrown on the front. I am not a pink girl, or a girly girl, or glitter and fluff and feathers girl, so to do this, would go against my personal grain so to speak. Little bits of butterfly have crept in over the years, but nothing major, and I tend to find if it ain’t on the site, people don’t ask for it! So the order I got was for a Butterfly table plan, not a problem, I can do that…UNTIL….EEK….9 months later, the theme was changed to “Cinderella”. With the deposit long absorbed into the business, I couldn’t cancel, plus, keep calm girl, its a challenge! As I opened the images my client gave me…my heart sank a little. It was SO against my personal grain, that I needed virtual calamine lotion to stop the itching!! Lots of baby pinks, diamantes, lots and lots of glitter and feathers. Oh my I stressed, I can’t do this, I don’t have the girly girl gene! So flash forward to the first week of May, Fairytale Week. Now, if might surprise you to read that I don’t plan designs. Never have and probably never will. I unwrap an album or a canvas and the inspiration just flows. If I sit and try to think of ideas, it doesn’t happen. I just can’t work like that. I generally know what I am going to do, but the thought in the brain will generally be very different to the finished article (in a good way). So the moral of this blog is, don’t be too hasty to judge or become scared of someone elses fairytale, accept the challenge, put it into the bunny delicious non-sensical machine, turn the handle and let the creativity flow. Out will pop your theme with the original bunny delicious twist that I am famed for. So fanfare trumpets please…….Ladies and Gentleman….presenting “Once upon a Fairytale” (first 3 images are the client’s inspiration pictures) Oh and for the record, not only did I surprise myself with what I had created, but I made the bride cry with happiness (and I daresay relief!) Leanne I love you for changing your theme and forcing me to move the creative goalposts!!
OK have just checked the pictures and they must be too large to view (me being lazy and not re-sizing) will have to amend all the sizes an reupload, if you cannot wait though, and why would you, who waits for things these days?? Then go direct to here http://www.facebook.com/pages/bunny-delicious/95620187111?v=photos&ref=ts#!/album.php?aid=215187&id=95620187111
Tags: castles, cinderella, diamands, fairytale, feathers, horses, pink, prince charming, wedding
