A Morning Walk

First of all a really big sorry for being so lame about blogging.  The truth is I have been up to my eyes in finishing a degree through the Open University whilst juggling family, Tiara Heaven and my other passion, teaching piano (the reason for my degree).  Something just had to give and I am afraid social networking just had to bite the dust for some time.  But now I am the happy owner of a BSc (hons), (I take a bow) and can finally now get on with life and invite you into my very creative study free world.  

p.s. this lovely lady is def not me! Image from Flickr

So enough about my apology, lets get creative.  It is always hard to create new blogs about the work that I am doing at Tiara Heaven because I always hold the privacy of my customers as a top priority and would hate to put up images of designs before their big day has arrived.  So I thought I would share inspiration ideas.  Often my own inspiration comes from nature, I know it is a bit of a cliche but owning a very energetic dog and living on the coast means that everyday I am out witnessing the changing seasons, seeing how the weather effects the tones of nature.  Yesterday was one of those moody low cloud days which seem to be plaguing this summer (when its not raining!), but I love the effect this can have on the sea making sky and water become one.

One of the many beaches from my home town of Weymouth in Dorset.

 

I love days like this down the beach when the greys and blues merge into one to create a lovely calming effect and the lack of wind stills the sea.  

The sandy browns and greys of the pebbles compliment the subdued tones of sea and sky.  Bringing this into my work can be achieved by using Swarovski Pearls in light blue, light grey and bronze for that special seaside touch.

Pearl colours can be found on the Tiara Heaven website

However when life feels perfect there is always a dog to bring you back down to earth!  My working cocker spaniel decided that far more interesting than the beautiful relaxing tones of the sea was a rotten stinky old fish and I had to leg it up the beach to drag it out of his mouth - yuck.  Luckily it was tough as old ropes and even my dog could not chew through it - phew!  

Here he is doing his favorite activity of swimming after a stick.

So goodbye from me and Salty the Sea Dog and don't forget next time you are searching for colour inspiration to look around you or to check back here for more dog walk creative thoughts.   Hopefully next time stinky fish will not feature! 

Louise x