Paula Mills Art

Sweet William Melamine Plates available through Lalaland Hello friends! Here are a few gift ideas for Mother's Day from Sweet William.  Our greeting cards are currently on sale, with 30% off! You can view them  here .   All our prints are available from our  esty shop  and through  hardtofind.com.au .   Brand new Sweet William phone cases are now available from  thedairy.com .  Sweet William also has a range of greeting cards and beautiful new Melamine plates produced by Lalaland, which you can view  here .  See our previous  blog post  to find out about winning a $500 etsy gift card! We hope you are spoilt rotten if you are a Mum and have a wonderful time blessing your Mums! 

Sweet William Mother's Day card from Lalaland Shot of my dressing table from Instagram Dotty Heart Archival Art print available through our Etsy Shop In response to  @etsyau    #everydaymum  campaign here is a shot of my dressing table. A collection of precious images of some of the female mentors who have shaped and made me who I am today; my mum, my sister, my grandmother, my mother in law and of course my three girls plus the Mother heart of God. My mum is no longer with us yet her love is still my everyday strength. Win an etsy gift card worth $500! Simply follow @etsyau on Instagram to find out more.

Sweet William is having a quick 3 Day Autumn Sale over at hardtofind.com.au . 25% Off from 23-25 March 2015 on all products plus free shipping with in Australia!

In the previous post I shared about being in a bit of a creative slump. I am going to carry on with sharing my un slumping story. Fresh flowers always pick up my mood and inspire me. I bought a bunch of Dahlias from our local corner shop and decided to work on some small compositions. I had a few 20x20 cm canvases in my studio which I painted in bright pink tones - trying to capture the ultra colour of the dahlias with a bit of fluro pink paint, creating backgrounds. Once they were dry I decided to fill in the negative spaces with a dove egg blue/grey sort of colour. I am quite pleased with the effect so far, almost abstract but enough form to suggest the flowers. This is still work in progress - I will get back to the paintings at some stage and finish them off but I have so enjoyed the process and am grateful to have my creative juices flowing again.

I can't believe we are already in the third month of this year, my kids are at the end of their first term at school and I just haven't found my groove for 2015 yet... I have found myself in a bit of creative slump. I know it is pretty common to have creative slumps but I haven't had one go on for quite so long...anyway I have a plan to un slump myself; I have to push myself creatively. I have taken a few on line courses through www.atly.com which have been great and I have also forced myself to get away from the computer and into my studio. I have met up with a wonderful local artist who works from her home studio and we paint together. My plan is starting to work but I need a bit more time...which seems to be running away from me. When all else fails, I go in for a bit of retail therapy, I find fresh flowers and a new cushion for my home, always manages to make me feel a little brighter! Okay so even though it's already March - here's to a great 2...

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Christmas at my house in full colour - decorations from Poppies for Grace Poppies for Grace were exhibiting along with us at the Big Design Market last weekend. They did the most impressive stall with a beautiful tissue paper backdrop in rainbow colours - and I thought what a brilliant idea for our Christmas decorations this year! Here are the results, what do you think?