whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Feb 2, 2012, 9:23 am
 Fooling round with the camera trying to get a picture of my new haircut . .  . got two mirrors so I thought I'd try it that way first . . . .  mostly what you get is your camera and not much else . .  . . a bit of positioning . . . I'm pretty short so I've got to make sure I get myself in the ...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Jan 31, 2012, 9:01 am
I’ve been going through a cake baking phase recently and in the synchronous way that the Universe has I came across the most amazing cake maker while browsing the blogosphere. I just had to share this wonderful find with you. Her beautiful blog is Amelie’s House , her name is Natasha  and she ...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Jan 22, 2012, 4:33 pm
Are you feeling smoochie yet???? No? Well why not? My husband has never acknowledged Valentine's Day but that doesn't stop me getting in the mood. In fact being online with my little shop and seeing the wonderful Etsy Treasuries, being part of UK Handmade and UK Craft Blog and seeing what fab thin...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Jan 17, 2012, 1:03 pm
 What a beautiful day it was, the sun shining fit to bust . . . . quick grab the camera and get some photos in situ. There is light from the window on the right of my table which so often means that it's too gloomy to get any decent photos. For good measure I over exposed it but in doing so over ex...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Jan 10, 2012, 9:59 am
My husband and I weren't going to do presents this Christmas, it just being the two of us but I saw this dinner set in the charity shop window a few days before Christmas and ran home in  a state of high excitement claiming that I would positively die if I didn't have it. I had also seen anothe...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Jan 9, 2012, 11:25 am
I suddenly got bored of tasteful muted colours and let rip with something a little punchier. My favourite word to describe  in-your-face kind of colour. This one was built ontop of something else I did a while ago. Taking the idea of making things specially for Photoshop stamps from sewn paper bits...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Dec 5, 2011, 8:05 am
I made these purses a while ago but decided they could do with a little extra something and so more lace has been applied and some more hand embroidery. Now I'm satisfied with them. I wonder sometimes if I'm being too fussy, too picky but really unless I'm happy with something I cannot put it out th...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Nov 30, 2011, 1:20 pm

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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Nov 28, 2011, 9:47 am
This week I have been mostly making . . . .  a mess. I thought if I took a couple of macro shots it would look artistic and a bit soft focus, you know. Look at all the lovely lace and ribbon, the beads and fabric . . . .  doesn't it look artistic? It is artistic . . . .  artistic chaos  The r...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Nov 23, 2011, 6:44 am
  Only a few days to go now until the Craftfest over at Creative Connections ( follow the link for the Craftfest home page )and I thought I'd showcase a few more talented people . . . . . first off the astonishing Origami creations of Folding4You . . . . works of art every single one of them. Then...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Nov 21, 2011, 3:03 pm
 Now that my darling daughter has gone off to New Zealand I have been able to use her room to get some of my old collage materials out. Lord, some of them haven't seen the light of day for years. Tons of stuff, lots to be thrown out but lots to be re-aquainted with. At the same time I have been thi...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Nov 18, 2011, 2:51 pm
I've been out of action again recently with pinched nerves in my leg and full of very heavy painkillers. Frustration inevitably set in  - after all there's not much you can do while lying quite, quite, still on your side for days on end.  I did, however, master the art of eating while lying down, ...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Nov 14, 2011, 9:15 am
I'm very pleased to be part of this online selling extravaganza . . . . everyone has been furiously uploading their wares in preparation for the big weekend. There will be LOTS of sellers, around 175 at least from all over the world and all of their goods are handmade. Here is just a little taster t...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Oct 28, 2011, 12:31 pm
I have, finally,  got these notebooks done and listed ( or should that be done and dusted? ).  Nothing worse than a pile of stuff sitting there reminding you reproachfully that you still haven't made the time. They are satisfying to finish off though, a nice weight in the hand ( 50 sheets of nice ...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Oct 28, 2011, 12:28 pm
I have, finally,  got these notebooks done and listed ( or should that be done and dusted? ).  Nothing worse than a pile of stuff sitting there reminding you reproachfully that you still haven't made the time. They are satisfying to finish off though, a nice weight in the hand ( 50 sheets of nice ...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Oct 24, 2011, 1:37 pm
I love fabric . . .  no, really, I love fabric . . .  the way different fabrics feel and fold and fall, their colours, their patterns, the history behind them. What better way to start off a pretty dismal monday ( pouring rain, howling winds ) than to go through my beloved stash of vintage and res...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Oct 16, 2011, 3:36 pm
It's been so satisfying to make these plump little babies, picking through my piles of fabric to find exactly the right combinations. I'm having a bit of a run on hearts at the moment having started off making heart shaped brooches  . . . . more of those to come, already cut out and waiting to be s...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Oct 15, 2011, 3:29 pm
My  neighbour Gill kindly agreed to sit for me  . . . . it was such a lovely day, the sun was shining, we cleared a bit of space in her living room  and chatted about this and that while I moved around her with the camera. I really enjoyed the session though she was quite upset by the pictures wh...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Oct 13, 2011, 2:26 pm
Having cleared the advancing tide of fabric so that I could do the first part of my Mandala collaboration with Shana I took advantage of the space to get some ink out and do a couple of ink blots to make into Photoshop brushes. I've been wanting to do this for ages and oooh, what fun it was to splat...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Oct 13, 2011, 8:44 am
I am watching Downton Abbey as avidly as anyone but it's the interiors and the costumes that have me riveted - the plot after all, is laughable, pure soap opera, and the historical setting cosmetic to say the least. No turn -of -the- century aristocrat in his right mind would have employed an irishm...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Oct 8, 2011, 2:47 pm
Something new, something really quite exciting . . . . a collaboration with Shana Goetsch on her Art that Circles the Earth project which is all about creating  Mandalas . . .  here is her blog post about me  (gosh feels strange to be reading about myself ).  We each start a piece then send it t...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Oct 3, 2011, 3:51 pm
Oh yes, I have been busy, scribbling away, trying this, trying that. Dumping this and going with that. So, some new stuff . . . . . prints now listed in my Scribble Domain etsy shop.  A new abstract  ( above ), a very satisfying combination shape and line. It's not always as easy as it looks to ge...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Oct 3, 2011, 3:50 pm
Oh yes, I have been busy, scribbling away, trying this, trying that. Dumping this and going with that. So, some new stuff . . . . . prints now listed in my Scribble Domain etsy shop.  A new abstract  ( above ), a very satisfying combination shape and line. It's not always as easy as it looks to ge...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Oct 1, 2011, 9:27 am
Didn't have a hat to pull the names out of but thought a vintage bowl would be appropriate . . . . . Congratulations Gill from Gloucestershire, three brooches winging their way to you. Thank you for all those who took part and stay posted because I will be doing more giveaways including the occasion...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Sep 26, 2011, 4:02 pm
You know how I love working small, you know how I love fiddly tiny bits of things . . . .  playing around with one of my bags of fabric scraps which I absolutely have to use up I came up with these. Aren't they darling? Made with a combination of hand and machine stitching, each one is backed with ...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Sep 23, 2011, 9:24 am
 Not a great one for the heat of summer, I love, love, love the cooler days of autumm. I find myself getting whimsical about seed heads and dry leaves. And yes, I will be out there taking photos . . . .  in the meantime I'm feeling inspired by these botanical cushions especially the seed head desi...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Sep 17, 2011, 10:06 am
The pictures I take are only ever a starting point, most end up as photoshop brushes and the  rather crappy lo-fi ones from the last time are no exception. Totally unexceptional to look at just as they were they offered all kinds of possibilities once turned into brushes  . . . like the one above....
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Sep 17, 2011, 9:52 am
Leafing through a ladies fashion catalogue the other day I came across one of these and another  similar to the one below. Both of these are courtesy of Gok Wan, bless his camp little socks and all he's done to make women feel better about their bodies. ( seperate but important point is, why has it...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Sep 12, 2011, 3:27 pm
Welcome to the very Lo-Fi- DIY- Whitney-Way of  messing up your photographs. Why would you want to mess up perfectly good photographs taken with your perfectly good digital camera? Because everybody is going with the Lomo-Holga- light- leaking- crappy-lens-oh-no-everything's-turned-yellow look, tha...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Sep 5, 2011, 7:57 am
Hmm, got an idea, got half an hour with nothing else to do . . . .  find a bit of stiff calico and lets see if I can . . . . . Oh crap, that's not what I had in mind at all! Never mind, it makes a very useful little fabric pot to keep threads and scissors in while I'm working.  But one thought lea...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Aug 27, 2011, 3:38 pm
Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy Rod and thy Staff shall comfort me.  Give me the grace to go gracefully toward the unknown.
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Aug 27, 2011, 11:12 am
This is what happens when there is nothing but you, a pile of pictures, a pair of scissors and a stick of glue . . . .
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Aug 22, 2011, 8:45 am
I think it started with this  or maybe even this . . . . long afternoons in bed with a fine liner and pad of paper,  scribbling and doodling away. Kind of frees the mind. I've been wanting to get back to something cleaner, less fussy, more abstract. Like  sorbet after a lot of rich food. So scri...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Aug 22, 2011, 8:43 am
I think it started with this  or maybe even this . . . . long afternoons in bed with a fine liner and pad of paper,  scribbling and doodling away. Kind of frees the mind. I've been wanting to get back to something cleaner, less fussy, more abstract. Like  sorbet after a lot of rich food. So scri...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Aug 18, 2011, 1:48 pm
Just look at all these lovely goodies. The Devil Makes Work is having a Lucky Grab Bag Sale - pay just £10 plus postage and you get a shoe box sized box of varied goodies - handmade items and some fabrics. None of the items are seconds just lines that are being discontinued so get shopping ladies ...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Aug 15, 2011, 8:27 am
My father died a few weeks ago and I have been thinking ever since about the nature of goneness.  Death is at once both very real and totally unreal. Even if you have faith, even if you believe they go to a better place it's still a pretty difficult thing to get your head around. Somebody is there ...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Aug 15, 2011, 7:32 am
Pinterest, Pinterest . . . .  what can I say? In case you haven't heard of it, it's a virtual pinboard for all the wonderful things/ pictures/recipes/tutorials you come across on your travels around the internet. What a clever idea I thought when the e-mail about it dropped into my inbox and prom...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Aug 9, 2011, 9:27 am
                                            Paper napkins - Mithus.co.uk                                                       Paper Napkins - Mithus                          ...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Aug 1, 2011, 7:17 am
Hmmm . . . strange things happen when you leave them to gestate on their own . . . . . A couple of very odd characters . . . . not sure what I'll do with them . . .  I could list them as prints but would you want one of these on your wall? I wouldn't! Maybe small prints then. This one is less dist...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Aug 1, 2011, 7:00 am
  Taaadaaa! A slightly delayed Grand Opening Special Offer but I did want to have my website - http://www.everygirlsstory.co.uk/  up and running . . . .Please go and admire it,  I am so very, very proud of having done this. Many thanks go to Monica whose confidence in me gave me the confidence...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Jul 26, 2011, 8:02 am
                                                  At Night I Dream of Broken Teeth. Long periods of thinking are essential to any creativity. The fallow periods are especially important; when nothing appears to be happening. We know this but forget. ...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Jul 25, 2011, 8:22 am
No, I'm not referring to myself ( never having been a beauty in the first place! ) but these lovely roses. They had been in my daughter's room and she gave them to me before throwing them out knowing that I would want to photograph them. They really came out better than I anticipated. The silly thin...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Jul 5, 2011, 8:50 am
I've been working on these for a while now, slowly feeling my way, allowing the idea and the images to form themselves. I didn't want to look at it too directly in case . . .  I don't know, in case it vanished perhaps. Nostalgia . . .  from the Greek nostos - to return home, and algos - pain. A fo...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Jun 30, 2011, 10:58 am
Aren't these just the most beautiful little faces? The plant was a Mother's Day present and it is still blooming away . . .  blooming a bit too much for it's grown leggy. Having decided to give it a severe haircut I was left with all these little flowers but with very short stems. Floating them in ...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Jun 27, 2011, 9:35 am
I posted this little darling, called Not-Bambi, on Facebook a while back along with a promise to dig out some pictures of some of the Altered Dolls I'd done years ago.  There was a lot of other altered plastic  stuff that got chucked simply because I didn't have room for it anymore but, with th...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - Jun 18, 2011, 9:30 am
It's all been happening and yet lots of nothing has been happening. I so badly needed time off, time to just play, time to take stock, to do other stuff and to get all my vintagey stuff listed on Every Girl's Story. Which proved to be a total marathon in terms of photographing, photo editing, list...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Jun 13, 2011, 8:08 am
Have had some time off, resting in bed and consequently getting very bored. I just don't do time off very well but boy, did I need it! Slowly, slowly, I'm going to get back into doing things. My impulse always is to rush into everything . . . .  not good, not good at all. I finished sorting thes...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on What Whitney Made Next - Jun 1, 2011, 9:01 am
Finally, finally, I got there!! There were times when I thought I would never make it and be lost to mankind, drowned under a tsunami of fabric, lost in an avalanche of practical details but persistence wins out. Here then are some of the yummy things I've listed in my new Etsy shop . .  go and che...
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whitney-anne baker posted an article on Whitney's Weird Stuff - May 19, 2011, 9:26 am
I meant to blog about this a while back ( apologies Phil and Hannah! ) but I've been ploughing through so much other stuff that I just lost track of the time. You might remember that I did some artwork for Phillip Henry last summer. Well, he and Hannah Martin approached me at the end of last year ...
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