Please Remember...we're here together. :)

Part of the purpose of this blog is to provide the ourselves, the authors, with an outlet for creative inspiration where we lack opportunities in the real world. It's also to help inspire you. We are not rich; we are not professionals; we sometimes don't feel like we're much of anything. Still, we have our creativity, and here we can dream, and can share. So we do. And it makes us so happy.

These designs and directions may not always be accurate. Where we have no supplies, we spend hours forcing our brains to conjure up and puzzle through and add the figures to bring those dreams a little closer to reality. We put them in your hands, and make you free to continue the process. Be inspired, do a little research, try your hand at something and then make it your own. These are just blocks to build with. Then, when you find something wrong or something better, please-please-please share with us. That's what this place is for. Vent a little frustration and imagine your own answer. We'll make each other better,  that's our promise.

Thank you always,
liv-cate + beth-claire

Excuses, excuses...

Whirlwind romance. It really happens. One day, it may happen to you. liv-cate offers apologies for her absence, due to the fact that she was very recently married after a brief, four-month courtship. And oh, was it ever fun!

Of course this means that last fall's plans to give directions on sewing your own harlequin patterned items will have to wait until next year. But there are springtime plans in the works! Clothing embellishments in an arborial theme. Work commences on the infinite cookbook as I am forced to set up housekeeping that is economical both in time and materials. beth-claire has also been playing with her food again--she is yet to be seen to follow a recipe with greater than 80% exactness. Many important lessons were learned in the seven weeks given to plan a wedding on a $3000 budget. We'll pass them along in due course, as new jobs and full-time education permit.

See you soon!

Hello!

This is beth-claire, the detail-oriented voice of reason for R&C. Liv is the gem and I am the polish. We've been dreaming about the things we write here for a long time, and they are what keeps us going. Hope you enjoy!

beth-claire

A New Start

Beth and I began Rosewilde and Canderley a number of years ago; we were 20 and always dreaming about new things. Life took us in different directions for awhile. We went to separate colleges. Circumstances taught us that we had lots to learn about our goals. I served a religious mission MI, she in GA. We tried to grow up and develop better life skills, have practical jobs, etc. There were lots of great and wonderful changes! But we couldn't give up on that desire to create and imagine. So we're coming back.

The truth is, all these years, we’ve been piling up ideas, and never seeing them accomplished, due to their being too expensive, or because we don’t know who to turn to for help or knowhow. Through this, I’ve developed a sense of self-doubt that is often crippling. But I’m letting them sit and waste no longer! I’m posting them here. And if it benefits your creative pursuits, or if I can point to this and say ‘HERE is what I can really do’, or if I can break out of my private world by sharing it with someone, then so much the better. So it’s all going up! From clothing, costumes, interiors, to whimsy, stories, poetry, anything.

And we’re coming back even better prepared for the fun. We’ve picked up a few things along the way, such as an ever growing international music collection, a bad case of Hinduphilia (is that a word?), and a host of how-to, historical, and inspirational reference books—Thank you Sister, for getting that job in a bookstore! We’ll be wracking our brains for things to study, and ideas for unique DIY projects. And if we can’t put them into practice, maybe you can! Let us know!

On we go!

liv-cate