Another thing I got up to during my week long Making Friday was to make a hanging succulent garden in my studio. It all started with the impulse buy of a magnificent Burro’s Tail from Aspen Flowers in Loop Street, and next thing I was googling macrame tutorials on the internet. Just look at how …
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Hanging succulent garden
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Susie and Satsuma
Not too long ago I got a wonderful pack of goodies from Lynn Russell of Satsuma Press, including her simple and exquisite 2011 calendar. On the day I took it to my studio to photograph it for my blog, my friend Genneth popped around with a birthday gift of a Susie Cooper plate. Together, they …
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A dog bowl… is a dog bowl
On a whim, I bought these dogs bowls at a mega hardware store last week. I love the colours, and the shapes are swoopy and cool, and I was convinced I could make them work as funky, slightly edgy home accessories. So I tried them out as fruit bowls, but whatever I tried (bananas, apples, …
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Cut out & keep
Just a little something I made today – part of an exciting project about which I may not breathe a single word. Shh…
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Double gold
Thanks to my printers making a mistake with the screen (thanks, printers!), I now have my Leaves design in a reversed version too! Here they are in the autumn gold colourway. To celebrate this happy bungle, I’ve got a Double Gold special offer: Click here to get one of five paired sets of 50x50cm (19.5″) …
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Header for ELLE
This was a fun project. ELLE magazine has recently launched their blog, and I did the illustrations for their blog header. Keep an eye out for the monthly Mademoiselle illustration that I’ll be doing for the magazine. She’ll appear on the blog too.
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Pillows and inches
I took product shots over the weekend, so now there are two new pillows in my Etsy shop. There’s Eep in cocoa, and Duikers in smoke grey. Eep! is also in duck egg blue. Looks nice with the cocoa, I think. In related news, I have to report that I’ve finally been worn down, and …
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Making Friday 24 September 2010
I love a public holiday. Somehow I seem to have my best working days when everyone else is out having fun. Today was a good one, spent in my studio, where I got a few things done, such as: 1. I found a way of using the selvedges cut off my fabrics. Just a zap …
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Treasures!
I’m hugely grateful to all those wonderful people who are sufficiently enthusiastic about design to take the time to put together beautifully-considered collections of things they’ve found on that wonderful phenomenon called Etsy and publish them as Treasuries. And, of course, when they include my things in there and then let me know about it, …
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