The scrapEep!On last week’s Making Friday, I applied my mind to a big problem in my studio: what do do with scraps. One corner of my studio is devoted to the storage of offcuts, misprints and repairs, and they take up a lot of space. Thanks to the efficiency of Tammy and Molly, my scraps …

Eep! bagMay I present more results of Making Friday: the Eep! shopping bag! It’s printed in duck egg blue on sturdy cotton linen, it has a handy key clip inside, and it’s available for sale here. More bags coming up soon!

ShoebagOne of the things I made on Friday was a sweet linen shoe bag. Using my sewing machine, I stitched an illustration of a shoe onto heavyweight linen, then sewed it up into this one-of-a-kind bag, now available in my Etsy shop. PS: Anyone wanting to know where I got these utterly adorable little shoes, …

Friday = Making DayIn line with the New Organised Me, I’m officially decreeing every Friday to be Making Day. Despite the icy weather, I had the best time on Friday. I walked to my studio, so there was no chance of nipping out, and then spent the entire day there, with no distractions, no errands, …

New blogs for checkingVeering off my Monday list of tasks to swim around the web a bit, I found two blogs that are well worth taking a look at: Manna from Brooklyn– a charming record of finds, buys and noticing. At swim-two-birds– weaving, embroidery, cookies and photographs (thanks for this one, Francesca).

Nothing yet, but soon…I’m way ahead of myself posting about this project, as I’ve only just begun and the way I keep running out of time on everything else, I can see it might take forever to complete. Anyway, what it is now is a bunch of small, cheap cotton rugs from Ackermans, and what …

This week at the marketPaul and I had a good old wander around the Neighbourgoods Market on Saturday – a nice treat, as I’m usually there to sell my things and don’t get to see much at all! We started out with a tropical asian breakfast of Ginger French Toast from those lovely guys at …

Monsters spacemanMy little nephew Noah turned two last week, and I made him a funny spaceman with a last bit of my Monsters print. If you like this print, you can find it on an organic cotton baby Tshirt over at the LittleBig Shop.

A zip of colourThursday, we went zip shopping in the rain.