Here’s another fridge magnet, cut with my NT cutter from a magnetic sheet. This took a while to make, cos it’s quite big. It feels delicate when you hold it, but I think it’s fairly tough. After making this one, I cut off a lot of the leaves in an attempt to have a minimum …
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Magnet mania
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Horoscope Special!
Rod Suskin’s 2007 horoscope predictions have been published in Fair Lady, with placeholder illustrations for each star sign done by me this year. Seeing as Fair Lady’s a fashion mag, I decided to go with a theme of accessories. Scroll down to find yours! Above, the full-page intro pic that had to tie in with …
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Capricorn
The January Fair Lady is on the shelves with a 2007 Horoscope special, illustrated by me, so I’ve got a bumper crop of illustrations to post. Yay! I’m rushing, with a lunchtime deadline today, so I’ll start with a stand-alone Capricorn and put the rest up tomorrow. As usual, I first made a cut-out in …
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Just a little blue
We had a difficult weekend, with our crazy neighbour terrorizing us again (“crazy” is a totally overused word. When you’ve seen real crazy, it’s not just kooky, it’s scary) , so I’m feeling a bit blue… Not quite as as blue as there are blue birds here….…but about as blue as the colour called “steel …
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Home on the Range
For the first Drawing Room show in May last year, I did a series of lonely cowboy paper cutouts called Home on the Range. This is Home on the Range IV. I really like the mood of this – lonely but hopeful. I always wanted to make more of these, and eventually did, with the …
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Red birds
I delivered these birds to Janet yesterday. She seemed to like them. For some reason, this photo is publishing really poorly. Sorry about that. I met Janet when I admired her Orla Kiely handbag (a rare sight down here on the tip of Africa).This is woodgrain vinyl cut to reveal wonderfully shiny scarlet vinyl below.
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Thrifty me
Off-cuts of the teatowels that were made into cushions, have now been turned into little purses. Waste not, want not – you know. Psst! Baby steps into bigtime retail made early this morning, with 30 teatowels zooting off to a fancy multibranched store for a test run. Let’s see what happens next…
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Cork magnets
More cork magnets. I tried one using maple wood veneer yesterday, but it was really hard to cut through and the lines ended up looking clumsy. It’s great having a bit of time on my hands, for a change. I feel that for ages I’ve been recycling old ideas, squeezing the last drops out of …
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Milnerton Market
First, the facts: Fact #1. Milnerton Market is not in Milnerton, it is in Paarden Eiland. It used to be in Milnerton until the residents’ association got snooty and moved it on.Fact #2. Milnerton Market is a great way to see your friends. Elbow your deceptively sleepy-eyed bargain-hunting buddies aside as you sift through the …
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