I haven’t posted about our monthly stall at the Neighbour Goods Market for a while, so this is going to be a biggie. It was an interesting market, because there were loads of international visitors, probably here because of the Design Indaba and Expo. Lots of Dutch and American visitors, some from Hong Kong, and …
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Hand Made Now!
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Tumbling magnet
I made this fridge magnet by sticking cork paper onto magnetic sheet, then cutting with my NT cutter.
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A Day day
Thanks to whoever it was who recommended Robin and Lucienne Day: Pioneers of Modern Design on their blog. Last week, my copy arrived in the post at last (Read about the Days’ work here.). What an inspiration! My early year torpor has dropped away and I am impatient to get cracking on making things again! …
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Silver birds
As a big “boo sucks” in the face of our loony neighbour and illustration deadlines and other stresses of city life, I’ve made some soaring, striving silver birds for my fridge door. This is textured silver paper stuck to adhesive magnetic sheet, cut with an NT cutter.
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Green bird of bliss
For my birthday, my brother and sister-in-law gave me a voucher for a massage at the Thai spa up the road from me. I redeemed the voucher on Tuesday, and afterwards went to my studio and cut a magnet that seemed to express my post-massage bliss. Ahh…
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Magnet mania
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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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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Magnetic weekend
I made a couple of magnets this weekend. The cute little girl magnet holding up my yoga schedule is not mine but isn’t she just adorable? Found at Journey on Long Street. This one I’m in love with. I stuck cork paper (thanks, Jesse) to an adhesive-backed magnetic sheet and cut through with my NT …
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More magnets
While I’m at it, here are more of the fridge magnets I’ll be selling at the Neighbour Goods Market in Salt River on 23 Sept. Check out the What if the World website for more.
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