SuperVery Sue’s Crafty Space on the the Web

Sale time

I’m pretty much in love with everything Marimekko

So to see there is a sale going right now, has made my credit card, flip a little bit with excitement.

i am very tempted by this handbag, so i can visit marth and match her bean bag. however i’ve decided until i can buy a beautiful saben bag from martha’s shop i’m not buying any more bags, except at Craft2.0

although i can get round this buy purchasing some fabric and making it into a bag, I’m thinking helen’s beautiful Japanese knot bag would look amazing in a marimekko fabric.

hey that’s me

I’ve just won, a brand new shiny web site to sell my crafty creations.
The amazing, amazing, Lisa Lam, was running a giveaway on her Crafty Business Blog, CraftBoom to win yourself a custom design website at ArtFlock.

All you needed to do was comment then register at ArtFlock, well i did, and this was what i asked for as a feature i would love in a web site.

“I’d love to be able to be able to look after people buying for their own shops (wholesale queries) and people who’ve found me direct.
Also i take things to craft fairs, so to have an option of having the site on hold for the few hours i am at a fair would be good, it means people online and people in person get to see and enjoy everything i’ve crafted
but most of all i want it to be easy, i want to spend my time being creative making things to sell, and have a lovely beautiful place online to sell them. So my feature request would be that’s it’s lovely, is loveliness a feature i hope so?”

Yes i couldn’t pick on feature i needed to pick 3 , but thanks to random number generation i won. So the lovely team at ArtFlock are going to help me have a beautiful personalised site for selling my creations.

I’m a bit overwhelmed and excited and who knows how things will go, but yippee!
this is going to be a fun and exciting journey, and since I been struggling working out how to sell online, this feels like a boost of encouragement to make it work.

so thanks Lisa and thanks ArtFlock

I always knew i was a bit of a chair

thanks to the lovely cal - yes i do call people lovely a lot but honestly, unless someone is lovely or awesome or interesting why would i spend time with them.

it’s not like you would spend an entire afternoon at the movies and drinking cups of hot chocolate with someone who was un interesting and horrible. so lovely continues

but back to the point of today’s post.
I am a beautiful sweedish chair called su

I was hoping to be a sofa bed, so i could be functional and take a nap, but it takes all kinds of furniture to make a world,
so what are you?

In the age of torrents

One of the big films of the film festival, big enough to screen on Friday night and be featured in the dom post today is ‘Be Kind R
ewind’.

Now the DVD of ‘be kind rewind’ from arrived at my house from the usa today
it was a lovely gift from a friend who knows how much i love Michel Gondry films, it’s safe to say i am a complete and total fan girl.

Checking online it is all over the web as a torrent, and it makes me wonder. In the age of torrents, is something like the film festival affected?

had i known it was going to be at the film festival i might not have gotten it sent to me
but
then i thought Lust Caution/ Se, jie by Ang Lee would be at the festival. but it’s not.

that doesn’t mean there are not lots of lovely films i plan to see, becuase there are.
Unlike previous years i am making no plans at all, so hopefully i’ll see you at the movies

keep still birdie

keep still birdie

Originally uploaded by Br3nda

It was very foggy in wellington last night
foggy enough that for me a mild headache turned into a migraine, don’t ask my why but changes in air pressure and stuff can help bring on a migraine in the sue.

well thankfully the fog was not wasted on everyone as Brenda headed out into town. And down at oriental bay she managed to create for herself and the world this little gem.

YAY for fog

Beautiful Clouds

cloudy

Originally uploaded by ellipse

This is what my flickr tag cloud looks like.

Not only is it pretty, but it’s crafty and it lives in wellington

I’ve made it up using Wordle, Which you can turn all sorts of text into their beautiful tag clouds, or if you want to make one from your flickr tags head over here first and follow the instructions.

Again with the problems

for some reason posts that include anything html ish just don’t save over at the Craft2.0 Blog.
this is annoying as it’s limiting what i can do. It’s also annoying becuase i cannot work out why. Because I’m not a code person, it’s not my skill base, and honestly i never really wanted to, I’m more a turn up and hope things work kind of girl, when it comes to the internet.

the only time it becomes an issue is where things go wrong, like today

Right now I’ve created some cute little code so people can link to craft2.0 by use of a tiny ickle cuite pie icon. But i can’t load the little text box that contains the code up on the Craft2.0 Blog.

this is annoying, so until i work out the answer - which let’s be honest is probaly never

Making a Necklace

Making a Necklace - the batch

Originally uploaded by ellipse

I’ve been lucky enough to have a bit of a knack for creating jewellery. I’ve often come up with my own ideas from nowhere. However there are some simple tricks anyone can pick up to make jewellery for themselves.

so when i found myself the owner of a lovely selection of felt balls, i figured why not share the love with the world.

so head along to this flickr page and you can learn for yourself how to make a stunning but simple felted ball necklace. when working with such amazing colours and the lovely texture of felt, it’s very much true that the most simple of designs is the best way to go.

however if you don’t feel like making a necklace yourself, you can head along to my shop at felt.co.nz, or my etsy shop and buy yourself one of these two stunning necklaces.

or why not buy from me in person at Craft2.0 on July 19th .

and the votes are in

One of the great things online is the rise of Crafty competitions, where lovely people can get creative and then by sharing their creations with the world, they can win prizes.

YAY

So over at Craft2.0 I’m going to try and post about at least one competition a week that catches my eye. However for some reson i cannot for the life of me, update the craft2.0 blog with this post.

so here it is here, until i can find a fix

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First off the block is one from the lovely folks at Ponoko, yes i blog about them a bit, but only becuase they were our very first sponsors, so without them there might never have been a Craft2.0, how scary is that people?

All sorts of lovely creative types from around the globe entered their game and puzzle designs to win lovely cash prizes from Ponoko in their 10-Day Design Challenge for Games and Puzzles. This is a second competition Ponoko have run for people to get creative and win prizes.

The judges did their thing and selected 17 finalists and from one of those you can help pick the winner of the people’s choice award.

Judges are still selecting winner of the main competition, but it’s really nice to see Ponoko reaching out and creating a community vote, so head on over and check the finalists out and vote. One of them is a regular to Craft2.0, so i will admit to a little bias.

If you like Yana’s creations, like these dominoes, do head along to her showroom where you can purchase some truly lovely objects.

So if you’ve seen craft challenges or competitions that catch your eye, let me know and i’ll try to post about them on a regular basis.

PechaKucha hits wellington

don’t freak out no Art Gallery is sustaining injuries.

But there will be miles of fun On May 28th, that’s this Wednesday night, when PechaKucha returns to Wellington for it’s second night. Head out to TheNewDowse (home of Craft2.0) at 45 Laings Rd for a great night out.



Pecha Kucha Night is an event in which presenters give brief presentations accompanied by 20 images, each of which is shown for 20 seconds, about a topic of their choosing giving a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds.

Doors open at 7.30 pm and the whole thing kicks off at 8.20pm
the bar is running all night, so you get to hang with great people, hear about some inspirational stuff and have some fun, all at the same time. Yep it’s almost like having a Craft2.0

Not in Wellington?
Well don’t worry, like all good things, you can also catch PechaKucha in Christchurch on May 29th
Like wellington it kicks off at 8.20pm with doors opening at 7.30pm
It’s being held at The Basement, SOL Square, Corner Manchester and Lichfield Streets (underneath Ishimoto, #6 SOL Square) | $7 entry, tickets on the door.

after the jump the list of lovely speaker’s they’ve lined up for Wellington
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