mmm Design

March 16, 2010

I like design, becuase it’s shiny. Yes good design is functional and serves a purpose and does all sorts of useful and wonderful things, but if at the end of the day it makes me go mmm shiny that’s the sue mark of approval on design. This probaly illustrates how little i know about design [...]

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On Elephants

March 15, 2010

I adore elephants, just adore them, possibly not as much as bears, but it’s pretty close. And right now all i want to do is hop on a plane to Sydney and go visit Mr Shuffles at Taronga Park Zoo, which also happens to be my second favourite zoo I’ve ever been to. Number 1 [...]

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I do like to Craft beside the TV

March 14, 2010

I don’t have a workshop or space where i craft, most of my crafting is done on the sofa in the lounge. It’s also done in front of the idiot box aka the TV. Now I’m a grand consumer of really bad tv and i admit to being addicted to far too many shows that [...]

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A day at Craft2.0

March 7, 2010

Yesterday was full of sunshine smiles and a rather enjoyable Craft Fair. It was a quieter fair than normal, but I wasn’t too bothered as It’s just lovely being at Craft2.0 It also meant that i got to spend a bit more time hanging with friends i only see on fair days, and also i [...]

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Occupied till Sunday

March 3, 2010

I’m busy making up chain, tweaking designs, going crazy with hot glue, punching out badges all for this weekend. Which is the very marvelous Craft2.0 at TheNewDowse I created Craft2.0 and run the fair with help from Tash2.0, who happens to be launching her very own range of yarn at The fair under the name [...]

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Being SuperVery

February 27, 2010

In the last 12 months I’ve slowly begun to realise something very core and very crucial about  attempting to one day make a living from this crafty life of mine. Good craft, making beautiful things is not enough. To be successful you need to have some other reasonably core skills like – marketing, selling, photography [...]

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Webstock Week

February 18, 2010

Webstock is for me a life changing experience After my first webstock I realised i was in a dead end job that while i was really good at it, it was not something that made me want to wake up in the morning. My health both mental and physical was suffering something had to give. [...]

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ruby red is rather rad

February 18, 2010

One of the new matrials i’ve been playing around with at ponoko is their red tinited acrylic. It’s a subtle warm red that isn’t too shouty, I’m not big on shouty colours for my jewellery, or for the jewellery i currently make. A year ago i played around with limes, yellow, orange, pink and i [...]

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The Year Begins

February 16, 2010

I know it’s February so technically the year has been around for oh, about 6 weeks. But i took a post Christmas crafting break that kind of continued on a bit longer than planned. But i seem to back in full speed dreaming up new ideas. As you can see by this pile of new [...]

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Give a little

December 18, 2009

so right now it’s Christmas, and those of us who don’t have to think about where we are going to sleep tonight, we are doing ok. We might be stressed about shopping, and holidays, but we have roofs over our head and beds to sleep in and we know where our next meal is coming [...]

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