This Saturday, me and Phil popped to London to visit Renegade Craft Fair. It was the second Renegade fair in London, but my first. The fair took place at the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, conveniently located right by Brick Lane market which also features some cool craft makers. I love the flyer […]
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I’m indebted to Luke Drozd for supplying some amazing prints for the charity event me and colleagues organised recently. I was particularly excited to receive donations from Luke as I’m a huge fan. Not only is Luke generous he also produces some truly lovely screen prints. Judging by recent updates to his blog & Facebook
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This weekend we decided, at the last minute, to take a trip to Biddulph Grange, a garden in Stoke-on-Trent owned by the National Trust. The National Trust have recreated the Victorian-era gardens of James Bateman, who developed the gardens at Biddulph Grange in order to display his collections of plants – many
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Alice Potter very generously donated one of her prints for the craft fair me and colleagues held at the University of Birmingham recently. Along with the print she included the adorable postcard pictured below with a personal message written on the back. Since it was addressed to me I thought
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Me and Phil recently spent a week in Madrid. We found some cool shops around the Malasana and Chueca districts, including a number of comic book shops, and craft and vintage boutiques. In one of the boutiques, Nest, I picked up the postcards below, by Madrid-based illustrator Isabel Reyes Feeney. Adorable aren’t they? Check
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I made the little doll below with the intention of selling her at the craft fair me and colleagues held a couple of weeks ago. However, she went unsold so she’s come home with me. She’s pictured below sat in our living room. She doesn’t have a mouth as I
Below are some of the textile items I made for the charity craft fair me and colleagues organised which took place a couple of weeks ago. The peg-bags were based on a Cath Kidston pattern and the little elephant brooches were based on a pattern in Mollie Makes magazine.
I had some decoupage glue arrive from Fred Aldous a couple of weeks ago and have been going a bit crazy with it. Even the shoe-rack in the hall ended up getting decoupaged. I also used it to cover two boxes which I use to hold bits & bobs – brooches, hair
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Last weekend I attended a two-day screen printing class at Midlands Art Centre. We had a day of learning techniques, followed by a day of making whatever we fancied. In my case, I wanted to make items to sell at the craft fair me and colleagues were organising at work
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I needed to get some bunting made quickly for an event at work. I decided to go with paper bunting rather than fabric to save time – I cut out some triangles, punched two holes in the top of each and strung them together. Super quick & easy:)
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