Handmade Doraemon Plush
A couple of years ago I made Phil a Doraemon plush for Christmas. I made him without a pattern so he ended up slightly skewith and very handmade looking!
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Pottery at Jinney Ring Craft Centre
A couple of months ago, my team at work had an away-day at Jinney Ring craft centre in Hanbury. It’s a lovely little place with duck ponds in the garden and artisan workshops. We were there for a pottery workshop. It was a mixture of hand building ceramic tiles and wheel work pots. My thrown
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LouLou Lino Print
A new monochrome linocut print, carved and printed last weekend and finally cut to size and framed this week. It’s sized 5″ x 7″ and printed on a pale purple card. The image is based on a photo of Louise Brooks. Brooks fascinates me. Her life story is a perfect tragic tale, of a brilliant actress
Renegade Craft Fair in London
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 produced to advertise the fair:
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Purple Felt Hair
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 ran out of time to
Craft Fair Makes
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.
Decoupage with Chinese Propaganda Photos & Finnish Comic Art
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 pins, etc. One was a
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Screen Printing Workshop
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 this week (p.s. things went
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Easy-peasy paper bunting
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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Courtesan linocut print inspired by Harunobu
I’ve neglected the blog lately as there’s been so much going on at work and at home. Last Sunday, however, I managed to find some time to do some printing. Pictured below is the end result. It’s a four-colour linocut print, size 4″ x 6″. I’m new to working with multiple colours / layers so you’ll see that
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