New stuff

Well market season is fast approaching so I have been working on some new stuff which will go on my etsy shop http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6122698 and will be for sale at the Homespun Market which once it goes weekly again from saturday the 17th of October.

These are my environmentally friendly hair dangles which I produced in response to the fluro synthetic ones on sale in Chickenfeed. This one is Recycled silk and handmade clay beads.

This is the same but with recycled buttons.

Contain

And this is the first of my patches all ready to apply to clothing or anything else you wish.

Three Togther

Nest

A recycled silk and button stack necklace.

Some funky clay bead and stainless steel wire earrings

And a brooch with hand made felt and silk with clay beads.

Of course there will still be all my other stuff, felt and silk scarves, handmade cards featuring original drawings and some nice new artworks. But you will have to wait to see those cos they will be off to the exhibition first. But there may be a preview I will see if I have time as I have of course left my stuff till the last minute and will be a galloping to make the deadline.

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What I achieved during the week. (front only)

Well forum is over for me for another year. I had a wonderful time is so great to be with so many women who love to create. It was unfortunate that not many locals where there and suprising to see such a large WA contingent. So for me it was great to be able to catch up with lots of familiar faces. Above is my work for the week. I did a Masterclass workshop with Glenys Mann and we got a new project to do every day so I was flat out to try and keep up and no I did not manage to complete all the days works.

The above 2 pieces which are kinda dark are 2 seperate projects. In the front is my scroll which is pieces of calico which have been used as paint cloths then rust dyed and shellaced and drawn onbefore being stitched together into a long length which is rolled up and tied with handmade silk string and finished with clay beads.
At the back is Day 1's project which was a book which wasn't a book, ( at this time I didnt know there would be a scroll project later in the week). It comprises a series of 9 scrolls, each having 3 sheets to the scroll all tied together with silk string.


These 3 pieces and the one below where from a rebirthing project, where we had to create works and then destroy them to make new works with them.

No 4 in the rebirth project and above it a handmade book.

And this is my series of six long thin pieces which came from the rebirthing project.

Now I just have to try and keep the inspiration alive as I go back to the studio and dream about what I might do at the next forum. Some of the above may very well turn up in the upcoming group exhibition at Artisan Gallery in Robigana. I will get the details up really soon. I will, I will.

Fibres Tas

FIBRES TASMANIA
THE BEST TIME YOU WILL EVER HAVE ON AN ISLAND!!
To be held at LAUNCESTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL
LAUNCESTON
13th – 19th SEPTEMBER 2009


Trading Area. Traders will be set up in the area near the classrooms. Trading hours will be 7.30am - 8.00pm (dependant on the amount of people about) Visitors are welcome at Trades during any of the trading times, it’s only the classrooms we ask them to stay out until the afternoons of Thursday and Friday and then from 2pm – 4pm and only with the permission of the Tutor.
Make sure you don’t miss THE BAZAAR..
FRIDAY EVENING 18th from 5pm and SATURDAY MORNING 19TH from 9am PUBLIC ALLOWED!!

For more info about how you can be involved in future forums visit www.glenysmann.viviti.com

Busy, busy, busy

On Sunday begins the next big adventure my class with Glenys Mann at Fibres Tasmania. This is to be held at the Launceston Grammar School and there will be a Trades Area and a Bazaar and at the end of the week the public are allowed to come an see what everyone has been doing in their classes. So at the momnet I am scurrying around gathering the flotsam and jetsom needed for my class as well as getting ready for the Homespun Market on Saturday.

I have finally finished my business plan and submitted it so am waiting to hear that all is well and I dont have to do any of it over again. Coz that was an absolute pain ion the kazzie, big time.
Didn't get the exhibition that I put in a proposal for, apparently some people think that natural dyes are just too smelly for public consumption. Hmmm if only they had asked.

At the momnet in the studio I have been painting, experimenting with skim milk, soy milk, yoghurt and silken tofu with pigment added. It is a great deal of fun and very environmentally friendly unlike those nasty acrylics. I will post pictures later so you can see. Hopefully one of them will be good enough oit put in the group exhibition coming up at Artisans Gallery in Robigana in October that I am to be a part of.

Oh and I am making a swipe at tidying up as my best friend Naomi will be arriving on monday to stay and go to the forum with me as well, though she is doing a different class. Shoe making with Luna Newby from Hobart. Maybe I will score some cool new shoes, hey anything is possible.
Best scoot lots to do............

Snow Day

One day I will get the hang of this and post in the right order. I sure as heck aint going to type the post again which you will find at the bottom!

Somewhere out there are mountains???????????

Beautiful day for walk?

Walking or rather standing and freezing in a winter wonderland

Pine Lake

Lone Pine

On wednesday we went to visit the snow, some of you may think big deal, but for us who originally come from Western Aystralia where it never snows its a thing. Thinking back the last time we saw snow was about 15 years ago when we lived in North east Victoria and took the kids up Mt Selwyn.

Any way we set off a day the wether people on the TV had assured us would be fine but we soon found out that thye lied as we drove through the rain to Deloraine. Perhaps we should have taken this as a siogn but no after buying our lunch we pressed on. Hearts full of hope. We turned off towards Meander and somehow missed our turnoff and drove all the way to Meander which we were not supposed so then had to turn around and drive all the way back to the turn off to the Lakes Highway. It wasnt too long befoire we started to see white lumps by the side of the road and the anticipation began to build as too did the rain. Drove past a lookout which I am sure was very nice but considering visibility is now about 10metres we didnt see the point in stopping. Apparently as I have since been told we were at this time completely surrounded by mountains but who knew?

We got out at Pine Lake and took the boardwalk amongst the very old little pines some of which are a thousand years old and related to the giant Redwoods. It was quite magical though extremely cold as we walked enclosed by the mist.