Sneak preview!

Dawn put some pics up on her blog handmadelove. Including my handiwork, above!

Such a fun class, I am so looking forward to colouring this in. And to lots more fun practicing my drawing and painting in the future... super inspired!

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Recipainting

This is what I'll be doing tonight!

No, not eating or cooking... PAINTING! The lovely and talented Dawn Tan is running workshops at Harvest Textiles this month and I am lucky enough to be attending... yay! Hope I can concentrate over the rumblings of my tummy... we have been instructed to bring photos of all our delicious ingredients!

If the painting isn't half bad I'll put it up in the blog. Otherwise.... forget this post ever happened :)

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Babycakes, NYC

... is awesome. And Erin McKenna has some neat advice in today's Quit Your Job in The Awl.

"I really wasn't setting out to be a baking goddess or whatnot. I just wanted to open a fun place and make some good food, share it, listen to the music I like, dress girls up in uniforms, eat cookies all day. That's it! I think I read once that Keith McNally had the same M.O. He just opened places he'd want to go... Once you start thinking too hard, making gimmicks or whatever, that you think are going to be a draw, it loses authenticity. I believe we're all here on the planet expressing beauty in our own way"...

The Awl goes on to call her a hippie, but it's a sweet thought none-the-less! I may or may not have been accused of the same thing myself in the past though... so what do I know :)

Such simple advice... I hope one day I am taking it!

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Friends With You

"Inspired by Holi, a festival effectuated by Hindu followers throwing brightly colored water and powder at each other, FriendsWithYou presents a vibrant collection of mutable, air- filled sculptures... The installation encourages visitors to be active and explore, subsequently inventing their own ritual... During interaction, the inflated sculptures “embrace” visitors, while repetitive sound elements further enhance the sensory experience. The overall installation creates a surreal landscape of psychedelic scenery intended to simultaneously provoke a religious and childlike awareness"

I want to be friends with you, FriendsWithYou!

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Felt like giving you a call

New phone holder, designed and made by moi! Photographed by Mel. Thanks Mel!

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In which I research phone covers....

...so you don't have to. All available on Etsy: click the links!

1. ohmycake 2. bambina 3. Blythe king 4. lovahandmade

1. rabbitsmile 2. RuskiStitches 3. Track and Field designs 4. Danielle London

1. Britgaldesigns 2. TheresaNogueira 3. yummypocket 4. rabbitsmile

Ending up crafting up my own little cover for my new gadget, inspired by all the wonders above ... I'll post it up later today!

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Infinite diversities

"Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities"... Henry Ward Beecher (1813- 1887)

Amazing kaleidoscope lockets from Verabel + Fox.

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