After just writing my last post, I feel like there should be more of an ‘official’ announcement on here to say that I am up the duff again.
I have another little girl due mid-late June. She is currently having an illegal rave on my bladder – thanks for that, love…
Happy days!
Look out – there’s only a picture of some of my work in the March issue of Homes & Antiques magazine!!
Weirdly, the publisher didn’t actually tell me about it. I knew they were considering my work as I had sent them some images, but I didn’t know I was actually going to get into print. Luckily an upholsterer that I know spotted this issue and let me know, as did my mate’s Mum!
I’ve never read Homes & Antiques magazine before. I always thought it would be really granny, but I was quite surprised to find that I really like it.
I’d describe it as a being bit like flicking through Living Etc. whilst half watching The Antiques Roadshow.
Mmmm, Sundays……
My friend Holes showed me this ace thing that she had seen over on Pinterest. Yarn wrapped earphones. Genius.
Not only does this little project make your earphones look way awesome, but it also stops the little blighters from getting all knotted up – HURRAH!
It’s like a revolution in not-driving-precariously-whilst-untangling-small-wires all the time. You just tie the yarn in a series of knots around the wires like you’re doing a hair braid. I used some self-patterning sock yarn for these and they took approximately 2 episodes of Madmen to complete. Brills.
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I will have work up on show at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair all of this weekend. The fair starts on Thursday 19th with an opening reception from 7-9pm. The show will then be open from 11am – 7pm every day until closing at 6pm on Sunday 22nd.
As with all these outrageously exciting art whatnots, I will not be in attendance in favour of the old grind at home – bah! In my mind it is going to be pretty much exactly like an episode of Beverley Hills 90210. I Googled it – they’re only 20 minutes up the road and everything!
It’s probably just as well that I’m not going. I wouldn’t have anything to wear anyway…
Here is a clever thing that my sister-in-law (outdoorsy type) showed me. Making wreaths is a quick and easy little craft which is EXCELLENT for making cheap-as-chips little crimbo presents – WOO-HOO!!
Here is an example that I made out of willow for my Mother-In-Law, who is what I would like to describe as a “wreath fan” if ever there was one.
Here’s a little tutorial for good measure too 
These examples have been made out of dog wood:
Lovely.
The pattern for Jet’s advent calendar that I made last year (as can be seen here) has been featured in the ‘Festive Gifts’ supplement of November 2011′s Simply Knitting magazine!
BRILLO!
I felt like a minor knitting celebrity when I went to the wool shop over the weekend – but then I was a bit bummed to see that they didn’t actually have the magazine up on the shelves (probably all sold out, eh?). I am sure they sussed me out as being a rubbish amateur anyway when I ended up having to ask a variety of obvious yarn based questions - damnit!
Check out the photography on the magazine compared to the pics I took originally here. I guess they liked the style, but didn’t want to have to pay me for the photos – It took me ages to notice they weren’t the same ones!
(weird!)
Look lively people – this may have happened almost a whole month ago, but I was lording it up in the sunshine on my holidays then, so I didn’t know anything about it…
Turns out that the Visit London range that I worked on for Half Moon Bay last year was a finalist in this year’s Licensing Awards – how marvellous!! The products I worked on included giftware, stationery and apparel for the “Official London Merchandise”.
The brand was included in the Best Licensed Giftware category. It didn’t actually win the award, but that is a technicality – pipped to the post by ‘Nerdy’ Hello Kitty (how very dare she!).
You can see the full range of product here.
The Cube Gallery in Bristol (who are my saviours when it comes to the artsy fartsy world) are opening a new gallery in London’s lovely Marylebone as of this weekend. I’ve got some work up to show in there alongside pieces by: Peter Monaghan, Katie Allen, Rachael Nee and various other clever beans.
The new Cube Gallery can be found here. How Marvellous!
I did write a post about Jet’s nursery a while ago, here. Those pics all look a bit sparse nowadays as they were taken before the smalls had even arrived. I guess we didn’t even know if she was going to be a girl or a boy then, so things were kept pretty neutral on purpose. I’m not so much of a girly girl myself, so the pink frilliness has been kept to a minimum whilst that sort of thing is still under my control!
I’ve been meaning to do a little update with some of my favourite details around the room – so here we are with a bit of extra info:
Cot: Stokke, stripe rug: Ikea
Wall stickers: cut from baize from the hardware shop, birdhouse: Asda – £4!
Ceramic tile: Rob Ryan on Etsy
Painting from the marvellous Nick Sharratt!
Fabric and wood mobile handmade from pattern here.
Alphabet print by yours truly .
The Smalls in situ. Grass rug with mushrooms: Vertbaudet (squee!) Log cushions: Deena Neimat (you gotta love those cushions!)
Daddy in situ and the egg chair I recovered with patchwork (NEVER AGAIN!).
Here are some invitation designs I did for some friends of ours. I was pleased with how they turned out – I love having a play with laser cutting and it appears to be fast becoming my default wedding invitation style. I find it’s a good way of having a super-posh looking invite without it costing the earth. The only printing on here is on the inserts, so I just had to source the plain card in the right colour to send to the cutters. The inserts were done at a local print shop and I bought the self-adhesive gems from eBay. I think the whole lot came at about £175 for 100 invites and good quality envelopes (excluding design time and hand-finishing) – not a bad price for such a personal and unique invitation, eh?
It’s going to be an autumn wedding. The bridesmaids and the groomsmen’s ties are going to be in blue and they are planning to have lots of pumpkins around for decoration, so the colours should work well I think. Lovely.
