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Dutty Fabric

birdface — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:23:17 +0000

Here is a fabric design I did for my friend Louisa over at Dutty Girl.
Dutty Girl is a Bristol based crew of DJs, MCs and producers. The fabric was designed to be made into clothes for a music video – hurrah!

Louisa wanted something based on her penchant for silk scarves and gold jewellery. The design is to be screen printed and so has been made up of only 5 colours.

Terrariums :)

birdface — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:25:53 +0000

Terrari-who now?
Terrarium: A glass container, chiefly or wholly enclosed, for growing and displaying plants.

I have seen these around on blogs for a while now (mostly American ones I think) and I have been thinking that it might be cool to give it a go. I have pretty much zero skill when it comes to plant care and a pretty shoddy track record to boot. Hopefully this project will have a happy ending rather than tuning into a complete plant massacre…

I bought the glass containers from a car boot sale a couple of weeks ago for a grand total of 60p and the alpine plants cost £4.50. I made the little mushroom and the ladybirds from polymer clay. It was fun putting these all together – fingers crossed they’ll stay looking this cute for a while!

These boobs were made for walkies…

birdface — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:50:06 +0000

These boobs were made for walkies,
And that’s just what they’ll do.
One of these days these boobs are gonna…

…walk all over Bristol to help raise money and awareness for breast cancer research and cancer care!

I will be walking the Bristol Sun Walk this Sunday. Everyone who is taking part in the walk gets sent a Wonderbra to decorate and wear on the day. Here is my bra – not the most practical of outfits, but I am looking forward to wearing it all the same (haven’t quite worked out how I am going to get to the starting line without looking like a total goon yet!).

If you are able to sponsor me for this event, that would be AMAZING – even just a couple of quid would be very much appreciated!!

Thanks y’all

Wedding invites…

birdface — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:42:12 +0000

Got one of these through in the post the other day – whoop!

It’s an invite that I designed for my friends Clare and Andy’s wedding. V. pleased with these as it’s the first proper job that I’ve done using laser cutting – I cannot belieeeeeve how fine the detail is – how blummin’ marvellous!
The design is based on a pattern Clare really liked on a posh bottle of body lotion (whatevs floats your boat!) – I think it looks rather lovely on here…

Hmmm – I wonder how much laser cutters cost¿
I’ll take two, thanks!

A photo shoot with Jet :)

birdface — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:04:00 +0000

I have been lucky enough in my career to do some work with legendary illustrator Nick Sharratt. When little Jet came along, Nick sent us this lovely card with a little painting of her, which is now up in a frame in the nursery:

I have been waiting for months to get on with this project (we had to wait until she had learned to sit up, apart from anything else!) – we wanted to re-create the drawing and do a photo shoot…
I made Jet a sleep suit to match the one in the picture and then Tim and I did this shoot together – aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh – what a CUTIE!!

Here’s the suit:

Cambridge Arts Fair

birdface — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:30:02 +0000

Just thought I would mention that I will be exhibiting at the Cambridge Arts Fair this weekend on the Cube Gallery stand – tally ho!!

Dutty boys…

birdface — Sun, 30 May 2010 18:57:48 +0000

Just thought I’d post up this pic I found from the Foo Fashion show in Bristol last month…
The t-shirt this guy is wearing has a gold logo that I designed for the Dutty shop – nice!

Gay ♡ Paris

birdface — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:40:50 +0000

Just a note to say that I will be exhibiting work at the Affordable Arts Fair at Halle Freyssinet, Paris this weekend from the 27th – 30th May.

Sadly, I will not be attending in person – zut alors!

Bristol Affordable Arts Fair

birdface — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:22:38 +0000

I will have work up for sale this weekend at the Bristol Affordable Arts Fair, in the Passenger Shed at Temple Meads station.

Opening times as follows:

Friday 14th: 11am – 8pm
Saturday 15th: 11am – 6pm
Sunday 16th: 11am – 5pm

Tickets available on the door.

Cupcakes in WHS :)

birdface — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:42:06 +0000

Popped into WH Smith last week to buy some bits and saw that they have a new storage range on sale using the cupcake design that I did for them for xmas 2010. I also found a gift card using the same pattern. This is particularly good news as I guess this means that the products I did for them must have been good sellers – hurrah!

Here are a few product images from the WH Smith website: