some new products

Currently only listed up on my Etsy.

SoHo festie photos

A little late but better than never, some photos of the Soho carnival, more here.

Phew !

The Soho festival was fuuun, I didn't expect the epic level of carnival style entertainment, jugglers, stilt walkers, magicians, bands, clowns & lots of happy kids running around with animal balloons, all that was missing was a fire breather type person !

I never thought of myself as a carnie but I totally loved all of it!

One juggler guy was flown in from Las Vegas! Just imagine how interesting the life of a internationally renowned juggler must be :D

I sold okay but not as well as normal, my table felt a bit bare, I thought I had loads but once stuff was on the big table I realised I hadn't so that is a lesson learned.

I did get approached by 2 Hong Kong shops to carry my stuff so when I have time I'm going to check those out, would be nice to see my things in the shops rather than photos !

I am so tired now and my back hurts a lot from making badges with lots of kids (and a few adults) it was really nice seeing these kids faces light up when their badges came out, some of them were so awesome I really regret not taking a photo of each & every badge made but I just had no time.

Today will be spent tidying, cleaning & preparing for some friends who are visiting from the UK, needless to say I am cursing every unpractical / useless but impossibly lovely item I have.

Some carnival photos laters....

Little finds - Eric Testroete

Photo and art piece by Eric Testroete

I think this deserves a mention.....originally made to be a halloween costume, I can imagine it used in eerie music videos or indie films or used in a photography exhibition, I would love to see this in real life, would be so freaky, like an abstract mind/eye trick. And made of paper too - amazing!

Halloween

Photo and costume by Dahlhartlane

Today is Halloween which is weird for me because by this time of the year its normally halloweenish, cold, dark out, cosy in, nice cosy clothes etc but its 28 / 30 degrees today and crazy bright and sunny.

To think this time last year I was dressed for success as a sanitary towel ( handmade of course) makes me miss home.

booohooo!

Did I tell you how much I love stationery shops here?

Endless, joining number stamps, bargaineous too $60 / £5 !

Today was such a beautiful lovely day, got myself some more silk screens, white spray, more exercise books all in preparation for the Soho festivities.

So much to do and I don't know what to prioritise, my friends are coming to visit to right after and I need to vaguely prepare for that and I just realised my UK flight is only a month away now (time really flies) so we need to decide asap about what we are doing.

Do I want to go home for xmas....hmmm I really don't know!

little finds - Atelierpompadour

Photo by atelierpompadour

I love my random google alerts of all things 'Little clouds', most of the time it is what it is - Little clouds in the sky but today I got this beauty in my inbox.

So so simple and calming and lovely, I love it!

Probably not a surprise that the rest of her/his flickr & shop is pretty cool too and look at their studio - yummmy!

Home Sweet home booklets

I put my HSH paper ring design on these cool notepads you get here in Hong Kong and I'm really happy with them, the paper inside is yummy!

I've just noticed that a lot of my item colours nearly all coordinate, I tells you its not even intentional !

I want to develop this into a month planner or something more functional eventually, any ideas of what else I could develop it into?

Soho - Village on the hill festival

Photo from DiscoverHongKong website.

I got invited to sell at the Soho Wine & Dine Festival (they will be an arts and crafts part to the festival) which I think is an annual event here in Hong Kong, I'm not sure what it will be like as I've never been or heard about it but I've been told the whole event is expecting over 100,000 so needless to say I am *a little bit* nervous.

Because I've never ever sold at any event anywhere near to this size, I just don't know what to expect and how much more I should make and take, I mean how many people is 100,000 anyway, it sounds like millions to me!

There is also going to be press packs and other fancy sounding things like that going to print about it all and I've sent some photos to be included, if any of my photos get chosen, it will be my very first piece of 'proper' (none internet) press so that alone is pretty exciting !

Some new badges

Fresh off the press....