HUGEST shop update

HUGEST shop update by my standards anyway ! Over the last week I've listed a bunch of stuff on Etsy including the above pin cushion ring in a blue, pink and grey (for now).
Various bow designs on felt, sewn as keyrings, hair clips and brooches

And this 'carton of eggs' design onto tea towels and pot coasters (including limited handcut versions) and lastly I have 1 CLEANO NEATO tea towel printed & sewn up with more to eventually come once I master 2 colours on my DIY printing table.

Its been productive whatcanisay!

Bling keyrings

Bling Bling Bling!

Pika Package sneak peak!

I've finished all of the artwork for my contribution towards the 'Go Travel' Pika Package project and hopefully will have the product finished in hand by tomorrow, I am pretty excited about this one!

a recent commision

Bling Bling Bling

Approaching entirely new territory here but I've been doodling up a new range of screen printed wearable pieces and this is the first idea to wet my feet, see how it looked to open up more ideas etc but I'm pretty pleased with it!

Some recent experiments and makings....

this and that and so on

Today it rained hard, quite violently for a little while and when it suddenly stopped I looked out the window to notice the clouds had fallen....

I wonder what its like to stand inside a cloud, okay I know its just misty looking as that is what its like inside a plane but I wonder what it feels and smells like. I love clouds they are magical.

And then I made something new from an old screen I burned yonks ago. The flowery lining fabric is from this little sewing/fabric shop I used to always go to in Lewisham, god seems so so so long ago now. nothing important & E M P T Y inside

And this was the last photo I took of Sausage before he left last weekend. I still really miss him and feel a little regretful that we didn't adopt him, he had these amazing soppy eyes that really tugged at your heart strings :(

Tadaaar!

Forgot to show and tell the finished product of this post but here it is, I'm pretty happy with them, they are much more slick and who doesn't like a bit of colour?

a little something over the weekend

I got this lovely lovely fabric from a charity shop in the UK ages ago which I printed on a while back (remember?) and basically I got bored of it and only just remembered to make something of it this weekend and made it into a cushion so voila!
It feels really nice and squishy because I made a lining plus stabliser, going to make the filling as its an odd shape (I think) but what is the normal filling for a cushion polyfil or feathers?!

edit: since listed it on Etsy here.

Some misprints

I've been hoarding this meter of misprinted fabric for a long while because I knew there would be something cool I could do with it, just not what it was originally intended for.

Alongside it, I'd also been hoarding these embroidery hoops that '1 day' I would use for you know hand embroidery (fail) so I put 2 and 2 together...

The woman is from when I used to screen print my character dolls and the turquiose S is from my Rice Is Nice tote bag, a phrase I use often and each time I do, I still turn to my bf and go 'ahah see what I just said funny isn't it?' and he says no (with his eyes)

Custom work - characters

A custom order I've been working on which I'm pretty pleased with :D I might make one for myself because it is the perfect lay-your-head-on-it-whilst-reading size!

2 week recap - image heavy yo!

Woah its been nearly 2 weeks since I last blogged, can't believe how quick time flies.

Briefly recapping things I've been up to

• Finished my catalogue - finally wahaaaay!
• Got a freelance writing job (although yet to start & it is nothing glamorous!)
• Participated in a swap with lucy_davidson
• Been working on the following
  
  

• Sent my airplane posties to an postal exhibition which didn't get there in time :( (1, 2, 3, 4)
• looked at 10 flats because we are moving asap. They were all mostly tiny :S I got shown 'the master bedroom' in one place and actually laughed-out-loud...well more of a choking back the tears, disbelief type of lol.
  
• donated 20 badges plus the worldwide postage to HeartsForHaiti
  
• bought cute red gingham earrings from HeartsForHaiti shop (earrings made by OddGirlCreates)
• received my first custom order from a lovely customer. Going to make a 5 character plush pillow, its going to be big & huggable! Excited about seeing it completed :D
• got a tattoo ........ of the temporary nature :D (see more on my flickr)
  
• and that is about it *I think*

In future news we are going to foster another pooch and hopefully by this weekend, the idea of having a happy little fluffy thing sleeping by my feet again really makes me happy so I think it is about time.

Hope everyone is tip top !

Some new doodles

Some doodlings from today. Tis been a while since I last drew anything that wasn't more graphics based. Not sure what I'm doing with these yet.

Tea bag coasters - screen printed cork

So its midnight and I should be packing for tomorrow but I just finished cutting these out and think they are too cool to wait a week !

I've for a very long time wanted to do this design idea but never found time, pretty happy with how they turned out, might do ones with different types of tea, not sure but English Breakfast is my favourite. I can't even think of other types of tea :S

Right shower then packing !

Stuff I've been doing

So not having a job is pretty useful in doing random things that you've always wanted to do but you never had time or the energy too. ( I love it when I randomly rhyme, makes me feel like a poet / rapping gangster )

Project #1

A purse frame from a old purse that had fallen apart has been waiting to be experimented with for ages (like since the UK!) finally got made into something!

I used scrap fabrics, cotton canvas that had been badly printed on to experiment with and I actually quite like it like this because these type of purses are usually very prim and feminine so the mixture of rough fabric in this neat setting is like ying & yang. This is the tutorial I used to help me make it.

Project #2

I've always wanted to make a nice and neat fabric bow (to clip onto clothes, hair clip, bags etc) its so quick and easy !

Its basically just a strip of fabric sewn into a tube (turned inside out) then the ends got sewn together in a loop and you fold it a few times on top of each other to give it more oomph ( I also ironed on some stabliser to make it neater) then you put a strip in the middle bunching it up.

Project #3

I didn't have much canvas left but I was too excited to wait so only one of the below print exists right now, plan to make it into a big plushie / small pillow for the sofa.

Maybe I am biased because of who it is but I love it :D the only thing I would change is make the tongue bigger (more true to life) it is also my first attempt at a 3 colour screen print so seeing as this was the first print I'm pretty chuffed at my DIY home printing skillz.

I also printed it on 3 bits of kitchen paper for fun, I can't really keep it but can't bring myself to throw it away :(

Also have another screen ready to print which I'm happy about, I've really got my exposure times timed perfectly now, so much so that I'm confident enough to offer it as a service, you can go here for more info.)

Bearded man

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A old silk screen finally printed from & this is the result, I didn't mean for it to be irreversible, that was accidental but pretty happy about that, my sewing is really picking up, I'd like to think its because I'm just skilled like that but I think its because my new sewing machine is just sexy.

Can't wait to become super duper at all this (the screen printing, sewing, ironing, cutting etc) because I want to start using fancier fabrics!

Also if ANYONE can guess who the bearded man is based on will get a prize. I'm serious! I'm pretty sure its unguessable though! And no it ain't Santa.

NES pouch

I screen printed these aaagges ago, actually over 6 months ago & I thought they were a bit crap basically but I thought seeing as they're printed, might as well make them into stuff for sewing practice etc but now I'm pretty pleased with them !

On another note, I also sold out of my Ping Pong stan today wahay! so he won't be available for another month or 2 boooo!