March 16th, 2010
This weeks tutorial is brought to you from How About Orange. Just doing a little surfing and came across the How About Orange site – not visited it for ages so I headed straight over to the DIY Tutorials section and found this cute tutorial on how to make heart shaped paper clips. OK, so I’m a month late for Valentine’s day, but as that’s not a day I tend to celebrate, ask me whether I care! I don’t need one day in the year to show my partner that I love him – I think small everyday gestures are far more meaningful and romantic!
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March 15th, 2010
I heard this song on the radio the other day when I was sanding down the walls in Colin’s studio and getting them ready for plastering and painting – a tiring and boring job – I felt totally demoralised thinking of all the work we need to do on the house and wishing I had the money to pay someone else to do it all. I know all the hard work is going to be worth it – I just wish it wasn’t so hard and didn’t take so long. Having to fit all the DIY around life and work means there are just not enough hours in the week to get all the tasks done and things get put off and delayed or simply ignored until they really just have to get done.
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March 14th, 2010
I’ve not been able to spend much time in my studio of late due to work commitments, illness as well as other stuff. Plus it’s not much of a studio at the moment as we cleared it out at the beginning of the year in order to renovate and install a wood burning stove – this work is still in progress and a little slow – so everything is in boxes and in storage. But my trusty jewellery bench is still there and some of my tools. Yesterday I had a huge urge to go in there and get on with some work and lock myself away from the world with only the radio for company. I’m so glad I decided to be so selfish with my time as here are some of the results.
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March 12th, 2010
I have just listed some of my envelope packs in my shop. Please visit the Milomade Shop to see the whole collection.
These envelopes are all created from my vast stash of old maps, music and magazines. Instead of sending these off for recycling I’ve decided to recycle them myself and breathe new life into the maps, music and magazines by re-purposing them into envelopes. I love making envelopes and my studio floor always gets filled with rows and rows of envelopes drying after gluing.
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March 12th, 2010
Claire Brewster’s work is about retrieving the discarded, celebrating the unwanted and giving new life to the obsolete. In her own words – “You can tell as much about a society by what it throws out as by what it puts in its museums as mementos of prior existence.” Utilising maps that are rendered obsolete over time by the ever changing borders of countries and shifting continents, Claire creates beautiful intricate cut-out art and displays them like entomological studies. Birds, insects and flowers shown migrating from country to country are in a moment, captured and pinned within box frames and put on display to form records of our past times.
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March 9th, 2010
I’ve been making lots of rings lately and I’m always thinking ahead and wondering how best to display these at craft fairs. In the past I’ve displayed them in individual ring boxes and didn’t think this had much impact, so then I tried to adapt one of the cases the silver teaspoons came in, but this was too shallow and so it didn’t work very well. So this week I’ve done a bit of a hunt online and found this brilliant tutorial posted by PlaidCrafter or the Cut Out + Keep website.
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March 8th, 2010
I have just listed 9 new Elasticated Buttons Bracelets in my shop. Please visit the Milomade Shop to see the whole collection. These bracelets are all created from a vast stash of shirt buttons I have amassed over the years and I team these up with new similar sized colourful buttons to form simple patterns in long strands that can then be made into bracelets. Such a simple idea transforms buttons into something beautiful to cherish and wear. They are nice and stretchy and comfortable to wear and will fit most wrists.
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March 8th, 2010
Just a quick post to sing the praises of www.zibbet.com. I’ve only been a registered user for a few months and have only just got round to adding products to my shop, but I love the site. I have a Premium Account and with this can customise my shop, list as many items as I like, don’t have to pay any listing fees or have any commission taken off my sales. I can even create coupons and discount codes – something I will be taking advantage of soon. All this and there’s more in the pipeline too.
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March 7th, 2010
I’ve been busy today taking lots of photographs of my products for my online shop and have just listed 12 new Button Flower Brooches. Please visit the Milomade Shop to see the whole collection. These are all unique, so whichever one you purchase you’ll be buying a unique piece of eco-chic – one of a kind – and will be able to wear it with pride, knowing that not another one like it exists in the world.
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