July 23rd, 2010
Just found this really lovely illustration/print by Allan Peters on the Grain Edit website and I love it. It’s so cute. I gues I’m a bit partial to bicycles at the moment as the Tour de France is on every day and so I’ve got bicycles on the brain.
July 2nd, 2010
As you all know I’ve been busy making lots of stuff for my up and coming craft fair and one thing I’ve been using a lot is my sewing machine to run up lots of paper garlands. Well it’s a very very old machine (older than me) and the speed on it has always been temperamental in that it either zooms away manically or marches on with a steady pace – there seems to be very little control over this with the foot pedal anymore.
June 25th, 2010
Did anyone catch the latest episode of Imagine on Tuesday night on BBC One? It was brilliant. Entitled ‘Art is Child’s Play’ it delved into childhood experience of play and tried to make a connection between early creativity to artistic endeavours later on in life. Lots of Britain’s leading artists were interviewed about their practice by the lovely Alan Yentob and offered fascinating insights into the transformative power of their early creative experiences.
June 11th, 2010
Since I started making my Paper Garlands from maps, music and envelopes, I’ve started noticing garlands of all kinds online. I guess it’s got something to do with the fact that we’re entering into the ‘wedding season’ and garlands are quite popular. I discovered these today and I not only love the bright colours, the felt and the way they hang, I also love the way they have been photographed and the post processing on the images… enjoy.
June 4th, 2010
Have a look at the lovely jewellery made by Colby June. I love these oak branch earrings and the whole Compose Decompose range. The branches remind me of the coral shapes I sketched earlier this year and wanted to use for some of my sea glass jewellery. I ended up making polished silver claws instead to hold my sea glass but I still feel that something a little more rugged and crooked would work well too. These images have inspired me and I might try and cast some coral shapes in pewter or silver and play around.
May 28th, 2010
I came across this set of artists videos via a link on the Makers-Online blog. It’s amazing to watch an artist create and here you get to watch 6 artists make some of their work. The films are speeded up and it’s great to see the pieces take shape so quickly – it almost makes the processes look effortless, when in fact they’re not. Watch the videos below and be inspired.
May 21st, 2010
Miju has just released some fresh new spring items and new materials in their latest collection Plonge. I love their Arrow Rings – they’re adjustable and made in copper that has been dipped in seafoam rubber. One size fits all and they come in a few different colours too.
May 7th, 2010
I’ve just been sent a link to this lovely website by Teresa at Mimi Pearl – Have you heard of Jurianne Matter? If not, I insist that you go and check out here lovely work! She makes the loveliest things out of paper and I did actually notice her work on the Upon a Fold website a while back and added her to my list of favourites. I now want to share here creations with you.
April 9th, 2010
Just the name makes me smile. I love stationery and I certainly ove Happy Tape. Happytape is colored Japanese masking tape. It is made of Japanese washi paper and is perfect for decorating packages, gift wrapping, scrapbooking, card making, fancy labels, and artsy collages. Apparently it’s a little transparent, so it looks great layered and it tears nicely, too!
April 2nd, 2010
I was dropping off some new stock at Concrete Wardrobe this week and on their desk I found a set of brooches and earrings made from recycled felt tip pens – I thought they were amazing. Suspended in cream resin, slices of pen lids in lots of different colours and shapes float about as if immersed in blocks of white chocolate and look almost edible! These unique items come from the jewellery bench of Jo Pudelko and I’ve just done a bit of googling to bring you some of the delightful items she’s made.
March 19th, 2010
I’m stretching my Milomade wings and exploring ways to get my products noticed more online and in the process I discovered The Handmade Gift Guide – it’s the sister site to Shop Handmade UK which has been around for a while and is a directory with over 1300 UK makers listed on it – Milomade being one of them. I needed to change my details on this site and that’s what brought me to The Handmade Gift Guide.
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.
May 15th, 2009
I got a lovely suprise in the post last week from my friend Steve. A huge box full of electronica – well that’s what I’ve termed it as I have no idea what all the bits and pieces are. I guess some of them are capacitors – that’s the only term from electronics that I know. He’s been clearing out his late father’s shed and asked if I would be able to make jewellery out of electronic components. I said I’d give it a go and can’t wait to get started!
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