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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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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April 24th, 2009
I just found these lovely cushions on DaWanda.
They’re made by Alexandra Ferguson who works in the fashion industry in New York. She hand makes these great graphical home accessories from 100% recycled felt, often incorporating chunky typography and natural forms. If she could make the text from a burgundgy fabric, it would match my sofa very well.
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March 20th, 2009
I’ve been so busy lately, what with getting ready for Charity Chic, the actual event and then the aftermath of tidying and sorting out my studio – it still looks like a bomb has hit it – that I’ve got quite a bit of blogging to catch up on. First and foremost I wanted to upload some images of some vintage buckles I got my hands on recently – some of them are just so lovely.
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December 19th, 2008
I would like to alert you to the existence of the new emerging online community that is UK Handmade. Started by Anna Turner of Sakura Jewellery in November/December this year [2008], UK Handmade is…
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December 12th, 2008
This weekends web watch is going to focus on all the lovely things at DaWanda which I like and have pinned and never got round to buying. My birthday is coming up in January 2009 and I’m going to treat myself with some of these…
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December 5th, 2008
I got a really lovely email this week from Nicola Harper, who had seen my wesbite/blog and wanted to let me know how much she loved my stuff as she is also a keen recycler and she introduced me to her ‘geekware’ items all made from electronic waste.
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November 28th, 2008
Not sure how exactly I got to this weekend’s web watch, but I’ve ended up here at plastic fantastic central and loving it.
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November 7th, 2008
This weekend I have mostly been…
Creating Tutorials and discovering What Katie Does…
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July 7th, 2008
I found a huge box of really colourful beads in a charity shop in Edinburgh today – only £2 – so I had to get them! Spent the most part of this evening sorting them out into individual compartments in the new organiser I also got from Aldi [can't resist a bargain].
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