September 3rd, 2010
I discovered these beautiful porcelain hearts today entitled Corezone. Corezone is a closed ceramic space, where you can place your thoughts, feelings, emotions. Write them down on small pieces of paper and put them inside the heart. You must then physically break your own heart to free them.
August 13th, 2010
I’d never heard of the artist Ran Hwang until today – I was using the new Google image search facility – which I absolutely love as it’s just so organic now – and just happened upon an image of some of her work. I clicked through to her website and was amazed. She uses buttons and pins and large expanses of wall and creates the most amazing images. I guess it could be a modern day take on pointillism in that when you see the work up close, it just looks like a load of dots, but when you stand back and your eyes adjust, the dots merge to form birds and cherry blossom etc.
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.
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