I love handmade gifts! I love receiving them and I love making them and giving them too. This year I’ve been giving away a lot of my handmade glass stars that I’ve made in an evening class and I only have one left and that one I’m keeping for myself. Here’s a selection of things you […]
Category Archives: Pick of the Week
I used to one of those people who would fold down the corners of pages within books to remember the page I’d got to – but no more. Ever since I started making my origami bookmarks, I’ve stopped the nasty folding habit. Today, I’d like to share with you a few other ideas for bookmarks […]
This is a really elegant solution to a common old problem. How to store your bike when space is limited. We always intended to rig up some sort of pulley system so that bikes could be suspended from our high ceilings, but never got round to implementing anything. Then we invested in some of those […]
I found this on Flickr and thought it was amazing – would love to see it in real life to get a better sense of the scale of the work. I tracked down the artists website here, so go and check out what else he does, but I think this is my favourite.
What a fabulous design solution from Klaas Kuiken. Simple and stylish, a lovely place to nest…
Nina Lindgren is the artist behind the tower cardboard art installation known as Cardboard Heaven. Cardboard Heaven is a large sculpture made up of small individual cardboard houses that together stand an impressive 177 inches (almost 15 feet) tall. All the individual elements of Cardboard Heaven stack one on top of the other to form […]
This week I thought it appropriate to think big bangs, fireworks and explosions of colour. I hope this selection doesn’t disappoint.
Anna-Wili Highfield is a Sydney based artist currently making sculptures of animals from torn paper and from copper pipe. I particularly love the paper sculptures which are created from archival cotton paper, that is painted, then torn and sewn together, to create the figure of an animal.
I visited Gallery O website today – a gallery that focuses on miniature art and I discovered the work of Dalton Ghetti a Brazilian artist living in Bridgeport Connecticut who carves the tiniest sculptures made entirely from the graphite lead at the tip of a pencil.
I’m about to book a place on a jewellery workshop [I hope there are still places available] happening at St Andrews Museum on Saturday 25th September run by jewellers Jane Gowans and Hannah Livingston. It’s come about because of the Causing Chaos exhibition at the museum curated by artist Claire Barclay for Fife Contemporary Art […]