October 25th, 2011

I recently discovered this great tutorial by Amanda Wood on how to make lovely stickers from recycled paper. The best thing about it is that the tutorial uses one of my favourite things – envelopes with funky security patterns. How could I resist!

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June 3rd, 2011

Some of you may know that not only do I run Milomade, but I’m also a freelance web designer and run Eskymo New Media Design. I did a favour for a friend recently, taking lots of lovely photographs of her work for a new website I hope to design and build for her quite soon. In return she did a short print run of business cards for me and I was expecting to pick this up from here the next time I went over to Edinburgh, but…

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November 18th, 2010

Kirsty of Lovely Pigeon is at it again, but this time in a festive way – she is setting up Pigeon’s Pop Up Christmas Extravaganza in the Murray Library in Anstruther, but not just a for a few days – this time you will have the chance to get your hand on fabulous hand crafted goodies throughout the whole of December up until Christmas Eve. She will be featuring the work of more than 40 artists and makers, vintage stuff, homewares, stocking fillers etc as well as running a few  hand-made Christmas workshops for all ages (and abilities) There will be music too and more.

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November 1st, 2010

I’ve just added some of my festive decorations to my online shop. I’ve been busy making lots of origami paper wreaths for my up and coming craft fairs in November and December as they were a big seller at the Charity Chic event a while ago. Hopefully they will be again.

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October 19th, 2010

I have been invited by The Park Gallery to exhibit a selection of my work at the up and coming Winter Warmth exhibition which will take place in The Park Gallery’s new location on the ground floor of Callendar House in Falkirk. Winter Warmth is now in it’s 6th year and has built up a reputation for showcasing original, high quality art and design work from a wealth of artists, designers and craft makers in Scotland and the UK. I’m lucky to be one of this years 25 artists.

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