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!
October 18th, 2010
Birthdays and surprises! It’s Colin’s birthday today and although he got to open his presents this morning and got breakfast in bed, we did most of the celebrating yesterday. I took him on a magical mystery tour day out! It was a lovely autumnal wintry morning and this set the tone for the most perfect day!
August 27th, 2010
On the Tuesday we immersed ourselves in exhibitions again and headed first for the British Library for the map exhibition entitled ‘Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art’ which brings together 80 of the largest, most impressive and beautiful maps ever made, from 200 AD to the present day.
July 7th, 2010
The lovely folk at Makers-Online have just opened their doors to entries for their Trash to Treasure competition. There’s a £200 cash prize and Rachelle Strauss from www.myzerowaste.com has agreed to do the judging! So get your thinking caps on and get creative with your waste and come up with something amazing and enter the competition.
June 30th, 2010
Not only have I been working away like a busy bee on envelopes and my shop keepers dummy display, I’ve also been busy making more paper garlands and coming up with a neat way to package them up. My old sewing machine is on it’s last legs though and the tension control is not what it used to be – sounds like it’s a bit incontinent in it’s old age and I guess it is a little – every now and again it just looses control of the thread and I end up battling away with a pin trying to untangle knots.
June 30th, 2010
I love making envelopes – I can’t stress that enough and over the past week or so I’ve been cutting maps, sheet music, pages from comic annuals etc into envelope shapes. I’ve then been folding and gluing and packaging them up – it’s been hard work, but I love repetitive tasks like this and I do love making envelopes – I know I’ve already said that, but I do!
June 8th, 2010
I got a lovely email from Central Station this morning saying that they’d selected my Map Paper Garlands to be the ‘Featured Work’ on the website. So I’ve got a lovely prominent plug for Milomade on the Bulletin page, on the Community page and on the Portfolio page. Chuffed to bits as I only decided to add a few more images to my profile last night whilst I had a spare half hour waiting for my bread to bake in the oven.
April 29th, 2010
I’ve been busy with my sewing machine making paper garlands from envelopes, maps and music. This involves punching hundreds of small and large circles from sheets of music, or from envelopes or maps and stitching them all together in long strands to form lovely paper garlands that you can use to decorate your home. Perfect for weddings and parties or to decorate your Christmas tree even, these garlands can be made to custom lengths to suit your needs.
April 26th, 2010
Well I’ve been on Facebook since the beginning of April and I can’t believe I’m nearing 200 fans already! So once I hit the 200 mark I’m going to do another giveaway. This is to say a huge thank you for all the support my fans have given me this month and how much they’ve spread the word about Milomade across the glorious internet. So to show my thanks, 2 lucky fans are going to get their hands on some of my new badge packs that are sitting here waiting to get added to my online shop!
April 20th, 2010
A while back I wrote a post about Makers-Online stocking Milomade. It’s taken a while to get everything sorted, but I’m pleased to announce that Milomade products are now available through this online stockist. Why not visit my profile on their website to see what is available.
April 14th, 2010
I’ve been looking for some biodegradable grip seal bags for a while – something I can use to package my badges up for sale and keep a clear conscience as previously I have been using non-degradable grip seal bags that I bought years ago that needed to be used up. I found a good supplier online at last and ordered a box of 1000. The order arrived this morning and I’ve been itching to finish work and start printing out labels and start sorting my badges out into packs of 4.
March 24th, 2010
Bringing together a small set of talented designer-makers in the UK, Makers Online is an online boutique selling a wide range of beautifully hand crafted products. Specialising mostly in unique contemporary jewellery, with a wide range of bracelets, brooches, earrings and necklaces, Makers Online also stock Home Accessories, Handbags and Greetings Cards. I found the website recently and plucked up the courage to get in touch with them in the view to them stocking Milomade – and success! Look out for Milomade on Makers Online very soon.
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