I've been farting around with Illustrator again.....
This fabric is for a contest on Spoonflower for an upcoming theme of candles, surprisingly. If you have not been to the Spoonflower website, you really must ! Firstly, you have to vote in the fabric contest, and you have to vote for me , and secondly it is the best thing since sliced bread. you can upload pretty much any image and have it printed on fabric digitally, and you can get as much or as little as you want. I'm sure you are all spoonflower groupies already but if not you will find it
here . In other groundbreaking news I did my first market.....
Yes it was nearly 3 weeks ago, but since I am a relaxed kind of blogger I am only just getting my report together now. It was fun to be with the lovely Tilly for the day, and to meet some great people, including Tania of
Myrtle and Eunice who was selling cuter stuff than mine right next to me!! I need to set up next to someone with poxy things next time. The market was fairly quiet, but a good experience given that I have no experience at all in these matters...thankfully a few friends came to say hi and buy some of my bits and pieces. Where would we be without buddies who buy all our crap and say it looks nice?
Lastly on the week-end, my niece Daisy threw a big 3 year old party, with a bit of support from Mum and Dad, and her evil auntie (me) forgot her camera. My sister always whips up some seriously gorgeous decorated cookies and cakes, but unfortunately you will never see them as they were un photographed. I really must get a little camera instead of the big monster I have now, although I have only just worked out how to use it after 2 years so it would be a bummer to have to start again. Anyway, it was a great week-end in Melbourne with my family, and great to meet some of my sister's new school mum mates including Janet...Hi Janet!
Happy Birthday to my fabulous Daisy, and happy crafting to everyone else!!!
Hi there...how cute is this book? It was in the lovely bookshop near the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, and I probably should have bought it, but perhaps I was feeling guilty about the cost of flying up to Brisbane to see some mates. Anyway, if you feel the need to crochet up a large plate of sushi, now you know where to go. Our very good friends in Brisbane are regular visitors to the Qld art gallery, and the gallery of Modern Art (next door). They have the most amazing activities for kids, so they often take their 3 & 6 year olds in there and happily spend the day doing fun stuff. The exhibition we saw was by a local artist from the Gold Coast....
As you can see he is partly inspired by the 1950's hotel signs which must have been all over the place at one stage in Surfer's Paradise. I can't resist a bit of 1950's futuristic advertising!
The artist's name is Scott Redford, but his alter ego (an imaginary artist and surfer dude) is Reinhardt Dammn. There were a lot of surf-boards in the exhibition, including a 12 minute video of 3 chicks in bikinis sawing through surfboards with handsaws. Sounds sexist and pointless, I admit, but my friends' kids loved it! They watched it twice and howled with laughter at the skinniest girl, with no muscles at all that I could detect, who struggled to even get the saw to bite into the surfboard. They will watch anything, as their dad said.
My favourites at the exhibition were these giant polar bears, but my favourite artwork this week is by my 12 year old creative genius..... 
This is Artemis and Appollo, and she just whips this sort of thing up all the time. I know everybody thinks their children are super amazingly talented, but they're not! Only my child is! So there. Anyway, most of the creativity in our house this week is her doing, unless you count me spending the week-end with my NZ mate Hana, and her lovely friend Mandy. We were creating memories! Does that count? Happy creating, everyone!
