They Sold before the opening!

Got a phone call late this afternoon and both pieces I was fretting over last night have sold right before the opening how is that!

I am feeling full of confidence as I made them deliberately as a test to see if they would sell and they did as soon as they went up - I was concerned that my work wasnt connecting to people and sure enough it is - but would I really pack it all in if it was a flop?

Hell NO!

Here is a little snippet of a work that I am making as apart of a crafty blog exchange thing. It has been initiated by an amazing woman called Meg McElwee and from her blog



















Our instructions are:

To your partner, you will send:

1.) One handmade holiday decoration. Decorations made from any kind of medium are acceptable – from fabric to yarn, paper to paint.

2.) Your favorite holiday recipe.

3.) A "Tradition" Tutorial. This is description of one of your family's special holiday traditions. If needed, you should provide step by step instructions. (For example, if your family makes graham cracker candy houses each year, you would provide more concrete instructions.) You might also consider sending along a couple of photos of the tradition in action.

My partner is Stacey and she has a blog too.

This week the last week of spring and just before the first week of December I have finally started making my Christmas cards.

Here is a sneak preview



























got a bird theme happening - this year.

Palooza

I have two little works in a show opening on Saturday - it is a group Christmas show at Alluvial Gallery in Bendigo - for some reason the gallery director hasn't uploaded images of my work on the site (the dreadful doubt pit settles in my tummy with the thought she doesn't like my work or worse it ISN'T art) ; yet she has uploaded all the other artists exhibiting hmmmm


This work is called Leaf Sample 1: (from the experimentation interior stitch series)
Leaf Sample 1: (from the experimentation interior stitch series)

wedding invitations

My first of three brothers is getting married in February. He and his darling finance asked me to design and sew up their invites (so don't tell or show any one) her is one of my design drawings

Their brief was that they wanted something sewn and red and with a couple together and love heart leaves.

This is a picture of a piece I did for a show back in July at Alluvial

The pattern is from a some very old wall paper I discovered in a little old stone cottage called Tutes cottage in Castlemaine. I did a residency there way back in 2005 as apart of the Castlemaine state festival with a regional collaborative group that I sometimes work with called FOURCAST

So any how I have been repeating this pattern quite a lot and re-using for J&C wedding invitation - I hope to get it nearly all embroidered this weekend. Their wedding is on the 16th of Feb and they will be itching to send out their invites.