OK, where did that week go? It zipped by and before I know it, it's almost
time for another one. Whew, I can't keep up. And another week means...yep,
ano...
Nothing could be more fun in a scorching 38 degree heat wave, than nudey runs through the sprinkler (except maybe a splash down at the beach... which I hope ...
Three of my favourite photos from this week- these all make me smile.
1) We all liked the weeny spider in the hakea flower which reminded us of
the m...
Mobiles! This one is made from circles of fabric which are glued together
and dried curled then threaded with beads. Threads are dangling from a
lovely pie...
Lick our spoons because they are delicious!
Our *Spoon & Whisk* screens arrived yesterday so we wasted no time in
setting them up and testing the print ...
OK, so you know they've been coming, but Lace Fans and Geofloral are finally
here!! YAY!
Firstly a big thanks so everyone's feedback re both designs, as it...
Ive never really had proper signage. I once used a big auntycookie says relax poster behind me but methinks that was lost on the mong square crowds. And hone...
Wow. I can't believe it's really been a month since I lasted posted. A
month! I do have some good excuses including general work craziness and a
hefty dose...
I didn't mean to disappear, but somehow it has almost been a month since I
last blogged. Things have been a little bit hectic around here, with 4
birthdays...
You know, it only took a few months but we are now hooked up with wireless
internet at home so I am on-line all over the show. Favourite spot is front
por...
Don't forget! The junior upmarket is this Sunday (tomorrow) and we have
THREE new T-shirt designs to add to our collection. Plus some new Christmas
related...
Piles of various fabrics, catalogs and notebooks have started accumulating in the almost, almost finished kitchen. I don't want to speak to soon, but we're v...
This photo's taken with my cell/mobilephone. Just a few days left, I will
try to spend most of them arranging/organizing my bits and
bobbins/collection/...
When I was a student Deanne Cheuk's Magazine, Mu was one of the most
inspiring pieces of design I was able to access in my part of the world. I
was recent...
Congratulations to #10 - Wing-Yee - please send me an email and we can
arrange a time for you and a friend to come and print on my new press.
Thanks to ev...
I volunteered in Liam's kindergarten class today. The children were learning
about homophones – hare/hair flower/flour, tow/toe, night/knight, I/eye...
Right before the Great Site Crash of 2009, otherwise known as LunarFail and
sometimes referred to as @#*&#$@*, the family and I took a midweek trip to
MoMA...
autumn blooming cherry tree / prunus subhirtella Happy weekend! May you find a sunny spot to relax and beauty peeking out where you least expect it! Thank yo...
Pop into my shop and buy a post card while you still can as I will shortly
be closing it to replenish it with a new range (and using remaining stock as
C...
On Thursday evening, part of the CV team headed down to Thousand £ Bend for
the launch of the Bicycle Film Festival, organised by our New Craft
wonderwoma...
Here we are and it's already Saturday! Yikes! Christmas is totally creeping
up, I tell you! Now. This week's Theme Queen is Shelley from Femme de
Montma...
It's been fun working on my list. I'm going to post what I've worked on
every Friday to help keep me accountable.
Done
8. Hire cleaning lady back done!
22...
I met Tara and Inessah of Sublet Clothing soon after I moved to New York,
and a few weeks ago we got together for a photo shoot. What's more fun than
ge...
So. I’ve been trying to locate a silver or black mirror to go above my
dresser and I found a lovely one at Esplanade (a store in my neighborhood)
and when ...
hurry for the weekend!
thanks to everyone for all the congrats: whether you read or commented on
our proposal story: i think nick was even excited about a...
whew! this week has been crazy and on monday i’m finally able to finish the
bulk of my work on the d*s book and turn in the manuscript! things are
coming t...
marfa path print scarf, HANDCRAFT holiday 2009 collection note: I now have a
twitter account. This is just an experiment-I’ll see how it goes. It is
here...
Good morning! I can't believe it's Friday already. Although I did think it
was Friday on Wednesday, so apparently I have no sense of time this week.
What ...
This week I delivered an order to Family Tree. This tiny shop in Exmouth
Market EC1 is run by Takako Tsutsui and sells a cheery collection of
loving...
I'm a bit obsessed with these colours at the moment and hope you'll enjoy
perusing these lovely examples. Hopefully it all works and the links will
take yo...
The other day, a really nice follower of this blog called "Kimba" sent me
this photo. These beautiful and exquisite brooches were made by her ! She 's
bee...
and when visiting OWI, I immediately saw this amazing green coated floor...oh I wish we were allowed to paint ours!! Have a nice weekend...next week, Gift Id...
i love it when i see great designers getting together with card publishers, and so it was a real treat to hear of this latest collaboration between absolute ...
Now that my university to-do list is finally just about completed I can
start on the massively long to-do after the end of semester list I was
mentally cre...
Not Making Friday
There's no Making Friday for me today, as I've got to get some wholesale
orders out of my studio. But seeing as I spent much of Tuesday b...
1.Stumbled upon this fantastic blog: street etiquette, for all my man
styling needs
2.These handmade baby mobiles from jodie petite chose are absolutely
a...
I'm a bit late this year, Sculpture by the Sea for 2009 finishes on Sunday.
Here are some pics from yesterday's trip around the cliffs. The huge straw
stic...
It's no secret that I love Mexican folk art and so I was thrilled to see that MOZI's new range of (always) cool homewares - "Fiesta de MOZI" - incorporates a...
Three new bright and cheery Fawns for the show. Fitzroy: Francesca: And
Firenze: I’ve reinforced the legs on Fitzroy and Francesca with wire so they
are de...
Crazy, hectic and insanely busy!! Herbies been churning away, Charlie has
been clunking away and we have madly been doing linings and envelope
inserts, pa...
Just a little reminder... my show opens tonight! If you are in Melbourne and looking for something to do please come along. Here are the details: Opening Nig...
Melanie Vugich's website is finally finished and I must say I'm pleased with
it! This fantastic textile designer has hit our shores from Italy and I
can't...
I've been working like a maniac for the past few weeks towards my solo show
in Switzerland, which opens next Friday--- finally managed to send all 35 +
pie...
This is a painting by Australian artist Graham Brown. It is a portrait of
the great spiritual personality, HH Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of
Sahaja ...
Allow me to take you on a little tour of what's happening in my back garden.
The spring onions flowered. And then we ate them all up.
The succulents are loo...
This is the view I see everyday while I sit at my desk and type away. As
the boat windows are below street level I can glance up and see people
coming and...
[image: Krakatoa_studio violet]
[image: Krakatoa_studio violet]
as you know studio violet is the lovely collaboration of elisabeth dunkerand camilla
engman...
Flushed with the success of my freshly painted bedside tables, and left with
a lot of white paint, I decided to look for more victims.
This little table h...
it seems my posting is on a quarterly basis these days but time flies with a
little baby & the rumours are true...they do grow up very fast.
so have i...
and let the market chaos begin! i will be at the yarraville market this
saturday and it marks the first of five straight weekends of melbourne
markets for...
And this is how the lanterns turned out. The girls really enjoyed decorating
it. After dinner we made a lantern-lighted walk through our neigbourhood.
They...
Our amazing designer, Grace, is leaving us for Japan. Tomorrow's her last
day but already there's been major emptying of tissue boxes and the office
is f...
my 7 year old son spent a couple of hours working out my camera features yesterday while i worked. he only took some 200 odd photos: the continuous shooting ...
[image: vintage buttons]
the past few days have been a little rough over here in hankland. our
internet has been down since late sunday night, and just sta...
The first night of Fashion Talks for 2009 took place this evening at the
Fremantle Arts Centre. Fenella Peacock from Ant!podium took to the stage
with Jo ...
my very lovely friend Joseph from Sydney is currently under-taking an
exciting and worthy project. he is trying to gather as many copies of zines
and self-...
I haven't been feeling too well the last couple of weeks so I'm rather
behind on everything!
The Papernstitch Exhibition is still up and it has brought me...
I've been thinking about installing some 'floating' vertical bookshelves
like these for a while now... Think I might need to make that this weekend's
proj...
finally this crocodile handbag has been reappropriated into a more usable
design.
it was sent to me a few year ago by a friend in france...apparently she
...
I'm feeling sick today: worn out, sore throat, stuffy/snotty nose, feverish face, nauseous belly. Ick. But I did manage to post this new tutorial on the Repr...
Back in Brisbane now, we're given a warm welcome of tea and {felt}
strawberries, cookies and an abundance of sweets. This is Sienna's bedroom,
she is the y...
are now in the shop. Choose from Holiday, Christmas or Hanukkah. You can
even get a mixed set. Sorry for the lack of pictures but due to Hurricane
Ida,...
a few days away was just what we needed. Although the kids are still a little too little to truly relax. Especially when there is water nearby.I've returned ...
I recall reading an article about happiness. The gist of it was that it can be the little things that make you happy, like cleaning out a cupboard or finally...
My bit of Come Darkness. Photograph by MAV. MAV has curated Come Darkness at
Chelliswilson in which I'm taking part with a ceramic mountain ;) My friend
Ev...
Apparently, a hummingbird's brain makes up 4.2% of its total weight (the
largest proportion of any bird). Of course, that would explain why this
hummingbir...
Thank you for all your lovely orders on Friday and over the weekend. They
were all posted this afternoon.
With my Melbourne trip coming up any orders plac...
come darkness, part two
second layer and third layer of printing_ letterpress
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i love sewing for a purpose. for others. it motivates me. and it makes me happy. my little friend turned two this week. and she loves potato heads. so i got ...
I did a small illustration project for shop-pod store located in Boston. The
tea is so delicious! Please stop by their lovely store when you visit
Bo...
>> the dragon + the ninja >> >> last minute reusable trick-or-treat bags >> I made them pretty small [8"x10"] so they would fill up faster...hence less sweet...
we're pretty much addicted to this place... after seeing lost river modern in the spring and summer, we wanted to return when the leaves were changing. steph...
A whole lot of fabrics newly washed and folded. They're all ready to make
things or sit there until I find some complimentary fabrics.
This week I hope t...
i just received my new business cards in mail!
i've been waiting for it and i'm so happy with the result.
while i was researching and thinking about my n...
A few months back some nice peeps at Cardstore.com contacted me to design a
set of cards for them. Being pregnant slowed me down quite a bit, but I
finally...
I have a little party to plan for in the very near future... a special time
set aside to celebrate and share with family and friends before the mad end
of ...
this is my current favourite part of the house, despite the fact i've done
nothing with it except had it painted white. (and actually out of shot are
ha...
Wow, it's been a while, hasn't it? Things got a little nuts over here in the
last month or more. In my frantic race to prepare for last weekend's finders
k...
Angela from Leeloo and Renee from Art4Friends have organised an exhibition
opening later this month called Once Upon. The theme is fairytails and I've...
Congratulations to Andi our gallery winner for September! Andi has used the
gorgeous range of Echino fabrics to make these fabulous bags.
A special mentio...
Decided to participate in this when I spotted it here. It's all about
sharing what's on your beside table. Well, you can see that I don't really
have a bed...
Most days at the moment I feel like a fish. Swimming around the same fishbowl, all day, everyday. Same scenery. Same food. Same children staring at me. Same ...
Gregory Bonasera is not your typical ceramic artist. He combines
contemporary computer precision with traditional techniques to create his
unique organ...
Dearest Friends,
It has been months since I have posted anything here and I have received a
number of emails and comments asking if I am okay and why hav...
I will be bidding a fond farewell to this blog for a little while as I am
moving in to Welcome Home. I will still be making my own work and I will be
back...
I have to apologise for my recent absence from the blogosphere...but I can
assure you that I have a very good explanation! Aside from the fact that the
hou...
My dear friend gave me a hat. Then I accidentally took a photo of myself, of
the person I am. Sure I'm always snapping photos of myself, but they never
qu...
from the sketchbook. this is my second set of chromatic greys. are these the
prettiest? yes they are because green is my favorite colour and red is a
pret...
Swappy goodness package from Edan Rose
How lucky am I to get two items from a swap? Trinkets from Georgie Love
What better way to celebrate my return fro...
It's my new online store:
I thought a separate shop might be helpful for those who want to purchase my
items but don't want to sign up with Etsy. I'm usin...
Can't believe it's been this long, a very large and sincere sorry to all our
loyal followers. Well we launched an entire new range in the meantime and
have...
organising..., originally uploaded by lisatoni.
Ok, the countdown is really quite serious now... I'm not sure if my last
batch to go in the kiln will be o...
Check out this truly a one of a kind piece. It is actually made with an old
vinyl wallpaper. The designer cut out the beautiful embossed parts of the
pape...
Oh lovely things! I love red. That bag is gorgeous - and the print design on the cards is beautiful. I really like your Christams card design too. It's nice to see something unique :)
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Oh lovely things! I love red. That bag is gorgeous - and the print design on the cards is beautiful. I really like your Christams card design too. It's nice to see something unique :)
Ooh... Thank you so much, Danielle!!!
:) ***
Thank you so so so much!! Red is such a wonderful color.
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