While waiting for my new screens to burn I decided to print up some stationary. During my lino carving workshop on Saturday I made a little dino stamp. Tonight I carved out a couple hand drawn word bubbles. Combining the two creates on of the most lethaly cute cards ever. Now I just have to decide on the text. I’m thinking these dinos are feeling kittenish.
Dino says M-E-O-W!
As the weekend draws near so does my first day at the local craft market. Early Saturday morning I’ll go down to market square, try and get a space and set up my wares. As always, I’m far too worried about making my spot look esthetically pleasing, so I’ve been crafting away display stuff.
A couple weeks ago on Threadbanger there was an episode about vinyl wall decals. The website also offered a couple of wall decal ideas outside of the video and I thought one of them was especially beautiful. Rather than planting it on my walls I decided to stencil it on my newest table cloth. I also decided to make my own “banner” rather than investing dollars into having one made (the ultimate curse of the crafty – the complete unwillingness to pay another to do something that we could possibly learn to do).
Anywho, I thought I would share some photos of the new table and some ideas of how it will be set. I’ll be sure to take some photos this weekend as well.
Spacemen and deep sea divers for the boys. More to come…
I’ve ravaged a couple of containers of clothing that I’ve had for a while and turned them into something a little more interesting.
I’m thinking that I will be adding these to my site, but I have to take some time to consider pricing and such. These may also show up on Etsy.
Here are some of the pieces that I really dig. Soon I’ll be sharing some of the men’s pieces that I’ve been working on.
I’ve been doing some softie crafting lately; some good and some bad. I printed up another yard or so of robots and kokeshi tonight.
Here’s a sneak peek at some of the better dolls. The robot is still a little pointy for my liking, but I’ll see what I can do about that.
I found some time today to sand down and then photograph some of the resin belt buckles I’ve been working on. I thought I would take some time to share my new pieces with the big ol’ world. If you’d like to check out an album of photos you can click here.
Here’s a few of my favourite samples:
I’m so happy to say that after lots and lots (and lots and lots) of work, the Recycled Clothing Fashion Show was a great success. Even though there was lots of stress and uncertainty (on my part), it was worth it.
The Silent Auction for The Salvation Army was fairly successful as well. I had been a bit concerned that I wouldn’t get any bids because I didn’t think people would be coming with shopping on their minds. However, we managed to sell almost every outfit for at least the minimum bid of $10. The one outfit that didn’t sell wasn’t crafted at all so I understand why it didn’t go flying off the rack.
Here’s some action shots from my portion of the show (representing The Salvation Army):
