Folksy Shop

Hey I just wanted to share that I've been hiding in my bed for the past two weeks as I've been mega ill, but yesterday I took some photos so tody I've been listing my most recent crafts on my Folksy page which you can check out here

I've got lots of things to share over the next few weeks I've started lots of projects that just need last little finishing touches before I share.

Snapped Up

Sunday was a corker! We had so much fun down at the Printhaus with the Snapped Up market. I had a stall selling some of my crafty makes, purses, jewellery and crochet plush and then also was running a small have a go printing your own bandana workshop. The morning started off slowly but the weather was beautiful and daylight savings and all that jazz. It was really busy by mid afternoon especially the print your own teshirt stall!

Check out some pics from the day

The next market day is going to be in the summer, the plan is to have the theme as music as Tom's buliding a stage there for SWN festival soon and we thought we could have a little Snapped Up music festival!

I thought i'd also tag on the end a sneak peak of my pieces for the 50/50 Affordable Art Show that's on tomorrow night in the Undertone in Cardiff from 19.30.

These are 2 that I'm quite proud of and can't wait to see them up in the show!



Aprons and Something for the weekend!!

I made a couple of aprons for my friend Kirsty, so I thought I'd share :)

Please dont judge the chaos that is my work room atm! lol!

If you're out and about in Cardiff on Sunday then come along to the Printhaus where we're running a big open day!

Event - Snapped Up Market 5

Theme – Cowboys & indians

Location -The PrintHaus Workshops, 70A Llandaff Rd, Canton, Cardiff, CF11 9NL

Date – Sunday March 25^th 2012

Time - 12-6pm

Free entry

British summer time starts here, with another installment of Snapped-Up Market with a Cowboy and Indian themed activity day. All your favorite stallholders and loads of fun for all the family!

T-shirt printing - All your favorite rooting tooting designs ready to adorn a t-shirt of your choice!

Etching Press - Plenty of fun to have making cards or postcards for your loved ones!

Fabric Printing - Print your very own bandana, just make sure its not used for a stagecoach heist!

Kids Table - Big man Dan Mitchell will be hosting the Kids Table, Creating pretty much whatever he's told!

Tea, Coffee & Cake - and other refreshments will be available all day.

I'm running the print your own bandana stall which is going to be a blast!! I've made 2 different designs that people can choose from and I'm currently working on a tshirt design too! My friend James Reed has done a tee design too which you can check out here

But for now here's my designs to get you excited hehe!

Super looking forward to printing these bad boys!! Dont worry I'm gonna blog like crazy about it at the weekend!

India travels and a little robot fella

So the lack of blogging has been down to the fact that I've been away in India!! I went to the Tamil Nadu region to do some volunteering for the Safe Foundation. (If you click the link you can see the project I was working on ).

I got to do some great crafty work with local gypsy women who make amazing bead work purses and jewellery. I was sent over to try and share my crafty recycling knowledge and ended up trying to share how to create various things out of plastic bottles!

I did a little talk for a group of teachers too, so we could maybe set up a project teaching local kids about recycling!

One of the most amazing toys I think I've ever seen!!

Did enjoy a bit of intestine ripping at a roadside temple! I love the colours, everything is so sun-bleached and dusty but is really vivid.

Saw soo many elephants too!

Since I've been back I haven't had much time for making, but I did manage to squeeze this little fella out ;) for my friend Chris' birthday. I had a book given to me few years ago called Crobots and decided to take some inspiration from it but design my own! He's only about 4" tall but super cute.

I'm also feeling quite inspired and ready for spring after seeing this super kawaii little shoe display in River Island. Now those who know me, know that I ain't much of a heel wearer, but I could be convinced with either if these paired with the frilly socks! yum yum!

Crafft class and 2 surprises!

This morning we've been making gift boxes and paper flowers. Super easy to make and really pretty!

I then came home to discover this little guy waiting for me! One of my favourite people in the whole world Miss Appletinitiny has made me a little gift before I go away on my travels! Shame I can't eat this fortune cookie, but he can come with me for good luck instead =)













I'm a Craftster Best of 2011 Winner!
I also received some fab news last night. A forum that I love called craftster has put one of my posts as a 'Best of 2011!' Have a look here at the jacket that I made last September.

Awesome Weekend

I've had a great weekend tbh, full of printing, sewing, a craft fair and some amazing food! I've taken loads of photos of my printing to share with you. Enjoy!

I started on Thursday by making up about 6 screens, 4 for my ballon design and 2 for my carosel design. I hadn't done a 4 colour print since I was in uni so fancied the challenge. I love watching the build up of the different colours seeing your images come to life (so to say) on the fabric =)

Laying down some ink!

Went back to the PrintHaus Friday and Saturday and had lots of fun printing and talking cameras and India with Jude.

I try and be productive by working on a few pieces at the same time; you have to wait for each colour to dry before you can print the next one.

This is what I ended up making from the pink fabric you can see on the table above!

This is the carosel design I've been working on too. I was really happy with how thin the lines were I managed to print. When I started back printing last year I was finding super thin detail hard to acheive, so it good to see progress. 

The designs lend themselves well to the purses I've been making. Definitely need to work on some more designs that work either way up.

                                                      

Here are some of my favourite other bits of printing from the weekend too - I love printing on random pieces of found fabrics.

We finished up the weekend by having some amazing food in the Pot Cafe on Crwys Rd. I've had a few tasty brekkies and coffees in there before but when we found out the Ethical Chef was putting on a supper club we had to book a table! Joined by some great friends in the shape of Chris, Becca and Dan, all 5 of us were blown away by the food and the service. I'm sure I'll be at the next one too.

Chairs @ the Printhaus

Today I have been at the PrintHaus, a great screen printing workshop/studio space based in Canton, Cardiff. I've been a member there for nearly a year now and am so grateful for the place. Having a place where I can go screen print anytime of the day or night is amazing! I love being able to give back to an organisation like this that is non-profit but brings such a wealth of experience and equiptment to the community. I've been putting some new designs on screens today, I'm going back to print tomorrow so will do another post for you showing all the goodies over the weekend! For now I just wanted to share a joint project that myself and my friend Kirsty Patrick worked on late last year for the PrintHaus.  Jude (who mostly runs the place) had told us of a few chairs that needed restoring, so we stepped up and went ahead. Kirsty is an amazing furniture upcycler/ restorer, check out her work here.

Anyways this is what we came up with, obvs Kirsty did all the hard work and I just printed the fabric ;) but I love collaborating with other talent artist and this was a fun project.