Lady Beards

Working with the fab Ms Katie Jacobs for a project about BEARDS at the Hawthorn townhall.

So we're planning on making bearded ladies or lady beards. A series of 6 famous Australian facial hair --beards and moustaches-- as female pubic hair.

It will be an interactive piece, where the public can choose the lady beard, and attach it onto our lady on the wall.

At the moment, we're thinking the lady will be a re-drawing of Venus de Milo.
the lady beards are going to be
1. Map of Tasmania, 3D mini model with river system.
2. The cricketer, long stitch brown wool a la Boon, Chappell or Merv Hughes.
3. The Nick Cave/The Bad Seed, a Cave moustache woven from cassette tape spool.
4. The Shannon Noll, flannel shirt of the uber gross goatee
5. The Ned Kelly, styled like his famed armour, made from tin with rivets and peephole.

Some photos of mucking around...inspiration picks.
We do try to be witty, non gross, non porn, and not overtly feminist.

just bob your head like you get it

"Thursdays are manic" -- a pharmacist once said to me.

A week of milestones
- 1 month in my new house/living with my flatmate
- 27th Birthday
- Decade since the passing of two friends

It's been some time since i've sat down and made something of substance. Recently it's all been about sewing clothes/trying to sew clothes. The last thing I made was a skeleton hand/arm neck piece...not very much.
At the moment I have an Angora goat leg in my mum's freezer. One Goat from My sister's herd needed to get its leg amputated and I asked my sister if she could get the vet to keep the limb. I really want to preserve it or stuff it and have it as a neck piece. Maybe not the entire leg as it's pretty darn big, but maybe the hoof/fetlock, so there's the trotter/hoof and some leg with fleece.

Need to get working on a solo proposal, but I want it to be of new work, no a hack of existing things I work on.......have an inkling of an idea, but need to draw it out.

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In news:
Moved house with my friend Liam, we're habituating in Nth Melb now. Definitely different to inner city, I do miss being so central, but I was spoilt living on flinders lane for so many years. Anyway nth melb is different in a good way, quieter, terrace house and still within stubling distance of the city.

Anyway, have had some super inspiration for sewing some dresses. Picked up and amazing gold foil/black fabric, gonna make into a dress with gaping side/tie up shoulders.
Also got some blue woven woolen fabric, to make a capelet, it will be line with silky leopard print, super trash the way i like it. AND some bronze/tarnished gold coloured lace and shiny fabric for a dress--lace sleeves-- yeah for trash.

hanging at the flat sewing and cutting

I'm sewing a bed gown for maman, bed gown is a dressing gown meets bed jacket. While she is recuperating at home, she can at least rock out the house in a vivid robe.

take one existing dressing gown
add sewn patchwork outer shell.




et voila.
I like that it is over patterned and i'm loving the purple/lilac/gold/mustard and I think the cream dressing gown will tone it down, so rather than vulgar, it's striking.
I stood infront of a wall of fabrics for a hour, before finding a combo of four that i liked...ransacked the wall, because originally i wanted vibrant crimson/scarlet, then thought maybe soothing aqua/lightblue tones.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!1!

Blitzing on caffeine and custardy yoyo.......caro and I now have a new focus for the Yeti project. and I can't wait to get a sewing and a making!

Insert Coin Here

The always lovely Kim and Nella from Craft Victoria have put together something special for the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival....vending machines of 'limited edition' fashion pieces made by Melbourne-based artists.
See the Insert Coin Here website for full details and updates.

As a participating artist, i'm putting in some specially made for melbourne (black) Pardon my French! necklaces.




French profanity, curse with style. Hand embroidered felt speech bubbles in black, de rigeur for Melbourne chic, slung from gaudy gold chains.
So to this folly say oui oui, keep an eye out for a vending machine, so you too can curse to your heart's content!
xx B

pardon my french

zut, casse-toi, connard, ta gueule, putain!, foutre
Hand embroidered speech bubbles for gaudy necklace or brooch.


Naff, but amusing for office wear!
look out for them at my ETSY store

mutton dressed as lamb

Sheep bones collected from the farm.
I really wanted a pebbles bone for my hair. Got some killer gloss paint in black, magenta and 50's pastel green.
It's still about trashyness....gold + flocked + bone