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

Birds of a feather

Handmade nuno felt using alpaca, silk and camel fibres. 2009

Feather your nest

Craft Hatch goodies are now available for purchase on ETSY. Finally!!
Hand felted faux taxidermy Australina Wren head brooches
Sparrow & wren embroidered brooches
&
Ink sketch heat transfer brooches.

Birds, birds and more birds!!!

for craft hatch

I will be selling bird head brooches mounted on thin log rounds. These will be a series of australian wrens:
Mallee emuwren (stipitrus mallee), Superb fairy wren (Malurus cyaneus), Purple-backed wren (Malurus assimilis), Lavender-flanked wren (Malurus dulcis), Lilac-crowned wren (Malurus coronatus), Grey grassren (Amytornis barbatus), Lovely wren (Malurus amabilis)

Yesterday I made this head while watching a dodgy saturday afternoon tv movie.
It is a lilac crowned wren (malurus Coronatus). It is Nuno felt, made using alpaca fleece, hand stitched with bright purple thread.

The cut rounds are from a wattle tree which came down in a storm. As the timber is still green, I'm seasoning it in the oven.Unfortunately for one batch I had the temperature up too high and split most of the rounds. Because of that, I know 50-80 degrees is a good range to work in. After reducing the moisture content, these will be sanded, shellaced and varnished.

I anticipate the brooches to look simliar to the above picture, only the log rounds will be varnished.

Craft Hatch April market

I'm taking part in Craft Victoria's Craft Hatch again. It is an incubator market for student and emerging designers. I am a stallholder at the April market, taking place in the city library on Degraves st, Melbourne.

This year I will be selling birds, birds and more birds! Specifically embroidered brooches and nuno felt sculptures. These items will go online after the market and be available for purchase through my ETSY store (www.thevibrantcity.etsy.com) ... so if you are without cash on the day --the library has no eftpos/credit facilities-- or unable to attend, you get another chance to scoop up some awesome bird art.