New Smith Corona Typewriter

Before our big move I made a different Smith-Corona typewriter. For some reason I've always steered clear of using purple. It wasn't a dislike of the colour, more a fear of it for some strange reason. I'm really glad I did it, I love how the colour turned out, you can call me cured!

printcutsew.com

It's been far too long since I've updated this blog. I blame a broken scanner and buying my first home with my boyfriend Spencer. I'm also insanely busy working on a really large piece that I'll be letting you know more about later. 

Back in February the lovely Michelle SaintOnge (who you may have seen on Martha!) interviewed me for her website printcutsew. If you're interested in screen printing she has some amazing tutorials including how to build your own screens on her site. My interview is here.

You can also check out a tutorial I made to create a monster brooch.

Michelle also has a great interview with Roisin Fagan of Bespoke Uprising with lots of tips for any of you interested in selling your work at large craft fairs.

 

Etsy Front Pages

Yay my cameras made it to the front page of Etsy!

Luv-able Hug-able 2008

For this year's Luv-able Hug-able show at Gallery Hanahou in New York I sent an array of monsters and a couple of sculptures including this digital alarm clock. The show opens December 4th. It's going to be awesome, I wish I could be there!!!

Repixx

Repixx is opening tomorrow night at Argyle Fine Art.

Photographer Chr!s Sm!th assigned 15 different artists different band photographs that he'd taken and each artist was asked to make their interpretation.

I was given this photo of Wintersleep. The way Chr!s had photographed sections of each person's body seperately reminded me of the different sections on an insect's body and having just been looking through the framed bugs at a museum, I came up with my idea. The embroidered details on each bug's back are inspired by the Wintersleep's guy's clothing. 

Check out the reviews in this week's Coast

and on Things of Desire 

Snarves!!!

Here's some of my new snarves, slithering around on my dining room floor, before they were shipped off to Distill Gallery.

Plush You 2008

For this year's Plush You show I decided to make a couple of robots and a ray gun. Both of the robots have a little hiding space in their chests. The ray gun is mounted on a canvas board with hooks so that it can still be played with, you never know when a ray gun can come in handy!