Hair Curlers

These vintage Clairol hair curlers were calling out to me at a recent Value Village visit. They proved to be a really big challenge. I was really hoping to have the lid open so that you could remove the curlers but I couldn't find a vinyl strong enough that could hold it's shape on its own. In the end I had to sew the lid closed and the curlers give the lid its shape. I'm a little obsessed with power cords these days, I love adding them to all my pieces.




Funnily enough last week I picked up a 1975 copy of the Eaton's Catalogue and inside were the exact curlers!

Felt Music

My felt microphone was used for an advertisement for Felt Music in Campaign magazine published 7th November 2008. It was so exciting to see my work full page in a magazine!

Gaming Magazines

I've been without a scanner for about a year now so I've had work piling up to be scanned. Thanks to Dianne and Shawn I have a scanner again finally, so here's some older stuff that I've been wanting to share.

The following are some gaming magazines that featured my felt Nintendo system:

Games Master May 2008

GEE July/August 2008

Nintendo Power June 2009

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.

 

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

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