Made on the Left: Success!

The craft fair was a great success! Thank you to everyone who came down, it was lovely to see you all. I was so happy with what I sold, and I feel like I learned a lot about what people want to buy.



I made these brooches from felt and Japanese fabric for the fair, and they sold really well. I was a little surprised that the more conservative ones sold before the cuter ones-- I guess not everyone loved the sugar overload like I do! I'll be making more for my etsy store soon.

Photos by the lovely Lisa Max, who had a stall next to me. She sold stuff like crazy, people love her designs (for obvious reasons!)

Stamping is awesome

I carved my first stamp! It is a little bird. It came out a bit wonky but I prefer to think of it as rustic!



I just used an eraser and a craft knife, although I've just bought some carving tools which will hopefully help me make the next one a bit more polished. It's so much fun, I can't wait to make more!

Made on the Left

I will have a stall this Saturday (12 July) at Made on the Left, a craft market showcasing Western Australian talent. It will be held at the Hyde Park Hotel, 331 Bulwer St North Perth, from 11am to 4pm. Entry is free and there are going to be lots of very talented people selling their stuff, so if you live in Perth, come and check it out! I will have comics, badges and stuffed Space Rabbits for sale, and I am frantically working on a new item, felt brooches. I have so much to do and so little time!

little bear

This is a bear I made for Lisa's birthday. He is sewn in embroidery floss on calico, then backed with a pretty print in autumn-y colours and stuffed. He is very small, he fits in the palm of your hand.



Beautiful photos by Lisa, of course.

space rabbits

Well, I've finally opened my Etsy shop and put up some of my Space Rabbits for sale. I had a lot of fun matching backing fabrics, although it was hard to get nice matches for such bright colours-- I was envious of Lisa, whose brown owl looked good with everything! The rabbits are quite fun and simple to make, and the screenprinted image looks lovely. Looking at these is making me want to get the screen out again...

little bird

I sewed this little bird by hand while I was sick last week. Foolishly I thought, "This is so tiny, it will take no time at all! It will be an easy little project." Ha! Sewing a little thing with a curved edge is the most fiddly thing imaginable. Sewing a giant one on the machine would have taken a tiny fraction of the time! It's funny how people assume that large hand-made objects are "worth" more. Oh well, it is a cute little bird nonetheless, and it certainly made me appreciate my machine!

my house

I always like seeing pictures of other people's houses, so I thought I'd share a couple of photos that Lisa took last weekend. Other craft bloggers' houses seem to look like they have been styled for a magazine, but I can't compete with that, so these are candid shots (as in, I didn't know she was taking them till I saw them on her Flickr).



This is the 'dining' (sewing, drawing, dumping piles of things) room. It contains most of our books (although we have another bookcase in the study and one in the hall, and one still in the box waiting to be made up [thank you, IKEA]). A few points:

1. That iron has never been used for clothing, only for fabric. I HATE IRONING

2. My fabric stash on the right-hand side grew this weekend, thanks to a trip to Textile Traders and Spotlight with Lisa!

3. Yes it is always this messy

4. Actually this is pretty tidy compared to how it usually looks



A little corner of the kitchen, where a few ornaments and a teapot were dumped in the unpacking process, when I was promising myself that I would go through and order everything beautifully later (this was a year ago). Still, they look rather nice together!