stick 'em up...

on yer fridge that is...new colours, new in la petit shoppette. happy weekend :)

i used a teeny bit...

i have to confess i'm finding it tricky to cut into my new fabric - but i did make a set of magnets in each colourway cos that only uses a little bit! anyway, these have been listed in my etsy shop (UPDATE! now available here instead!) if they happen to be sold (that'd be nice!) throw me an email or convo and i'll set up a listing for you - and if you'd prefer 3 of each colour, that's do-able too :)

theraputic stitching...

i've got so many things to do and so many deadlines to keep to, i'm sort of running around blindly like i've got my head up my arse. so i escaped from the kids...crept away upstairs where i furtively made these new badges and magnets, hoping that scooby doo was being entertaining enough...available right here, and also here

in another life and cyanotype

a million years ago, after art school and before i was frank and arthur's mum, and before lusummers, i had a fabric shop with my mum...it was a brilliant experience for nearly six years, but then i found out i was having a baby and decided to close up because i didn't want to work full time and try and be a mum at the same time. we sold the premises which was really sad...because i had the most enormous studio at the top of the shop in an old barn. we used to have workshops in there too, but most of the time (when i had a day off, or we had extra help in the shop) it was mine to play and experiment in. the downside to this wonderful set-up was it was a bit of a busman's holiday...by the time i had finished helping everyone else with their fabric projects, i wasn't really in the mood to do my own thing. anyway, one technique i did have a go at was 'cyanotype' printing otherwise known as sun printing. there were many scary sounding chemicals involved in this process, and since then i have found out you can get various fabric inks that do the same job, which are brilliant. to get to the point, this morning whilst i my jimmy-jams (the best time for working, i always find) i found my old sun prints and lo and behold created these rather delightful magnets.

magnetic!

just popping in to mention a new listing in the shop, some really pretty one inch magnets called 'dilly dally doily' made from, you've guessed it, paper doilies! (do you see what i did there?) i love the patterns they make and i was so excited yesterday to find out you could get red doilies...although i suppose you could always paint the ordinary white ones...but still, it made my day, rather pathetically :)