sale

:: prints: buy 2 get one free
:: 10% off original works on paper, pendants and brooches

go see :)

collaboration ~ sneak peak

here is a sneak peak of the collaboration between kim {udessi} and i! am very excited about these. will keep you updated on the progress.
hope your week has started out nicely :)

new collages

these are the new ones. to me they represent the moment when an idea pops into my head, like a flash of light. i'll be adding them to the shop gradually.
this post is # 99, stay tuned for #100 which will be a giveaway :)

etsy gift guide

thanks to kellyvanhook i found my work featured in the etsy gift guide in the modern design section! to me this is a little bit exciting :)

saturday feature

i was happily surprised to find that i'm featured on timothy adams' blog! if you don't know it already, timothy's blog is really great for info and tips on running a business online. he's often in the etsy forums and on twitter offering free advice/how to info on lots of important stuff. check out his shop too – he makes amazing metal furniture and jewellery :)

shop of the day

am very happy to say that my shop is shop of the day on the papernstitch blog and site today. big thanks to brittni :) a great way to end the week. i'm really looking forward to this weekend as my sister and my 6 month old nephew are arriving. {have only met my nephew once so far}. they are staying for christmas, so there will be 3 small boys having lots of fun together :)
happy weekend and christmas preparations {if that's your thing}.

opposite oceans

the top one: mostly drawing and a little painting and collage. the bottom: sunny :) pencil with block print and painting and collage. will be listed soon . . .

paper n stitch

i am exhibiting with papernstitch this month! i love the site, it's so clean and classy and it's a real buzz given how great the other exhibitors are. some of my favourites: jessica gonacha, tangledskystudio, betsy walton, paige russell, and some new favourites . . .
go see :)

original ocean

these are original block prints with painting and collage added! they are so much brighter in real life . . . one of the greens is almost fluro and the orange is also light and almost fluro {well not fluro but bright and rich}! it's tricky when things are 'out of gammet' and rgb! there are 2 more which i will put in a separate post cos it will look better that way :)
happy start to the week.

arms and legs

more christmas related projects, midway along. these are arms and legs for some new characters – am not quite sure who they will be just yet!

project: decorations

i haven't been an overly christmassy person for most of my adult life probably due to living away from family and not having mum around. but now that i have kids things are different. it has become more exciting, especially as our oldest knows exactly what to expect!
we made this decoration together on monday, pics a little blurry due to melbourne's winter/summer light!
i am always inspired by what my son paints/draws/makes – he seems to have a style already and no inhibitions as to what to do next. eg the yellow and white one in the middle pic.

snowed in

i finished this yesterday. not sure why i'm thinking about snow and pale landscape colours in summer . . . i guess melbourne is still throwing in the odd freezing day.
it's a bit sketchier than usual in the hills. i put a layer of semi-transparent acrylic over the background in the bottom part which gives the texture more depth. off to get some more work done.
enjoy the weekend.

new mist

i finished this one {night mist} today. how nice it was to sit and paint! a relief after the stress of the last few days. i'm still not completely set up computer-wise – i still have to grapple with upgrading lots of things and setting up the time machine 8)

i posted too soon!

i realise now that my last post was way too soon! it turns out that my mac was suffering something far more serious than memory problems :(

so yesterday i bought a brand new one :) and it is very beautiful! the screen is so clear that it feels like i've just put on my glasses – i can actually see the pencil marks in my work even in the tiny picutres on etsy! i wish everyone had a new mac!

before the mac issues happened i sorted out all of my artwork into 3 neat folders and i came across quite a few pieces that i had forgotten to list . . . {eg above}.

i will list them when i get a cable to setup the new mac with previous settings, programs {photoshop desperately needed!} and backed up files.  

life will hopefully get back to art not computer stuff soon, am hoping . . .

crash, bang, it's all ok, sale!

last week i posted a note in the etsy forums about joining in this weekend's huge sale {buy an original and receive a free print} then on wednesday, just after i had a sale come from madeit in the minutes before i had to leave the house to pick up my 4yr old from kinder} my computer froze and started to make a noise like a vacuum cleaner. i tried to restart etc but no luck. i left the house in a state of mild panic . . . i had not made any backups in the whole 2yrs, 7 months of owning this computer! . . . all the photos of the kids, all my work . . .

when i returned the situation hadn't fixed itself! so the last few days has been filled with dread, panic and STRESS. for more than 24 hours i didn't know if i had lost all of the above and/or the computer. in the mean time a friend came around with an external hard drive {an early christmas present} and saved everything, and my husband took the sick mac to get looked at and it turns out that it's just a case of memory loss - and luckily with computers we can buy them new memory! it's still getting fixed {hence my clumsy post via my husband's pc laptop} and i'm pretty sure it'll all be ok next week - i will get my limbs back!! and i promise i will backup from now on . . .

life, sales and thankfully the weekend must go on!

happy saturday :)

modish feature

a big thanku to jena for this feature on modish – a blog i really enjoy, especially the tours through studios and workspaces. {the articles on marketing are also extremely helpful and a great support to the creative online community}. it's very exciting to see my work here!

house for sale!

i'm happy with this re-worked version of my house block print with 2 layers - this is how i was thinking of the 'trees' originally.
it's called 'our weekend house' and it has made it to the shop.
hope you like it :)

very pretty treasury

i feel honoured to have my snowy hills drawing included in nina's first treasury which looks so fresh and spunky. her blog is great too. go see . . .

groundwork

these new works by danna ray {groundwork} are on my wishlist.
1. a grand discovery
2. in passing.
they are so great. i love the natural colours with the little bursts of intense bright colour, plus the character and humour.
:)

house work

today i have been fixing up my house – i've re-done this carving to allow for the design feature i originally wanted to include. it's getting there. this is a test run - i hope to make some real ones tomorrow.