Well my first proper experience as a vendor at a fair is over, and I thought I’d share the rich and pungent experience with you. Why pungent? You ask. Well it was hot, blindingly hot and sticky, and with stickiness comes pungency. Even though I kept slathering myself with sunscreen, I’m now a few shades …
As the fine fair of Viva Vienna draws close, I am at my favorite stage of work. The finishing up stage. There is a reason why I kept getting stylist jobs in London. I love pulling bits and bobs together to create a cohesive look, presentation is a big deal to me, and now I actually have my …
When I was at college, I would spend my vacations in London working at the Joss Graham Gallery, a truly fascinating shop that sold exotic textiles and artefacts from all over the world. I loved the bohemian, Aladdin’s cave atmosphere of the shop, and really enjoyed working there, and learning about all the things they …
I used the plastic lid from my son’s box of trucks as a plate for inking my roller yesterday. It’s been that sort of week. Two birthdays, one ear infection, Walk To School Week, and around 50 shirts to iron and label for the fair. I’m running on a cocktail of tea and pure adrenaline …
What a great morning. I just had a pow-wow with a good buddy and local designer, who runs a ‘kitchen table’ business like me, making fabulous T-shirts for kids, in the middle of mayhem. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, there is nothing like a good critique. My work suffers when I spend …
The T-shirts are coming along nicely. It has been a steep learning curve, but the nice thing about screen printing is that you get pretty fast results. I have been taking an ‘intuitive’ approach to my printing: just going with the flow, printing a bit, standing back to look at the results, then adding something else. …
Pictures of my house being slowly overtaken by printing madness. It has been a productive day so far. The T-shirts are coming along nicely, but I fear the house may be swallowed up in the process. The upside?? I’ve become much better at doing the dishes on time, now that I need the sink to …
I have made no bones about the fact that this blog is all about juggling.Juggling ideas, juggling roles, keeping all those balls up in the air at the same time and not losing your balance. Take today for example. I dropped the kids off at school, came back and made these prints: I quite like …
This morning, after dropping my son off at day care, I decided to pick up my groceries before getting to work. There is an old man at the grocery store, who is particularly fond of my kids and always stops to say hello to me. “Hello” said the man looking at me in a concerned …
Last Friday during my Big Cleaning Frenzy, I came across an old project drooping in a corner feeling sorry for itself. I’ll tell you more about this precious discovery a little bit later… First I want to talk about unfinished projects. They take up a lot of space, but they can be a good thing. …
