To market.

It's almost Kraftbomb time again, and our place has just been secured. The 30th this time. Hope to see you there!



In the mean time we are trying our luck at two other craft markets this weekend. The Bayswater Art and Craft Fair, at Bayswater Primary School 1-6pm this Saturday (right down the road from my house!) and the Clevedon Art and Craft Market, this Sunday, 9-2pm. It's at the Clevedon Community Centre, the north end of Main Street.

If your near by come say hi!

Etsy finds this perfect dress.

See Etsy finds this morning? If money wasn't tight I'd be rocking this radical bib dress from Nod to Mod. I can't believe it hasn't been snapped up already, perhaps it's only me.

If you're not signed up to Etsy Finds I highly recommend it. Although most of the items are usually sold out by the time you get to them, it helps to find some of the many brilliant stores. Buy handmade this christmas! It's worth every penny. You can sign up to the emails here.

Jody's photos.

I have just come across Jody Rogac's photography and am loving it. I know it sounds strange but her shots make me think of 'living', even her fashion photography seems unstaged to me and all her shots oddly make me wish I'd been there at the time. I've had a hard time picking favourites to add here, I've ended up with a quite a few.

Jody has worked for Rolling Stone, i-D Magazine and Jonathan and Olivia as well as becoming a member of Young Photographers United in 2007, just a year after graduating. Talent. And she blogs!

Bliss!

All photography by Jody Rogac.

The Sartorialist does Rio.

The Sartorialist has been shooting in Rio this past wee while and has just popped a bunch of photos up, I hope there is more to come. Perfect timing to get me ridiculously excited about our adventure, tickets just arrived.


My favourite shot, The Sartorialist, Rio.

There is also some photos of a particulary stylish girl named Eva, in Paris. I could not love her tights, coat, pom pom bag and hair more.

The Sartorialist, Paris.

Fused.

I've been interested in fusing plastic bags for awhile now and really want to get into doing some of my own fused products. It seems to be really easy (so the instructions tell me)- but I'll let you know when I get round to testing it out for myself!

Here are some of the best fused products I've seen lately on Etsy, they are pretty darn attractive I think!

Leahmackindotcom's fused plastic bag covered books.

Mssmo85's fused grocery bags purse. I also really like their skull scarf (which is on sale).



And my favourite of all, Curious Doodles 'I just need to be held' Laptop case. Made from over 30 plastic bags, lined with extra soft upcycled tshirt fabric and include padded pocket channels for protection stuffed with (more) plastic bags. Perfecto.

Swap-Away.

Alex, Jess and I are in the midst of organising a clothing swap event here in Auckland called 'Swap-Away'.

Swap-Away is being held on the 6th of December, at the Leys Institute Hall in Ponsonby- and will hopefully be a whole lot of fun. If it sounds like something you'd be keen to attend you can sign up to our Swap-Away mailing list on the 'blog.

Hope you can make it!

Keepin' creepy.

Happy (belated) Halloween!

Hope you all had fun nights out in ridiculous costumes or at least a pot of piping hot yummy pumpkin soup.