Getting ready to swap.

Swap-Away is this weekend! Jee-whizz that has come around so quickly. Alex, Jess and I have been working away on our end of things and we really hope its a super successful day for all. We took a whole bunch of flyers to Kraftbomb yesterday and had a lot of interest so we hope the Leys Institute is packed out come this Saturday.

We are still working away at sending out the packs to those who have sent us through their entry fee this past week. We really hope you all enjoy them and thank you for all the kind words from those who have already recieved them.

I best go shopping for some scrumptious cupcake ingredients.



And I finally picked up my pants! (excuse my gumby look)

Hungry Creek.

Alex and I have been attending a jewellery class, at Hungry Creek, every Thursday evening for the past little while. Finally I have something to show for it, and one more brooch in the works. I've really enjoyed the class and learnt a lot of techniques that I hope to put into practise on my own designs in the future.

In the meantime I made my own slighty more crappy version of Ash Hilton's pear ring and a set of tiki earrings, using the tiki from 20c coins similar to Jane Vile's work. I own one of Jane's Endevour brooches and I love it so much I thought I'd give it a go and I'm pretty pleased with my efforts!


Ash Hilton's pear.



My pear.


My tiki stud earrings.

Hope to see you at Kraftbomb this Sunday- 11-2!

Swapsies.

We are just about ready to post off the first set of Swap-Away packs, for the clothing exchange some friends and I are hosting on the 6th of December. If you'd like to join in the fun, visit the blog here and sign up on the mailing list. We'll be in touch! For now, just a sneaky peek.

Thank you.

I just got an email from the lovely Sarah, behind the great Bobby Robin blog, she is writing a Arts Insider column for NZ girl and featured Kraftbomb along with other craft fairs around NZ. She also included a link to our blog and wee picture of our little owls (thank you!)

The article is here, if you'd like a read. Miss Deb and her sock monkeys are featured too, as well as the wonderful Cardboard box zine! Thanks Sarah and NZ Girl! We feel spesh.

Mystery Train.

Some friends and I spent most of Saturday at the Grey Lynn Festival. It was a brilliant day- lots of sun burnt people (not me thank goodness!), nice easy listening music and good goood food. The Hungarian Twister had to be my favourite of the day- a bready twist covered in cinnamon and smoking hot, and the Vietnamese summer rolls were just as tasty, the name fitted them to a tee.

When browsing the stalls we came across Binkie. I've seen some Binkie tees once before in Smith & Caugheys, but in the kids section and remember trying to fit into one did cross my mine, but on Saturday they had adult sizes galore and I wanted just about all of them. My absolute favourite being the skull below. These tees are from their AW08 Mystery Train collection.

Loving Lyell.

I came across Lyell by Emma Fletcher, on another blog just recently (which, I have forgotten!) and I love these images (and garments) in her past collections. Floral, scalloped, highwaisted and homely as hell.

Bowms life.

"I sat in this airport for six hours. I was coming home from the mountains and still coughing up blood from the altitude sickness. The cab driver hit a prairie dog on the way. The airport had two gates. A girl next to me had crayola marker all over her face, she said she was going home because of a missing persons report, she gave me a belt that weirded me out so much I had to throw it away. I have never seen taxidermy in an airport. I guess I haven't seen very many airports."

Bowms notes on her flickr photo.