Bowls on Etsy

Set of 3 small paper mache bowls

2 small 1 medium

1 medium.

Sorry my posts are so spare at the moment.

Apart from sorting and organising things to sell not alot is happening.

I am off to Hobart in  acouple of weeks to teach a Natural Dye Workshop

so hopefully I will have something more exciting to report.

I am also hoping to get up to Melbourne next month to do a Market at

the Abbotsford Convent for anyone in the area.

It will most likely be my last one till the middle of next year.

I will let you know when things are a bit more organised!!!

Celebrity Sale

Peter Rowsthorn

This man who only the Aussies might recognise dropped into my market stall and purchased buttons. I know he saw the recognition on my face but I refrained from saying anything. I left the pointing and whispering to everyone else.

And here is what my lovely stall looked like, albeit somewhat late in the day after a few key unphotograhed pieces were sold. I added an extra table this time which meant the buttons could spread them selves out a bit more and everything was a little less crowded. And it meant the buttons were almost costantly being fondled which undoubtedly helped with sales.

Moving in a little closer you can see one of the stitched pictures the other two had already sold also one of the bowls was sold and one of the encaustic boards seen lying down on the table. And I sold quite a few cards which people constantly tell me they are going to frame. Might be something in this art lark.

The lovely buttons in bowls

And this beauty, a lovely encautic triptych called'Confluence' which will be for sale again next market. Might have to write up a little story for it. Would be ubber fantastic to sell it.

Beauty Amid the Chaos

2 lovely bowls finished and ready to sell.

Denmark Markets

These are pictures from the Market I did in Denmark on December 11 and it was a great market. I will be there again this coming Saturday for the 1st Market of 2011. I am hoping it will be just as fabulous.

 There will be silks

Buttons

Stitched Art

Art Cards

Earrings

And of course Dolly Button Girls.

I am also currently working on some encaustic pieces which I hope to have ready, some of which will be similar to the bowls in which I display my buttons. And yes everything is for sale. I am not taking it back to Tassie with me.

Echidnas

There is a great video of Echidnas here . They are just so durned cute!!!

Well, our sojourn in Albany is done, Dan is doing his last day of work today and then a whole 2 days break before we have to drive up to Perth for Xmas. I had thought that a month into our trip home we would be all relaxed by now, but as usual if it isn't one thing it's another.

But we do get highlights, like the delicious duck egg pasta I made the other night for dinner. My favourite. I just don't make fresh pasta with chicken eggs anymore as it is just not the same.Duck egg pasta is just so bouncy. Mind you I am not sure if that is the same for all duck eggs as we have muscovies which are not technically ducks, not even remotely related.

I have started some stuff in the studio, there is a dyepot happening  (of course) and I have been working on my collection of paper mache bowls, 18 of them have had an external coating of traditional gesso, several layers in fact and now I will begin to decorate them I might even take some and add them to my market stall and if a miracle occurs they may even make it to the Etsy shop coz that surely needs an update. But I do need to get my hands on a heap more beeswax. I have some coming to the next Demark Market but that is not till January 8th which seems along time to wait.

At least I have purchased all the xmas presents I am going to and they are wrapped (in recycled paper) under our titchy xmas tree.

Hope you all have a good one and I will see you on the other side.