excellent new multicoloured brooches and earrings. all hand coloured in with pencils, each piece totally different. its been fun to go back to more old school methods, and loving the multicolourness just in time for springtime!

lots of new triangle earrings can be found at pussycat black in melbourne.

and the online shelves of modamuse also recently filled up!

AND a new sydney store stocking jenhalldesigns brought to you by the lovely Finders Keepers folk. 'Follow' is opening soon and will be packed full of good things.

gosh what a long time between posts... I am not a blogger by nature!

so much has happened too. I went to Sydney and Brisbane to do the Finders Keepers markets there with Belinda of Brkich. Both long weekends were just lovely and quite a success! Met lots of lovely fellow makers, and sampled the various charms of each city location.

Most recently we did the State of Design Festival bumper edition Craft Hatch market at thousand pound bend last weekend, such a great location. And I was even allowed to man the stall by myself for the first time, and no great disasters happened either!

new things...

pics of the 2 new ranges.

massive floral phase afoot, with a few dreamy foliage images thrown in too.

BRAND NEW! are the hand drawn cloud brooches with matching round and raindrop earrings. so cute. and soon to be available everywhere!

Finders Keepers March Market

Great fun had by all a couple of weekends ago at the 2nd Melbourne Finders Keepers Market. Here are some obligatory shaky over excited happy snaps of the stall I shared with my market buddy Belinda of Brkich.

Check out my new florally range of wooden photographic earrings and also limited edition hand drawn cloud brooches and raindrop earrings that literally flew off the shelves! Apart from the massive cloud brooches, it seems its just me who likes to sport ridiculously large brooches... All the little cute ones disappeared though and were the surprise best seller of the weekend- yipee!

See also a great official market round up on the Finders Keepers website.

Belinda of Brkich did an excellent version too and lovely local maker Simply Phoebe gave us a little shout out in her blog post about the market too (AND she makes great fabric necklaces AND she bought a brooch from me, how nice!)

florally foliage inspiration for new range!

My latest range (one of, more to follow...) was inspired particularly by these 3 images. Arent they lovely, dont you just want to wear them on your ears......?

The first is a gorgeous old floral couch just hanging around on the porch at a country hotel we stayed in (yes I wish I had made them an offer). The next is my big big brother taking a dive in our back garden at home, which in summer at least if always full on florally and green. And also a certain someone honeymooning in the middle of nowhere in Norway, surrounded by leafy texture and moss.

MARKIT time

Great fun had by all at MARKIT on the weekend. jenhalldesigns and brkich teamed up once again and millions of enthusiastic shoppers braved the rain and windy conditions to come do some xmas shopping...

nice tri?

look what I made today... its a keeper!

Finders Keepers Market...

Well what a great weekend we had at the Finders Keepers Market a few weeks back. The sun shone and the shoppers were out in force! Brkich and jenhalldesigns shared a stall and much fun was had by all...

(all photos by me, except from this first really good one)

photo by Stefan Duscio

mmm nice signs!

Belinda's 'fleather brooches'

the cavernous shed 4 and B too slow to hide under the table!

excellent badger prints

the quick to disappear spotty earrings!

my new super sized wooden triangle studs, not for the faint hearted or small of earlobe!

straight lines...

my oh my how time flies! what a long time between posts...

here (at last) are some lovely new things. geometrics and triangles are totally in right now.

wood is paler, colours are neutral and pink and textured, new range includes hexagons, kites, triangles and odd sided jewel shapes.

hope you like.

new for gallery grangie...

super lovely new wooden jewelery now in stock at gallery grangie in richmond (who have a smancy new website by the way).

sugar coated colours, hazy images, pink, turquoise and peach. excellent new packaging too, been doing a bit of valentine shaped origami just in time for you know what...

small shiny and delicious, this new range is super sweet and wearable. mmmmm sugar......

sugar coated

new range coming through all sugar coated and sweet. pinks of every variety, peaches, oranges and turquoises, and the odd grassy green.

pom pom pom's

oh what happy crafty memories. hundreds of tissue paper pom pom's handmade with enthusiasm and a bit of champagne fuelled encouragement. strung up by most excellent (and tall) brother lewis, they decorated the village hall for the apres wedding party.

and then they all came down in a big pom pom pile......

beach huts, melbourne

just scanned in some great pics from the last remaining disposable wedding camera's, many lovely surprises......

starting afresh

meanwhile back at jenhalldesigns HQ things are ticking along. just finished a couple of pieces for the linden postcard show, handed in at 5 to 5 yesterday with the usual last minute wave of panic. all december was busy making hand drawn xmas postcards and presents of course, cushions etc.... but thankfully things have been selling well at grangie and breathing colours and modamuse, especially the new norway series...

'fleather' brooches hurrah

hmmm... having a little blogging trouble, forgotten how this works. the effect is nice tho- lots and lots of 'fleather' brooches from the lovely belinda at brkich. and the one on the bottom middle is mine- hurrah!!! (dont you love swapping!)

beautifully constructed huge wings, with clever and graceful hat-pin broochy bit on the back, super light and easy to wear. i have worn mine twice since i acquired in on sunday at the skirt and shirt market.

well done to belle and brkich and all those lovely empty hangers......!

new at gallery grangie!

brand new tiny earrings for tiny little gallery grangie in richmond. was very glad to hear there was only one left of old range, and they now also stock the round and lovely small wooden brooches too. featuring photographs from our norwegian adventures, this new series is all airy and light. tak.