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!