I just found this on the blog of some fellow creative and talented Tasmanians, Pip Stafford & Emma-Jean Gilmour...and its a total classic:
I feel so much better now I know how to make tea Properly ;-)
Friday, 22 January 2010
Help Haiti
I just wanted to let you know that I've added a link on the side (to the left) on this blog which comes from Ellie Brown at International Medical Corps:
www.imcworldwide.org/haiti
Please help Haiti deal with its current disaster by donating so that more medical assistance and food aid can reach them as soon as possible.
Many thanks and feel free to pass this information on to anyone you think may be able to help too.
www.imcworldwide.org/haiti
Please help Haiti deal with its current disaster by donating so that more medical assistance and food aid can reach them as soon as possible.
Many thanks and feel free to pass this information on to anyone you think may be able to help too.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Bienvenue chez 2010!!
A slow & calm start to the year, which is very uncharacteristic of me and matches my slower pace of life now I'm pregnant. I'm learning to embrace the transformation process and not feel guilty that I don't want to work 28 hours straight on an embroidery anymore!!
A couple of exciting things have happened to start the year off and they are:
A five page feature on my work, my home and me in Australian House & Garden magazine (February issue out now), from page 54,
AND
A couple of my Summer collection cushions are featured on page 46 in Vogue Living Jan/Feb 2010, in an image of the wonderful Monique Germon's POP-UP CO-OP store project with Sarah King & Tamara Maynes, in Bowral, New South Wales. My 'Tea For Life' cosy is in the second image.
Images courtesy of Monique Germon at PUBLIC OFFICE.
On the tea cosy front I have several half-finished cosies which greet me every morning and are just asking to be finished....so I'm working away at some retail orders and once they're done and mailed off I can 'treat' myself to some tea cosy stitching!
Can't wait!! I do wish there were more hours in each day and that I could afford to employ people to sew for me as well...this WILL happen, maybe next year if I don't lose my mind being a mother ;-)(Do I sound slightly apprehensive?!)
A couple of exciting things have happened to start the year off and they are:
A five page feature on my work, my home and me in Australian House & Garden magazine (February issue out now), from page 54,
AND
A couple of my Summer collection cushions are featured on page 46 in Vogue Living Jan/Feb 2010, in an image of the wonderful Monique Germon's POP-UP CO-OP store project with Sarah King & Tamara Maynes, in Bowral, New South Wales. My 'Tea For Life' cosy is in the second image.
Images courtesy of Monique Germon at PUBLIC OFFICE.
On the tea cosy front I have several half-finished cosies which greet me every morning and are just asking to be finished....so I'm working away at some retail orders and once they're done and mailed off I can 'treat' myself to some tea cosy stitching!
Can't wait!! I do wish there were more hours in each day and that I could afford to employ people to sew for me as well...this WILL happen, maybe next year if I don't lose my mind being a mother ;-)(Do I sound slightly apprehensive?!)
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Christmas & New Year...
I will be having another Tea Cosy giveaway in January so please visit my blog again in the New Year for details.
I want to wish everyone a wonderful and relaxing Christmas and festive New Year and hope to see/read you and your comments again in 2010.
Thank you to everyone who has checked out my blog and offered comments and links during 2009, its so wonderful to be connected to so many amazing people all over the world!
Here is a wonderful treat to end the year on, I hope you enjoy it?!
I want to wish everyone a wonderful and relaxing Christmas and festive New Year and hope to see/read you and your comments again in 2010.
Thank you to everyone who has checked out my blog and offered comments and links during 2009, its so wonderful to be connected to so many amazing people all over the world!
Here is a wonderful treat to end the year on, I hope you enjoy it?!
News.......
I have some news....its quite BIG news for me too....
I found out a few weeks ago that I'm unexpectedly pregnant, which explains why I've had three months of feeling exhausted and sleeping all the time and nausea and particular cravings!!!
Its been a total shock, and yet I'm coming to terms with it all now and starting to feel excited about it now that the first three months are just over...
And anyway, I REALLY needed a huge break -after working for months and months every day & all day & usually most of the night too- an enforced break otherwise I was heading for a huge crash, emotional and physical, so I guess a pregnancy is the only thing that was going to stop me!
Out of my slower and calmer days I've managed to make a few things, not many, which is lovely really!
This tea cosy is inspired by one of my favourite French artists, Nathalie L'Ete book my parents brought back from Tokyo for me recently, called The A to Z of Nathalie L'Ete.
It will be on my Etsy store soon too.
I found out a few weeks ago that I'm unexpectedly pregnant, which explains why I've had three months of feeling exhausted and sleeping all the time and nausea and particular cravings!!!
Its been a total shock, and yet I'm coming to terms with it all now and starting to feel excited about it now that the first three months are just over...
And anyway, I REALLY needed a huge break -after working for months and months every day & all day & usually most of the night too- an enforced break otherwise I was heading for a huge crash, emotional and physical, so I guess a pregnancy is the only thing that was going to stop me!
Out of my slower and calmer days I've managed to make a few things, not many, which is lovely really!
This tea cosy is inspired by one of my favourite French artists, Nathalie L'Ete book my parents brought back from Tokyo for me recently, called The A to Z of Nathalie L'Ete.
It will be on my Etsy store soon too.
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Finally...I've made some new tea cosies to show off!
I finished these two coises yesterday and mailed them to my friend Monique Germon's new collaborative retail enterprise, POP-UP CO-OP which is open for one month in the town of Bowral, south of Sydney.
I've been wanting to try freehand machine embroidering in a more 'drawing-ly' manner, so I referenced a lovely Bennison linen printed Toile which has this Pagoda/pavilion building on it..and in my thread drawing on the tea cosy, I have stitched a sprouting tea plant in a pot, to symbolise the cycle of sustainable production, consumption and renewal which I always associate with tea drinking and gardening!
This is the other side of the cosy, where I embroidered the Chinese character for 'Tea' (courtesy of the internet....so please tell me if I've got it wrong?)
This cosy is a follow-on from all the Mexican Teaparty scarves I've been making. This cosy is a little more 'Spring-y' with the flowers on one side. I wanted the skull side to feel a little more Piratical and "You'll NEVER stop me drinking tea, nya ha haaaaaaaaaaa!!" ('til I die), etc etc....and I like my tea cosies to carry meaningful messages!
I've been wanting to try freehand machine embroidering in a more 'drawing-ly' manner, so I referenced a lovely Bennison linen printed Toile which has this Pagoda/pavilion building on it..and in my thread drawing on the tea cosy, I have stitched a sprouting tea plant in a pot, to symbolise the cycle of sustainable production, consumption and renewal which I always associate with tea drinking and gardening!
This is the other side of the cosy, where I embroidered the Chinese character for 'Tea' (courtesy of the internet....so please tell me if I've got it wrong?)
This cosy is a follow-on from all the Mexican Teaparty scarves I've been making. This cosy is a little more 'Spring-y' with the flowers on one side. I wanted the skull side to feel a little more Piratical and "You'll NEVER stop me drinking tea, nya ha haaaaaaaaaaa!!" ('til I die), etc etc....and I like my tea cosies to carry meaningful messages!
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
The Teacosy* Revolution supports World Habitat Day...
There is less than one week left before the first Monday in October which the United Nations has chosen to be World Habitat Day.
World Habitat Day is a day for everyone to stand up and let it be known that affordable, adequate housing should be a priority everywhere.
In the coming weeks there I will be offering a Teacosy* Revolution tea cosy for auction via this blog, to help raise money to donate to this project, so please stay tuned....
To view the World Habitat Day's press release please visit:
http://worldhabitatdaynews.com
And their website link is:
http://www.habitat.org
World Habitat Day is a day for everyone to stand up and let it be known that affordable, adequate housing should be a priority everywhere.
In the coming weeks there I will be offering a Teacosy* Revolution tea cosy for auction via this blog, to help raise money to donate to this project, so please stay tuned....
To view the World Habitat Day's press release please visit:
http://worldhabitatdaynews.com
And their website link is:
http://www.habitat.org
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