Day of the Dead Exhibition at Gleaners Inc

It's the opening night of the Gleaners Inc Day of the Dead Exhibition tonight!

Here's my finished piece. An original signed digital print. My very first!

It's all framed and ready to hang straight on someones wall (if someone might like to purchase it).

I also have some Mini Art Prints available at Gleaners Inc too





See you there!

Día de los Muertos

The Gleaners Inc Day of the Dead Exhibition begins today (official opening night is next Friday night)

Liz is having a giveaway where you could win one of my Mini Art Prints (bottom right), a Middlemost calaveras badge, a Sister Outlaws Sugar skull hanger, or a Betty Jo sugar skull brooch. 

Make you sure you pop on over and enter!

I've also made my Day of the Dead design available as an iPhone case.

Enjoy!

Feather Your Nest

I've been sending sneaky peeks and random feather photos out into the universe for a few weeks now.

When I came up with the original idea for my Feather Your Nest exhibition piece, I started making lots and lots of little feathers....

.... and then when I put that idea together, it just didn't work at all. It made no sense. No-one would have been able to work out what on earth I was trying to convey.

So then I changed it up completely and did lots and lots and lots of green stitching...

...and then hand stitched all of these little feathers into place to create...

Bird on a Fly Wire

The exhibition opens tonight and runs for the entire month of August.

It's also a satellite event of Craft Victoria's Craft Cubed Festival! There'll be lots of exciting exhibitions, open studios, and workshops to visit as part of this years festival.



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A final sneaky peek

I'm terrible at surprises. Especially terrible when I'm so excited about something I'm making.

But, I've promised myself that this will be the final sneaky peek of my Feather Your Nest exhibiton piece.

My original idea didn't work (ie. it looked like crap and made no sense once put together), so I've changed it, and fingers crossed, it will all work out.

Now I just need to work out whether I've made enough feathers...

Feathering My Nest

Hallelujah the lurgy is gone and I've switched the sewing machine the back on!

Which brings me to the next thing on my agenda...

The upcoming Feather Your Nest exhibition at Gleaners Inc.

The following info is from the Gleaners Inc blog.

Here are some important details about Gleaners Inc.'s next exhibition entitled "Feather Your Nest".

• The exhibition will be part of Craft Victoria's Craft Cubed Festival. 

• The show opens on Friday August 3rd at 5.30 pm. We will have drinks and nibbles and discount shopping on the night!

• The theme of the show is "Feather your Nest". Creatives are invited to interpret this common idiom in their own way and either create a unique piece or submit a previous work that  references the theme.

• Both 2D and 3D work will be accepted

• Please remember that the space is quite small, so keep this in mind when creating your masterpiece.

• Please email Liz at gleanersinc@gmail.com to submit your work . It can be an expression of interest with your idea, pictures of your past work or an image of the piece you wish to submit.

• All work for the show is to be delivered to Gleaners Inc. by Friday July 27th. If you are out of town email Liz for the mailing address.

• All work can be for sale. The gallery will take a commission on all sales in the vicinity of 25%, so price your work accordingly.

• We have decided  to avoid  commercially produced feathers in any artwork. "Windfalls" or naturally shed feathers are fine.

• After the roaring success of the "You say Doyley, I say Doily" show in March , this coming event should not be missed!

• Go forth and start Nesting! Any other questions, just ask Liz.

Toytown Tales

I finally made it into the city yesterday to see the Toytown Tales Exhibition at Outre with Jess and Cathie.

There are lots of gorgeous close-up photos over at Teddy Bears Wednesday, but it's not until you see them in real life, that you have the chance to check out the amazing attention to detail in each creation.

Crappy iPhone photo - sorry!

I have the attention span and patience of a gnat when it comes to most types of crafting, so I really appreciate the hours Jess has taken to achieve this level of detail. Especially with the hair of each of the jointed bears.

Unfortunately the parking restrictions in the city made it impossible for me to hang around for too long. When I arrived back at my car, the car in front and the car behind me both had parking tickets.... but I didn't - hallelujah... and thankyou good karma fairies!