The Market - this Sunday

Come along and join us at The Market this weekend
One of Tasmania best design markets which showcases the best artists designer and makers that Tasmania has to offer and with the festive season ever looming now is the time to start thinking about Christmas pressies for all your loved ones, here you will find something unique and in most cases not available in retail outlets, so you are sure to find something very special .
I will be showcasing some of my new Christmas stationery as well at my original art works at extremely reasonable prices


You can find the market at :

The masonic lodge Hall at 3 Sandy bay road Hobart
from 10am- 3pm Sunday the 3rd of October

Just for the fun of it

This is what I do when I have day that I don't really feel like working to a plan
I have been wanting to print some of my wooden type for a while now and just never seem to find the time so today instead of finishing orders I crack out the wooden type and started printing for the fun of it, I love printing, when it is done for the fun of it !

I hope you are all having a wonderful day
Narelle x

Today in the Badalassi household

What a surprise I am printing again!
geez I need to get a life

Get a load of the lovely drying racks I borrowed from a secret location
that I cannot disclose, I will buy a set of these soon when I become a bit more cashed up
as these are not cheap damn it !

The next photo is for all you art/craft people that don't have a pristine white, tidy, lick the floor clean work area . Don't get me wrong I would love a space like that but in reality I would never be able to maintain that sort of order . I really must say that this is pretty bad for me, I don't usually have stuff all over the floor just all over the table hehe

Oh my Darling sponsor Giveaway

Anyone that knows me, knows I love to have a give away every now and then and when I do I try to make it worth the effort of entering
Anyway, I have become a sponsor of a lovely little blog called oh My Darling and we are giving a lovely big package of Ruby Victoria letterpress Christmas stationery goodies to 1 lucky winner.

So if you would like to go into the running to win this price pack just follow your
nose to the Oh my Darling blog site and follow the instructions
Goodluck everyone x

new work finally emerging

At long last I finally found a little bit of time after the school holiday madness to sit and do a bit of drawing for my upcoming exhibition at Cube Art and Design this November, I know I am leaving it a bit late but I have realised I do most of my best work when I am seriously under pressure.


Flame Robin - linocut almost ready to be carved out

It will only be a small show as cube is a little space and I will be sharing it with local ceramicist and friend Julie Hoddy - Magoolie Designs, who also live in Blackmans Bay.

Blue Wren - Linocut block almost ready to be carved out

The exhibition will consist of my new works based on photography of native Tasmania Birds by Nickolay Tilcheff who kindly allowed me to use his stunning photography as reference material for my linocut prints, I will also be displaying my letterpress work I have been making over the past 18 months.
Julie will be exhibition her beautiful porcelain rang of tea light candle holders, drink coaster, jewelery pieces and hopefully her stunning french Bistro range of dining ware.

I will post the dates of the exhibition as it gets a little closer and I hope you all can come along and have a look at some lovely art work and say hello

Narelle x

Paper, Scissors,Rock Stationery

Ruby Victoria letterpress & printmaking have a new stockist in NSW.

Nikki from paper Scissors Rock stationery runs an online and party plan stationery business where she will bring along all her wonderful stationery set it all up beautifully so that all your family and friends can peruse and order at their leisure.


The big plus is that you get to handle and have a close look at everything you like before you buy ...genius really !



check out Nikki's lovely store here Paper Scissors Rock stationery
and the blog here

little black crow

Take a look what I bought myself today.
I treated myself an original art work by friend and fellow artist Grace Garton.
Well what can I say about Grace, I think this very creative woman is just wonderful and I am so proud to be able to call her friend .
I first met Grace and her man Pig at one of the first markets I ever attended in Hobart as Ruby Victoria letterpress but before that I would admire Graces sweet & extremely beautiful made bunnys and elephants in a little shop in the middle of Hobart where we both had our work for sale .

Right from the start we became friends and my admiration of her work had continued to grow as she has created more and more different kinds of wonderful thing.
I have particularly fallen in love with her collage paintings.she is a marvel truely the amount of work that goes in to these works is truely breath taking and the end product is even more so, that I decided purchase my very first Grace Garton original today and I am thrilled & I cant help but think I have gotten in just at the right time with her work selling like hot cakes and galleries throughout Australia clambering to hang her works

please check grace out at her etsy and her blog

Ruby Victoria & Mrs Shepherd

Here are some photos of the little books that myself and Mrs Shepherd collaborated on.

Naomie and I met by chance on Facebook and struck up a friendship after realizing that we has a whopping amount of things in common which is pretty rare for me.
After not too much time we had decided it would be fun to do a little book with some of Naomies illustration turned into a linocuts then combined with letterpress type and printed by me on my little press.

Once printed the covers and pages were sent off to Naomie to bind and add some more of her lovely illustrations in them


There are only 10 of them in existence and each one is different to the next .

Niche market Launceston

Another wonderful weekend spent taking part in our second Niche market this year.
This time around we were set up at the very well equipped University Art school and gallery it actually make me want to move north just to have access to this fantastic facility.
Loads of lovely stall holders and customers making the two days very enjoyable and well worth the trip up from Hobart.

Niche Market

Niche Market is on again in Launceston this weekend and Ruby Victoria letterpress & printmaking will be in attendance again.
This time we will be at the Inveresk site at the University art gallery site from 10am to 4pm both Friday and Saturday .
We are hoping to meet many new customer as the Market is running as part Junction 2010 and arts conferences and weekend of arts demos and displays through out Launceston
So please come along say hello and snap up some early Christmas stationery

see you there
Narelle x

Wooden type, Moleskines and new Christmas stationery

Love getting stuff like this in the mail and today was like Christmas I have been eagerly waiting for my Moleskine notebooks to arrive so that I can get printing on them.
I am thinking with all my new wooden type arriving at the same time I might get busy on Sunday and print them up for Niche Market next weekend in Launceston at the Inversesk university art school 27th and 28th of August from 10 am on both days

Moleskines

These next photos are of 2 of my new Christmas range for this year and will be for sale at next weeks Niche market as well as in my online stores , these note cards pack make and elegant not fussing alternative to conventional Christmas cards and they are beautiful to write on as they are printed on soft 100% cotton rag paper

74 limelane feature

A couple of days ago I was contacted by Kellie of 74 lime lane saying that she had been browsing around the internet looking for Australian Designers and came across me on etsy or it might have been madeit handmade and wanted to do a feature on her blogs about my work in her Lime Light Tuesday section
So tomorrow is the day and I wanted you all to know first hand that there is going to be a giveaway as part of the feature , all you have to do is visit the blog and leave a message saying what colour print you would like to win and leave an email address that you can be contacted on in case you happen it win so follow the link and be in it to win it and have a look at all the other wonderful designers that have been feature here before me

74 Lime Lane Blog giveaway

Wooden type

After watching the fantastic doco called typeface and thought it was about time i got out the very little wooden type i own out and finally print it .
Just a couple of little groupings of letters printed on some nice antique white cotton rag paper then if these work out ok I think I might print them on the Moleskine jounal/sketchbooks I have just bought, iIam not sure what colours to use just yet
If you have any suggestions I am all ears

Narelle x

Spoonful of Galleons

A little while back I wrote to the lovely Anthea of Spoonful magaZINE expressing my interest in contributing something to her little zine and to my joy she contacted me a couple of weeks back asking if I would like to be a feature artist in Spoonfuls Objects of Affection spread, of course I said yes.The task for all artists involved was to create a piece of work being painting, drawing, sewing anything really depicting the chosen object, this time around was a Galleon or tall ship to my complete horror but I am happy to say I think I have pulled it off ok

let me know what you think.


please check out the Spoonful blog and purchase one of the zines that are available they are a very sweet little publication http://spoonfulzine.com/

Narelle x

2 markets in one weekend

thats right we are back at Salamanca Markets again this weekend , praying for nice weather as it is forecast for rains eeep! I am now frantically trying to work out a stall set up in my mind to stop from getting a wet botty and left with only pulp to sell !

I will also this weekend be back at The Market at the Masonic temple here in Hobart
I haven't had a stall here since April so it will be nice to be back there along with some other lovely artists and designer.
So please come along to one or both of these markets this weekend and have a look at what some of Tassies best makers have been up to.

see you there
Narelle x