Mother & Son Printers

Christopher and I spent a lovely couple of hours down at the studio together today without any interruptions 

ie. Ruby, doing some printing together.

Christopher carving the finishing touches to his lino block

We have Printed some greeting cards that Christopher will be selling on my stall this weekend at the Longford Makers market this Sunday, I think it is going to be kind of fun to have Christophers linocut printing next to mine.

The Look of a seasoned printer

The concentration !

The printer hard at it.

The look of a happy printer

The end product

Christopher and I will be at the Longford Makers Market at  the Longford Town Hall, Wellington Street Longford,  this Sunday selling out cards and other linocut and letterpress art works and stationery,  so please come along say hi  and buy one of Christopher's new cards I think they are Fabulous !

Rubys pretty room

Beautiful bunting by my friend Luisa of Dance in my garden   and the crocheter blanket Nonna made.  

Ballerina mirror an op-shop find I had to have it

Bunting by Dance in my garden

Collections of tins I have found at various markets

Baby cradle from the tip shop &  flying V ukelele what little girl doesn't need one of these !

owl pin cushion & a pussy cat

My lovely new Little black crow pincushion I got at the nook market last weekend from my friend Grace, love ya work Gracie.

Brucie not lookin' too sure of himself

 I just wanted to share some photos I have been taking with my brand new camera I had to buy one after Bruce knocked my other one off the table one too many times Grr but it was a great excuse to buy a better camera so thanks Bruce! you da man ! even if you are the naughtiest little cat I have ever lived with :)

Settled in for the long haul

photos from The nook

 

Ruby Victoria letterpress 

Little Black Crow

Love these ballerina framed photos

Vintage clothing

A Little one said..

hand forged rings from cutlery....Nice

New stuff for the Nook Market

The inagural Nook Market is on this Sunday at the St James Hall, Elizabeth Street New Town from 10 am till 2pm, please come along and support this new local market, there will be lots of great local artists selling their work as well you will be able to find secondhand clothing and vintage treasures , I can't wait to have a rummage around to see what I can find, I hope to see you there :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

letterpress paper coaster bunting printed using tradition lead letterpress boarders

linocut printed coaster card bunting

 Close up of Linocut printed coaster card bunting

For those of you how want to get in early for Christmas I have reprinted some more of these gift tags I sold out of these at the last Apron Design Market back in July to my surprise and delight, people seem to really like the post consumer recycled card I print on it is lovely and thick and nice to write on.

Linocut/letterpress printed Christmas gift tags printed on 100% post consumer recycled card

linocut/letterpress snowflake gift tags in dark turquoise

Painting love

I love this Painting by My Friend Naomie Shepherd 

I'm just sayin !

To my utter delight I received this post card from my friend and fellow Printmaker Alfred Stark in the post the other day.

 Alfred  lives and works in Illinois USA and is having and exhibition of his works for the next month, if you are in the area or are close enough to travel I suggest you check this show out .

I personally have quite a few of Alfreds works in my collection of prints and they are some of my prized possessions and are destined to be hung very soon in our new house.

This exhibition is going to showcase Alfred's latest collection of hand printed wood cut and they are funny and fabulous I love them!

You can see and buy Al's other works from his etsy store here

Collaboration for a cause on Facebook

 In an Australian first the handmade community has come together to Collaborate for a Cause with 220 Facebook Businesses creating nearly 100 one of a kind handmade items to be auction  this  coming weekend  (29th - 31 July) to raise fund for more than 40 Charities

“The aim of 'Collaborate for a Cause' is to promote friendship, understanding and fun throughout the Facebook handmade community, while raising important funds for charities.

“What sets it apart from other charity auctions is that it lets donors select their own charity recipient and that each donated item is a collaborative effort between two or more handmade businesses, meaning that every piece is truly exclusive.

  Anna of King Billy contacted me to see if I would be interested in doing a collaborative project with her as part of the Facebook Collaborate for a cause project of course I said yes not only to help another person but to also see what Anna would make with the fabric I sent to her to work her magic with and boy she did just that, I sent up a pack of some of my newly printed red snowflake design printed calico and waited to see what she came up with.

Hasn't she done a superb job 

 

“We chose to support Cure our Kids because of the fantastic support they give to families with kids  that have Cancer, in the Oncology ward at Westmead Children’s Hospital in NSW. 

 

 

 If you would like to also like to support this Charity please follow the link to the Collaborate for a cause Facebook page to bid on these very lovely item as well as items from many other collaborating artist on Facebook.

www.facebook.com/collaborate4acause.

 

 

 

Grab a printed Ruby Victoria Bargain at the Barn this Saturday

It has been a while since I have had a stall at The barn Market so it will be nice to be there again this Saturday in that lovely warm old barn with lots of other clever makers and artists.

I have decided that it is time to clean out a bit of excess stock a little so I will be having a big bowl of heavily reduced items to make way for some new things I have been working on so please come along and grab a bargain.

See you there maybe ? 

Cute duckie notecards Available now on Madeit

These cute notecards are the perfect way to share your happy news about your new arrival or to congratulate someone who has just had a baby.

People with know straight away there has been a new arrival when they recieve a cute printed Duckie envelope in the mail.  

They are printed on my antique letterpress machine using a hand draw and carved linocut

 you will receive 5 C6  printed envelopes made from post consumer recycled paper
5 printed 100% cotton rag paper note cards
All tied together with cotton butchers twine

Available in my Madeit store right now

Images from the Christmas in July, Apron market

We had a lovely time at the Apron Market even though it was chilly people still came out to see what was on offer , great to see some familiar faces and to meet new people that like my work.

The wonderful Caravan Photo prop
that looks alot like my little caravan :) very sweet!

Even Ruby survived the Market by making friends with Harriet of Dick and Dora's little boy Rupert, they had a wonderful time playing hide and seek making Christmas decorations together and sharing a lolly pop erk!

Ruby & Rupert

New linocut place cards/ drink coasters

The market on a very chilly Friday night

Some of my new handprinted and sewn felt Christmas decorations

linocut hand stitched brooches