Making Baskets

 

Yarn making and Basket weaving workshop at The Paper Mill as part of the Art & About festival in Sydney. Lots of fun and feeling very excited to experiment with the next basket project.

Bird Cage canopy at Angel Place

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Your Rainbow Panorama : Olafur Eliasson : Aarhus Denmark

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Last Friday I made a lei at the Happy Talk 'Lei Day' workshop as part of the Art and About festival that's on in Sydney at the moment. My inspiring matey Michele Morcos aka Tinytrappings was assisting Maryann Talia Pau with some fabulous crafting of joyful leis and garlands. The colours and atmosphere in the 'tent' was exciting! I love the vibrant geometric yarn weavings, wovens leaves, plastic bag 'grass skirts' and colourful bold patterns everywhere. (I think an excursion to the Pacific Islands for more of this inspiring goodness could be in order..) The workshops are on for another few weeks in Sandringham Gardens, Hyde Park North and at The Paper Mill. There are also workshops for weaving bicycle baskets and accessories, yarn making, upcycling furniture and book making & binding. Check out happytalk.net.au for more details.

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Learning a new language is much more fun if you have beautiful illustrations to boot! You can get a copy of this stunning German book by French comic artist & illustrator Blexbolex here. On a side note, what a cool name. Blexbolex. I like the way way the rolls of the tounge. He's done a whole swag of amazing books like this one.