Clay /8

I've been having fun making clay and trying to fill each kiln load so we can make the most of each firing

Below are my latest efforts :)

Not sure if you can really tell (hard to photograph that shiny gold) but the guys on the left are tiny cat heads and some clouds on the right :)

Spotted bunny

And his side profile

Bunnies, butterfly, onigiri and the opera house!

Tiny spoons

And our first experiments firing with glass! We tried putting some marbles (combo between smashed and whole) into the bottom of a bowl I made and I think it turned out really pretty! 

More experiments to come :)

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Clay Kangaroo Planter

Aside from my crazy cat banana this kangaroo planter is one of my most favourite things I've made in clay to-date! 

I kept his base gloss free but drew on the design with red gloss paint. If you don't recognise the plant it's - kangaroo paws! I thought it would also be cute to paint his paws red as well :)

I drew some minimal eyes on with a special clay pencil (a normal pencil's colour would just burn off during the hot firing temps).

And a shot of him after his first bisque firing and before he's been painted where I make sure to do a lot of sanding and smoothing!

Finally, I've been growing this little succulent from a discarded leaf, so I was happy to finally of found a home for him!

I'm planning to make another kangaroo in a similar vein but without a planter this time but a baby joey!

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Love Zine Giveaway Reminder

Just a reminder you have 2 days left to enter the giveaway, all you need to do is leave your email at this blog post here! I'll be drawing the name out of the hat on Tuesday :)

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Love Zine + Giveaway (entry closed)

So over the past few months I've been collating old poems, letters and cards that Ben and I have been writing to each other since 2010. The idea was to put together a love zine of all the best! This process took longer than I had imagined but I'm super thrilled with the outcome. A whole lot of love has gone into making this zine be the prettiest it can be!

I thought valentines would be a lovely day to share this on the blog and bonus points as it's only a few weeks on from our seven year anniversary too :)

The zine is A5 and you can go grab yourself a copy over on my etsy store (more info there as well!).

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COMPETITION TIME

I also want to give away a copy to one of you guys!
Simply comment below with your email address and next Tuesday (21/02/17)
on the blog I'll announce who the winner is! 

GOODLUCK!

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Badges - Illustrations

My final few badges to show you guys - a few illustration ones I did to add to my gigantic pile! 

Possibly, I made a little too many for myself :p

Bunny badge! I drew this bunny off one of the bunnies we saw at rabbit island in Japan, still can't get over that cuteness of that place

Remember when I said I used the marbled paper we made for something else - this is it!

And lucky last a little swan boat, also inspired from our Japan trip! 

Okay I promise that's all for badges, for now anyway :p

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Badges - Hand Lettering

Okay I'm back to share a bunch more badges I made when we had access to a badge maker - so fun! I went hand lettering mad, fell into a Pinterest spiral of inspiration + rad blog buddies like Katrina Sophia helped fuel the desire to try myself. I found when learning and practising this blog (Pieces Calligraphy) and its tutorials so so helpful! It gave me confidence really quickly which I didn't think was possible since my hand writing is definitely something I'm not normally proud of! I'm popping up a photo of each finished badge and also the design, because photographing badges is hard especially with the glare factor!

For our recent Japan trip, we used a translator to try and help me get vegan meals. I remember Ben looking into what the direct translation of Kanzen Saishoku Shugi No was and apparently it came up as "perfect vegetable person" which I thought was totes adorable and of course have wanted to make something with that phrase ever since!

Okay there is no denying I'm 100% in support of Adnan coming out of jail, don't know what I'm talking about? Go listen to Serial and promptly follow up with Undisclosed, you can thank me later :)

I'm also definitely a proud cloud watcher! If you're a cloud lover like myself, you should follow the cloud appreciation society on facebook here!

This one was inspired by El Juantastico's hand lettering, I love his 90s messy look he's got going with his work!

Looking at this makes me laugh because I wrote it thinking it said "birthdays suck" when Ben informed me, sux, actually reads sucks - ha ha ha, I'm definitely no gangster :p

I really like how the yellow came out on the black for this one!

and yup, I had to do this one - super romantic at heart!

I need to wear this on the days I want to try and be productive :)

And finishing off with some pink birthday cheer :)
 

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Broad city badges

So our friend lent us his badge maker (so lucky!) and the first thing that came to mind was to make myself a set of broad city badges - conveniently timed with just having watched the third season (so good!)

I loved getting to draw these super funny ladies - do you guys watch the show? I actually didn't super dig it at first but binged it with Emaya last year in Melbourne and now I can't wait till they do a fourth season :)

Do you have a fav character, I think I'm probably most like Abbi but I love Ilana's fashion and have a super sweet spot for Lincoln :)

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Elephant Rope Tee

A while back I was contacted about one of my designs and incorporating it onto a girls soccer tee. I'd loved that idea so much especially because the design has its own story behind it - which you can read here :)

I got sent a copy, so cue improtu photo shoot in our front garden! How great are the colours!

I thought the brooch (from 'I like cats' etsy) that I got from Ben for my birthday matched beautifully :)

And lucky last, a photo of the back
Now I can pretend I'm in a rad soccer team :)

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