Freja and Elisabet

These bright orange ones i called FREJA.. i kinda think they might be my favourite-

Excuse my earring modelling face, perhaps it's getting a lil tired... 'duuhhh..'
And these ones are called ELISABET..

This pink top in the last shot was the ugliest old granny dress (think bad low waist w/ a pleated skirt) and my nana cut the waist and made it into a top for me, and i love it!!

In fact i love Annike so much..

That i painted some shoes to match! ...


And whilst on shoes, im in love with my $29 (!!!) gold ankle boots that i scored in an Asian shop in Chapel St last weekend. Check out the Marc Jacobs connical heel!!!

Annike (Blue + Green)

Annike earrings in Blue + green background ...

Necklaces so far...

I forgot to mention, I did also START to paint a couple of pendants... Im not so sure yet. I think the black moon works, but the others still not quite right. Ive named everything Swedish names to keep in line with Svenson Haart (which is a charatcter from Funky Squad btw)

Wipe away the cobwebs...

Okay, so i am not a very good blogger. Actually remembering i have a blog, takes me a few moments! And so far, my artistic achievements Ive posted may seem few and far between, i do need to start photographing and uploading. I will appreciate this one day right? I need a DIARY. I need to remember everything that is on my wishlist, that i am DYING to own that day. Maybe if i do this ill stop spending so much money!?

So myspace is long gone, facebook feels very superficial, and my entre to twitter has not exactly been with gusto. So i choose to blog. This weekend (which turned into a loooong weekend, sickie on friday, and Labour day on monday) i did absolutely nothing. I started a forged john olsen painting which depressed me when i totally stuffed it up, and then in some mini fit scraped off all the paint. Back to square 1.

SO i really want to start some sort of handmade business ... Im just not sure how to start. I just want something i can do in my spare time, even if it's barely covering costs, it will make me feel like im doing something and could potentially do it in the future sometime. (I have that gift card dream- those people who stick a couple of cut out flowers on cardboard, and become giftcard millionaires!!) So i finally got to taking some photos of the earrings i painted for Svenson Haart. I decided to do it in such a rush, i didnt do much in the way of visual merchandise. Im thinking now looking back they definitely need some sort of packaging!

SO in terms of gettng things started, I thought maybe etsy, but etsy is so jam packed with talented people sewers and collagers etc, and i dont think im the right fit for it. Plus i think you'd have to market like crazy to get anyone even to find your page! And maybe earrings are out of fashion. So i should stick to bags or necklaces or something. Im realising i either need to give up now before i waste time and money on materials, or keep thinking of ways to make it work. Ive decided on the latter, Nick has a lot of faith in me so i think i just need to figure out what's going to WORK. Let's see how it goes. Thinking cap on!

Whilst there's a love in going on...

MY NEW BIKE!! new bike i love you! (but i wish you wern't so heavy & single geared!!)

Sewing Machine I love you!!

I bought a machine on friday (finally) and have become OBSESSED. i made two dresses on saturday.. i didnt use patterns or measurement i kind of 'visualised' what i thought they should look like.!? that's asking for trouble eh!? (whole day sewing and the fit is BAD would be a bummer!)

Ive started a jacket last night. woop. AMBITIOUS.

The whole while i hear tim Gunn in my head saying "Make it work".

I LOVE SEWING xo