Tuesday 25 September 2012

Craft Fair


We had quite an experience taking Ectopic Heartbeats and Katie's Owl Sanctuary to Kinson Community Centre! Not quite our target audience, but it was fun :)










I'm making a few things for friends at the mo, plus I'm really getting into crochet and gonna be picking up my knitting needles again, so will be busy with these things for a while. Also writing again...more ideas...


Nina x

Friday 21 September 2012

Girls with wings and tender things

Frida

Have been sewing and sketching like crazy these last few months for an upcoming stall where me and Nina will be selling our crafty stuff, and soon we'll be able to relax and eat chocolate all day without having anything else to finish- phew!

The illustration above is inspired by a character called Frida in one of Nina's story ideas that I love. The one below is a pen and watercolour illustration I've finished just recently, but started last year! Sometimes I'm lazy..


Shy Violet



Here's a poem that I embroidered on a doily, inspired by moths and listening to lots of Bat For Lashes (who me Nina and Clair our friend will be seeing soon, can't wait!)...







...A butterfly embroidered on canvas and cut up bed sheets (bad habit of mine)...



...And here's the first owl I've made with a doily belly! There will definitely be more as I have a whole collection of doilies that I've been picking up as I go along, and I didn't really have any use for them until now. This one I've named Rosie, because the material is floral, though you can't really see it in the photo.



And here's another one with a love heart belly and bush-baby-button-eyes...



...And a lil' embroidered love note on the wing :). But before you get the Whitney Houston song stuck in your head, the idea for it came from Lovesong by The Cure <3


Here's another embroidery I did a while ago after a rummage in Hobby Craft where I bought this blue material. At first I was only going to embroider the writing, but while listening to Mazzy Star with Nina she told me I should appliqué on a Mazzy Star-like swan, and even though it was tricky, and took up a lot of my patience, it worked out in the end. Thanks Nina! 





And lastly, a few framed prints of my photography with frames I found in charity shops hehe :)

speaking of photography... there'll be another blog post soon about a photo shoot I did with my friend yesterday, but that's all I'm saying for now. The rest is a surprise <3





-Katie xx

Tuesday 11 September 2012

Wimborne Model Town




On Saturday we took some mushrooms and grew rather tall, then went for a walk around Wimborne village...no, I tell a lie. We went to the toy village and stomped around like giants from up the beanstalk. 







The wee-est book by Anne Rice I ever did see...


A bit forlorn I cannot fit inside...





I nearly bought a nursery rhyme book with illustrations by Arthur Rackham but it was a bit pricey and I thought I better save the pennies. Boy, I wish I'd never listened to Jimminy Cricket on my shoulder there - now I regret not getting it. But we did find some lovely things in charity shops and I bought some lovely coloured embroidery thread and balls of wool for my ill-fated crocheting venture...








I went into a craft shop where the lady who runs it also teaches sewing classes in the evenings after the shop's closed. she took some of my business cards and has asked if I could take some of my stitched poems for her to display on her walls and sell for me. I'm so thrilled! I want to do this more around the local area, not to mention get involved with more craft fairs. I have one coming up on the 22nd at Kinson Community Hall, so as I'm on holiday next week I'm going to be working on a few smaller embroideries...








Katie being all pensive with the daisies behind her...



...my favourite shop, for a few reasons :0) ...



Wimborne is the kind of place where fairies could thrive...

Nina x