Wish upon a star

I've been spending hours hunched over the computer colouring this typographical drawing (you can see it without colour here) and I think it's nearly ready to send off to the printers.  I've been working on my handwriting on another project too, a facebook banner for our new band, Mermaid and Mariner.  

I'll hopefully be bringing my new print along to the Auckland Art & Craft Fair this Saturday...fingers crossed that I can get it printed on time! I'm wondering what other wishing superstitions I could have added, do you have any?

Feathered

I finished painting my feather drawing the other night - I used watercolour and a bit of gouache.  The drawing's A3 so I'm thinking of having some printed as A3 prints...and I'll bring them along to my stall at the Auckland Art and Craft Fair.  I'm working on a hand-lettered print at the moment and then I think the next thing in my drawing queue is to draw a mermaid and mariner for my new band with Mr. Millicent Crow!  

Birds of paradise

I've been drawing some of my collection of feathers to make a new print for the Auckland Art and Craft Fair...and I had a little play with colouring them in Photoshop. I think for the print I'll colour them with watercolour.

In real life the feathers were a bit more drab than this...but I'd like to find a bird with feathers of all these colours!

Interviewed

There's an interview with me on the Auckland Art and Craft Fair blog today, which you can read here.

One of the questions we were asked was about our workspaces...at the moment my lounge is strewn with feathers as I've been working on drawing feathers for a new print to bring along to the Fair.  I've also got my sewing machine and overlocker out - I've been trialling a shift dress pattern to see if I want to make it in more elaborate fabric (turns out I do) and I've got a giant painting drying in my bedroom.  What a creative mess!

See you at the Fair!

I'm happy to announce that Millicent Crow will be at the next Auckland Art and Craft Fair, on the 28th of June in the Aotea Centre!  After some recent forays into making ribbon bunting for my band I'm hoping to have a ribbon bunting-decorated stall.  More info about the Fair is available on the Auckland Art and Craft Fair blog here.

The Auckland Art and Craft Fair

 We had a great day at the Auckland Art and Craft Fair on Saturday and here are a few pics of the stall. 

 The most commented on prints were my new tea and coffee ones...turns out the issue of who makes the tea or coffee is an important one in many relationships! 

Mr. Millicent Crow was resplendent in his new borrowed-from-Oamaru boater...

 

...and I had new business cards to give away.

Thanks for another great fair Kylie and Jess, and stay tuned...I've got a bit of a Friday giveaway for you!

See you at the Fair!

 

This is one of the new prints I'm going to be bringing along...oh and there is an interview with me on the Auckland Art and Craft Fair blog here.  Contrary to the interview I'm afraid I won't be bringing along any dinosaur printed fabric...some things just have to fall off the to-do list, but I'll have a whole lot of other goodies for you!

Birdie badges at the Fair

The Auckland Art and Craft Fair is tomorrow and I'll be bringing along these screenprinted birdie badges (which I finished late last night) and lots of other printed bits and pieces.  It's 11-3 at the Aotea Centre...might see you there?

 

You are my cup of tea

Here is a new drawing I've been working on in the wee small hours; I've got a coffee version too:

 

I'm going to be bringing them along to the Auckland Art and Craft Fair, on next Saturday, the 30th of November.

How do you like your tea?  I have a cup of Earl Grey every night before bed and Mr. Millicent Crow always makes it too weak on purpose so that it won't keep me awake.  I grumble about the weak tea but secretly think it is nice!

Millicent Crow at the Auckland Art & Craft Fair

Just a little note to say that Millicent Crow will be at the Auckland Art and Craft Fair on the 30th of November, hooray!  It's at the Aotea Centre from 11-3, might see you there...

The Auckland Art and Craft Fair

It's been a busy weekend at Millicent Crow HQ with the Auckland Art and Craft Fair on Saturday, Kraftbomb today and a whole lot of late night sewing marathons to boot!  When I got hit in the eye with a broken sewing machine needle at 2am I took it as a sign that it was time to stop.  Here are some photos of my stall at the Auckland Art and Craft Fair, with my new huia-print pouches and rosette brooches making an appearance.  I like having something to keep my hands busy at my stall so I sewed on a whole lot of brooch backs while I was there.  I could have done with a thimble!

When I came back from getting a coffee after setting up I stumbled into a giant line of people waiting to get in and it was really busy and bustling all day.  I came home with some lovely goodies from Sarah from the Trinity Street Loft, and Sophie Oiseau, which I will show you when I get some more daylight photography time!

There are some great photos on the Auckland Art and Craft Fair Facebook page too, for a virtual tour of the market. Thanks Jess and Kylie for organising it!

And now I'm going to go and put my feet up.   

Multiplying

I made a whole lot more pouches with my huia printed fabric over the weekend and now I've got them in a couple of different sizes, and with different coloured zips.  

 Some have got red starry linings:

 And some have got beige spotty dotty linings:

And when I was making them I found a few dinosaur patches I'd made for some old pouches...I wonder if I have time to make a couple of dinosaur pouches before the Auckland Art and Craft Fair!

My creative space: huia pouch

The other night I sewed up my first pouch from my huia printed fabric and, after fixing an upside-down huia accident, here it is!

 This one's got a spotty dotty lining and some of the others are going to have red and white starry linings.

 And there are plenty more to make!

I'll be bringing some of these to the Auckland Art and Craft Fair and Kraftbomb, I'd better get back to the sewing machine!

Joining in with "My Creative Space" today over here.

Happy Thursday to you!

Making a weekend of it

The Auckland Art and Craft Fair is nearly here it's time for some late night sewing!  There's an interview with yours truly over at the Auckland Art and Craft Fair blog over here. 

The Fair is next Saturday, the 29th of June, at the Aotea Centre.

It's going to be a market-filled weekend for me, on Sunday the 30th I'm going to be at  Kraftbomb!   That's at the Grey Lynn community centre on Richmond Road. 

Might see you at a market or two next weekend?

As you can see Loulu has been helping me with my work.  I got a pretty ferocious bite after this photoshoot!

Save the date!

The next Auckland Art & Craft Fair will be on the 29th of June and I'm very happy to announce that Millicent Crow will be there!  Updates on the Fair can be found here on the Auckland Art & Craft Fair blog.  I've been brainstorming some ideas for some new goodies to make for my stall, and I really should fire up the silk screen and print some more of these:

Auckland Art and Craft Fair

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 Whew, what a busy week!  These hands have been getting a workout making things for my market stalls - today I put on my sailor suit and set up my stall at the wonderful Auckland Art and Craft Fair.  I had some new wares today - my red and green leaves prints, cards with the same red and green leaves, and some new resin cameo brooches.   

 

 With my sister, who was my market buddy for some of the day

 Some close ups of the stall:

  My view at closing time - my stall neighbours Jena Rae Jewellery had the most beautful antlers to hang their necklaces on.

After the fair I was ready for a bit of this.

Thanks Jess and Kylie for organising it, it was a great day!