Xmas giveaway

Thought I'd have a bit of an Xmas giveaway and I've got two prize packs up for grabs.  They've each got an A4 digital print, a huia medal and a screenprinted badge...

 

 To enter, all you need to do is leave me a comment telling me how you like your tea or coffee (I like mine black with no sugar thanks) and I'll draw two winners next Friday.  And I'll post them anywhere in the world...good luck!

Swallows and cameos

Some brooches that I made on Friday. Cabochons, cameos, and a feather like the one I made for the Flowerpress brooch swap. Broochmaking is quite addictive!

Paper trail

A4 to A3? A5 to A3? I've been playing around with enlarging and reducing some of my drawings today, as you can see from this giant pile of paper full of tails and feathers and owls and huias. Soon, hopefully very soon, I'm going to get them made up into a silkscreen with lots of different images on it, so that I can print things onto fabric at the drop of a hat.
Hopefully the finished layout will look something like this:
but without the giant rip in the screen!

Charms

I've turned this drawing into a new gocco print...here it is hot off the press:

...and up close:

I've called it "Charms" because all the little symbols on it look like they might hang on a charm bracelet. A slightly macabre charm bracelet perhaps. I've been working on an exciting new project today, stay tuned!

In the works

I've been working on this drawing tonight - hopefully it's going to be my next gocco print. The crown is from one of the commemorative royal cups from my collection - I guess there'll be a whole new generation of those with Wills & Kate on them!

Little swallow

I made this little swallow brooch the other night - it's just one of my gocco printed patches sewn onto a scrap of wool felt and it has a safety pin sewn on the back. A nice quick project.

Complete with a sneaky rainbow from the window crystal thing...

Mr Millicent Crow reckons the swallow patches are also pretty handy for mending jeans!