Here’s a fun one. I made a wee birthday present for a very very dear friend of ours who happens to work for a certain ornathalogical (is that how you spell it?) type organisation.
I sewed the edges up a wee bit wonky, but it adds to the handmade feel of it (that’s my justification).
I [...]
This shot taken from the Napier-Taupo Road. Nice eruption action!
Thanks Dad for the pic!
About a week ago we got out on a hot Sunday night to engage in a bit more fence art. I decided to try a different technique and did a bit of weaving, I suppose you would call it. It was a bit quicker - so this only took two and a half [...]
As previously mentioned I’ve been bitten by the cross stitching on fences bug. So on the way home from Newcastle, I made a wee present for my friend. This is just outside her house so when she goes to work every morning she gets all excited!
And up close…
I like this cause a) it’s [...]
Ever since I started cross stitching I always look at the world searching for square grids. Anything with a square grid can be a cross stitch canvas if you try hard enough.
So of course fences are the obvious ones. Fences have long been canvases, anything from your standard teenage boy territorial tagging through [...]
I’ve been meaning to post about this one for far too long now. I keep seeing all these great posts and going ooh I need to write about that but then I get distracted and the moment passes. But I procrastinate no longer!
This website is herlefteyeislazy.blogspot.com but changes name semi-regularly, currently it appears [...]
Goodness there’s so much happening in support of those arrested last Monday, it’s just awesome to see. Go over to Aotearoa Indymedia and see all the reports from recent demos. Quite a lot of video too which is nice (cause I can see my friends and give them virtual cuddles!). And there’s [...]
Ooh Ooh! I finally got my shit together and got my gallery sorted. It all happened because my beloved was gently hassling me last night about fixing another part of the site and I was like ‘no! if I’m fixing anything on the site, it’s my bloody gallery’.
So I’ve done it.
Check it
It’s only cross stitch [...]
Nuff Said.
With much excitement I present the beautiful wee things I made for my first ever craft swap! I’ve looked at them before and been tempted. but this one had such an obvious theme for me, I couldn’t help but get involved.
The idea of a craft swap is that you are connected with someone else [...]
Continuing on the them of posting up my recently finished projects in reverse chronological order, this is a piece I made for the NSW Greens Fundraising Auction, which is on tonight if any Seedneysiders are up for it.
This piece is called “Finite” or “Vote Green or the Planet Gets It”.
This upcycled piece is a framed [...]
Today is Blog for Burma Day. Which is quite convenient really cause I’ve got some ‘art’ to share with you all. I know I’m supposed to refrain from writing and just do the Free Burma thing. But I’ve got too much to write about today, sorry.
As previously mentioned there’s an ace stencil [...]
Little known fact: There is a hormone that is released during pregnancy that compells women to cross stitch. I never would’ve believed it but I know at least two other women that this has happened to.
One of whom is my super friend Lenka in Wellington. When Lenka got pregnant she decided to start [...]
S.M.I.R.K. (Sock Monkey Insurgent Revolutionary Kabal) today stood in solidarity with APEC and G20 arrestees in one highly successful action.
The kabal attacked Victorian State Police in an (almost) successful attempt to de-arrest the protester arrested during the most recent G20 court case.
In total resistance to the apparent new laws against the use of tomato sauce [...]
We had a successful demo on Collins Street today.
Travelled sustainably by public transport and managed to recruit a few people along the way to take photos of me on my big outing.
Arrived to find a shit load of cops, including four on horseback (they obviously don’t have the flu - unlike the Sydney cop horses!). [...]
I thought I was a pretty hard core crafter but after seeing this post at Craftzine I see I have a way to go. These seriously cool ladies are putting their love on their skin!
Then it turns out there’s heaps more out there!
I am sew inspired! I’m thinking a cross stitch tattoo isn’t too [...]
For too long now us sock monkeys have been an ignored entity in the struggle against global capitalism. We have decided to stand up this APEC and demand an end to a world based on neo-conservative, neo-colonial domination of our people, planet and resources.
We do not believe in the farce that is democracy. [...]
Excuse my indulgence, but these are my first daffodills that I planted myself!
Aah…
Ain’t that cool?
Presenting, my latest finished piece!
I got this cushion cover from a charity shop in Smith Street, Melbourne a while ago and I’ve been holding on to it for the right moment of inspiration. One day I had a polar bear moment and knew exactly what needed to be done.
I had a great time making [...]
And I don’t care that it’s still August!
"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
