Happy Mothers Day!

I hope all the mothers out there are being spoilt rotten today.

When I think of Mothers Day I think of all the awesome mums out there working tirelessly to create a better world for all our children. Mums are …

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Saucy fun!

It was a perfect Melbourne Autumn day when a bunch of lovely folk got together in the Iramoo Community Centre to embark on an epic wee apple sauce making session.  See the EcoLiving Centre where my studio is has a …

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Sauce and swap!

I am pleased as punch to announce the first event for my residency project at Iramoo “Sauce and Swap!”

On Saturday April the 30th, we’ll be saucing it up with apples from the tree at the EcoLiving Centre.  And we’ll …

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Crafting a new community

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a guest post for the in.cube8r blog. Here it is reposted in case you didn’t see it. And please go check out their site. And even better, please go visit one …

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Iramoo day 1

It was a brilliantly sunny autumn Melbourne day and I packed up some kids, a picnic lunch and some weaving materials and hit the road south.  It’s a short half hour trip from our place to Iramoo and most of …

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Iramoo!

Tomorrow is the first day of my exciting new adventure, a three month artist residency at the Iramoo Community Centre in Wyndham Vale.  For those of you not terribly familiar with Wyndham Vale it’s right next to Werribee on Melbourne’s …

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Radical Craft Intervenes

Sorry for the lack of updates round here. I’ve been busy preparing for an upcoming artist residency! Rest assured there will be regular updates once I get going. In the meantime, I was a featured artist in the latest Creative

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Bra Bug Gardens – the tutorial you’ve all been waiting for!

Our household just held a massive cleanse. We decided we just had FAR TOO MUCH STUFF! So we’ve been through every cupboard, drawer and shelf cleansing out the excess stuff. The pile is immense and I’m very much looking forward …

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HOW TO: Bleach stencilling

(apologies the imbed is really small, youtube have changed their imbed system and I can’t work out how to make it a proper size. Here’s the video page if you need it)

One of my favourite crafts and an especially …

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Permablitz! part 2 – how does your garden grow?

Now following on from my previous post about our permablitz…

Four weeks and buckets of rain and sunshine later, our garden has completely transformed!

Firstly and most importantly, presenting our fabulous new chickens!  This is Susan.

And this is Patti …

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