One important thing to know about me is that I like plants, actually I really love plants. I got my first house plants about 5 years ago and the collection has been growing ever since. I began mostly with cacti and succulents but I'm slowly becoming more of a leafy tropical plant gal. Today I'm going to share allllll of my plants here because they are looking particularly glorious thanks to all the sun we've had, and also it will be fun to look back on and see how much they change over time.
Old man cactus (Cephalocereus senilis)
Devil's ivy / Pothos (Epiprumnum aureus)
Hoya carnosa variegata
Cactus seedlings at 44 days old
Spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum)
String of buttons (Crassula perforata variagata)
From left: an unknown cactus and succulent, my housemate's Wandering Jew (Tradescantia zebrina),
and a Kalanchoe purple scallops (Bryophyllum fedtschenkoi).
Bird's nest fern (Asplenium nidus)
Another cactus (I need to learn to identify them lol) with many propagated baby Echeverias
Haworthia limifolia
Monstera deliciosa
Dancing bones (Hatiora salicornioides)
Lipstick plant (Aeschynanthus radicans)
Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera truncata)
Another Christmas cactus grown from a cutting
A Spider plant baby rooting in water
More Echeveria babies
There's always lots of propagating going on! Mostly String of buttons and Echeverias here, but there is one Jelly bean plant (Sedum patchyphyllum), and a String of pearls
More Kalanchoes
Tradescantia purple flame
A terrarium I made last year, the plants really need repotting. Includes a barrel cactus (Echinocactus grusonii),
and a Snake plant (Sansevieria cylindrica), amongst a few others
Arrowhead plant (Syngonium podophyllum)
Peace lily (Spathiphyllum)
Snake plant (Sansevieria trifasciata)
Baby Jade plant (Crassula ovata)
String of pearls (Senecio rowleyanus)
A geranium cutting from my grandparents' garden
Another cactus
Another cactus, more Kalanchoes, a barrel cactus, a Sempervivum cutting, and a Gasteria "Hogwarts"
Random plant I picked up for free, maybe it's a rose?
My beloved hydrangea which I grew from a cutting last summer
Sedum tetractinum "Coral reef"
Sempervivum arachnoideum
Another random plant I picked up for free
So that's all (actually I even have a couple more plants but they live back home with my mum lol), I hope you enjoyed having a peek at my collection! Next time I update it will be more like this:
Greetings! I'm here with some updates from my degree show. It took me a while to get this post together because a) I was kind of sick of looking at my work and needed a break, and b) because tbh I didn't actually get any great photos of the space so wasn't feeling inspired. I think it was a combination of having a window space with dodgy lighting and having four walls so I couldn't get everything in one shot...but never mind! I'm keen to round off third year and get this posted so I can mentally move on and get cracking on some new projects! Here we go ~~~
The biggest element of my degree show was my huge, hand-embroidered wall hanging. I started it back in March and worked pretty solidly for 2 months. ((It's probably the most unphotogenic thing I've ever made, it's so hard to capture and photos really don't do it justice!)) But anyway, it's mostly all hand embroidery but there's also paint, collage, felting, drawing and all sorts going on.
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On the next wall I made a collage using some of the research/inspiration pics I had up in my studio, I also had a shelf displaying my medium sized sculptures and a scrapbook I made.
My giant snake was chilling on the floor around the space and lead people to my film which was displayed on an old TV. I've uploaded the film below if you want to check it out.
I had a cute little merch table where I had handmade badges, magnets, and keyrings for sale. They went down really well so I'm thinking about opening an etsy shop where I can sell things like that (let me know if you'd be interested!). I also made my own business cards (each one had an individual drawing) and there were stickers for people to take away.
On another shelf in front of the windowsill I displayed my little picnic scene made up of clay, felted and textile miniatures (featuring glow in the dark rats!).
On the final wall I had some square shelves where I displayed some toys ~nostalgic, childhood vibes~. My space was an exhibition crossed with a bedroom, a mix of adult and child, professional and personal, comforting and eerie, sweet and slightly unpleasant. It was fun to see people interacting with the space, particularly children, and I loved spotting people wearing my badges around and about!
