A degree show tour ✨🐀💌

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!

xoxo

Fairy Time Knits (the content you didn't know you needed) 🏰

Back in the Easter holidays I was enjoying a charity shop browse with my family and I came across a beauty. I very almost didn't buy it because, let's face it, I already have my share of quirky, non-essential books and I am in the process of decluttering in preparation for moving out of my student house...BUT needless to say, I did buy it. I saw the infinite creative potential encapsulated within it's colourful pages and I knew that it was worth my £1.

My first thought for this book was that I would just use the pictures for collages and stuff because they are so darn 80s and iconic (just look at that kid's mullet!). But I am actually beginning to consider the idea that I might actually have a go at making one of these wonderfully hideous jumpers. As far as knitting patterns go these ones don't seem too complicated and the book has some basic tutorials on changing colours and stuff so I think it will be a fun challenge.  Watch out world! 

I scanned in every jumper in the book and I'm just going to share them with you now because they are just so good and this is the kind of joy you need more of in your life. Let me know which one is your favourite, I think mine has got to be the green one with the ugly duckling because it looks almost exactly like a baby seagull and also the little girl with the glasses is so cute! The Hansel and Gretel one is great too.

I'm back with a car boot sale haul

Hello! I'm here again after a brief hiatus! I'm hoping not to make that a regular thing but with deadlines (my last one ever of university lol*) and a serious case of perfectionism I just couldn't bring myself to post even though I had some good ideas in my head. After a proper sesh giving my blog a complete makeover I think I'm ready to try and occupy this internet space again.

I went to my first car boot sale of the year last week, a lovely bank holiday Monday outing with my friends in the sunshine. I managed to find some quality bargains so thought it would be fun to share them here as I'm quite passionate about second hand finds 😋 and I decided to make them into collages (nice).

Need I say more?! 

* YES I handed in my last ever uni work and I will be sharing all about it on here in the near future, I just need to sort through my photos and get my head around it all! Crazy times.