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Making Friday – The Multipede
I’m still potting away on a Monday morning, and really enjoying it, making the oddest little pots. Out of the kiln most recently: The Multipede!
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Making Friday: 6 Feb 2015
I had red and blue fingers by the end of Making Friday, after spending most of the day trying out the same print in different layouts and combinations, in a very small range of variables, namely: red...
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Making Friday – what it’s all about
Anyone else running a business based upon the results of their creativity will be able to relate when I say that I’m always trying find time to spend in the studio, doing the creative work, but...
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Mid-March Making Friday
After last week’s great reception to my post explaining Making Friday, I’m under pressure to follow up, aren’t I? Well, here goes, with a post about using the side effects of the thing you’re making...
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Making Friday: Waiting for inspiration
You may remember that a few weeks ago, I wrote this post about making designs with the offcuts of a papercut I was doing (with free downloadable wallpapers included). I thought you might like to see...
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Making Friday 17 April
Every now and again, I attempt to be a good aunt, and Making Friday is a great way to connect with my multitude of nieces. Izzy and I had some great studio time last year, and as my middle brother has...
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Making Friday – Block Printing
While teaching block printing on the Ritchie Ace Camp last year (and again in October this year), I’ve been using carved lino blocks, but I did bring back some super-simple wooden blocks from Jaipur to...
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Making Friday: Book Rainbow!
If you read my Best Things post from last week, you’ll see that I’m pretty colour crazed at the moment, probably because I’ve been working pretty non-stop on the Skinny laMinx Colour Book, which I’m...
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Making Friday: Meet Us +
It’s an unusual Making Friday post this week, as it’s not something I made, but rather something I watched being made in the studio. Over the weeks leading up to the launch of the Diggi Dot fabric...
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Making Friday: CMYK lino #01
The last workshop I did at Warren Editions was way back in 2011. I loved it so much, so it is unfathomable why it took me so long to sign up for another? Ah well, regrets at lost opportunities aside, I...
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Making Friday: Fun with scraps
This Making Friday post is about what other (small) people have been doing with Skinny laMinx fabrics, courtesy of our production manager, Sarah. Sarah loves what she does at Skinny laMinx, but I think...
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Making Friday: CMYK lino printing
I’ve had a really extended Making Friday in July, spending every Saturday at Warren Editions learning the art of CMYK lino printing from master printmaker Zhané Warren and head of relief prints, Morné...
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Making Friday: Block Printing mega version
This week, I’m in Jaipur, India, starting my second teaching stint with Ritchie Ace Camps. Last year’s Jaipur experience was amazing (lots of pics here), and I can’t wait to meet everyone who is coming...
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Group ceramics show
Every year at this time, my ceramics teacher Louise Gelderblom has a show at which all her students can display some of their work. I’m going to be showing some of the peculiar Oddjects I’ve been...
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Making Friday: The restorative power of a nap
I’ve been feeling a little scattered in the Making Friday department lately, partly because of all the promotions work that this time of year takes up, and partly because I’ve been working on designs...
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Making Friday: Lino Shavings
A little Christmas tree made of lino shavings is a neat way to round off a year where block printing has loomed large, what with our block print inspired Diggi Dot collection, two collections of block...
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Making Friday: Printing at Warren Editions
Attentive readers of this blog may recall that during 2015, I spent four Saturdays at Warren Editions print studio, learning all about CMYK lino printing. I loved the workshop, so was super excited...
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Making Friday: From Sketchbook to Oddject
Notebooks are very useful things to have with you. They’re good for recording fleeting ideas, and good to look back on to see where you’ve been. For two years, I’ve kept this little “Ceramics Ideas”...
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All the Oddjects
For two years, I’ve been making things from clay at morning classes with Louise Gelderblom, but haven’t really catalogued them anywhere, so today’s the day to show all the Oddjects (or the ones I...
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In the shop: Oddjects exhibition
For the last two years, I’ve been busy making a lot of rather idiosynchratic, non-functional ceramics – which I like to call “Oddjects” – and then also drawing and printing their shapes on paper and...
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