New Collection

The New Collection is in store!

We took photos last week and here is a sneak peak of a few of them.

There are lots more to come and the webshop has been updated.

My new prints are based on Begonia leaves and last week I painted some lyrics of a song by The Grateful Dead called "Scarlet Begonias" on my shop Window.

I have met all sorts of interesting characters who think I am a DEAD HEAD [thats a groupie of the band] and want to talk to me, mainly Men over 60! 

The window will be up for another month and then you will see what happens next.

Come in to the shop for a visit or emil me if you want to know more about the styles or try them on.

BIG thanks to:

Stylist: 

Kirsten Clarke who designed and made the background for the shoot.

Models: 

Murray Fraser of Sprout Daily

Sarah K of Gypsy Jacket and partner in Pop up flower shop here

Camera Gear:

Murray Fraser [as above]

Stools:

Missing Pieces by Andrew Burns for sale in store or here.

Flowers:

A friendly neighbour.

NEW WEB SHOP

I have a new webshop.
Check it out here
Be sure to check it out more as I upload the new designs in the Shop in Sydney.

The School Doily Lampshade Class

I taught my first class at The School on Saturday.
Wow
Megan Morton, the School Principal is a Bloody Legend, as we say on the beaches!
Check out her skills and Propery and books here if you don't know what she does already.
Doily Mache Lampshades. 
If you have been to my shop then you would have seen the one I made in January last year with my Mum after being super inspired on a Swedish blog.
It was a lovely class.
Everyone was super lovely and so clever, all the mached balloons looked so beautiful at the end of class.
I can't wait to see them all when they popped them at home.
One of the lovely students was Briar from Sunday Collector who did a lovely post on the class too. She is even from my local hood, Fairlight!
If you want to book in for the next class or one of the others go on to The School Website here.
The space in Roseberry and the teachers are all amazing. Rachael Castle is teaching a print workshop - one not to be missed! oh but then there are the flowerbombs this Sunday with Holly Hipwell, which could change your life...and then there are the kids mobiles with Kit and the dream catchers with Georgia and well...so many. GO!!!!!!!!

Melbourne, ah Melbourne...

New shop #Lucyfolk with a #Miso paste up

A girl splashing colour on the city #befree

Edinburgh Gardens wine and Backgammon

Point Leo: flat as a tack [us and the sea]

Ironing Board Market Counter

My new outfit! Black Begonia and all colour accessories!

Finders Keepers Market try ons 

it was all confetti and paint and velvet in Hosier Lane

Surfing at Barwon Heads, well trying...

Fairhaven - John Wardle Architects new house my sister is working on. Seriously amazing.

I mean what more can I say. Melbourne I love you. The best Finders Keepers Market I have been at down there. And I spent more time down the the east and west part of the Bay than ever before. The sea down there is really beautiful. Its not all bars and graf and coffee people! Think I should work for tourism Melbourne?!
But happy to be back in Manly.
See you in the shop soon!
xxx

Melbourne Finders Keepers Market

The Finders Keepers Market
its on in MELBOURNE this weekend!!!!!
and Beattie Lanser is gong to be there with all the new Textiles and clothes for 2012.

Its on at the ROYAL EXHIBITION BUILDING
9 Nicholson Street, Carlton.
[a beauty of a building let alone what is going to be inside! And a super great location.]
Friday 20th April 6pm to 10pm
Saturday 21st April 10am to 5pm

There will be live music, booze, food and FREE ENTRY!

I can't wait to see you there! Am really looking forward to meeting some people in real world rather than just on interweb land.

see you this weekend!

The School

The Mostest Magical Megan Morton, stylist extraordinaire and school maker. 

The best ribbon stand I've ever seen.

Jen "hijenbooth" instagram central.

Georgia Perry - she is going to be teaching Big fluro dreamcatchers, yes please!

www.theschool.com.au
yes, a new school is starting, and the official launch was on Saturday with all the teachers and bloggers doing a flowerbomb class with Holly Hipwell, the legendary lady of The Flower Drum and the first teacher at The School.
It is the most beautiful space and well who doesn't love a stylin crafternoon.
Check out the lineup and sign up to some classes. Register here
I will be teaching the Doily Mache lampshades and there are so many great classes, think fluro dream catchers, making films, flower bombs
its all at:
85 DUNNING AVE,
ROSEBERRY,
NSW, AUSTRALIA

Mushroom picking in Oberon

Last weekend I picked Mushrooms in Oberon with a polish Family or two.
It was one of the most exciting, calming, special, beautiful, raw, fun, peaceful, connected, special things I have done.
The Mushrooms we picked and ate were called Saffron Milk Caps. There are many others in the forest that you can't eat and are poisonous. Some of them are glow in the dark and some of them look like they are straight out of a fairy tale. Nothing can explain walking through the dappled shade of the pine forest on your own with a knife and a basket, looking for that special shade of pinky orange that just might be a tasty mushroom for you to eat for dinner.
I just feel like the luckiest lady these days.
If you have some friends who go mushroom picking and they ask you to go. Go!...Bliss.