Using collage to make the most of a mis-print

Upcycled chest of drawers

Take one Ikea chest of drawers, many times repaired, and several maps. A few hours and a bucket of PVA later and – ta-daa! – transformation!

Work in progress

Voice of the beehive

Kind of Maria Callas meets Amy Butler on the way to look at some Grecian vases.

Juicy Fruits

Although I haven't blogged for a while, the collage machine has been busy making things for the Christmas Open Houses and my exhibition at Cafe One Ten.
Here are two new ones made with tiny "Juicy Fruits" scraps from U-Handbag.

Hope you like them!

New work for the weekend

Glad tidings! Due to helathy sales, I have been able to hang some new fabric collages (and more unframed ones in the browser) in time for the last two days of the Open House at weekend.

http://www.ninebynine.org.uk/

Cakes on the way

People so far seem unconvinced of The Good Idea that is making pictures of cakes out of fabric. Teapots worked, folks, why not cakes?

Undeterred, I'm three-quarters of the way through my third cake collage. This one's a large-scale teatime scene and I hope to be finished it tomorrow – it needs to be framed and on the wall in the Open House by Saturday morning!

(Close-up of George's Famous Lemon Tart. Those splodges are the still-wet glue.)

Collage-a-go-go!

After meeting the deadline from hell with a clinical design job, I have rewarded myself with a very enjoyable day making collages. The first one is digital, produced in Photoshop, and the other two are traditional collages over large-scale pen and Indian ink drawings on brown paper.

The Open House is now... open!

The Open House has begun now and pictures are selling, phew! (The lavender bags aren't mine.)

http://www.48dr.co.uk

The nail biting bit

I've done as many fabric collages as I reasonably can before the Christmas Open House starts this weekend. They're mounted, wrapped, some are framed, price labels made and they are now sitting waiting to go.

This is the nail-biting bit. Are the prices pitched just right? (Too expensive puts people off but too cheap devalues the product...) Will customers like them? Are there enough - or too many? Too late to do anything about it now. Wish me luck and many sales!

The Dragonfly House is 48 Ditchling Rise, Brighton, and is open this weekend (last in November) and next (first in December) 11am–6pm.

www.48dr.co.uk

Aaaaghhh! Buttons!

I feel as if I have sewn on enough buttons to last me the rest of my life. Whose idea was this anyway...?

Tea and Cake

More fabric pictures

Peacock

Still Going...

The Last of the Birds

Giraffes

More Birds...

Curlew

Today I've done three more birds as part of my fabric collage series. This one is a Curlew.