Sea Bird Brooch

Sea Bird Brooch is the first in my new series of one-off embroidered pieces, in the shop now.

Time for a Giveaway!

To celebrate edward and lilly's acceptance into the Brisbane Finders Keepers market and to launch 3 new brooch designs in my etsy and madeit stores I'm having a giveaway!

Brisbanites may have seen these 3 cute critters around the place but they've only just made it into online stores this week.

Introducing Porcupine, Little Bird and Baby Owl Brooches.

All three are available in either black hemp or red, green or blue organic cotton canvas and can be purchased via Etsy in USD (where the postage is free for Aussies) or on madeit in AUD.

Now down to the business of giving away one of these brooches in your choice of design and colour. Entering is so easy:

Leave a comment for one entry...

OR

Leave a comment and blog about the giveaway for 2 entries. PLUS if you win and you have 2 entries I'll throw in a little something extra for your efforts. If you don't have a blog you can mention it on your facebook, twitter or spread the news in any other way for 2 entries. Make sure you leave a comment so I know about your second entry.

The Giveaway ends at midnight on Friday 9 October. Entries are welcome from anywhere in the world.

Good luck everyone!

My creative space ...

This week I've been busy making and pegging teeny critters to my new brooch board for the market.

The board is super easy to make. Simply use a canvas covered in linen or your favourite fabric (use a hot glue gun to attach the linen to the back edges of the canvas). Then measure where you want your string to hang and attach the string ends to the back edges with a staple gun. If you don't have a staple gun just use nails or thumb tacks and tie the string on. You could also put a piece of core flute (aka foamcor) between the front of the canvas and the fabric if you wanted to make a pin board version, or a sheet of magnet to make a magnet board.

You can see more photos of the brooch board over on my flickr.


I have loads of back up brooches for the market too. These ones are made using re-purposed upholstery fabric samples so each brooch is completely unique. Expect to see some of these in my shop next week.


And finally, I managed to pull off the car plushies just in time (well, after another four wheels are done). I'm also working on another two purple cars for the shop.

Pop back in the next week for a run down of the BrisStyle Indie Designers Market and to be the first to get your hands on my new shop stock!

For more creative spaces head over to Kirsty's.

Saturday Shopping List

Because who doesn't love a good brooch and because I'll be making some of my own soon for the shop (well sometime before July anyway).

1. Cute Bear Brooch Design No. 3 (a steal at only $3.50!) from Prettyhead Designs
2. I have a Red Heart - double brooch from krize
3. My own sky - 2 brooches from yaelfran
4. Catsuit Pin from sugar cookie

For more of the best of etsy this morning pop over to Charlotte's.

BrisStyle Giveaway

It pays to be a follower of the BrisStyle blog, especially with such great monthly giveaways. This month you could win cute little brooches from Little Chrissy or this fab apron from Made by Miffy.


You can also make the apron with Louise at the Brisbane (and Sydney I think) Stitches and Craft Shows where she will be running workshops.

Head to the BrisStyle Blog to enter!