It was Lily all along!

I found a clip about making crayons on the Ok, Bye blog and realised I could try and find some of my favourite Sesame Street clips on youtube. This one below was always my favourite and they never seemed to play it very often. All I remembered about it was a little girl in a big chair, a sandwich she made and her poking her tongue out at the end. I didn't know it was Lily Tomlin and I'm surprised I didn't recognise her when I saw Big Business as a kid, up until today I thought it was a little girl telling the story.

Farmy Goodness

I went back to the family farm in Gippsland for a few days over Easter. I was hoping to take advantage of the light in the house and get some shots of the new screenprinted artwork, but realised it wasn't light enough and I probably just needed to use the tripod. Although I do like the shot above with the flowers at the side. There are more nice things to style with at Mum and Dad's place. All we seem to have is second hand furniture and stuff from Ikea and in some cases second hand stuff FROM Ikea.

Let Them Eat Cake

This is second clutch I've put up on Etsy, this one uses more of the burnt orange fabric and some lovely Japanese floral fabric from Amitie. I'm quite fond of this colour combination, the inside is a greyish blue fabric which looks good with the orange.

The artwork below came from a sudden Marie Antoinette inspiration. Although that only came about after I draw all the hair piled on her hair and it reminded me of her. The A5 print is available in the Able and Game Etsy shop and there is now a little collection of A5 prints available. If you like Able and Game cards you can become a fan on Facebook, or you can channel your early '90s cool and become a fan of The Fresh Prince.

Electric Blue

I spent Friday making a batch of new clutches for the market and I'm putting some of them up on Etsy. This one above is made with some of Lara's lovely birch fabric and the rest is thrifted fabrics. The bright blue at the base of the clutch is on of my favourites, bright with lots of texture. I went along to Carmel's in Mentone last week. I had never been but was down that way to meet up with Stacey so decided to pop in. The shop is lovely, it has everything I wanted, helpful staff and it doesn't take 1/2 to get to the other side of the store. Although I got caught in the rain on the way home and I didn't even have a pina colada to make up for it.

New Prints

These are two new prints available through the Able and Game Etsy shop. They are available in a yellow and pink colourway and started off as a line drawing was scanned into the computer and then digitally coloured. I had fun working at what colours to use, although it was hard when you know what colour you want but you have to find it amongst the millions available. Remember the days when you only had 72 Derwents to choose from (well in my case it was borrow from my sister), I miss those days!

Big Haul

Kirsty and I headed down to Mornington on Monday on our Op-Shopping road trip. After a big weekend of bands, going away parties and the market I got up early Monday morning for the trek. We went Amazing Race style smsing Gareth for the addy, then realising we had no idea where that was. We managed to see the sign by chance and made it there as the doors opened and left with our arms full. We found 3 other big oppies close by, so overall it was a good morning for fabric shopping. The clutch above was made with some burnt orange fabric I found and the floral is from Amitie.

Craft/Mag

I've not posted about this lovely new book yet, I wanted to wait till it was out. I'm really excited to be involved in Pip's Meet Me At Mikes book, it is really beautiful and full of all sorts of fun projects, including a recipe for pink lamingtons! I have a project in there, but you'll have to go and have a look at the book to find out what it is. It does involve making something that could look like a cat or my Dad.

In other exciting news, Able and Game are in May's Real Living Magazine. I just went and got a copy then and was so excited to see our hipster mixtape boy looking all moody and cool in print!

Bridget Farmer Prints

Yesterday I spent the day with Bridget helping with the redesign of her new website for her lovely prints like the Red Wattlebird above. Although I know a little tiny bit about making websites I always feel like a total fool when compared to Gareth, who seems to know everything (although I discovered last night he doesn't know about php).

After spending hours on the computers side by side in my studio we had a lovely take away curry, some red wine (from the goonbox!) and watched Farmer Wants a Wife. It was nice to have someone to watch it with and discuss it in real time, although I missed the first season I'm a sucker for that show. If you watch it please feel free to email me or comment to discuss your thoughts. Do you think Riley and Tim will last? Can you tell Rachael and Stacey apart? Do you wish you could date Jenny just so you can say you live in a place called Tumbarumba?

Butterflies are up

I've just put one of the butterfly artworks up in my Anna Laura Etsy shop, this is one with the green/blue and yellow fabric, the blue ink and the yellow polkadots on the side.

Anyone up for a road trip?

To Mornington? Not really a road trip as such as Mornington isn't that far away so a mini road adventure of sorts. The lovely Marcus from TLC sent this along and all the details are above in the flyer.