April Markets

clothes swap.

I just read a bulletin sent out by Pistol Whip Vintage, who is one of my favourite members of the Glasgow Craft Mafia. As part of the Oxjam music festival, The Beat Club are hosting the annual Clothes Swap on Friday 25th April!
I'm really excited as I missed it last year. You can see some great pictures on PWV website.
The ticket price is £5 which gets you in to the clothes swap and free entry into The Beat Club. Storage for swapped clothing will be provided so you wont need to drag it around on the dancefloor with you.
The event is even being filmed for Channel 4's Bite

More felt.

Unfortunately, as part of my work contract I've had to do clusters of three and four nightshifts in a row every few weeks. Due to some management changes, the passed weekend is the last I'll ever have to do them. Yip-yah!
Anyway, I got through the long 11 hour stretch by a mixture of films (thanks Karena), Game Boy and sewing. I made an order last week for some really nice hand-made felt from paper-and-string (I'm trying to find the link) and so decided to use up all my scraps. I've sewn all these different coloured felt circles and stuffed them. I'm thinking about using either wool or twine to join them all up and make a mobile. It's a work in progress.

This is the happy house.

C86 is a UK-based digital and mixed media artist whose designs I've been slevering over for a while now. He has a great myspace page which includes some of his most popular work, which comes in the form of t-shirts, badges and prints.
After I got paid I treated myself to one of his t-shirts =) Certain designs are sold via certain websites, but I contacted him and he was super-nice and pointed me in the right direction.
Due to the exchange rate, I got my t-shirt - plus postage and packaging- for £14. Score!

Hotel Fox

While I was killing some time before going to bed, I came across pictures of this amazing hotel in Mamiko's blog.

Hotel Fox is in Copenhagen, Denmark and each of the rooms inside have been decorated uniquely by different artists from all over the world. It's extremely expensive to stay there, and would probably be hard to sleep there due to the decor. But it looks great, doesn't it?

The La La Theory

I arrived home today to find that I'd received a letter from Katie Haegele, who writes under the pseudonym of The La-La Theory.

Katie has an impressive collection of writing in various forms, such as poems, zines, creatice nonfiction and even a newspaper column. All of this can be found on her website.

My favourite is her found poetry. Found poetry is the rearrangement of a random or 'found' piece of writing in order to give it an entirely different meaning. It's not something I've tried before, but I really love the idea of playing around with the wording to make something mean the complete opposite of what was intended.

I found Katie on the Cut-out and Keep website.

I emailed Katie and she offered to send me some of her things in the post and, in return, I'm sending her a package which I am in the middle of making. More on that later...

sweater skirt.

I sold some things on eBay and bought this skirt from DDA




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