Wednesday 31 December 2014

Coffee Cup Travel Style

My degree collection focused on travel bags and accessories. Ive always wanted to branch out to more non-handmade textiles based products, such as the umbrella, welly boots, coffee travel mugs etc. Today, the first step! The travel mug.

I found these awesome travel mugs last month. Id love to stock up on them, but i cant really get them back in my case! I wrestled with the fabric to get it inside the tumbler for over an hour - so not sure if this is actually a sellable item! Although it is something i could sit with infront of a movie or something :)

Im quite pleased with this. Im using it for our road trip tomorrow. It also has a matching market bag, as you can see pictured, although this product is still in development so thats why you only have a sneaky preview :)

It also goes with the Matching Lunch bag, which ive uploaded a photograph of again!

The tumbler gets it test run this week!

The lunch bag i created in October/November! This matches the bag, the tumbler matches the bag.. and yet the bag is incomplete!

Monday 8 December 2014

Make it! Handmade Revolution


This week? Make It! A huge fair which im super excited to see. The equivilent i would say is the handmade kinda zone of Top Drawer, London.



Here i am again with the lovely Clara from CYarnHut, and Rachel Rainbow.

And heres a little CYarnHut bear i couldnt resist! He now lives on my coat alongside my Kayleigh OMara Lion :D
Okay - Fave Makers



This awesomet little bag company, which is unfortunately out of my budget, was awesome. You buy the leather outer shell, and you can change the inner products. Im almost annoyed i didnt come up with this awesome idea and im totally planning on making something as awesome as this!
Heres a great picture from This Little Port which shows it in use, and with some extra bags. i completely love it!








Maker of Candles and also cute little earrings, but my favourite are these intial necklaces. Awesome hey? Click here to buy one of these necklace from her Website!








And Lastly, Foe & Dear.
Rachel has one of these rings and they are kinda completely cool! Her stand has a lovely feel to it too, with the use of book pages, mirrors and little glass dishes. Click here to buy one of these rings.



Tuesday 2 December 2014

Graphtec Vinyl Cutting

So my uncle being the gadget man that he is, bought a graphtec plotter cutter. Its the ce-6500 i beleive, and i have a little bit of experience using our plotter at University, we cut onto vinyl, transferred onto glass, weed out the pieces we dont want, and sandblast. Remove the vinyl, you get an awesome design. 
Now that i realise how super easy and cool this machine is, im almost annoyed that they had us bringing in glassware, electrical tape and a craft knife, to do our intial designs the hard way. Can you believe we wrapped our glasses in tape and drew on the curved surface, only to try and cut out with a knife. this is SO easy!!

After about a week of not being able to do anything with it, i finally cracked it. We used this lovely matt black vinyl and i created this pair of pinking shears, and then the dreamcatcher. I know its a bit cliche but i do love it!