The Lighthouse Keeper’s cat

I went and joined a print making course at Inverlochy Art School in Wellington. Basia Smolnicki’s eight week (3 hours a week) crash course through printmaking was covering an introduction to printmaking, colographs, woodcut, dry point and acid etching and I really loved it.
I never ever thought that woodcut printmaking would be something I am interested in, but the moment I sat down and began to cut into the wood (using a sharp tool ^_^) I knew that this is working really well for me Read the rest of this entry »

The next Craft2.0 is coming closer fast. So I thought it might make sense to ask Sue Tyler - the woman behind all of this - a few questions…

Hi Sue, you must be busy as these days. What keeps you hanging in there?
Chocolate, vodka, and our lovely possee of crafters, it’s fun to make an event that you get to showcase lovely creative people… Read the rest of this entry »

I was busy finding a new place to live - again! ARGH housing in Wellington is “§$%&… I will move to the new place in Mount Vic on Sunday, so everything is a mess and I have almost no time at all for the nice and beautiful things in life ^_^! But… I managed to put some pictures of craftstock on flickr.…

The next craft 2.0 show will be 22 March 2008 at The New Dowse, Lower Hutt, Wellington. Don’t miss it! More info at craft 2.0 blog.
Sue from supervery asked me if I would like to participate and yes would love to so… erm… I will sell there too (fingers crossed)!
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The third one is a big thank you to Andrew from Blue Print, Petone, Wellington. Blue Print is a supplier for screenprinting materials in Wellington and I really don’t know what I would do without his help and advise.

Blue Print
14 Sydney Street, Petone
Wellington,
New Zealand
phone (04) 5765151

I had this horrible day at work on Monday, so I went to the Photo Warehouse in Wellington and did some shopping. After almost a month of dithering I thought never mind getting the best bargin just go and get it and the staff at the Photo Warehouse is nice and competent. The Pentax K100 is a phase-out model, the new one is expected to be out next month, so it is quite cheap at the moment anyway ^_^… It’s my first digital SLR and for now I am totally happy with it.

You might wonder how I took a photo of the camera ^_^…

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Since job-hunting in a country on the other side of the world is no bed of roses, you sometimes have to take a day off. So The Viech and I spend the day in the city, eating thai-food, drinking a lot of coffee and (window) shopping. No wonder that we found ourselves standing in front of the popup gallery once more ^_^!

The Viech got a great T-shirt from The Robinz and I promised myself again that I get one of the Ugly Dolls on Secret Mission the day I get my work permit.

But there is a lot of other stuff. My favourites of the day:
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