tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82444835611281544742024-02-08T06:12:22.557+13:00Mudbird CeramicsGill @ Mudbird Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086985661054868874noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244483561128154474.post-43663781252841243682018-04-09T14:40:00.000+12:002018-04-09T14:40:03.357+12:00Victoria Square Artisan Market!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Over the weekend I took part in the first<b> Artisan Market</b> held at Victoria Square since its 'post earthquake' revamp!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I was pleased to see it still retained all its beauty with wonderful large grassy areas, paved pathways and walkways, lovely fountain and its towering statues. The repairs on the town hall were in full swing! The connection through to where the old Pallet Pavillion ( who remember's that!?) is much stronger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The market was hosted by <a href="https://felt.co.nz/shop/mudbird" target="_blank"><b>Felt</b></a>, <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/otakaroltd/" target="_blank"><b>Ōtākaro</b></a> and <a href="http://www.matapopore.co.nz/" target="_blank"><b>Matapopore</b></a>. I was thrilled and extremely honoured that my </span>Mudbird signature <a href="https://felt.co.nz/listing/342901/Mudbird-Thistle-dish---Red" target="_blank"><b>Red Thistle dish</b></a> was used front and centre in the advertising - the first thing I saw upon arriving was a giant bollard with 2 posters of it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I enjoyed creating some new pieces for the market, bringing back some bright and cheerful colours and some smaller pieces to use on a daily basis. They were popular at the market and I'm in the process of photographing pieces to upload to my felt shop and also refresh my stock in the lovely artisan Co-op shop I sell in called <b><a href="http://www.payitforwardstore.co.nz/" target="_blank">Pay It Forward</a>.</b> In fact I'll be there this Wednesday 11th April, working from 10-1pm so come down & say hi! The shop closes at 4pm. You can find <a href="https://www.facebook.com/payitforwardmairehau/" target="_blank"><b>Pay it Forward's Facebook page here</b>.</a> - keep updated with all the lovely new products from our designers and events like the Mother's Day shopping night coming up on May 2nd! Bubbles & juice, nibbles and shopping - you can't go wrong!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anyway - I digress... back to the market. Here are a few photos of the day and pieces I had for sale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And here is my table set up. I set up in the wrong spot... perils of being the first one there and first time in a new place! So the lovely Lucy & Jo from Felt helped me shift my tables. I sold quite a few pieces before the second photo, the Ceramic and wooden trees were a bit of fun!</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It was lovely as the sun came out, hands wrapped around a warm cup of coffee. Autumn seems to be gaining momentum! And I got to meet a lovely new creative business '<a href="https://felt.co.nz/profile/mcginns" target="_blank">Mcginns Made Fresh</a>' in the next stall over! Beautiful natural locally made products I've already started using. Looking forward to the next market there, hopefully in Summer with lots of lovely stalls, food and music on the green!</span><br />
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Gill @ Mudbird Ceramicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086985661054868874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244483561128154474.post-87825687978845761052017-09-03T23:27:00.000+12:002017-09-04T15:52:51.329+12:00100 Days of Mudbird Ceramics, 2017<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've just run the feather duster over my blog and she'<span id="goog_658447727"></span><span id="goog_658447728"></span>s back up and running!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you've been following along on my <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mudbird_ceramics/" target="_blank">Instagram </a>you'll be familiar with my 100 day project #100daysofmudbird ... If not, please let me introduce you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the 22nd May 2017, I started on my <a href="https://100daysproject.co.nz/projects/100-Days-2017/gill-mudbird-ceramics-439" target="_blank">100 Days Project</a> with the idea to create a ceramic tile every day until the project finish date on 29th August 2017. I had every intention of completing, and apart from a few days around day 76 (where I wasn't able to make tiles) I made one for every single day. I wasn't sure how I was going to manage after having such a long break from making Ceramics. After the first week, the 100 days seemed very daunting but I took the attitude of just doing it one day at a time! I had to say goodbye to my custom built studio when we sold our home 2 years ago, so am back making on my kitchen table... right back where I began in 2008. Thankfully our little old 80sqm house has doubled in size here so much more space to be creative!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've had lots of questions along the way about my tiles so I'll try and answer them here:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The designs are mainly inspire about what was around me, things that I love & collect, meaningful details of the stories of the day ( like making heart quilt blocks for a friends quilt and my 7 year old son's birthday) or just random ideas that came as I fell asleep. I have a huge collection of indoor plants ( it's a bit of a jungle in most rooms!) so plants feature a lot. I also love feathers, birds and the outdoors. On day I put out a challenge on Instagram and got some really great ideas... like an Octopus 71/100 and a Kiwi Retro Caravan 42/100 and the Canterbury Plains 99/100. Great minds think alike as nearly all suggestions were already on my list.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes its true! I made a new tile every single day, I didn't stockpile a whole lot and then post the photos each day.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They are made from a white NZ midfire Porcelain clay, when the clay is cut the squares are 10cm square and then after drying and 2x firings they shrink down to approx 8.5cm square. They are photographed immediately after making so are still wet and grey ish.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Each day I rolled out the clay slab with no particular idea in mind. Some days designs came easily, some days I spent quite some time deciding on what I wanted to do before I could even start. For a few days I started a tile only to ditch it, have a cuppa then come back to start again.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I wrote down a list of ideas that I really wanted to make and added ideas that came to me and other's suggestions. I didnt have a daily plan, but I knew I wanted to finish on the Fantail tile. If the idea didn't speak to me I just couldn't make it. I saw the clay slab as a blank canvas and often after gathering all my tools and playing a bit, the vision of the tile would just jump out at me and I was off!</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some days the tile could be made in an hour (which was great if I was pressed for time or it was a work day), the average was 3.5 hours but I do have to admit I did spend the most part of the day on a fair few tiles. Thankfully I was mostly flexible with my time so could fit that in. I made them all during the day as I needed to photograph them in daylight. You can see the seasons change in the photos as the colour changes with the weather and the low light darker winter days made it harder to photograph.</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day 27/100 - Matariki / Mt Cook</td></tr>
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<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yes I'd love to exhibit them when finished... was hoping that would be during the 100 days collective group, so now I'm trying to figure out how to do it on my own. </span></li>
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<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">YES! I'd love to sell them and thank you all for your interest and telling me your favourite ones. An Auction will probably be best to determine the value. All details will be made available with a list of the tiles being sold closer to the time. I estimate mid-late October. Please <a href="mailto:gillianweavers@gmail.com" target="_blank">email me</a><a href="mailto:gillianweavers@gmail.com"> i</a>f you'd like to be added to the contact list with <b>100 days tiles</b> in the subject line.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So here's the next part!! What's most exciting is I'm taking part of the Christchurch 100 Days Show and the opening is in 2 days! Due to the ultra short notice of it, I've been unable to glaze my tiles as planned, which is very disappointing ( as its really how the final project should have be viewed) but with some encouragement of 2 other great 100 dayer's <a href="https://100daysproject.co.nz/projects/100-Days-2017/sigrid-millard-19" target="_blank">Sigrid</a> & <a href="https://100daysproject.co.nz/projects/100-Days-2017/tinystitchesmiri-103" target="_blank">Miriam</a> I've printed the photos I posted on the 100 day site and they are already displayed ready for opening night!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I'll be sharing more over the coming days especially images from the show. Thanks SO much, it means the world when you comment on my photos, send a message or come up to me to mention how much you like the tiles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My very talented friend Juliet from TartanKiwi, designs the most amazing paper pieced patterns. She set a <a href="http://www.thetartankiwi.com/2014/07/the-lowdown-on-butterfly-challenge.html" target="_blank">challenge</a> a wee while ago and I signed up tentatively. I've never ever done anything quite like this and I'm not a quilter (still haven't made one!!) and I don't sew very much at all but I love creating, love this pattern and had ogled at Juliet's cushion on her couch a couple of times! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She issued the challenge to change it up a bit, I know she was probably 99% referring to the PATTERN, but since I was more than a bit frightened of this paper piecing business I decided to make a the <a href="http://www.craftsy.com/pattern/quilting/other/butterfly-simple-5-paper-pieced-pattern/43751" target="_blank">simple 5 " butterfly pattern</a>, enlarge it to 200% and embellish by free-hand stitching with gold & blue metallic threads and beadwork clusters and lines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I did the whole thing with my trusty old sewing scissors as I don't currently have a cutting mat to use my cutter on! So its certainly not perfect on the back, but it can be done! When I held it up to the light you can see how all the intricate pieces are sewn together, with just one bit to trim. This image was taken after I removed all the paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When the sunshine hits the free-hand gold hand stitched thread its quite divine! I wanted to emulate the intricate designs of a real butterflies wing, tying in with the beautiful pattern that Juliet designed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So now I'm hooked!! I LOVE paper piecing, have already downloaded several patterns to make. Who knew it would be so easy, it really really was! I've also signed up to the #igminiquilt swap so can see a paper pieced quilt on the horizon too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thanks Juliet for issuing the challenge, I enjoyed learning a new skill and doing a bit of handwork again and I FINISHED a project!</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244483561128154474.post-351271122796461162013-10-23T14:04:00.000+13:002013-10-23T14:04:24.328+13:00Mudbird website service announcement<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hello friends, if you've been looking for my shop website you'll find it's not there. For most of this year I've been a bit unwell & since June I've had to stop making ceramics... I know, I'm really sad! It wasn't expected and hopefully only a season. Every now and again I'll hold some sales on my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mudbirdnz" target="_blank">Facebook</a> page with my remaining stock. I do have a limited amount of Emerge jewellery left so if you are in need, please email mudbird(at)gill.co.nz</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> I'm proud to introduce my Mudbird doll, made by the incredibly talented, homeschooling Mum of 5 ... <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TinyEyesNZ" target="_blank">Dee from Tiny Eyes</a>. A few months ago Dee asked myself and 6 other creative people to design a doll as part of her Winter 2013 Collaboration, to be auctioned off for sale!! I showed pictures of my fabrics and ideas <a href="http://www.mudbirdceramics.blogspot.co.nz/2013/05/the-tiny-eyes-journey-begins.html" target="_blank">here</a> ( if you need to refresh your memory) I was honoured to be asked, and I hope I have done her Doll designs justice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Piece by piece Dee made each detail of the doll designs come to life and I just love them all. The details on mine are fabulous, the mini puffed sleeves, the tiny little collar - so pretty dont you think? And the glasses.... so cute!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> I also made 3 mini Doll sized dishes for my doll, made with the same woodblock design I used to 'print' onto the denim for her skirt. These wee dishes can be used for tea parties... or Mum can use them in the kitchen or anywhere in the house! ( they made beautiful little ring dishes next to your bedside or sink.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To get an idea of the size of the doll, my dishes are 2.5inches wide!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So... how do you get to buy this doll or any of the other designs? Dee is running an Auction over on her facebook page that starts TOMORROW at noon. Details below...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So this year for Mother's Day I thought I'd host another little giveaway on my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mudbirdnz" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> just because all my likers are amazing, nothing was needed to be done to be in the draw and I was blown away by all the lovely comments, shares and likes - I totally didn't expect it all !</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span">That's 6 years of blogging folks and I didn't even realize. My first blog was a blog about my family, my journey with my 2 children & my life. That was then and now I have 3 children. I still blog but about my creative life and my love of making ceramics. The bits in between are another story for another day.</span></span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This weekend has been fab / child free / </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">inspiring woman / </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">filled with adult company. What more could you want.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Tomorrow we start at 8.30am for Breakfast at one of my fav inner city cafes.. C1! and a trip up the roof garden is planned so I'm pretty happy about that.</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">As a fun part of our Bloggers weekend we all got a swap partner where we made a name badge for each other. The gorgeous Meghan from <a href="http://meghanandmark.blogspot.co.nz/" target="_blank">MNM's</a> made my beautiful Birdie badge (which I love!) and I made her a ceramic badge with vintage tatting pressed into the background, covered in a green glaze with her name hand-stamped from antique letterpress type. It was fun to create, although a bit nerve-wracking... will she like it? Does she like green? Well she did. And she wore GREEN! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I'm just thrilled at how my brand new <a href="http://www.mudbird.co.nz/categories/emerge-range/rose-window-necklace" target="_blank">Emerge Rose Window</a> designs came out of the kiln a couple of days ago. The design is a tribute to the ChristChurch Cathedral Rose Window that was sadly destroyed during a series of large aftershocks resulting from the February 22nd 2011 Earthquake that struck Canterbury. I have been asked and asked to create a design that incorporates the Cathedral as it holds such a sweet spot for Cantabrians and is the iconic symbol for Christchurch. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I call it <b>SUCCESS</b>! I designed the stamp in black and white in a design program, slowly tweaking curves and lines and shapes until I was happy with the final design and envisaged that the black part of the stamp would look red when glazed. I wanted a Rose Window design that was not the same as any others floating out there on the web, and I'm pretty sure it's a one off! It's my artistic interpretations and you can see the full design better on the Tile. The classic Rose window design is so beautiful it wasn't hard to be pleased with the design anyway. Thank you to the Stone masons from the 1800's (or earlier I'm sure) for creating such beauty to begin with. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Wow - nearly at the end of March and I'm just getting going again on my blog. I have a million things to blog about and think I need to play catch up, I'll have to blog backwards to my summer holidays. I feel like I've packed 6 months into the last 3, although the first 1.5 months was pretty slow... </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I closed up shop just before Christmas, so I could spend a wonderful summer with my family. I was due to start back mid February with Mudbird, and I'll admit... I did dust off the studio key and enter into the chaos I had left behind (after manic Christmas market making & the like) but creativity didn't just flow like those endless summer G&T's (I wish!... seriously I'm more of a pina colada girl)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So... you are probably wondering why I'm so excited about type? Well that day I came home, rolled out a slab of clay and got to work. About 5 years ago I started making Ceramic tags - you could say that was my flagship product. Lots of others make them now and they are not so unique, but I have always loved them. I made them for a season then moved onto other things, but now they are coming back. First I made several cardboard templates of the tag shape and got to work. I started with a 'Tea' , 'Chai' & Earl Grey' tag. I then jumped onto my social network sites to ask what teas people have in their kitchen. I wanted to make gorgeous little tags to hang around tea jars. Pressing my new set of type into wet clay to create those words was all it took to break the creativity dam - and then the ideas just flowed. They still haven stopped and my brain is full. I feel like I need a clone again, but this time for a positive reason... to create & never stop!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And after the 'Tea Tag' idea was underway I got to work on another idea. This is not so new... but new in the sense of getting it out there and planning on offering it as a new range. I have ALWAYS made custom pieces, but not advertised it. I've made them for pregnancies, births, birthdays & weddings (and even funerals). So after working with a lovely Bride to be and brilliant Wedding planner last year, I decided to properly launch my much anticipated Wedding range. They were so encouraging and the feedback was delightful - it was all I needed to get the sketch book out to create these new pieces. Now, I don't always write down ALL of my ideas first, for the piece below I cut a circle of clay and eyed it up... Then I just picked up my type and started 'writing'. Inspiration often comes after the clay is rolled out... no time like the present and especially the pressure of wet clay drying gets the mind working. After this, I did sit down and nut out a whole lot of text dishes. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Ok, so thats TWO ideas, so I'll share one more for now. I've been wanting to expand my Emerge range and have been designing a new stamp for a while. Good things take time, so I spent a little longer on this next design, tweaking and adding to make it perfect and original! I'm not a native Cantabrian, but I do love Christchurch and have called it my home since I was 19. And the one iconic building I have always loved is the Christchurch Catherdral. Like many, not only in Canterbury but also worldwide, I am so sad that it has been destroyed. For those that aren't familiar with my <a href="http://www.mudbird.co.nz/categories/emerge-range" target="_blank"><b>Emerge</b></a> range, it is a commemoration range that is made with liquefaction silt. It is mixed with the clay to create special pieces with real meaning. These are collector pieces and I hope will become a part of history for the people of this City.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And last but not least - and thanks so much for reading this far... I'm very excited to announce I'm taking <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dHB2Q29zb0ZiUEdGMWtBVE14R1FpSmc6MA" target="_blank"><b>workshops</b></a> this year. I have listened to all the requests, on FB, in emails and in person at markets and am rearing to go. I have a long list of workshop ideas and can't wait to start. You'll find a link to the registration form on the top left of my blog, and I'll do another post int he next fews days to tell you more. You'll have to be quick though as the first one starts in 2 WEEKS!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">p.s and a little thank you for reading my blog, if you register for a workshop and put 'Mudbird March Blog' in the 'where did you hear about the workshops' I'll give you $5 off!</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244483561128154474.post-73126307810957561512012-10-05T15:48:00.000+13:002012-10-05T15:48:15.302+13:00Everyone needs a creative break!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Although I wouldn't recommend surgery if you can help it, there is nothing like having a forced break to recharge your batteries.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">These last 2 weeks have been the first time in over 2 years I have had a 'mental' break from work. How crazy is that? Even when on holiday or camping etc, I'd still 'work' in my mind... always ticking over with <a href="http://www.mudbird.co.nz/" target="_blank">Mudbird</a> and thinking ahead with work, planning markets, designs and such - but when I wasn't actually physically able to work something happened!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I sat and spent many an hour looking at lovely creative & fun ideas (I think you may have seen some of those on my <a href="http://www.mudbirdceramics.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/an-itch-to-scratch.html" target="_blank">last blog</a>) and I have to say it really helped to re-charge creativity. I got my fix of crafty goodness as my eyes devoured blog after blog. Nothing ceramic related at all, in fact I never even came across any ceramic artists at all in my search. There is this great app called Stumble Upon and it just takes to you to random webpages, therefore giving you an opportunity to find things you might not in a normal google search!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Before Mudbird was born, I created everything under the sun. I made, sewed, built, photographed, soldered, painted, cooked, hand stitched, planted, assembled, constructed it all. You name it, I probably made it. Every year I designed some new product and usually my family where the 'lucky' recipients of those ideas for each Christmas. I have boxes of supplies left over from all the projects I did, I could probably open a craft shop! After Mudbird was born, clay was my creative outlet and I loved it... still LOVE it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Don't ask me about the time, I'm still going to make it - don't worry dear"...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Him:</b> "but you already have so much to do and catch up on (leading up to big markets)"..</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Me: "Yes, but I can do it in my spare time?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Him: "hmmmmm, what spare time?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Me: "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">like when the kiln is firing, or clay is drying"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Him: "When are you going to rest?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Me "Look, you can't stop me now, this idea is GREAT (and I'm going to make it)"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Him: "ok, well I don't want you to get to busy with another project that you run out of time"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Me: "Oh don't worry about that... that's how I <b>LIVE</b> baby!"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The conversation ended well, because my lovely husband knows me better than myself. Yes I'll get super busy and work till 2am, get a bit crazy, tired & cranky. and then get a boost of energy when I see the fruits of my labour! I'm the kinda gal that works under pressure. I never completed my homework till the night before! and although I DO plan now as a 'mature adult', I thrive on pressure and I always come through if I'm working to the beat of my own drum.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It's all to easy to get busy doing what you do and become SO focused you don't tend to stray. And of course when you have 3 children life gets even busier. My eldest is about to turn EIGHT and my time to make craft in my spare time has dwindled to zero. Sad eh? But I realize I need to make and do other things from time to time. I mean... I can't give Ceramics to my family every Christmas forever can I?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So my new "October" resolution ( why wait till New Years') is to make time to craft!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Here is a sneak peak of what my new project is constructed with. And I'm happy to report that while I was watching TV for a couple of hours (next to hubby on the couch) I whipped up the Flowers.. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Therefore.. Making in my spare time! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">All will be revealed in due time I promise. I have a couple of things to get to finish the project. *Spoiler alert to my Mum & Sister.. sorry!* And no.. there is no knitting required here!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So let's just all agree... <a href="http://www.mudbirdceramics.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/an-itch-to-scratch.html" target="_blank">my itch got scratched</a> and I'm back on board - rearing to go!</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244483561128154474.post-2015806623850737472012-09-24T16:49:00.000+12:002012-09-26T19:20:27.756+12:00An itch to scratch.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">On Tuesday 18th September, I was acutely admitted to CHCH woman's hospital and booked for surgery at 8.30am the next day. Let's just say I was quite nervous and didn't sleep much the night before with the constant monitoring and noise. I had a longstanding issue that I could no longer ignore due to intense pain, and had a laparoscopic cystectomy done (yeah... go look that up). I'm not prone to Dr's visits, and am not a fan of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">pain killers or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">hospitals, but I could no longer ignore this one. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It was a pretty major surgery removing a huge cyst (think large grapefruit size filling the left half of my pelvis) no complications on the day so that's good! (There have been a few hurdles since but am working through them!) The last thing I remember before falling asleep was looking up at the theatre lights. Then I woke up in recovery 2.5 hours later mumbling to the nurses some nonsense about a dream I'd had about surgery. (eek...was I awake for some of it ?) I can imagine they hear some funny things when people wake up! So 4 holes in my tummy later, I am resting up on my 5th day, and recovering at home in bed. It was my first surgery and hopefully my last! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Hence this post. I'm itching to be creative, to do something fun or at least get some work done, but I can't. I'm confined to bed while I heal, and even if I wanted to get up and sneakily do some work when my hubby isn't looking, I can't! I tried a quick trip to the kitchen to make a cup of tea today, and that had me back in bed dizzy & tired, for the rest of the afternoon. I've also got 3 kiddies whose new hangout spot has become my bed and so in between listening to stories about lego men or checking out new doll outfits, I'm trying to stop my 2 yr old from kicking me in the tummy, and trying not to catch his vomiting bug (which he got the day I came home)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I'm just not used to sitting still or laying in bed for so long. I've read a wonderful book by Nancy Atherton, trawled through stumble to get a creative fix ( couldn't live with out my iPad right now!) and slept 100+ hours & even folding washing. It's times like this I wished I knitted, did crochet, sketched/ painted or something easily done while lying or sitting up in bed. Any ideas? I could be in bed for another week or so! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I could do boring things like paperwork, and probably should, but that's not very exciting is it! ( and quite frankly I'm lacking the motivation to do that... and this post along took quite a while to write with regular breaks)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Most of these ideas are pretty self explanatory, but if you need any help with how to get started just ask.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So in the mean time, I'll continue to look at lovely things and try not to panic... I'm making my debut at two HUGE Christmas Fetes starting October 25th (Culverden Christmas Fete and the Geraldine Summer Fete) they are only 1 week apart and I really need to be rolling, cutting, shaping, smoothing, firing and glazing right now! Not to mention there is only 1 week left before School Holidays start, and I'll have 3 young kiddies with boundless energy bouncing around the house.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I didn't have any control over the timing of this surgery, but I guess it is better that it is over and done with, rather than living with the pain for a couple of months.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Talk soon x Gill</b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Land of the long white cloud... Wall Art in Thistle pattern<br />(17.5cm x 8.5xm with wall hook on back)<br />Also available in my Felt shop <a href="http://felt.co.nz/listing/109863/Ceramic-Cloud-Wall-Art-1" target="_blank">HERE</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fluffy clouds not to be left out... Wall Art in Tatting Pattern<br />(15cm x 9cm with wall hook on back)<br />Also available in my Felt Shop <a href="http://felt.co.nz/listing/109864/Ceramic-Cloud-Wall-Art-2" target="_blank">HERE</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When you need a teeny tiny dish - this is for you!<br />Approx. 5cm</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">it's really easy and all the details are there too!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Closes 23/9/12 Drawn 24/9/12</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">That's right, if you know me, you'll know I LOVE giving things away. I love my business and it has blessed me so much. I get to do what I love, to create with clay and play with gorgeous glazes... the ideas are endless. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Without all you lovely folk, my friends, supporters and customers I wouldn't be here today ( I know I've said that before but I truly mean it!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So...I'm gearing up for a hugely busy season with stalls at big fetes like the <a href="http://www.thefete.co.nz/" target="_blank">Culverden Christmas Fete</a> & the <a href="http://www.geraldinesummerfete.co.nz/" target="_blank">Geraldine Summer Fete</a> (quietly panicking as they are a week apart!) and then Christmas markets in December and before it gets all mad around here I'd like to do something fun.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">[All my markets are listed on my website <a href="http://www.mudbird.co.nz/info/markets-fairs" target="_blank">HERE</a> ] My next one is THIS friday - The Paparoa St School Hall Shop me Pretty.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> Entries will be open this Saturday for the giveaway and all the details will be up in a new post. I'll put the link up on my FB page <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mudbirdnz" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mudbird</span></b></a> when we are all ready to go!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>This week's 'Friday Finds' is a showcase of some fine New Zealand designers. These 3 ladies are an inspiration, and I know just how amazing their work is as I am lucky enough to own a piece or two!</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">When I look at the stunning handcrafted jewellery that Julia makes at Relique, I want it all! I LOVE her combination of Silver and Copper, all </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">100% handmade in Christchurch.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> I am lucky enough to have done quite a few markets alongside Relique Jewellery and have no problem helping to promote her beautiful work... </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.berrypatchcottage.co.nz/categories" target="_blank">If you love to sew and are after some inspiration, Berry Patch Cottage sells the most amazing fabrics and even a few patterns like these super cute Bella Pants.</a><br />I love the 'Pear Tree - Blue Trees' fabric, wish I had a project on the go so I had an excuse to get some!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;"><a href="http://felt.co.nz/listing/97690/The-Monster-Berri-Gang---Vintage-Plush-Monsters-" target="_blank">How cute is this! Emilie Berri Switchblade makes these quirky <br />and irresistible Vintage Plush Monsters, available on Felt & alot more designs on her Facebook page.</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.smallfish.co.nz/shops/pretty-birds/categories/three-little-birds-collection/four-robins" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">It was hard to pick a favorite from the range at Pretty Birds - <br />so many lovely designs & options. <br />I thought these four Robins were pretty sweet.</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://felt.co.nz/listing/98323/Wintery-Cream-and-Grey-Granny-Square-Hottie-Cover---to-keep-snuggly-Open-Neck-for-filling-and-mother-of-pearl-button-closure-at-the-bottom" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Oh I LOVE the colours in this cosy granny square hottie cover <br />from Alexandra Mackenzie. Go and check out all her amazing crocheted creations - available on Felt.</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;"><a href="http://felt.co.nz/listing/108438/Little-Red-Riding-Hood-Pinafore" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Paula from Slipstitch makes these gorgeous Little Red Riding hood pinafores and other very cute kids items. This is a size 2-3 and available on Felt and also check out her wares at the Spring Encraftment Market coming up!</a><br /><br /><br /><br />And to finish off - a wee shout out for a new Fair coming up.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;"><b>Crafty Christchurch</b> is a boutique craft supply and quilt fair running from the evening of <b>23rd August to the 25th August 2012</b> in the Geodome at Hagley Park. This fair will include stands from local craft suppliers, exhibitions, and demonstrations.<div class="mhl" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;">
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Thursday August 23rd 5-9pm (Opening Night)<br />Friday August 24th 10am-6pm<br />Saturday August 25th 10am-6pm<br /><br />Profits from this event will be donated to Bellyful Christchurch.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/BellyfulChristchurch" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/BellyfulChristchurc</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.surreypark.co.nz/the-table/89-milk-cream-bottles.html" target="_blank">Gorgeous Ceramic bottles from Surrey Park</a>. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://felt.co.nz/shop/jacolily" target="_blank">Such a gorgeous range of fabric bags in Jacolily's Felt sho</a>p.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/GraciousPlum" target="_blank">Gracious Plum from the UK makes these unique designs.</a></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Well my brain has been a prisoner of late of those exact things ( actually it always has been).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It's been a pretty exciting time for <a href="http://www.mudbird.co.nz/" target="_blank">Mudbird</a> lately with the creation and completion of a new Logo :-) I've been working alongside a long time designer friend who worked her magic on my brand. I wanted something that could stand alone as an icon, also to use a design in my products. I have yet to make up new banners for my website or my blog but I will... so here goes... this it it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I just LOVE LOVE LOVE it... yes, I'm excited. Gail did a great job didn't she? {The colors are a bit brighter in these jpegs than actual colors}</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This is the nest element that I'll be using on its own. I've already made dishes, earrings, brooches and necklaces!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So back to ideas. Being a creative person, I find my brain coming up with ideas at the craziest times, the worst times ( like a parent/teacher conference when I'm supposed to be paying attention ) and also at the best of times.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">As a designer ( of Ceramic Art ) I really strive to come up with original <a href="http://www.mudbird.co.nz/" target="_blank">Mudbird</a> designs. I don't copy others ideas, but this world isn't exactly small, you do tend to see the same thing out there. Sometimes seeing designs similar or the same just breaks my heart! There has been a lot of talk in the Handmade/Craft circles of late of other people stealing ideas/patterns/designs and going on to create/sell them. My friends have worked so hard to create their ideas, invested a lot of time and money into their product, then someone else comes long and rips it off. Not cool. It has got me thinking a lot about that in the past 2 weeks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Sometimes I make something, get it out there, take it to market and am 100% confident that NO-ONE ELSE HAS DONE IT... yippee... then, oh oh - someone else has. But that's ok, I always put my stamp on it, to make it mine, to make it different... Great minds think alike right?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've even had people send me links saying... 'so in so' has copied you, but that's so hard to prove right? I've been told its the greatest form of flattery when someone copies you, but it still has an ouch factor! And then there are the days when people claim to be the inventor of that design, that just makes me chuckle!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Sometimes people ask me to copy a ceramic design, which I am firmly against. Other artists work hard to create their designs and I don't want anyone copying mine so I won't copy theirs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">That's why I try to use as many original textures as I can to create my designs - like my collection of 10 antique Song plates from 1920's - they weigh a ton and were used to print the actual books. They are as much of a treasure to me as a tool.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And my grandmother's tatting lace, or my antique carved indian woodblocks - creating textures that *hopefully* no one else has. I found a gorgeous antique French madeline tin in Akaroa, that is wonderful to display... and also to use as a mould!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In fact many of my textures and patterns are from my personal collection of antiques and treasures. I have collections of Keys, bottles, books, carved wooden blocks, metal type... I search high and low for things to use, digging through 2nd hand shops across the countryside. I even used part of a ring that my Husband bought me in Italy to imprint the heart into my <a href="http://www.mudbird.co.nz/categories/emerge-range/emerge-heart-earrings" target="_blank">Emerge Earrings</a>... I've got stories about all my designs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I'm pretty excited about what is in the pipeline - I've got a lot in the drying stage, the bisque stage ( first firing) and also lots of lovely pretty glazed things waiting to be shown off. A coupe of months ago I was in the middle of finalizing my Christmas DOVE decoration shape to me made up, and another idea popped up into my head. CLOUDS... I have no idea where they came from, but I could see them, cut from thick slabs of clay, imprinted with lace or my wood block. Then suddenly I remembered all my photography of clouds over the years - maybe thats my inspiration. So I spent ages ( and I mean AGES) drawing up cloud shapes, who new this could take so long. I didn't went just a generic clip art cloud shape, I wanted ones with personality.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I wanted to increase my wall & hanging art range - funnily enough I was forced into exploring new ideas when I had to step down from taking my jewelry to a market ( jewelry roster) so I though.. oh no! What can I take to fill that gap? So I got thinking and making up new ideas to take... hence the CLOUDS and new Christmas Decorations.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Then I realized, cutting everything with a scalpel is just plain silly. So I got some metal cutters made up, not only of the clouds, but also of my other signature shapes/designs. This way I can improve on productivity. Although I loved the hand-cut aspect, there comes a time when its better business sense to make life easier. I still hand-cut some designs, but hope to build up my cutters. They take time to make and are not cheap.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I still use the old plastic cutters, had a lot of fun making these last week and exploring new glazes too!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So I've been in the Studio - rolling, cutting and pressing textures into my new ideas and its been a lot of fun. They'll be on sale in Christchurch at 2 markets next week: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ShopMePretty" target="_blank">Shop me Pretty</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thecraftcollectivenz" target="_blank">Craft Invaders Market</a>. I'll then make more and load onto my website.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've got a LOT more to show you - next time ok?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">x Gill</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8244483561128154474.post-21276328736173211142012-06-18T18:58:00.003+12:002012-06-21T15:54:15.156+12:00And the winner is....<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Prue has won her choice of some LoveBird Earrings or a Necklace, and she choose a pair of Blue Lovebird earrings and decided to give them to her Mum in Christchurch as a wee pick me up! How lovely is that. I love it when things like that happen, the prizes always seem to go to the best people. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Thanks to all who entered and showed their support - we had 75 entries in total.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Till the next time.... Gill</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3