Finders

Kindling is proud to be showing here.... first of the season!

There I Stood - olives

There is Stood - Morocco

Where I stood - Spain

There I stood - Avebury

bring me a rock

Covered

Tapada

by esti hernandez

whenever someone asks if I would like a little something from their travels, I suggest a rock. My son is a rock lover too, so inevitably they are many, in my car, my handbag, pockets all on the way to the windowsills in the house.

Now we are travelling it seems we must be frugal with our selection. I carry them in my coat onto the plane, so they don't end up being excess baggage fines.

Here are some people who are doing beautiful things with rocks - I am in love with this today.

Pintame el tia - paint my day

everyone needs a rock

Tin love ii

Inside.....

Tin love

Living out of a very full heavy suitcase and my chances of buying at the wonderful flea markets is slim... enter smart Nina who has decided she can catalogue her belongings with tins. The collection is growing. 

I must have had a monmentary lapse in concentration when I bought a LAMP today. may have to leave it in the hotel... ha ha ha.

Beautiful old scales here

Travel ii

From Egypt to Holland. I made it. It has been a dream to come, my mum's family is Dutch, but living in Australia. I am living on a house boat on a canal, next to a dyke.... how dutch can I get!

Over on bloesem today I saw the work of dutch artist Nienke Sybrandy titled 'Bladerportretten = Leave Portraits'  The work is done on leaves that fall from plats in Nienke's home - she then creates a face in the leaf and catalogues then... see above! I love it that I can drop in the installation space in Amsterdam and see it with my own eyes too.

Travel 1

I love travelling. I am not so religious however the religious places I have visited have held so much beauty, the inspiration and admiration flows. I love camels. I love being in Holland... I am sleeping on a house boat. My life and situation have change very quickly everyday. I haven't found that i want to draw, or make yet, there is so much going in... but I can feel it coming... maybe in the form of a camel...??

Ms pretty and Poppies

Here are two new illustrations now available in my card range. I have been wanting to get this out for ages, and love how they printed.

Soon available in the shop.

Ms Pretty spies lunch.

Poppies

The pull together

.. it involved building up lots of stock (over the past 4 months) and i thought it would take about three hours to label and put into boxes for Katie who is taking over my distribution while i am away. Three days later I realised I might have been underestimating the task... hence the child labour :)

Discoveries

When I first started Kindling, my friend Fliss launched udder on the same night. We then shared a market space together, and being vibrant passionate women we went to cute extremes to present our work in the most sweet way possible. Whilst packing I found this - the bag Fliss gave me this penguin in.

For each penguin, she would cut a hole in it so the beak could poke thru (like MR Squiggle). She would also stay up til 4 in the morning before market day making little fabric adornments to hang from each bag. So each penguin had its own bag with matching hole and fabric adornment too.

Whata clever girl.

Letting go

What to take????

Beautiful old cases II

Two months later... I find myself in the mountains of Malaysia, with time to breathe. Packing up was enormous and incredibly stretching for us all. 

I realised how many times I had redesigned the space in my studio over the years to accommodate more supplies and tools.... what a treasure trove of endless sorting (and culling) I went through.

Here are some shots of the suitcaes that just kept coming.

One had really cute stickers all over it - I remember thinking that was soo cool when I was a kid - now I just like to graphic design!