Posted by Joelle on February 24, 2008 | Permalink
I’m filled with a mixture of relief and excitement tonight, after visiting the Clothkits launch at the Kids.Modern show today. Turns out I was actually kind of nervous about it. I’ve got such warm nostalgia for the old 70s brand, and had long harboured ideas about trying to relaunch a similar thing, so I was worried that the new owner, Kay Mawer, and the new designs would not live up to my high hopes.
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Categories: craft, shopping
Tags: annabel waterman, birds, clothkits, colour, flowers, jane foster, kids.modern, kits, rob ryan, scandinavian design, sewing
Posted by Vanessa on December 17, 2007 | Permalink
Like any huge fan of Christmas, I like to have as many as possible. On Saturday I held a Christmas dinner party - on which, more later (except for a small crisis over giblets, it went well). But today my boyfriend and I exchanged presents. We’d set one another a challenge to make one another Christmas presents for a $30 budget. I had NO IDEA what he would come up with so I was really delighted this morning to open a wall clock made from a copy of my favourite Shel Silverstein book, ‘The Giving Tree’!
Fortunately he was also pleased with his Road Trip Kit…
Categories: challenge, christmas, craft, tutorial
Tags: 'Shel Silverstein', christmas, clocks, craft, kits, presents