Design Made Trade

Design Made Trade

Zipper Brooches $30

A good color range of  my zipper brooches have headed off to the DESIGN MADE TRADE show held in Melbourne this month. The lovely Alicia from a farmers daughter who makes vintage and recycled jewellery will be exhibiting at the Trade show and will have the zipper brooches for sale. The Trade show is open 19-20 July (Trade Only) and on 21-22 July it will be open to the public at the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne. So if your in Melbourne have a look the Exhibition Building is worth a look in itself.

Zipper Brooches can also be purchased here

What I've Been Making

T-Shirt necklaces, I love them so easy to wear, light and comfortable they make a great statement piece. Some are embellished with doilies or lace pieces and some embellished with hand cut felted wool circles. I also do plain ones which look fabulous doubled around your neck or knotted. A large range of these just hit Shop Handmade. Starting at $20 that is good value to ease yourself into the your new season wardrobe.

In the shop Cufflinks have music and map images for $45, but they can be customised with his initials, his favorite cities of the world or photos of the kids for $60. Very unique and my 19 year old loved the music ones, so suitable for a wide range of ages.

Ribbon Packs are available at Shop Handmade along with Ribbon by the metre, over two hundred ribbons to choose from. As you can see I have been creative, love it!

Thanks for stopping by.

New Venture

Have just revamped my Dad's old wooden ladder (with the help of my Dad) to become a ribbon display. It was so much fun decoupaging the ladder shelf and 2 wooden crates with pages from a 1957 dressmaking magazine. The ladder is now sitting at Shop Handmade in Canberra looking ready to offer ribbons by the metre. This is all part of the new creative space in the shop. Helping people get crafty. There are workshops scheduled for more information take a look at Shop Handmade's website.

My Christmas Card and Thank you

Wanted to share with you my Handmade Christmas Cards. My grandmother's Plum pudding recipe. Its the original recipe card , I think it use to be stored in a metal box. My Mum always makes the plum pudding for the Christmas lunch using this recipe, spelling mistakes and all!

All the family loved receiving this card, it pulled at the heart strings as Christmas lunch was always at my Grandparents for a good 20 years of my life. I sent extra copies to the great grandchildren.

Merry Christmas to all my customers, market and blogging friends.

For next year I have a few new ideas that should see there way into the Prim and Pretty range soon.

In Heaven

mixing fabric ( from my 30 year stash)

refashioning Beads (from 'hand me down' necklaces)

crotchet pieces, new ribbon, curtain rings

A Quiet House......Bliss

Hope you all have an outlet from the hum drum of life...

Did I tell you?

Back in May I spotted one of my Zipper brooches on Masterchef......there was great excitement....texts coming in and out, phone calls....madness. I was a little chuffed.







See it on Alana...#*$%...so for a few weeks I told the story, though I was 99% sure it was mine, I wanted to be sure, so this weekend Lilianne and I headed to 'Masterchef Live' in Sydney. Lilianne is a big fan of the show and I went with the mission to speak to Alana......I did feel like a groupie as I ducked and weaved to grab her twice.



To my utter delight she was so approachable that we had a little talk , she told me she had a zipper brooch like the one I was wearing so that lead me to tell her of where I thought hers came from and yes her Aunt had given it to her from Canberra and 'Yes' it was wrapped just like the new one I gave her on the day...She loves her zipper brooches.








So here is us at the 'Masterchef live' show. We had a ball.

....Seasons Colors

My Stripe ribbon brooches are very popular its surprising how easy they are to wear with flair. This seasons colors are bright so this is a perfect way to update your wardrobe economically! They are still only $20. I have just dropped off a range to Shop Handmade and I will have plenty of these at the next Market.

For all the lovers of the Red/White Stripe Brooch we know how versatile that one is, well the Yellow/White is now becoming a favorite of mine, looks awesome on grey.