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studio snippets

Mum hasn't been able to see the studio/shop yet – she's in Brisbane & I'm outside Melbourne – so I thought a few happy snaps might help her imagine what it looks like. 

I keep changing things around, but this is how it looked, or rather small areas of it looked, a week or so ago. The holiday rush is over, so chances are I'll have time to move things around again!

I made some signage for the front window from old vintage text pages, laser printed type and some cut, paste and sewing. I promise to take a picture of it in the next few days.

this week's flowers...

I did my best to get some fire engine red flowers for the studio this week, and this is what I was able to come up with. Red, but not quite as red as I'd like them.

I've spied some soft pink flowers within arm's reach so I think they'll do the trick for next week.

found typography

The studio is located in an industrial estate, and there's lots of interesting things lying around the place. Like this stack of wooden pallets – all with different typography. Each a different font, a different colour, all placed there haphazardly by our neighbours the builders.

I'm sure they were wondering why on earth I was photographing them!

 

studio flowers

One of my favourite things about studio life is the flowers. They live in an old glass jar on top of our lovely wooden shop counter and can't help but catch the eye of each visitor.

For the first week I tried bunches of roses bought from the local farmer market – they lasted only a few days in the summer heat. After that expensive disappointment I decided to try local, native flowers from the gum trees the council had planted on the footpaths. Native, colourful, local and free – a perfect solution. And popular too – more than one studio visitor has admired their colour, beauty and simplicity. One even remembered that last week I had orange flowers.

I love watching them evolve over the days – from closed buds to popping open to unfurling to fully opened.

 

Week one was a bright neon orange, week two a paler coral orange and this week is two shades of pink. For week four I'm hoping for bright red – but I'm still trying to find a tree that has flowers at a height I can harvest without the use of a ladder! Not quite inconspicuous that ladder.