Audrey's 1st Birthday Invitation

I made this little bird to go with our bride and groom for the wedding cake but it has ended up doubling as the bird in Audrey's birthday invitation's. Made the cake from fimo, with dolls house furniture and Cristina Rae paper as the wallpaper behind.

Margaux Lange

This is what I love about reading blogs - sometimes you just come across something that is so awesome you have to share it with everyone to spread the word. Margaux Lange is one of those people and thanks to Candy Bandit I have just discovered her. She is a jeweller from Brooklyn, New York who reuse and remakes Barbies into the most amazing jewellery.

Check out her website, blog or etsy shop here:

http://midgesmind.blogspot.com/

http://www.margauxlange.com/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/margauxlange

BOOM!!

My work space has exploded - look what happens when I try to clean. I think there is method to my messy madness that I shouldn't mess with. Things have gotten crazy busy around here - have returned to work 2 days a week so have even less time then before! Meanwhile we run out of Internet downloads while i am at home all week so no blog reading and inspiration all week - I was a little scared to open up google reader - was worse then i thought 1000+ blog posts to read - i think I need to cut back on the following here. Oh and I think my wisdom teeth have arrived - i am so scared to go to the dentist but this ache in my jaw is going to get the better of me soon.

I found this fox I had drawn and photocopied onto acetate for a project at RMIT that was going to go on a silk screen but never did. I decided to use it to decorate the house. The photo's are Polaroids from out trip overseas last year. I wanted to submit the photo to this great new flickr group Craft Fox started by Liz of Lino Forest but I don't think it is crafty enough. But you should check it out - some great foxy works there.

Here is a sneak preview of my latest work - a little tangerine something coming your way.

7 Inch Record Wedding Invitation

Finally after much anticipation and waiting for invitations to be delievered I can now share with you the finished product of our wedding invitations! Inspired by our love of music, we decided it would be cool to attempt to make a 7 inch album cover into a wedding invitation - little did we know how big the production would end up being but we had so much fun doing it. I initally made the birds for the top of the wedding cake, the bride was made of scraps from my wedding dress and some sample beaded fabric we didn't end up using. The groom was made from an old dress of mine. The wallpaper and floor were papers designed by Cristina Rae who has some beautiful work and an amazing shop in Collingwood. We decided to personalise the invitations by selecting out a variety of 7 inch records from our local record shop 8 Mile High in Thornbury and tried to send something that they might like to listen to.

Above is the back of the album cover showing the details of the wedding -we tried to make it look like the back of a record (Katherine if you are reading this - you can probably tell that I am using your invitation - but keeping it safe till you return xx). Below is an image showing the insert we produced for further information for guests.

This image below is where my inital inspiration came from for the album cover. I just loved this when I found it via the Style Me Pretty blog. It was taken by The Nichols a husband and wife wedding photography team that photographed the most beautiful photo's of the most beautiful wedding here.

(image source)

This is a shot of the album covers in production - I think I now have RSI!

Shot of the birds in their set (notice audrey in the frame behind them!)

Soon I will upload some more images to my folio here of more detailed images of the birds. I am also looking to use the set and birds to produce a wedding congratulations card for sale but will keep you posted about that.

Some Random Things I have been Making

Below are a few things I made over the Christmas period apart from trying to finalise wedding invitations. I have also finished them but can't post them up until I have sent them out to a few people who might read this blog. It has to be a surprise!

These are some snowflakes made from paper doilies that I might use for decoration for the wedding. Got the idea off Design Sponge here.

This was Andy's X-mas stocking I made for him, Audrey has one too - still haven't done one for myself - maybe next year!

And lastly this was a headband I made for Thouraya's daughter Amelie of Amelie and Atticus (Audrey is modelling) for Christmas.

Fantastic Mr Fox

Man I loved this movie.

Top 10 Blog list Read

Further to my previous post here is my top 10 list of blog's that I probably read the most when i can at the moment - although I follow a heap of great blogs these are probably the ones I find the most inspiration from at the moment for various reasons! In no particular order here they are:

• Design Sponge
• Jam Fancy
• Style Me Pretty
• Amelie and Atticus
• Anney B
• Aprons and Hammers
• Geninne's Art Blog
• Meet Me at Mikes
• Mixtape
• Poppy Talk
• The Design Files

How about you? What is your top 10 list?!