Branching out

I'm working on a whole lot of new ideas at the moment. There is much frustration when things don't work and then little bits of glee when they do.

Today, there was glee. The first of my new Adorn Pendants is all finished. I'm wearing it as I type, just giving it a good trial run to make sure I don't need more stitches or glue or anything else.

It has been an interesting process to get this made. Lots of figuring things out on the run, despite having a few pages of my work journal full of sketches and notes. I have a tonne more ideas, so I can't wait to make more.



I'm hoping to list some of these for sale in the next few days.

Oh dear!

I have been a bad bad blogger. Sorry guys! Am back now though.

What's been happening? Lots of work. Then my mum visited for a week, so very little work. Now, much catching up to be done!

But one thing I haven't shown off on my blog is one of my new purses...

My friend Katrina has the cutest drawing tattooed on her arm and I've loved it since I saw it. I decided a few weeks ago that it would be perfect for an adorn purse. Luckily for me, Katrina's parents taught her to share and the image arrived in my inbox shortly after begging for it.

So here it is - up close:



In all its glory:



It is coming in more colours soon, but if you love this cute pink one, it is available here.

More Adorn(ed)

I'm really supposed to be working on other things, but I was very patient and had the purse kit for a whole week before making a purse! I've had the embroidery done for days too.

What am I talking about? The cousin of The Adorn Bag is here - The Adorn Purse! The basic purse is made using the brilliant purse kit from Nicole Mallalieu Design. It is such a great kit! I tried making little purses a few months ago and it was one of the most frustrating and infuriating things I've ever done. It was impossible to make it all work properly and look good. But the kit is perfect - simple instructions, great shaped pattern and it was EASY! No mistakes, no fiddling, it just all went together exactly as it should. I'm definitely going to make more of these!





And now I've ALMOST run out of distractions and can get back to the work I'm meant to be doing!