Cushion Mania

I'm chuffed to see my Graph Paper cushion included in the latest Frankie magazine and their cushion round-up. And mine's next to one from Donna Wilson House **swoon**. Other faves include Fine Little Day's Splash and Leah Duncan's Triangles, **double swoon**.

New things! And I'm in the paper!

Things have been very quiet on this here blog, but that's because I've been busy making things! Here are some of them...

'Apples' tea towel

'Apples' gift card

'Apples' and 'Grid Paper' cushions - I quite like them together!

It's so fun seeing an idea become an object - I don't think I'll ever over that thrill - and you really never quite know what it will look like (or if you'll like it) until you're holding it in your hand.

All are now in my Etsy shop, along with a few other new things like the T Towel in white on natural flax coloured linen.

Oh, and look what was in today's Herald Sun Home magazine - a write-up on me and my work!

It's a discount code

To celebrate the fact that Spin Spin is now on Facebook (um, what decade am I in? Oh well, better late than never) I'm offering a wee short promotion - 15% off everything in my Etsy store (including new things, oh ah) for the next two days. A good time to stock up on Mother's Day gifts perhaps! Here are the details -

Promo code: APRIL11
Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/spinspin

I've also done some wee tweeking of this blog, including increasing the width, again (so I can put in better sized photos) and adding some info pages (including About, Links, Stockists and Press pages, which are still a bit basic but better than nothing, have been meaning to create them FOREVER). It meant I sat at my computer for hours, concentrating a lot and forgetting to eat lunch...and ignoring the fact that a major media "event" is about to take place.

New & upcoming stuff

After a lazy January, February so far had been a bit mad for me and I've got the squeegee blisters to prove it, eek. It's a new year that's full of promise and I'm pretty excited about my first market of the year, which is on this coming Saturday.

It's Craft Hatch, the Craft Victoria market for emerging designers and this edition is a special one, to coincide with the Sustainable Living Festival. It's at the City Library, Flinders Lane in the city from 11-4. Can't wait to see my neighbours, including Hookturn Industries (love their mugs!) Oh, and if you come along it's upstairs :)

Hookturn Industries' coffee-coloured mug with white lid, pic courtesy of Hookturn Industries.

I'll have a bunch of new things at the market including a brand new range of colours (soon to be photographed!) of my 'Akzidenz' and 'Polka Dots' yardage and super amazing new natural linen tea towels that I'm in love with. Oh, and a new market set-up, I hope - fingers crossed this week goes slowly so I can get everything ready in time...

And before I forget, a big thank you to Rebecca of My Green Australia, who featured my Enka tea towel in her article about creating a paperless kitchen (some good tips there, thanks Rebecca!)

And thanks to all those who voted for me in the Poppies - it was an honour just to be nominated :) I think the trusty gals at Ink & Spindle were the "winners" of the crafty Oscars, yay for them and their fab work.