Flea Market Finds - July

Today's Flea Market day out was not such a long one, as anyone who knows will tell you, I tend to wilt in the sunshine! And it was certainly sunny. Today I was mainly looking for bits to display my products on when I have my stall at Nunney Fayre (Sat 3rd of Aug in Nunney, do visit!) I picked up this rather rickety stool on which to display my lampshades, and a small corner shelf to display other bits n bobs. 

I also got a sweet old birthday postcard, a "Daily Mail Annual for girls & boys" and a Cricketer magazine from 1951, which I thought would be good for collaging. I have already started priming the shelves and stool to be painted in a nice cream colour ready for my stall, I'll post finished pics soon!

Ampersands Screen print

My latest screen printing experiment is now complete, it consists of three differently shaped Ampersands printed in process Cyan, Magenta and Yellow over the top of each other. As you may know I am rather obsessed with typography, and I love the way one character can be so many different shapes, so I created this print to explore the shapes and how they'd interact with one another.
The print is A4 sized and is available now from my Folksy shop!

Here are some pics of the final print and a few of them in progress:

Father's Day gifts

Father's Day is only 2 weeks away! Have you got your dad a gift yet? How about a bicycle screen print or a moustache themed gift! visit my shop here to see some more or contact me direct if you'd like to order direct.

Moustaches Screen prints

These are my first successful screen prints that I've done in my cabin! (pictures of that to follow soon).
I drew out the moustaches and transferred them to some vinyl, which I then cut them out of using a scalpel, to create a stencil. It took some trial and error but I'm very pleased with the results!

I created several Father's day cards and some actual prints ready to be framed. Please get in touch if you'd like to buy one.

Flea Market Finds

This month's Flea Market provided a nice few bits and bobs, a copper pan which I'm going to plant some plants in, a cool old wooden folding ruler, a tiny type drawer and my favourite thing of all, a vintage Kodak No2 folding autographic Brownie. I did a bit of research about this camera and it was made sometime around 1919 in the US. It takes 120 size film some of which I hope to get hold of so that I can test it out!

Skull Button Wall Art

This is an artwork I created for my friend's wedding gift, she loves skulls and purple, so this is what I came up with!

Refurbished Stool

One of my recent projects has been this stool, which I'm going to use in my screen printing workshop!

I acquired a sad old stool and removed the seat area and took the old fabric off it. I rubbed down the frame and painted it with primer. Next I painted it with two layers of lime green emulsion paint. I may yet lacquer it / varnish it if the paint isn't sturdy enough. I bought some new foam for the seat and re-covered it in some lovely green fabric with squirrels on! Quite pleased with the result although perhaps I should have used a slightly thinner seat pad...

Stool Before

Stool After!

Cute squirrels!

Yummy green colours