Photo by Lisa Max

Good news (unless you’re sick of me posting about CandyCult, in which case you might want to leave now)! The artist merchandise, including my crafts, that was sold at the Candy Cult opening was such a hit that we were asked to sell them again at the Northbridge Festival this weekend.

I’m not completely sure of all the details, but all the stalls will be on James Street from Lake Street to William Street, and should include a really fun and eclectic range of sellers. There’s also performers around and an inflatable igloo apparently! Should be lots of fun. The stalls will be running from 1-11pm on Saturday 1st November, and I’ll be manning the CandyCult stall between 3-6pm so come say hi if you can! More details on the Northbridge Festival website.

I think something like half of my crafts and buttons are still available and there’s quite a few bits from other artists too, so please come along!

Also a quick reminder: the CandyCult exhibition is closing this Sunday, so if you haven’t already please go check it out. Details here.

Just a quick sketch of my avatar on a popular forum site I used to frequent. A lot has changed and I don’t have the time to waste there anymore, but the outfits are always good fun to draw.

It’s strange sometimes, to look back and see how we’ve evolved - just a few years ago this forum and MMORPG’s like Ragnarok Online were my main online presence, besides my blog. Now the majority of my online presence and time online is spent on things related to design, arts and crafts - blogging, posting work, conversing with others, reading through my hundreds of RSS feed items over breakfast as if it were a newspaper. I’m not sure if I should be worried about the role the internet has had in forming who I am, but there isn’t anything to do but embrace it, I think.

There really is nothing that motivates better than last-minute panic. Which is why I was frantically putting finishing touches, photographing and packaging my crafty things for the Candy Cult opening the morning of the exhibition.

Here’s what I had in the end:

I think I have the whole process down pretty well now (and have actually found a lovely satin varnish that works). I’ll be selling the left over items either through ChiGarden or Etsy, so if you missed out stay tuned!

I also ordered some 1inch button badges which arrived just in time! I couldn’t resist keeping a few of them and some were sold, but the rest will be available here soon and I’d like to get more of the ones that sell out.