Abstract Gourmet

Today ends Web Week here in Perth, and among the many events (sadly only some of which I was able to attend) were the West Australian Web Awards. Although I didn’t enter any of the sites I worked on myself Matt of Abstract Gourmet entered his site and won in the Blog category. The blog category is one where ‘content is king’ so I can’t take much of the credit for doing the design work, but Matt was kind enough to thank me in his acceptance speech and it’s exciting regardless!

Congratulations to Matt and all the other winners at the awards; I hope to submit my own blog someday!

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.

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.