Ni Hao!

Well the gym is still going well. this week is the first week I have deviated from my normal routine... but I do plan to make up for it. Soon enough I will be a bridesmaid, so I really need to start moving my body to be as healthy as I can be on the day :)


A new colour scheme for the Yokai masks. This one was made for my friend Dominique's birthday. Dominique will be travelling to China with me next year. Speaking of China, my introduction letter, and my 'job application' have been sent off to China, now I just await my reply! I have a few back up plans, but some may require my friend and I working at two different places within the same city... we will crack that egg when it comes to it!

Lets learn some Chinese!

A bee in your bonnet!

Hello!
I have been back at uni for a while now, it is all pretty crazy, must.. stay.. ahead of the game.

I am working on a few steamy steam-punk inspired pieces at the moment, and i am gearing up to do a market stall some time in the near future. The weather is starting to clear up- two weeks until beautiful spring!

So with this idea i was thinking of doing some scientific like drawings with pen on to leather, then making them look as if they were sepia and labelling them with their scientific genus- eg: the magpie would be Cracticus tibicen, of the corvid family-


and the bee would be Apis mellifera.


For a project at school I am doing some research on the history of perfume in the middle east. With this I have discovered a love for perfume, and the art of blending your own signature smell. It is because of this that I have spent a fair bit of money on obtaining beautiful essential oils from around Australia, and even looked into producing some of my own!
My project focuses around a piece of literature from a Muslim perfumer, and it is his words I have taken as inspiration for an exotic perfume I am working on.( that sounds so pretentious. ha!) The writing is called Attars Exordium, and is one of the most beautiful praises to a god I have read.- I will keep you up to date with this work in progress as time goes on.

gym II

... I have yet another gym membership. this time for Fernwood. lets see how long this one lasts!

*New* to my collection

Newest things!

for Tegans birthday:


For me: (please dont mind my crazy eyes)- i call this one 'Yokai'


one of my more recent trials- scrap fabric collar, inspired by my beautiful friend Casey and her extreme fashionable self.


and finally, this wonderful tie which will have pride of place in a project i am going to be making soon! ( if you can't tell its pattern is of little golfing men!)
My good friend Ellie bought it for me after i had refused to pay $4 for it at a local expensive opp-shop! ($4 for a second hand tie..sheeeesh!)

a short one... ( Racism is Christi's pet hate)

I came to the conclusion i spend much to much time doing nothing on the internet but looking at awesome crafts, and not enough time actually making stuff!

I have a few new things that i have done on the spur of the moment, so i will upload these in the next few days! but really i spend a goood portion of time just sitting here looking at the pretty pictures that flit past my computer monitor.

Though this new art spurt has made me want to have a masquerade ball for my birthday this year. How old do you get before your supposed to not celebrate with themed/ fun birthdays?

2 things:
Today i witnessed the cruelty of teenagers. At the bus stop a group of three local college girls were verbally abusing a young Asian girl from another college, and spurting such racially vile things from their mouths that i thought had been wiped from our collective consciousness. To see the younger generation repeating the verbal abuse of previous generations is saddening. I sent a letter.

I have just finished reading this really good book! its called "Monster blood tattoo" by D.M. Cornish. really a glorious work of art. If you liked Phillip Pullmans 'his dark materials' trilogy, or Garth Nixx' Sabriel, Lireal and Abhorsen- then you would love this! great stuff!

Naga mermaid: Free Pattern to Download!

Hello all, I know I said a while ago I would upload this free pattern, but it took me much longer than I anticipated!


click here for the large line art version!

She is finally here, The Naga-mermaid who will steal your soul and lead unwary sailors to an untimely demise!( Just change her snake rattle at the end of her tail into a fish tail and she is a mermaid!)
Nāga: (Sanskrit: नाग, IAST: nāgá, Indonesian: naga, Javanese: någå,) is the Sanskrit and Pāli word for a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very great snake—specifically the King Cobra, found in Hinduism and Buddhism.


This pattern/ picture can be used by anyone for anything, I give you free reign to use it- of course, I will play with it myself in coming weeks and we can see what I can come up with.
( I have some printable fabric I am dying to play with)

here are some ideas:

1. embroider this design on some lovely dishcloths or other materials.
2. play with it in photoshop and make it personally coloured or patterned.
3. print it on to some leather and carve it.
4. colour it in with some pencils.
5. make it into a card...

The possibilities are limited only to your imagination!

please enjoy, and link back any projects ideas that you have thought of for miss Naga!

The stress Monster has struketh!

It is a very stressful week for me, Uni wise. i have over seven assessments in the space of seven days, most of them falling on tomorrow!Aaaaarggghhhhh

but!

As a sweet procrastination tool, I have been designing something sweet for all of my delightful blog readers!
Come back next week to receive a free image, which you can use as a pattern for some serious embroidery madness! I will be doing a series of these little images which I will upload here for your using pleasure. The series will be called "Naga sisters" and it all ties in to my essay due this week about Lilith, the supposed first wife of Adam!
here is a sneak preview: