Saffrons Blog

I try to add an entry every week to touch base remind myself where I am in my design world.
 
So here I am in Sydney with the rain falling. I am a lover of rain I feel like I can walk further. However as we were planning our camping holiday this weekend we are wondering what we will do. We were going to drive to Wilsons Prom that is now ablaze. I feel so saddened and am dreaming about the fires at night and feel haunted. I send love and positive thoughts to all of you who are affected by the fires in the South and the floods to the North of us.
 
Turning the sadness into action I've sent a few owl softies to Ann Marie Holt who's helping out with putting together bags for little ones who lost everything. If you want to help you can read more here: beyondpinkandblue.blogspot.com/2009/02/rainbow-comfort-packs-for-little-ones.html

Also I put in motion a fund raiser which is to be a collaboration with local talents, selling the items and donating the profits. I am very much into doing things you love so their skills will blend nicely with mine. So let's hope I can tell you more soon.
 
On the design front I am drawing native trees and then looking at abstracting and smoothing them. Adding leaves and colour. It makes me feel like I step into an alternative universe where time is non existent. So I am watching the time for the 3 o'clock pick up and a very tired daughter. Thankfully she loves water and I can soak off all the glue and paint in a warm aromatic salty bath.




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Well it is "get organised" time. New shelves, new boxes, new spaces. Four bags of rubbish last count. I am doing it bit by bit, hours here and there and I tell myself this is part of the business.
So many people I know like cleaning and I think to myself "but everything I do is messy". Reading books, sewing, drawing, painting, scrap booking, screen printing, cooking, playing with children - anything.
Any how I know that I will love our space with everything being stacked and stored neat and tidy. Truth be told Patrick did most of it. I am still learning to let go of things, anything.

Can't decide which designs to print! It'll be a bit longer before I can offer you some new fabrics, but maybe you can donate some fabric money to the Bushfire appeal in the meantime...





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I have decided not to attend Mosman market after all...we will try for March. We did not get enough time to get organized and the prospect of standing in the heat all day isn't that enticing either.

We were blogged this morning by www.stephbond.com. Stephany's blog is  about  cool Australian art, design and products to keep you in the know. Thanks Steph.

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Saffron will be found at the Mosman Market, Sydney this Saturday from 9am to 3pm.

Hope to see you there...



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When I was at the Quilt and Craft show last year i remember thinking I would so love to make stamps and cards with my designs.

So we were very excited when a few weeks ago an American scrapbooking company that loves our fabrics asked us to show some other designs for a possible collaboration on a new range. Stickers, paper, stamps, everything scrapbooking!
If successful the collection will be launched in July this year. We are really very pleased and excited so I suppose we will let you know when we know more!

Out come the quirky whimsical and characterised drawings. The best part is I can go crazy with colours, and I can use tiny fine lines. Love it!

Are any of you fabric fanatics into scrapbooking?




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I've had a quandary! My little girl finishes her once a week long day-care today to go to Kindy. She has been there for six months and had 6, sometimes 7 people looking after her as it is open long hours. So it has been such a quandary as to what to give to say thanks.

Last week I had a real urge for chocolate cake while I was at a course with some friends. So we went searching however all the cafes were closed. But then we stumbled across some really lovely soaps and I thought phew, here's my presents! So I bought 7 handmade soaps and wrapped them in my hand printed fabrics and tied them up with nice string.
Good to have some spare fat quarters lying around I say!

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Well here I am typing after my daughter’s bed time, that’s when I usually get some “me time” when a sweet little ring tail possum decided to move in and hide under our stove. Just one of the surprises we get living with bush in our backyard. One hour later with a very concerned daughter back in bed I am back again and what was I going to say…

To get back into the design swing today I visited my favourite designers Anna Marie Horner, Valerie Wells, Echino and a quick squiz at Amy Butler. That’s as far as I got and thought, yes there is still room out there for me and my designs. I bought some Anna Marie Horner fabric from the sketch book range a while back, and it has combined beautifully with my own designs. Great how that happens.

So I have been drawing for three weeks. Even on Christmas day I found a few hours to draw, every time I close my eyes there is something there, an image floating, a flower, a bird, a fairy who insists that I open my eyes and sketch it. Capturing it is always a challenge! I have filled an entire book with elements. My house has sketches everywhere.

I am so in love with yellow at the moment. I have tried on many a yellow garment all to no avail, I am not a mellow yellow girl after all. So it will have to be in my environment.

A question to you: Who likes Fairies? Are there a few of us or many? Patrick has a hunch I should place birds, butterflies, crickets and winged animals where my fairies are?





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I hope everyone's had a great start to the new year. I for one have been feverishly drawing and designing over the last few weeks, my favourite part of the design process.

Yesterday I got this great email from Amy Gunson of Badskirt with a photo of these awesome hippos she makes, one of them from my gingko blossom fabric. Thanks for that Amy, it's adorable, in fact, I want one.




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 I will be at the Manly village school market again this weekend selling the new grey fabrics.

This week has had us busy refolding fabrics, putting them into envelopes and putting labels on. Stamps and more stamps. So thanks to all who joined up and merry Christmas to everyone. We hope to see you back soon.

I was at the Young Blood market on the weekend. I made up a dozen girls dresses up and sold most of them so Patrick added them to the online shop.  If you're in Australia I could post it to you before Christmas.

I've also just started to design the next range of prints. So many ideas. Phew what a huge year for me. But so much fun.

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