etsy update ...

Have you visited my etsy shop lately??

After a looonngg break, it is full of some new goodies again!

Have a look: http://www.etsy.com/shop/kallliopi

guitar pick cufflinks
strawberry guitar pick brooch
black polka dot earrings
strawberry earrings

new stockist: Shop Sui, Gertrude St, Fitzroy

You can now find my brooches inside Shop Sui on Getrude St, Fitzroy. Shop Sui is run by Sylvia Tai and stocks a range of cute and colourful items. It is full of bright, playful and graphic accessories, clothing, cards, kids toys and other bits and pieces.

Pop into the store if you are in the area. I'm sure you'll find something lovely to brighten up your day!

Shop Sui

227 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

www.shopsui.com.au

(open 7 days a week)

new stockist: I Dream A Highway

Yay! I Dream A Highway on High St, Northcote now stock my brooches and cufflinks.  Their fab little store stocks unique crafty bits, clothes, jewellery, art and music from local artists. It is worth a visit if you are in the hood. 

finally something for the boys...

About a year ago a male friend asked me to make some "man badges" so that boys could wear my brooches too. I never ended up making man badges but it did make me realise that sometimes us crafty girls make so many cute things for other girls to wear and we occasionally forget to make things for boys.  

So I have decided to start making cufflinks!

I have made two types of cufflinks, one guitar themed and one piano themed.

The guitar pick themed ones have a purple Jim Dunlop guitar pick fixed to them. (Unfortunately they look like blue in these photos but they are really purple..i promise!). These guitar picks are thicker and smaller than most guitar picks so they will not bend when you are wearing them. The grand piano cufflinks have a cute black piano cab fixed to them.

Hmmm... i might be back with some more musical cufflinks in the coming weeks ( i just cant think of any more right now!).

Please let me know what you think of these xx

(oops... and i almost forgot to say, you will be able to find these in my etsy and made it shops today.. and hopefully some other shops soon too. And of course, I will have a few at my stall at the Northcote Town Hall Winter Artisans Market this coming Saturday).

Leeloo in Frankie...

Do you have the current issue of Frankie? I think it came out yesterday. If you do, have a look at the Leeloo ad on page 55 ... you might see something strangely familiar (mmm... there is a small photo of my little brooches yay!)

find me at lovely leeloo...

hello friends...

did you know you can now buy my stuff from Leeloo, an Australian online store for artists and designers??

These photos are a sneak peak of what I have in my store. 

There are lots of  lovely things there from other designers. Have a look: http://leeloo.com.au/

what are you doing this Saturday??

i'll be selling my stuff at the Northcote Town Hall Winter Artisans Market for the next 4 Saturdays.

Come along if you are in the hood!

sonny + coco market... this Sunday

i will be selling my bits (broochie and earring bits that is) this Sunday at the Sonny + Coco market in Preston. 

If you come and say hello because you read this blog i might even give you a little discount x

Kalliopi_handmade @ the sustainable living festival

I had a stall at the Design + Maker's Market at the Sustainable Living Festival, Melbourne yesterday.  Here are a few photos of the stuff I was selling.  More photos in my facebook group.

I got a few nice comments about my book art so think i might need to start making some more of those!

I donated $2 from each sale to the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal 2009 xx

yay for little greek yiayia's in op shops..

a little while back i was in a little op shop and overhead the sales lady talking in Greek. 

I was looking through the beads, buttons and jewellry at the front counter and started talking to her in Greek too. She got so excited that I could speak Greek that she ended up saying that I could have all the beads and jewellry in the bowl on the counter for $2.. yep $2!! 

These photos show you what I got for $2. Lots of new (sustainable) projects ahead i think! Upcycle! Upcycle! Just in time for my upcoming stall at the Sustainable Living Festival with Craft Cartel.

But I do feel slightly guilty for only spending $2 in an op shop... I think I'll have to take her a present!  

hooray the rhythm treble brooches are back!

it all started some time last year... 

i started rummaging around in my boy's studio (he makes and repairs guitars). I was on a hunt for new things to make brooches out of...

i found these fab things called toggle switch surrounds which are used on electric guitars. They came in black with gold text and cream with black text. 

I made a few combinations of brooches with these toggle switches and my own vintage buttons and beads... the first few were too special to give away so I made some more to sell...

You can find them in my etsy shop (www.kallliopi.etsy.com) or in my cube at incube.8r (321 Smith St, Collingwood). 

you can see a few of these rockin' little brooches below but stay tuned because there are many more to come.

Kalliopi x

yay 2009!!

yay! 2009 is here hooray hooray!

i'm so excited... i just know it is going to be an exciting year.

Here is a photo of the fireworks in Melbourne as seen in ACDC Lane on NYE!!

Hmmm... now for some crafty new year's resolutions:

1. To stop procrastinating like i always do (eeee this wil

l be a tough one!)

2. To be more creative and make more fun stuff

3. To be more sustainable in my brooch making ways

4. To find more avenues to market my stuff and approach cool people in cool shops who could sell my things.

5. To be a tad more organised and to balance work, play and art

6. ummm.... can't think of many others right now 

and here are this week's brooch creations:

spring holidays

Yikes! i have been very quiet with my blog for the last month or so.
But i have slowly been making a few little brooches and earrings and most of these are on etsy now.
I have done a bit of op shopping and found a few pairs of lovely earrings which i have pulled apart and turned into brooches... one of my favourites is below!this is now on etsy... see: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16190604

i am in the middle of a 2 week holiday from work so i have been a bit crafty...for more brooches have a look at my etsy store www.kallliopi.etsy.com
i spent a few days in my grandma's lovely garden and many of these new items have been photographed there... yay spring is in Melbourne!

kalliopi x

my cube at in.cube8r

Yay... I set up my little cube at in.cube8r over the weekend... exciting stuff!

in.cube8r is a gallery space that supports art, craft and handmade things by Melbourne artists.

They are located at 321 Smith St, Fitzroy (near Johnston St).

 

My brooches will be there from now until December 12th.

Here are some photos of what you will find in there this month.

things i made on this sunny Tuesday afternoon...

Well it is supposed to be Day 2 of spring and there was a bit of sun today.


I have every second Tuesday off work so here are a few things i made this afternoon while procrastinating because i should have spent the WHOLE day working on my small private architecture project...hmmm fun little crafty break.


so i did the following:


- i decided to do something with all my old magazines rather than throwing them out (the good ones went to the op shop) so i've used my flower and pear paper punch to cut out a few shapes for my future projects as well as selling them on etsy to other crafty people who may use them.
link: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14828650
and
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=14828726


- i also made 4 new brooches... 2 of these are the guitar themed ones (with the rhythm treble switch thingie as these seem to be really popular at the moment)...i've also used my last two red plastic strawberry beads so you wont be seeing them anymore...unless of course i can find some more...somewhere.

8 brooches over the weekend...

I had a small brooch making session this morning and made 8 new brooches.

I used a combination of new creamy coloured round beads, resin beads, buttons from my mum's sewing box, long wooden beads (purchased on my January 08 road trip up the NSW coast), little red beads (reused from a daggy 90's beaded necklace) and pearly bead (also reused).
I've used wire on all of these brooches to secure all the items together. The only brooches with glue are the 2 purple resin ones, where i had to glue the brooch backing to the resin.


I will be posting a few of these on my online shop on etsy. I should have a cube with my brooches at Incube8r (321 Smith St, Fitzroy) for 3 months starting from mid-September...yay! So the rest of these brooches will be there.

Check out incube8r's website: http://incube8r.com/