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

what's on my desk right now...

i've done it again. yep  i have had another long dry spell of blogging. i have not blogged for over a month. apparently bloggers should update their blogs nearly every day.  i wish i could but i just don't have time to.  i'm a very time poor girl at the moment you see.

last night i spoke at process@loop (architecture talks).  the topic was "what's on my desk?" and i was invited to speak because there are quite a few things that happen on my desk.

these are the four things that happen on my desk:

1. architecture (i am currently working on 2 small alterations & additions to residences)

2. architects for peace pro bono service (helping connect not for profit community groups with designers who care and want to help)

3. swinburne design studio (i teach an interior design studio where the project is based on an architects for peace project)

4. handmade brooches and stuff 

so... here are some photos of exactly what is on my desk right now. it's a mix of a few things. things that i am passionate about and things that i love doing.... architecture + craft 

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

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/

the blog is here...

I have decided to start a blog since i don't have a website for my brooches. A blog kind of seems easier to manage than a website.

So i will try to post things here every few days as i make them, write about the materials i have found to make my brooches, and where i am sending them to!

Most of them can be found in my 2 online shops:
www.kallliopi.etsy.com
www.madeit.com.au (seller: kalliopi)

enjoy,
kalliopi x

www.kallliopi.etsy.com