i ♥ strawberries!

i ♥ strawberries!
they remind me of summer and  also of the sweet little strawberries that used to grow in my grandma's garden when i was a kid.
you can now find a variety of strawberry themed brooches and earrings in my etsy store ... with more to come

New Stockist: Sprinkle, East Brunswick

Sprinkle is a Melbourne based fashion designer with a beautiful range of clothing made in Melbourne. Her background in costume design is expressed through her carefully detailed designs. Each design is produced in small batches so they become a unique limited edition piece of wearable art.
The decadent interior and thoughtful placement of vintage items inside the store tie in well with the garments making it a lovely space to visit.
Sprinkle also stocks a range of accessories also made and designed in Melbourne. The photos above show some of my stock that is in store now.

You can find this treasure trove of Melbourne made marvels at:

Sprinkle Emporium
108 Lygon St
East Brunswick VIC 3057

opening hours:
Wednesday: 11am-6pm
Thursday: 11am-6pm
Friday: 11am-7pm
Saturday: 11am-6pm
Sunday: 11am-6pm
or by appointment

I Dream A Highway

I Dream A Highway turns 2 today.

Actually they are having a birthday party tonight with wine and pizza and helium balloons..nice!

Here are some photos of new stock that I left with them yesterday. yay!

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)

I Like You World

one of my favourite things about Melbourne is all the awesome little shops we have everywhere! I have been having lots of fun in the last few weeks approaching some of these shops about my brooches. Here is one that is right around the corner from my studio. I Like You World (80 Johnston St, Fitzroy) currently stocks some gorgeous winter clothing and some cute little accessories from local designers. The only hard thing about visiting all of these shops is that I need to control myself from the temptation of buying lots and lots of things! 

Check out I Like You World's blog... http://www.ilikeyouworld.blogspot.com/    

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

a new little brooch for madeit.com.au

this was a quickie that i made after dinner!

find it on madeit.com.au/kalliopi

 

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/

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