Talks of the Week

inspiration station

The intriguingly titled Hand Eye Collective are hosting a series of fashion centric panel discussions this week at the Order of Melbourne. Tonight three practioners from different areas will be discussing Inspiration and Ways of Working. Illustrator Angie Rehe will hopefully provide some insight into how she so beautifully captures the drape of a dress or the turn of a heel with a couple of deft strokes of the pen

Nyssa Marrow (half of the Above label) can tell us how it feels to be a finalist in the National Designer of the Year Awards (pretty good I imagine)

And the Queen of Craft herself Ms Penelope Durston may provide some insight into how she goes about 'curating' and 'creating' her Cottage Industry.

you can find out more here

PS The ladies of HML will be gracing the airwaves this morning at around 1015am with the Grapevine gals on RRR 102.7

Market of the Weekend

Don't forget Craft Hatch is on today at thousand pound bend. lots of lovely hand made goods in a pretty cool environment. I love these sweeties by cloth and thread, look at those outfits! Market runs from 11-4. 361 Little Lonsdale Street. Go forth and shop!

Inspiration of the Week

The grass is always greener

This week we were so inspired by this story that appeared on design boom. We've been seeing moss and grass everywhere lately, in art installations, terrariums and as a form of graffiti.

NYC based artist Edina Tokodi is doing amazing work both inside and out

Don't get us wrong, the ladies of HML love a bit o graph n paste up goodness but isn't this new urban green graffiti fantastic?

English artist Anna Garforth created this amazing cross as part of a garden project where artist and designers explored the idea of the healing properties of nature. I feel better just looking at it.

We found a great recipe for moss graffiti here we know of a few inner city walls that would be beautified by this latest craft design trend.

Confession of the Week

Oh dear. Once again we find ourselves in super busy mode. Forgive the sporadic posts dear readers. We do love you really! We are happy to report that our absence has been due to doing 'very creative things in the real world' and not our usual litany of excuses (illness, sleeplessness, laziness etc). Here are some more doily bowls for you. Promise to be back to full strength blogging tomorrow xxx

Wreath of the Month

Cool Change

And so summer ends for those of us in the antipodes. We seem to have slid into autumn with the greatest of ease, pulling on cardigans and harvesting the last of the summer crops. This is my favourite time of year I think. I was a bit late making my march door wreath. Around 10pm last night I got the crafting bug and shared the dining table with my studious and stressed year 12'r. She wrote a 300 word essay in French and I faffed about with my glue gun. Good times.