The Blue Brick | Inspired Yarns

I basically live in a bubble when it comes to things like black Friday. So, when I went to the mall this morning for a meeting, and arrived super early by accident, it was a mystery to me a) why the mall was already open…

Lately, as I’ve been feeling a bit resined out, I’ve renewed my interest in polymer clay (I say ‘renewed’ here, though the reality is the last time I worked with this stuff I was 15). The interest was inspired by being in Italy, and seeing…

Just out of the kiln, another pair of ‘couple mugs’. I was first inspired to create couple pottery while in Japan–a village I was visiting that specialized in pottery was making these traditional cups. One would always be slightly smaller, and maybe even rounder, than…

It’s been a while since I was in the pottery studio – but I made the time this autumn! It’s been a few weeks and now comes that lovely period where I’m starting to get things back out of the kiln. These mugs were a…

For the next week I’ll be reviving the jewellery section of my Etsy store for the holidays – check it out here! Aaand… it’s been a while coming, but the Blurb page for buying print copies of the book has been updated with the new…

…. And here is a taste of the goodies that will be available: This update has taken a lot of time, and I’m totally in love with the results. There is a wide selection of material, prices and aesthetics, including my new photography plates. It…

Today I wanted to preview a new design that I’ll be offering at the Etsy sale starting this Sunday–wearable photography. These pieces are created using my own photographs (I’ve been showing off the autumn-themed pieces but there will be other options) printed to transparent acrylics…

The last of the Brickworks pieces is a familiar site, but one I never get tired of. This is my signature ‘I ♥ Autumn’ design, using white birch back and deep red sumach leaves. The piece is contained in a copper bezel, antiqued by hand.…

My second brickworks piece for the Etsy Holiday Sale is a similar treatment to yesterdays beauty, but minus the steampunk factor. Instead of being contained in an antique copper bezel this one is in a large, round, silver plated bezel. The Queen Anne’s lace is…

I got back from Italy with epic jet lag. Luckily Tito was on a weird work schedule too, so we were both awake at 5 am the next morning and we decided to suit up and take the cameras to the brickworks, see if we…

Yesterday was a massive resin-fest at the house.  I was up to my elbows in the stuff literally all day and I’ve got to say, the results are lovely :) Every day this week I’ll show off some of the pieces created yesterday, all of…

I’ve been experimenting with a new direction in resin – combining it with prints (specifically, transparent prints) to create transparent pendants with inlayed graphics. The results have been very cool. In this case I’m printing the graphics with gradients that I’ve already prepared, rather than…