If you or anyone you know is in Tauranga over the next few weeks go and take a look at this exhibition at The Laundromat Art Project Space.

The exhibition will run from 18^th March 2010 – 6^th April 2010

War 
Installation

‘Aces in the sky, Spitfire and Hurricane,  Fokke-Wulf and Messcherschmidt.

The defining battle of one generation in the western world and we called it a world war.

Vietnam another generation. And the cold war. Goodies and Baddies. Black hats and White. Right and wrong always relative and perspective dependent.

So far its always been just one lot of people vs another lot; battles of willpower, tenacity, inventiveness and technology. There are individual triumphs and tragedies, strategic gains and losses, but it has been the overall massed effect that prevails, numbers, commitment, sacrifice, leadership, working together for a common goal, Oh and maybe some luck? How much have we been prepared to lose to gain victory?

Now its global more than ever, the sides are less defined but the stakes are very high. We could call it the earth war.

 

There are no sidelines, we just think there are.  Our actions are cumulative.

 

Its all of us, but most are sleepers.’

 

- Susan Crow (nee Pickernell)

So baby is due in about six weeks and I’ve been winding down somewhat in anticipation of the madness to come, unfortunately I have also been neglecting my blog.  I have also been frantically making as much as I can while I can, with a good pile of sea horses cut ready to sew and a batch of cupcakes ready to assemble, I am wondering just how much I will be able to get done!

This Saturday will probably be my last Crafternoon Tea for a month or so, so come along and say hello, the market is on from 10am-3pm at the Trinity Methodist Church, on the corner of Sandringham and New North Roads in Kingsland.  As usual there will be lots of lovely crafty goodies to get your hands on.

I will also be at  Kraftbomb in Grey Lynn the following weekend as well, so it’s to market, to market!

Aside from all the craft market goodness I am putting together some crochet pieces for an exhibition opening at Artstation in July this year.  Entitled Desire Lines I will write up more details over the next week…  all very exciting!

Mermaid’s Purse will be there…  will you?

Kraftbomb

Sunday 30th August, 2009
11am-2pm

Grey Lynn Community Centre
Main Hall – 510 Richmond Road
Grey Lynn, Auckland

This is so exciting!  Wellington Creative is bringing the documentary Handmade Nation to New Zealand for three screening sessions, two in Wellington and only one here in Auckland at the Academy Cinema – so get there!

Mermaid’s Purse will be there with a wee stall of a select few items hand picked especially for film goers, visit the website (above) for the trailer and more info about the film and we might see you at the Academy on Tuesday the 4th of August at 6.30pm.

Sue Pickernell did a beautiful job of installing The View From Here at the Reclaim to Fame exhibition last week – here are some photos.  If you’re on Waiheke this month do visit the gallery, the exhibition theme was around the idea of our footprint, and all work submitted needed to be at least 80% reclaimed material.

The View From Here is made entirely from Foodtown plastic bags, and yes, it took months and no I did not count the number of bags I used…

Mermaid’s Purse will be there, will you?

Date: Sunday, May 3, 2009

Time: 10:00am – 3:00pm

Location: 32 Clarence Street, Devonport, Auckland

These are my lovely new Love Stuck Sea Stars, made out of felt they are securely attached to their rock, and are in the company of small algal growths that resemble pearl topped pins.

A very sweet little pincushion!

So Luna is sound asleep, Rob is out visiting and Austin The Cat is looking for a comfy chair to settle down on, and so it’s just me and my pincushions…bliss.  We had a good day at Kraftbomb today, lots of cool crafts, a warm day and a good crowd of people made for a successful day for most vendors.  And a good coffee after a not so sound nights sleep…

Here are a few pics of my table…

Lovely new garden flower brooches.

My new Love Stuck Starfish pin cushions!

Here are a couple of photos of some needle wallets I’ll be selling at Kraftbomb this coming weekend.  I have an old needle wallet that was my nanas, and it’s just so handy, you can store your most used needles in at and a spare safety pin or two just in case.

Sea and space themes of course…

It’s surprising how much you can get done while baby sleeps… of course the dishes also stack up and the house could do with a vacuume…

Already on to the second and third series of cakes, including a new mini cupcake…