I have recently finished making some new bracelets and necklaces. A few of them are pictured below. Right now, I am putting gold leaves into all my bracelet designs and trying to work in vintage items as well. I am perusing antique stores for items, and have found such things as vintage buttons from the 40's and 50's and an owl pendant with green rhinestone eyes. The love me, love me not necklace is fun to wear, because I left the chain longer. And as the dial spins around the heart, its reminiscent of youthful wishes.

Graniph Tshirts Store is a clothing company that accepts Tshirt designs from artists. The designs are incredible and can be viewed on their website. They are accepting designs from Februay 1st to March 31st 2008, so I may be submitting one!

Here are some of the artists whose work I really admired from the Graniph Tshirts Store. I linked to their Tshirt designs and to their websites as well.

Rui Tenreiro or here and his tshirt designs

Florence Manlik and her wallpaper and her tshirt designs

Kev Speck's tshirt designs

Karen Ingram and her tshirt designs


I really admire the work of Daisy Fletcher. Her work is so delicate and pretty. I am a sucker for illustrations with birds and flowers. I love that her detailed pencils sketches have splashes of colour only in certain spots, like in the pattern on a skirt, in the flower, or in the birds feathers.

Stephen Crowhurst is an Artist, Illustrator and Surface Designer. His website HELLO HELLO has nice big pictures of his work. I really enjoy his work because he incorporates so much pattern and repetition into his designs.

The Canadian-made ecodesigns of posch inspire me!

They have designed cute handbags using upcycled fabrics and material. I especially love the bird motif on each bag, which no doubt reflects their ecofriendly designs!

Lately, I noticed their reusable wrapping 'paper' biota, which is simply a piece of square cloth that has been printed with terrific patterns and screens of wildlife. Inspired by biodiversity and endangered species, they have printed four different designs, each featuring a Canadian endangered animal. They were inspired by the Japanese Furoshiki wrapping technique. In recent years, this technique has seen a renewed interest as environmentalism has come into the forefront. Here are some simple Furoshiki folding techniques.

“It is extremly useful, to be able to wrap almost anything, regardless of size or shape with a little creativity in folding. When you are done, unlike traditional bags, you can fold it up with a small footprint.”

Furoshiki has the potential to replace grocery/shopping bags, back packs, hand bags/purses, and lunch bags. It reminds me of other Japanese wrapping and folding techniques, such as the folding of origami and the wrapping and folding of kimonos.

Just a little side note...candid photographs make me smile. One group I like to check in on every now and then is the hardcore street photography pool.