Tassel Twins & Thrift

Peach & Coral

West German Pottery with Dahlia's

Emerald & Teal

Soholm, Denmark & Raku Studioware, UK.

I really enjoy making tassels, especially when it's an order and the customer has chosen the colours!
I really enjoy the styling bit too ...I go through my home and choose what I think works!
I love buying fresh flowers and I'm a total Dahlia devotee!

I think thrifting and tassels go hand in hand cause I need to thrift to style my shots and I need to make tassels to style with my thrift finds!  ....that makes sense?

Well Monday will be a big day and I'm busy tying up loose ends, delivering orders that happen to be near some nice thrift stores!...lucky me!

Pippa




Sharing over at Lou's!

I collect.

Holmegaard

 Three makes a collection...YEAH!
I picked up the cobalt blue Viking Carafe at my local market for $20.00, would you have paid that?
The heart shaped vase by Per Lutken, I picked up a year ago from a retro sellers market, from memory a similar price.

The Green Gul vase by Otto Brauer, was my first ever retro find on ebay, I'd seen pictures, knew nothing but I had to have one. I scored it for $50.00, 6 years ago. (ebay now over $400)

What was your first find?
What started you on the thrifting passion? SHARE?
Do a post about it?
 
I remember thinking that I wanted to collect but couldn't pick what treasure it would be, then I decided I would collect one of each MC/Retro item that peaked my interest.
So I did!
Whilst going through that process I learn't about what I liked and didn't like.
Through you guys, yes you! Dana, Ray, Brismod, MMMC, Tove!
I have learned so much more!
So I have decided I will showcase and share my collections over here...in I collect.



Ohhhh and would you believe that I made these in December last year and forgot about them till yesterday?
It's the martini's at lunchtime with Don.....

Ouch flower Bloom vases in the SHOP!

Pippa

Hilarious...that's all! xx

Arabian Blue...how do you do?

 She's poooped!
Being in the limelight tires her out!
But she's a professional model and knows when to sparkle for the camera!

 Arabian Blue a new tassel colour for the ouchflower tassel range, soon to be in the shop!

Do you not, just love this iittala stuff?

I waited till the sun was just right....and she sparkles!
The aim is to collect enough to furnish a dinner table then it's christening time at the 'iittala dinner party'!

RSVP me your attendance?  (I know your in Brismod)

I have been playing along with the #7vignettes over in instagram.......this is my version of 'rough'
Love it!

I have a few exciting things coming up....can't tell you just yet though :(

1 more week left till it's back to the classroom.......

Pippa

Times running out......

West German Pottery

 My time on leave from work is running out so I thought I better clean the house... I was dusting and was side tracked, what a photo opportunity?
I don't think I will tire collecting these beauties at all!

Warm Collection

Cool Collection

The cleaning continued............this time I grouped my thrifted finds with the theme of wood and metal in mind, I think that works?

 I've enjoyed making some more tassels too!....in between cleaning of course!

Ouch boy has enjoyed the company of Grandpa, they are best friends!
Grandpa lives in Scotland and visited us over the Easter break...we love Grandpa!

I love cleaning, do you?


Pippa.

Dahlia in the home.....

A dreary Melbourne morning but this Dahlia is just perfect and see great tassel inspiration too!
Sharing over at Lou's space.........

Pippa.

this is why I'm smiling

I learnt that I am responsibility for the success of us 'living the dream'... a dream I have had all my adult life!

To make, for a living!

So yesterday and today I did just that.......your looking at my etsy banner, ouch has another shop!

If I want too tassel the world then the worlds biggest marketplace could just be the right place to start? ...duh!

I learnt that as a 'right brainer' I'm not happy if I am not pursuing my creativity and cultivating it!

I learnt that it's OK to want to make money, support ourselves and our families from an income generated by doing what we love!....Yeah sista!!

I learnt that we all must have an apprenticeship, continue to develop, build resistance to obstacles and be persistence (not pushy) If we are to achieve the BIG FAT DREAM!

I learned this in a safe, nurturing environment, through song with cake, with a whole lot of women creatives!

Via Pip's Meet Me At Mikes.

Day one
Clare asked us to write down what our BIG FAT DREAM was 5 years from now!

I started with the fact that Ouch Boy would be nine and went on from there........
Why? cause he's along for the journey and we quite like him.

All the day one speakers were pretty amazing but Kemi won my heart
She runs Kemi's Raw Kitchen and champions a change to our diets to "eat more raw'!
Simple, not cooked vegies but raw!
Her passion, wit and sheer stage presence had us hooked! Watch her video, you'll see!

That's a women whose living a passionate life!

Clare leading us through song!

Here's Clare she lead us and brought us together as a community by doing what she's passionate about.... music!
She was amazing!
We sang this!

(Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds-ship song)


Clare talked to about finding the 'Bingo spot'.

That's where your 'Big Fat Dream', your 'what you love doing' and 'what people want' collide, as in a Venn diagram!

I'm still working on that :)

She told us that we should think of marketing ourselves or our idea/product with integrity and authenticity in mind. 
That building a relationship with our customers/clients etc based on trust should be paramount
or quote "bad shit will happen" then she showed us this





Your gonna have a girl crush on this lady!

For the rest of the day:
.....we heard from a lady called 
Catherine Deveny,

 is a writer, comedian, author, social commentator and broadcaster well known for her work as columnist with The Age newspaper and as a ABC regular

Who had us in hysterics. 
She's a brave feisty woman that pulls no punches!
Her advice to women is to quote 'aim for fuck off status'. 
That's is where your standing on your own too feet, supporting yourself and your family, you don't need a man to do it etc...

She said some controversial things like, send your kids to public school, use the public health system, live in a cheap house, live in a cheap suburb and bring up your kids to be independent!

..I like anyone who believes in the state school system...we are doing our best!

 We ended the day with crafternoon and I went home, a very elated but exhausted mummy! I made it home for storytime.


report on Day 2....soon :)