Another Uterus, this time it is a little guy!
This is a mini mini plushy of a little stamped uterus.
Find this Uterus and plenty more here in my Etsy shop
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Uterus Mini-Cushion
Last week I finally figured out how to make the Uterus Mini Cushion in a manner that was not slow and ineffective!. I had been having problems with how to sew it in a way that allowed me to stuff it all effectively and after making up a template and being determined for success with the iron I got to work. I am happy with the end result!
Ovaries in a Jar are back!
I forgot all about Ovaries in a Jar! I really dropped the Ovary on that one! But now the Ovaries are in my Etsy shop in a cute little jar. They’ve been away since 2012.
I’ve also been thinking that I need to make the anatomy to suit the jar, not make the anatomy and try find a jar. I don’t want to keep buying jars when I have so many available to me already (I also collect them for Terrarium Workshops).
Hands On Brisbane-Workshops
Hands On Brisbane is a workshop program based in Brisbane, Australia that aims to deliver affordable art, craft and design workshops. We’ve just launched the Spring workshop program, including a few new workshops.
Hands On Brisbane is my “day job,” although I sometimes wonder how you choose which is the main job and which the extra. Hands On Brisbane brings me better pay than my own business, Your Organ Grinder, but I spend more time on Your Organ Grinder, so which is which? Well anyways, Hands On is one of the things I do.
This term I am taking 7 workshops, that includes 2 terrarium workshops and 2 screen printing ones, plus a resin workshop, shrinky dinks and polymer clay. I’ve been teaching Terrariums for ages and probably showed over 150 people how to put together a Terrarium. My favourite workshop is definitely Shrinky Dinks, the participants get so excited about the shrinking plastic and want to make more and more. Every time every person is thrilled with the results.
If you are in Brisbane and like to learn new skills drop by the website http://handsonbrisbane.com/ and check us out!
How Pinteresting!
I signed up to Pinterest quite a while ago but didn’t use it much at first. Earlier this year during a business overhaul (when you have all this energy to do amazing things with your business which pretty soon disappears under the millions of things you have to do) I decided to try to get into it more and I have been using it pretty solidly ever since. I enjoy the ease of Pinterest, adding things to your board with a simple click (and I really enjoy adding things to the wrong boards…cute animal in Savoury Meals and Snacks). Recipes are especially easy to save with Pinterest.
I do try to promote Your Organ Grinder on Pinterest when I think of it but often I just open it up, pin some cute animals or food ,(I follow a board based around Lemon sweets and I just love all the Lemon recipes) and get overwhelmed when someone has been pinning something with the same theme all day…
Are you a Pinterest fan?
Find me on Pinterest here.
Miel Burger
My partner and I met for a Miel burger today. Miel opened last August and we first tried their burgers sometime around then. Todays burger was only my second but we had been meaning to eat here again for a while. Miel is a very busy burger joint! On a Friday it is just crazy and on any other day avoid going there at peak lunch time (the surrounding offices let out for lunch around 12 so arrive before that if you can.)
Notice the blankets there, what a lovely touch!
Burgers are one of my favourite foods and I really love a good burger, it is a meal that cannot be beaten (except by a great pizza). Their standard Beef burger (what we had) is $12 and it is a mighty meal. The burgers comes with a small order of chips (just enough) and they are probably the best chips I have ever had from a takeaway! If you love chips make a point to eat these.
Chips!
The burger is pretty delicious. The beef pattie is moist and flavourful and the sauce and cheese are in the right amounts. The Broiche bun is an absolutely winner! You can design your own burger, starting at $10.50 and create the perfect burger, and there is heaps on the menu to choose from. I’m thinking I might have to pop back for a feast sometime soon.
Burger!
Brass Anatomy Jewellery is Back!
My partner first came up with the idea for making Brass Anatomy when I was asking about a way to turn my drawings into something. I am not great at drawing but some of them are okay, they certainly have potential for some sort of use.
As making the brass pieces needs to be done in bulk we only do it to so often. We recently did some new ones for Finders Keepers, and the upcoming GoMA market here in Brisbane.
Find the new brass in my shop, here.
Nasturtiums
Do you grow Nasturtiums? Do your grow them on purpose? Do you eat them, give them to your birds, or just like the wildlife they bring to the garden?
I first add Nasturtiums to the garden a few years ago after collecting seeds while out walking. After throwing them in I had to wait another 9 months for their season to come back around (late Autumn/Winter) and we had orange and red ones. Since then I have collected seeds whenever I can. To date I have 6 colours, with a couple of varieties (as far as I can tell). There is the classic orange which has the long vines that go wild. This one usually grows around the chook pen but didn’t this year. I’m not sure why, wondering if the weather was too warm for too long? This year a new orange popped up, a darker orange, a really lovely colour, it is a short little bushy plant. Another new one, a mix between yellow and orange, in a stripey sort of petal has grown. And, the one I have been waiting for for years (I grabbed some seeds 2 seasons ago) is the yellow! There is also the dark red and the rusty orange. This year the apricot coloured one hasn’t grown.
I really love the light scent of the flowers and keep them on my desk.
Choosing Colours
We’ve got a Beginners Fabric Design workshop coming up soon so I wanted to design some fabric and turn it into a cushion cover. I wanted a very easy design to work with and had a triangle of stamp rubber on my desk so decided to go with that. As the workshop revolves around stamps and screen printing I also made a triangle screen design. It is great to be working with something a little different for a change.
Here are the colours I am playing around with. The blobs are the screen printing ink colours and the triangles are the stamp colours. What colours go best with what other colours do you think?
What colours go with what colours?
For more info on Workshops head to www.handsonbrisbane.com
Spider Lady
This St Andrews Cross Spider was in a web in our yard for all of Summer and she has thousands of babies! It seemed like she had a new green egg sack every week.
In late May I found her all dried out and dead in her web. I left her there for a couple of days and then thought I’d like to pop her into a jar to wear as a necklace. I’ve collected a Chrysalis top from a plant in our yard (I followed a creature from Caterpillar to Butterfly, though did not see if emerge) and wear that so thought it would be nice to have another creature who was a fixture in the yard for a time to wear.
She was quite a bit too large to squeeze into the jar opening so I kept setting her aside and thinking about it. Unfortunately last night some creature got to her and ate the body, leaving me a pile of legs and a small part of head. oh no! Though she is now safely sealed in a jar for me to wear.
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