The ladies of hml don't just spend the time swanning around town looking at craft. We too, just like all of you dear readers have to earn a crust! Beck as many of you know is the head honcho down at Counter (Craft Victorias very beautiful and much loved retail space) and a very talented artiste. While I make cards and write things - hence the name of my business - Words and Pictures. As we were talking about paper this week I thought I'd show you what I'd been up to.
Twice a year I send out a new catalogue so twice a year I have to come up with new things. This is hard for someone who is at heart a couch potato. It's just as well I have Beck around to cattle prod me into action. So now I have gift tag packs and easter bunnies. Of course I'm thinking who buys gift tags in March and does anyone care about Easter apart from the Pope? And yes I start planning for Christmas right about now. I'm sure many of you are in product development land at the moment. I sympathise with those questions 'Will people like this, buy this, use this?'
The HML theory is just make stuff... then go to the movies. And not neccesarily in that order.
As you all know we are giving ourselves over to kitsch this week in tribute to our exhibition of the week artisan and supreme garage sailor Anna Davern. Regular readers probably also know that this is a thinly veiled opportunity for us to show you even more dodgy craft from hml HQ. We love souvenier craft... especially Beck who covets her shell art collection even above her wood grain ceramic collection. This shell lamp was a christmas gift from her brother 'lord funky pants' (his name not ours) and is now the centrepiece of the collection. It's easy to see why.
