Dear world

May 5, 2011

Why hullo! As you can see, I’m just moving the furniture around… Things are being shifted, organized, packed into new pages and prettied up. So pop back in about a week ago and we can have a cuppa and a chat. But do feel free to have a look around at the moment, just mind [...]

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Fly By Night Brown Owls

May 2, 2011

Fly By Night Brown Owls is a once off event being held at the Metropolitan Hotel, North Melbourn, on Saturday, May 21 · 2:00pm – 5:00pm You don’t have to be a regular Brown Owl to come along, everyone is invited. Bring your crafting, your fine selves and your friends! There will be a beginners [...]

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A Moment In Yarn

May 1, 2011

I’ve created a new project, A Moment In Yarn…  It focuses on translating warm memories into crocheted granny squares. Talking to people and asking them for a happy memory to translate into tangible crochet for them to hold and keep. Today I did one for someone, and they got teary over it. I think that’s [...]

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Awesomely exciting exhibition opportunity !

April 19, 2011

OOO people! There’s a seriously exciting thing happening on the other side of the world! The awesome guys at Stitch London have organised STITCHED SCIENCE, where people can send in their knitted/crocheted/sewn science items. Dinosaurs, Bunsen burners, rocketships, skeletons, whatever you can think of that has a science theme. How awesome is that?  I’m sending in [...]

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Images of Modern Evil (and why I love social media)

March 26, 2011

I was on the Heide Museum‘s facebook page the other day and they had a competition running to coincide with their upcoming exhibition, Albert Tucker’s Images of Modern Evil. You simply had to name your favourite painting from the series and why and you’d go into the draw to win a double pass to a [...]

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phew!

March 21, 2011

So today I’m working on a commission, I’m turning a toy into a puppet for a client. It’s very cute, but a bit fiddly. And I realise I’ve hit professionalism because I made the mouth and it looked ok but not perfect, so I tore it out and started again. A younger me would have [...]

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new commission – zombie class mascot

March 18, 2011

Gosh! I like a challenge, but this one is a doozie. I’ve been commissioned by a Prep teacher to make her class a mascot. I’ve made a number of mascots in the past for classes, including a Ringmaster called Petey Barnam and a tree named Mr Barkly Tree (named by the kids in the class) [...]

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Oh, my friends

February 18, 2011

Ohh, I have been remiss! I’ve been hanging out at our puppet company’s blog, Handmade By Computers (terriblecomfort.wordpress.com/) and I haven’t been visiting here much. But this soon shall change! For there are rumblings underneath the surface of page 63 (does that mean that page 64 is rumbling? I dunno…) and things are moving and [...]

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Owl in Spotlight new puppets

August 30, 2010

Greetings my friends! I’ve had my head down and butt up sewing my Cinderella fingers to the bone for the upcoming show for Halloween. But I wanted to share a scene with you! This is our heroine, Dort, stumbling across a scene from the Salem Witch Trials. These guys are some of my current favourites. [...]

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make an owl, be a part of the next Terrible Comfort show!

August 22, 2010

Good morning my friends!I’m almost back up ad running on the blog, there’s been major life changes and it’s taken me a while to get organised again… But we’re working on a new puppet show for Halloween this year and we’re doing a call out for handmade owls… Read below! Come one, come all… Terrible [...]

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