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Hottie Challenge

April 18, 2013

The lovely Cam from CurlyPops has just opened her Hottie Challenge for 2013 and I’ve just signed up.   The aim of the challenge is to make a hot water bottle cover, which will be exhibited in the gallery space at Open Drawer Art Textiles and Learning Centre from Friday July 5th, with a grand opening on […]

Tagged as: call out, community, craft, exhibition, exhibition work, Hottie Challenge

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Nomad in Residence for hAbitAt

February 26, 2013
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I’m very excited to announce that I’m going to be the very first Nomad in Residence in Fee Plumbley’s Really Big Road Trip project. I’m super thrilled at the prospect! Fee has been commissioned to make a collaborative crafting work called hAbitAt for Canberra’s Centennial Celebrations, on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin. This is […]

Tagged as: collaboration, community, craft, festival works

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(Almost) instant kindness on a train

September 29, 2012

The other day I was on the train and a lady got on and sat across from me. She had headphones in and was poking on her MP3 player, and around every 5 seconds she sniffed.   It wasn’t that she had been crying, she clearly had a cold. Sniff. Sniff. Sniff. Sniff. Sniff. I […]

Tagged as: community, guerrilla kindness, instant kindness, kindness

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KnitAlong with Fee n me

July 10, 2012

This is just a quick update. The technoevangelist, Fee Plumley, is running a Pozible campaign to fund her Really Big Roadrip bus. Fee wants to be able to buy a bus and deck it out with all sorts of awesome technology and then tour Australia sharing digital culture, working with artists, collaborating on all sorts […]

Tagged as: community, craft, digital event, knitting, public event

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