Spotlight on Veeni

For those that have yet to see Veeni's work, here's a little spotlight on her cute, wearable creations.

Our recent work with old records sparked these beautiful upcycled bracelets

And check out all of these felted goodies:

There are so many more that are just as adorable as these but hopefully this gives a glimpse of the things to come from Veeni. We'll keep you posted as to when the online store opens or if there are any public appearances happening.

LD & Veeni xx

Going Where The Sun Shines Brightly

Winter has definitely arrived in Perth, it's rainy, wet and (to us little sunshine lovers) cold. With many people starting to hibernate into their black and grey uniforms of winter, Veeni has already escaped to the sunny sites of Bali and LD is now packing her bags for an English summer. With travel being on the recent agenda, we got to making some itinerary wallets.

Using the hand painted and printed fabrics of the previous week, LD decided to cut up the pieces and collage them onto a base piece of pre-cut fabric. The dimensions of our base piece was based on it being a little larger than a business size envelope; you need enough room to fit a folded A4 piece of paper, a passport, tickets and any other bits and pieces you intend on taking with you.

LD hadn't used a sewing machine since she was 15, so Veeni provided a few pointers and LD was off.

Once the pieces were stitched onto the base piece, we then stitched it to another piece of fabric, this time leaving one side unsewn so as to creat a pocket. By creating a pocket we were able to insert pieces of card so as to give our wallet some strength and keep its shape. It was then folded into position, ironed and stitched together.

Having already completed the sewing side of it earlier, Veeni continued to hand stencil onto her wallets and finish them off with buttons.

Here is what LDs wallet looks like. Considering LD hadn't sewn for years, Veeni's tips were definitely useful and we were pretty happy with the end result.

For easy access we decided to finish this one off with velcro and, as you can see, it fits everything perfectly!

Leave Your Prints

So much has been going on lately! Veeni just got back from Bali and it's less than a week til LD is off to see Europe. On the Sunday before Veeni left this is what we got up to...

Veeni's ever so talented father made a beautiful silk screen printer for her, so with the sunny weather still on our side we thought we'd give it a go.

Veeni received The Street Art Stencil Book for Christmas which was a great starting point for us beginners. It includes a variety of designs by street artists from around the world and provided a lot of inspiration.

Having done silk screening in high school, it easily came back to us. The hardest thing is getting the right amount of paint on the screen without it bleeding under the stencil, after a few attempts we got better at this and sometimes the bleeding works quite well depending on the print.

Veeni was dog sitting for her parents while they were off romancing for their wedding anniversary ♥, so Rosie was always on hand to provide guidance and help with the breakfast clean up.

While our screen prints dried we went on to do some hand painted fabrics. Here's Veeni's brain that has a slightly eggy appeal. Perhaps it's our love of yummy meals that means food is always on the mind :)

And here is LD's hand painted fabric that has a more tea towel feel about it.

With travel being a part of our lives at the moment we thought we might use our prints to make passport/itinerary wallets - we'll see how we go.