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gilhoolie loves lampshades and…tea

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midwinter tea cup and saucer
My latest find…

Lately, I find it hard to walk past a charity shop or antique shop without having a look to see if they have any vintage crockery worth getting my hands on. I recently bought some 1960’s Midwinter china. I really love the colour and simple lines, I just need to find a display cabinet now to show it all off.

So, this week it’s all to do with tea and some of my favourite things…

gilhoolie loves lampshades and... tea!
gilhoolie loves lampshades and… tea!

1. Tea-towel from Skinny laMinx (one of my favourite textile designers) 2. I’m not sure who this is by but I just liked the relaxed drawing style 3. Tea-cup covers by Lucy Anne Harding 4. Handz Art for Kitchen poster picturing a Stig Lindbergs Bersa tea pot          5. Family Favourites tea-towel by Charlotte Farmer (really like her drawing style)             6. Hand-painted teapot from Room for Emptiness (love the simplicity) 7. Vintage cups and sugar bowl from Kiteless (sold unfortunately)

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Busy busy…

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gilhoolie age cards

I started making cards for something to do when I wasn’t so busy with lampshades etc. but things have picked up over the last week with quite a few orders and another art gallery wanting lampshades and pictures for their shop – argghhh more screen-printing to do tomorrow – surely I’ll be more relaxed about it this time?! Anyway, here are a couple of cards I made this week for friends, again with the gilhoolie retro circles print behind the cut outs. I’m really enjoying making them and have lots of other ideas plus I think I’ll have a go at making a more complicated paper cut picture maybe, when I have time.

I love Heather Moore’s ‘Flowers’ paper cut illustration, a bit complicated for me though; knowing me I’d cut the wrong bit and it would all fall apart! Note to self, start with something simpler and be VERY careful…

Flowers paper cut illustration by Heather Moore – wow!
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gilhoolie has a Facebook page!

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retro egg cup and salt mill
retro egg cup and salt mill

Okay, this might have to be the last drawing for a week or so because I really need to get back to screenprinting and then make some lampshades now that all the kit has arrived. There seems to be a bit of a kitchen/retro theme going on here don’t you think?! The only problem is I don’t have a retro looking salt mill but I found this one on etsy, shame it’s sold already.

This fabric is from Heather Moore’s Cut Out and Keep collection and is called ‘Avenues in Straw’. I love the yellow and the simplicity of the design is so clever.

I’m posting this as my first update from my new gilhoolie Facebook page so I hope someone reads it, I need some ‘Likes’!!

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Happy New Year!

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I’m easing myself in gradually so this will be a very quick post just to say Happy New Year everyone! It’s my first day on my own and I’m straight into gilhoolie, with a break to meet a friend for coffee thrown in of course! I must admit it’s a bit too quiet but at least we ended the holiday with a great day indoors building Lego and making cookies while the storm raged outside…

I’m back to drawing again because I really enjoy it and want to practice more while I book my next craft fairs for the months ahead. After the Christmas order rush it’s nice to sit back and have a play with things like this cutlery drawing, using Heather Moore fabric again, because I love it so much.

Heather Moore cutlery
Heather Moore cutlery

It’s funny, this time last year I was a month away from finishing work and just had plans to decorate the house, finish my Interior Design course and learn how to screen print (oh yes, and learn how to make a lampshade). Now it’s January again and I feel a lot closer to knowing what I want to do when I grow up 🙂 hehe!

I have lampshades to print and make for a gallery in Leeds, lampshade workshops to look forward to in February and March. I just need to find a regular local craft fair I like, if anyone knows any near Maidenhead please let me know!

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A bit of ‘me time’…

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Well, the Christmas holidays are whizzing by but there’s been plenty of time for nice cups of tea, along with far too many mince pies and choccies. It was so nice to have a bit of ‘me time’ yesterday and do a bit of drawing while the boys played with their new toys and bothered their Dad while he’s at home!

retro teapot and cup
Retro teapot and cup

I really like the shape of my teapot and teacup (see my previous blog post ‘All nice and cosy’) and thought they would be fun to draw. Again, I added some detail with fabric; this time just stuck on and not machine embroidered so even easier. The fabric has a small pattern which worked really well and is in keeping with the simple ink drawing. One of my favourite Christmas presents was a bundle of fabrics from my Mum and this one is called ‘Chards’ from the Cut Out and Keep collection by Heather Moore. I’ve got a feeling I’ll be using more of her fabric in my pictures as the print is nice and small and quite retro too, plus the colours are lovely. Not sure what I’ll draw next but I know I want to do another armchair and lampshade one; maybe more traditional this time but I might have to go on the hunt for more fabric to add to my collection first…

Well that was a bit of ‘me time’ in the morning, then it was a pretend family gun battle round the house before dinner and a tombola after dinner (a sneaky way to earn pocket money from us parents, funny boys!)