New Plate Preview

Thanks for all your encouraging words regarding my last post.

The good ship creativity has yet to dock, but in the mean time, I have been practicing my Photoshop skills (negligible) and submitted a couple more designs to envelop.

This is newly approved and called blue mountain.




I also collected some newly fired plates from Flora's kiln - (do check out her sweet submission for Folksy's Upcycle Christmas Competition).

Excitingly, I used fancy gold decal on some of them. I bought it a while ago and have been intrigued to see how it turned out. Luxe! Shiny! Actually, it's not that shiny, it's got a nice pearlescent quality though.



Firing plates seems to require nerves of steel and a certain amount of magic and/or luck, a few from this batch just didn't make it, even though they're all from the same set (the tadpole-ish ones) more or less - I have no idea why.

Anyway, luckily some did! And here they are. They'll be in the shop soon!

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This is a post about, well, nothing really. And therein lies the problem.



I'm feeling distinctly lacking in inspiration. It's quite confounding and discombobulating. I don't know whether to do some more plates, or some more designs for envelop or whether to jazz up the shop a bit. I am cast adrift.



So, I sat at my desk and moved/straightened some piles of paper around, then I tipped all these shapes out and moved them around a bit.



I looked at the wall and my clutter, ahem, treasures.



Then I gave up, and came downstairs again. Maybe tomorrow will be different?

envelop

Thanks to Elisabeth's tip-off on her blog, I have got myself set up on envelop.

It's a great idea - they describe themselves as an online print-on-demand platform where independent illustrators and designers can create cotton textile collections such as cushion covers, tote bags and other household items. Read more about it here. It's just perfect for frustrated screen-printers like me!

You can see my submissions so far here and here's a preview below.

This one is called volcano.


And this one is called blue mass.


Just the thing to spruce up the homestead, eh?

p.s. my birthday brogues are by Jeffery Campbell, and they're available here at urban outfitters.