Trying to get our groove

Sweet Helen was the host of our Gem Session today – thank you sweetie. As usual it was a natter and a moan and a bit of slapping (when someone puts themselves down) and a bit of encouraging too.We entered into a giveaway – which was good, but even better – I was given a lovely brooch on the spot from Helen!We made some funky, funky for the craftstock event we will be at on Thursay evening, but we are all finding it hard to get into the groove – new year and all. I think we need to go out dancing and get all the stress out .

Paekakariki Fair

We had a great time at Pataka on Saturday, it was all a blur! Now we are all madly trying to replenish our stock for next Sunday and the Paekakariki Fair (Nov 25) 10-2pm. Hope we see you there!

Buttons & brooches

Carmen came along today with an amazing stash of resin brooches she’d been working on with little treasures embeded in them.

I was all set to start using the resin until she told me we need to have a proper mask and safety goggles – next week then! Hopefully she’ll post some at her Etsy store soon.

Jackie was on a roll she cranked out some fantastic button brooches for the market at Pataka on Saturday.

Then Carmen had another take on button brooches, all bling of course!

How about these adorable little pins by Shelly!

You can see the whole photo shoot at our flickerset

Pataka Craft

Buttons are our delight

We had our weekly session today at J’s house and it was great as usual. J drooled over each and every one of her buttons and we ooohed and aaahed with her. H started on her Christmas ornaments and C could sadly not join us this week. I was working on an apron and some pincusion ideas.

A toadstool pincusion was the result of our creative brainstorming and I passed it on as a prototype to C as she was having a not such fun day. While making it, I was pondering on the “session” and what it means to me and wrote about it on my blog http://soheartfelt.wordpress.com/

thanks Gems for a great session

Ziguzagu

Ziguzagu is the name of the amazing warehouse in Melbourne where I got the gorgeous vintage Japanese fabric, which covers these button badges. They are displayed on giant playing cards, nice hand aye? I’ll be selling these with the Little Gems at the Pataka Craft Market – Nov 17th, 10am-4pm.

Winging across the Tasman

I loved Shelly’s buttons so much I had to give it a go!
A handmade button and thrifted doily for Helen’s bff Billie in Melbourne.

Monstas, trolls and bags

Here’s some close ups of some of my goodies from the weekend.

Knack Market

Well we had a great day and the market rocked. Half the fun is meeting other crafters! We’ll be back for Christmas Knack on Dec 1st @ Berhampore School – Wellington, hope we see you there!

First Meet up

We started up a couple of weeks back with a flurry of activity getting ready for our first market – Knack.