Alice in Shadowland

I do believe Alice would have enjoyed a day in Shadowland as much as she did in Wonderland. Both have a magical ambience and all essence of time is lost.
I have recently started my student placement at Shadowland Theatre with the lovely Anne Barber and Brad Harley. It has been an amazing experience so far and I really feel connected to they work. They basically write and produce alot of their own plays and shows.

I've been helping with the backdrop for their show....

Hansel and Gretel: The Fast Food Version

This Punch and Judy-style, modern interpretation of the classic tale was created in a collaboration between Shadowland artists, young people of the Parkdale neighbourhood and adults from 6 St Joseph House. A 15 minute puppet and mask show to delight all ages with it’s irreverent humour and outrageous characters. 

Lots of doing and using what I love most : design, colour sewing, fabric! just all kinds of goodness.

Also a few other things, I will keep posting as the days go by and things progress.

Have a wander, maybe you will find a show that interests you, maybe you too will be lost in this land of creativity and imagination.

http://www.shadowlandtheatre.ca/

Organza or Plastic?

So I love artist that put some thought into their work and make intricate designs that grab people's attention to more important issues. This is my interpretation at least and I found these pieces to be quite interesting.

 Evian....mmmm love that water haha because really it taste better :P

Love the gallon of water and the Fiji bottles, they look so aunthentic.

 To me, these pieces represent what we see everyday as garbage and waste. I love the idea of the new designs for water bottles like the glass ones, giving the idea of recycling more. What better way to replace plastic than with fabric. These lovely pieces are hand embroidered on organza by Lauren DiCioccio

She does alot of different hand embroidered pieces, quite a handfull of work..take a wander :)

pieceWork

I was in Toronto for the textile show at the Gladstone Hotel and got the chance to see some wonderful work. The pieces are still on display this weekend, so if you're in the area go check it out.

Miriam Grenville: Make your own Money Kits. This cute 'money tree' was on display.

Amanda McCavour

Beautiful display of these hanging delicate pieces, great colour with the lighting and the shadows on the wall were amazing.

 Shuyu Lu "Dream a Little Dream-the monkey and the Moon"
 Screen printing, hand dyed silk organza and cotton thread, hand embroidered.
Such intense amount of embroidery on these tiny pieces. I love the layering of the silk with the prints, gives it great dimention and 3D effects.

Bird Love

Wow so its been ages since I've wander these woods of mine. Oh how I've missed them. I've been quite busy since school started in septemeber, just a few weeks ago I had my first critique....crazy yes because it took us two months to have our first project ready. I will soon post photographs of some of my most recent work . Mean while I decided to catch up on some of new art and found these amazing illustration by Luca Mantovanelli  

Yeah I want an exotic bird doing erotic things to me. The the shape of the bird with the face of the man just look amazing together.

New Place, Old Memories...into the elmwoods

So I have finally left Ovation.....the building I used to live in by Square One Mall. I have move to a new place with old memories. We found an apartment in the building I lived in when I first came to Canada 8 years ago. I lived in the 2 floor now I like in the 18 floor...crazy but the view is wonderful. The building I live in now is on Elm....eerie huh? naw Im not that cool its Elm Drive not Elm Street but anything could happen...

The name of my building I live in now its called Elmwoods which I thought was so appropiate considering everything I name has woods or something related to it haha Im very happy in my new place even if its only for a year since I do plan to move when Im done school. 

Even my room is a bit bigger and the bathroom is also bigger and I have an extra closet to my stuff woo! I guess what they say is true....change didnt kill the cat..curiosity did haha wow Im lame.

Luna de todas las noches Ilumíname esta noche

....Luna lunita lunera Luna llena luna perla.
 Dime si ella es la reina y la dueña de todo mi amor....

This is my Bella Luna, shes my cousins baby but Im just going to say shes my niece because Ill probably love her that much! She so cute I can believe it.

I've been designing baby toys for an online store opening in september called LaVie Orange

Its all organic and handmade baby products and so Ive been busy dyeing fabric and sewing.

Here are some pieces from colors I have made so far...

This is one of the first prototypes I made with some scrap samples also naturally dyed.

This was made with the fabrics shown above.

I still have to work on the proportions a bit and find stuffing thats less lumpy.

So far its been fun :)

TAG!

I have been super busy with a million and one things including packing because I move in like 2 weeks...yikes lots to do. However, I have been trying to craft as many little things that are quick and easy. I now have a few things for my shop and so I decided that I needed tags. 

I know this may seem lazy...and it is considering I have printed some tags before like this one:

I found a printable paper/fabric that is amazing!

I dont even have to iron or anything, I just print directly on the fabric and thats it!

I got it at waltmart for 15$ comes with 6 sheets and I can use my printer at home. No bad eh?

So this is how mine turned out:

It is a bit tricky to print on...my first one moved and so its not straight but Im going to cut them anyways.

Im quite pleased with them :D

Soon I will post pictures of them attached to pretty little things!