Coming To Valley Laneway Markets

Yessiree Bob! Pannikin is preparing some new goodies for you to adorn your clothes and home with. First up, Fun & Games fridge magnets!
These are created from vintage children's wooden dominos, with colourful and oh-so-cute pictures including roosters, lady bugs, frogs, ducklings and butterflies. I'm also planning on turning these into necklaces - if all goes well I'll let you know!

Next we have a new series of 35mm badges! The 'Spell It Out' range is a new favourite of mine, for a few reasons.

1. I can spell out almost anything! (For practicalities sake, I'll be keeping these to short words and phrases. Too many letters and your badge loses it's punch. No one likes squinting to see the design, trust me.)

2. You get an insight into my favourite words, which I seem to mentally collect day in, day out. Favourites include but are not limited to: nifty, gravy, cat lady, hand made, lame, super, neat and so on and so forth.

3. I can do custom work! Maybe you want to declare your love for tea, cookies or cats or feel the need to announce that you are amazing, cute, swell, dandy or all four? Send me an email and I'll do my best!

Both of these products will be available at the upcoming Valley Laneway Markets on Sunday 22nd August 2010. My stall will be located in California Lane, which can be accessed via McLachlan St, Fortitude Valley. The markets run from 10am til 4pm.

Please click here tobe taken to the Valley laneway Market website for more information and applications for those who would like to apply for a stall.

Our Adventures at the Marky Markets

Apologies for such a late post, being Thursday evening and all, but I'm sure you wouldn't mind me sharing a photo or two of the Marky Markets that were held on Sunday 15th August at the Hi Fi in West End, Brisbane.

I think next time I will make sure to take a LOT more photos of the whole market, stall holders and market goers. Sometimes it is just a bit too hard to drag myself away from the fun of stall-holding and take pics. Funny thing is, it's all too easy to spend a whole wodge of money on other fun things being sold by local creatives - especially if they are gorgeous fabrics and vintage buttons from Voodoo Rabbit and rad brooches by Polly Gone.

I was also having a great time sharing chit-chats with Svetlana of Lady Sveta and Amanda Whitelaw of Hungry Designs, not to mention sharing a quick little hello with Kiara Notaras and a few other stall holders who I am sorry I have forgotten the names of.

(Oh and I must mention the wonderfully fun chill-times and conversation with 'the boy', Mister Thomas Griffin, stall-buddy extraordinaire.)

For more Pannikin market pics, please visit my facebook.

Suitcase Rummage Re-cap!

Wowee! What an eventful week I've had! How are you all? Did you end up coming along to the Suitcase Rummage?

It was such a wonderful day - I met new people, spotted my friends and had chats (or, rather, they spotted me as I was wearing my brightest, pink-est 60's dress!) bought some things, sold some things and generally had a ball.

I promise not to waffle on as I have to get cracking on hand-stitching some embroidered badges for next Sunday's market (Marky Markets at Hifi in West End, 15th August 11-5pm).

Snapshots:

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I Kind Of Really Love Stationery...

...so it goes without saying that I simply could not pass up stationery and back to school printed fabric at Lincraft, especially when they have 50% off ALL FABRIC. These two fabrics were only $4.99/mtr. Keep a lookout for the cute fabric covered badges I plan on making with these beauties!

(PS. That afternoon my friend Tegan made me a very rad dress out of the red fabric - I plan to take a photo with me wearing it and holding a variety of oversized novelty props, like giant calculators, scissors and geek glasses. Not to mention black mary janes and white frilly socks!)

'Lump' Zine

So I'm all kinds of elated today, as I've finally made a new zine.

'Lump' is a micro-mini art/personal zine created and illustrated by myself, Holly Leonardson.

Each little accordian-style booklet measures 7cm wide and 8.5cm tall when folded up and guess what? They all come packaged with a free illustrated badge just for you! Woo!

These will be available at in.cube8r in Fortitude Valley. I will be stocking these this morning along with my new 'Talk Crafty To Me' tote bags.

MadeIt Blog Featured!

I was flicking through twitter on the bus the other day and saw that MadeIt had compiled a blog post on badges for sale on their site. I was super happy when I saw that my origami paper badges were included! Weeee! :)

Etsy News!

Morning folks!

Did you know that you can now view Etsy in Australian dollars? Pretty neat, huh?

I have a teeny issue with this though. It makes my prices go all higgledy-piggledy! What I mean by that is, the prices listed in $AUD aren't the true set price until you check out with Paypal. They are simply well-calculated approximations. BUT! When you check out with Paypal, you are still paying in $USD. Hmm.

For me, personally, I am going to continue shopping on Etsy with the prices set in $USD. It seems to being the easiest, smoothest way. Plus, I have a thing for well rounded numbers (no cents, please!)

If all of this currency conversion hoo-haa is bothersome for you, why don't you pop on over to my shop at MadeIt.com.au? All items listed are all set in Australian dollars and the best part is you will be supporting Australian handmade! Yayy!