All I want for Christmas is...a SaffySnood!

We had a christmas fair in coleg and I managed to create some cool hooded scarves...for the moment they are called SaffySnoods but I think that is far too twee...feedback would be great on a name! The important thing about them is that all the material which makes them look cool is bought from charity shops, usually size 18 granny skirts and dresses, chopped up and made into something else - giving them that recycled and preloved edge. The warm part (the fleecey lining) is bought from a local fabric shop...very important point here in glorious Pembrokeshire where we are all about the keeping local businesses alive sort of thing. 

I did pretty good at the fair...I sold 4 snoods at £20 each. This is what I have made so far but Im planning to just keep going with my collection of granny clothes and build up some stock of sorts. Hopefully. I can also make to order so if you have any special design requests I will try to accommodate almost anything - as long as I can keep to using recycled and preloved materials, Im happy! 

SOLD

SOLD

SOLD

Please get in touch if you are interested...they are £20 each (plus postage) saffron.rarity@rocketmail.com

welsh valentines day project explorations

Dont have many ideas at the moment in terms of final design...but lots and lots of words. Backwards writing for direct transfer prints makes for a fun afternoon!

and a special one for my friend holly, who enjoys long walks on the beach and surrounding herself with boobs.

...and then there was clay...

Made some cool little ornaments whilst searching for patterns. Far to delicate to have any real use...but I had fun!

Experimenting with Plaster...

    Decided to get to know plaster a little better. We both enjoyed it.                                                                 

                

Patterns Project

If I learnt one thing from this project, its that patterns are bloody everywhere. I am now obsessed and cant avoid them. I did enjoy this project though...as I discovered a love for plaster of paris and carving. I experimented with sound and water by originally taking photographs of the ripples created when a bowl of water is placed on top of a speaker playing babyhead...very loudly. I then developed my designs so they could be carved into plaster plates and would have a similar hypnotic effect on the viewer as mandalas and labyrinths. It was very therapeutic just making them, so I hope you enjoy them too. 

Edited images of water/sound experiments:

Final Pieces and Display

I wanted them to be wall hangings, so they could be used as decorative items as well as for relaxation/meditiation. So I made up my own way of attaching them to the wall.

And heres a few of me and Holly with our work at the show... and Joey drooling over Ryan's woodwork pieces.

a world of my own...

Okay so here we go ... hopefully this will be an interesting and stimulating activity for all of us. 


Just coming to the end of my first year of BA Design at Pembrokeshire College and have finished with an Alice in Wonderland themed project. 

I began by looking at the idea of the dream, how we perceive ourselves within a dream, and dream psychology. I created some great stencil mono-prints which was to show my own day dream state, and some 'dreams in jars' to go with the prints. With these I was trying to get across the feeling of being trapped in a bubble - held in a dream by your own subconscious. Like in a nightmare - that feeling when your'e trying to scream and no sound comes out, or trying to punch someone and at the last second your fist turns to jelly, or actually becoming aware of the fact that you are dreaming but not able to wake yourself up. I decided to title the project "A world of my own", and am pretty happy with the results :)

Thank you so much to sophie goddard-jones and natasha hopkins for being fabulous models!!


The prints are A2 size and most of them will be up for grabs at £25 each (mounted on board) or £45 framed. Ive already sold a few to friends and family so get in fast if you want something awesome to decorate your walls with.