Shelbyville

Cassette badges

The other week I dug out from the back of the cupboard my collection of op-shop purchased cassette tapes, after DD suggested I try doing a series of cassette-inspired shrinky-dink jewellery to add to the range. I was quite enamoured with the idea of combining a retro subject (cassettes) with a retro material (shrinky-dinks) so I dusted the cassette tapes off and laid them out across the studio floor to assess all the various styles of mix-tape I had unwittingly collected over the years.

Back at the computer, I was inspired to create a series of 16 different cassette designs, and by the end of the week I'd made them into badges, pendants, keyrings and the cutest little cassette earring-studs.

I've just added the cassette badges to my Made It (and Etsy) online shop, but I'll also have the entire cassette range available at the Finders Keepers market coming up in early December if you wanted to see them in person.

 

Newtown Designers Market

This Sunday, the Newtown Community Centre will host the monthly Newtown Designers Market from 10am until 4pm. The market is being held in the building directly opposite Newtown train station, upstairs where the Shirty tshirt event was held last year, if you went along to that.

The Newtown Designers Market is still a very new event, this will be its third month (it's held on the third Sunday of every month) so please come and drop in if you find yourself near Newtown this weekend.

Serendipitously, they emailed me this flyer today and it has all the itty details you might need to know. You can also visit the NDM website for photos and even more info.

 

Have a great weekend!