Paperific Trade Fair

Chipboard embellishment galore

Altered Art Journalling

Stamping Class

Well it's Paperific time again. A trade show devoted to scrapbooking, cardmaking, ATC's and Alter Arts. Held twice yearly in April and August at the Melbourne Showground, the fair provides vistors with a chance to shop for the lastes tools and materials, join in small group classes, watch tutorials from vendors and participate in free "make and take" card and gift tag making sessions.





Twiddleybitz would have to be my favorite vendor. The make and sell amazing MDF laser cut wooden kits which you paint and embellish with scrabook paper. There have shadow boxes, frames and bird houses with can be transformed into wall art, clocks and trinket holders.

I brough a cup cake stand which i indeed to use to display my new range of earrings and bobby pins.





Every year the focus is different depending what's in vouge. This year it was Copic Markers, nifty little pens for hand colouring stamped images.
It was also very pleasing to see this year some steampunk themed scrapbooking.

Jodies First Sale

I big congratulations to my little sister Jodie, just last week she made her very first sale through her brand new "Made It" store CRITTERS4OSCAR. Named for her 2 year old son, Jodie hand makes a range of bright and funky home furnishings, cot blankets and wall art. The inspiration for her works came when she was unable to find anything unique to decorate her son's nursery. Tired of the same old over commercialized Disney characters, she made her own.

Jodie also takes custom order and her range will be available for purchase at all my Spring/Summer markets this year. Please visit her store at www.madeit.com.au/Critters4Oscar

Here is just a sample of my cleaver little sister's work.

'Lil Critter Snuggle Blanket with Pillow $30

Little Love Birds Canvas $15

Little Hoots Pram Quilt $30

A cloudy day is perfect for blogging

After a short blogging hiatus due to work load and illness, i’m happy to announce that we’re back and would like to re-introduce our label to those checking in on a long awaited up date and also to those visiting for the first time. So here, below is an extended excerpt from an interview i recently gave:

About Run Wild Horses style
For the most part the Run Wild Horses style is know of "modern vintage". I take vintage and vintage reproduction materials and re-work them into modern, fresh and unique designs.
I draw inspiration from the materials themselves. I spend many hours searching markets, vintage and ops shops and online looking for unique vintage components, and will often sit on the floor with all my boxes and containers of parts and bring the pieces together at that tine, rather than planning out a collection from sketches and trying to find the materials after. When working with vintage materials you need to have some flexibility with your designs because there is no guarantee that you will find the piece your looking for or need to finish the design.
Recently i began to focus more and more on the materials used allowing the designs to create a story, my one creative interpretation of whatever ever theme i happen to be working in at that time.

White Picket Fence Dreaming

After many months....7 in fact we have finally moved into our new house, in a quiet little South Gippsland country town. One of the space rooms in the house has now been converted in a studio/workshop/office/storeroom/place for magic and wonder and creating. Complete with tacky old 1960’s floral wall paper and matching curtains?????...!! The carpet is old, worn and going to get replaced when i find the time, but the cute little window fill the room with many hours of glorious sunlight and the whole room as a sense of warmth and belonging to it.....it already feels like home.
I wanted to say to big thank you to all my wonderful customers and stockist who have put up with all the chaos, un-contractibility (hmmm might be making up a new word there), missing stock, running out of stock....and not forgetting the many changes to all my contact details......it been a rough few months but everything is beginning to fall into place....and just in time as spring has sprung and it time to get the house in order for the new season.....Christmas is just around the corner.
IN OTHER NEWS......due to the moving (which took a lot longer than was expected or planned for) the Spring collection BLACK which was to be released on the 1st of August this year, has been put on until further notice. But we will however be releasing a collection of beautiful and unique jewellery for the summer.....watch out for future posts, details are coming soon.

OLD EARTH COLLECTION at in.cube8r Gallery

OLD EARTH is a collection of necklaces and brooches featuring pendants made using materials from or inspired by earth and all things in and on it. The pendants feature vintage cameos, cabochons, charms, stampings, old photo's, cards and a selction of my photography as a background.

Items from this collection are exclusive to in.cube8r Gallery, with prices starting from $20