Fancy announcement: Shop update

I'm so excited to share this with you, the first shipment of my Imagined Travels tea towels have arrived. No doubt those of you who are on my   facebook   page would have already seen a sneak peak.

I got them from the printer last Saturday night and spent the majority of Sunday morning, ironing, folding and packaging them ready for the store. It took me forever to illustrate and package them, but I am so happy with the result. I have based this first series on Japan, and have illustrated 3 designs using objects that to me represents the essence of the country. I really hope you'll like them. I want to keep them affordable, so I'm selling them for only $20 a piece. I really hope they will sell as I'd like to produce more in the future. I'm thinking on a series on either Paris or New York. What do you think?

It would be great if you can pass it on to anyone who might me interested. I think they will be a lovely addition to anyone's kitchen or even framed as a piece of affordable art.

For those of you who lives in Sydney, you can buy them from the   Oxford St Design Store  , for everyone else, I have uploaded them to my   etsy   shop. Happy shopping! x

Illustration fancy: Japanese Maneki Neko tea towel

For the past couple of days I have been working on this tea towel design, I wasn't too happy with the colours and texture in the old design but I persisted thinking that it can be tweaked once finished. Although I was sort of happy with the outcome, it just didn't feel right, the colouring was too controlled, too cartoonish. I went back to the drawing board and came up with this second idea. It is now more muted with less colours and am now very happy with the result.

Just need to work on two more designs and get it printed. I can't wait to show you once it arrives, really excited.

I have posted some pictures of the Oxford St Design Store launch party on my  facebook  page. It was such a fun night and it felt so good to see my tea towels in a shop. There were only two left, so I'm assuming the others were already bought and taken to their brand new home. :)

Fancy announcement: Oxford St Design Store

Everyone please step away from your computer and do a little celebratory dance. A sweet little store named the Oxford St Design Store will be officially open tomorrow and will be carrying tea towels made by ta da da dah... me!

The Design Store is a concept store run by two lovely ladies (Alex and Lou) selling limited edition products from local artists and groups. There are all sorts of wonderful goodies including letterpress goodness from  The Hungry Workshop  and super cool objects from  Page Thirty Three . And if that's not enough, they are all under $20. That's right, everything will be super cheap, it is Alex and Lou's way to make designer products accessible to everyone.

At the moment, there are extremely limited amount of tea towels available so please get in quick. As we speak, I am in the middle of developing more designs with the aim of sending it to the printer by the end of this week. So hopefully there'll be a few more in the shop by the end of this month. Here is a sneak preview of what I am working on.

They are having a launch party tomorrow night from 6pm which I am really excited about. Head down there if you are around and don't forget to say hi.

Oxford St Design Store

58 Oxford St, Darlinghurst