The new blog is fully up and running now

and posts are being made! I even have my new 'follow' button up ready and waiting to be used.

I'm sad to leave PaperScissorsCloth floating in cyberspace but I needed to move to Wordpress and combine my identities!

Anyway, hopefully you'll come have a nosy over there at blog.eviekemp.com - hope to see you soon!

evie x

I'm on the homepage of Auckland Craft Collective!

I've been super fortunate to have been picked to be featured in the latest selection of beautiful handmade things on the front page of the gorgeous Auckland Craft Collective website. I'm so chuffed to have been put alongside such high-calibre designs!

Auckland Craft Collective is a super-duper resource for small-businesses (like me) and Jess & Kylie run it all, fuelled only by their love of craft. They are so generous with their time - I just wanted to say a big thank you to them both!

Jess blogs here and sells her adorable home and you accessories here 
And, Kylie blogs here!

Giveaway - only till Sunday!

I've just added a cute little hand-illustrated to my etsy shop. A perfect pocket sketchbook!

Don't forget to head over to blog.eviekemp.com to enter the giveaway for a fierce dog cushion. Closes Sunday! and your chances of winning are HIGH!

evie kemp pillow giveaway!!

So, i'm finally back on track and have got the giveaway I promised so long ago!

The only thing is my blog has moved, (I'm simplifying :-s) so to enter you need to update your bookmarks and head over to my swanky new home at blog.eviekemp.com to leave a comment.

Up for grabs is the striking cushion in my own designed fabric "The Good Dog". You can check out more info and designs at my etsy shop here.

Hope to see you over at the new blog soon!

evie xxx

Washi tape from Kozo.co.nz - yay!

I, like most other people in the crafty world adore the look and selection of Japanese Washi tape. Washi tape is semi-transparent, easy-to-tear paper tape - kind of like masking tape only 1000 x better looking. It comes in an almost limitless aray of colours and patterns - if you know where to look.

I've just come across Kozo (www.kozo.co.nz) who sell a great selection of Washi tape and are based in NZ -yay. Single rolls are $6.50, with twin packs starting from $11 and triple packs from $16. The perfect, finishing touch for parcels, packaging and presents and local (which always makes things twice as nice!)

I plan to stock up soon - check out a couple of my favourites below.:-)

Oh, and if you're in Auckland, Kozo is having a stall at the Coatesville Markets on March 7th, 2010 so you can have a good look at their entire range and see some more ways of how to use it.

Beside the seaside...

It's still summer here in NZ and I've just got back from my morning dog walk dripping with sweat. 100% humidity is not fun.  I'm resolutely a winter person, I like nothing more than layering up and staying in under the blankets.

But, I can't stop summer so sometimes I choose to embrace it. Last week I spotted this sweet stripey Brighton Beach Chair $170US by Gallant & Jones on etsy.

I still have memories of trapping my fingers in a deckchair when I was little and yet they can't help but stir happy summer nostalgia (like my Grandad tipping his over!) They're the summeriest of chairs and the best outdoor accessory (even if they can be near impossible to clamber out of) and would brighten up my empty outdoors no end.

Now I can't treat myself to one from Gallant & Jones (why is everything always so far away!) but I did find a gorgeous NZ version from Madder & Rouge, in Tom Multi fabric $199NZ.

I hope they'll still be available next summer when I have a garden shed to keep them pretty and safe from the summer showers.

So, I did it...

I now have a skin on  my floor.
You might have seen my post a couple of weeks back when I was weighing up how many disdainful looks I'd get from visitors against how much I would enjoy it myself.
Well, I won and besides, we don't get many visitors anyway (err, well apart from my very vegetarian Mother-in-law-to-be).

I fell in love with this black and white splattered hide (even though I was looking for more of a tan colour). It's gorgeous and perfect, and only has the slightest, nice leather smell (I've heard some cheaper tanning can really make them stink!). Oh and Bonnie loves rolling around on it - which is fine because it hides her doggy hairs.

I don't deny, it will take me a while to rid myself of the slight sadness and guilt I feel thinking about it (it would have been a beautiful cow). Despite, how it came to be in my living room (as a by-product of the beef trade) - it feels a lot different to having a dozen pairs of leather shoes.
I totally understand when people are opposed to having hides in the home, after all it's an all too small step from a domestic cowhide to a holiday-hunted zebra skin :-(

However, I love the look and believe personally that they're ok. I'm just drawing the line at one...(and always say no to hunting, fur and animal cruelty!).


P.S
Sorry that the photo is more of a peek - we're (by we, I mean him - i'm sitting blogging while he builds :-) in the middle of building our floor to ceiling bookcase so the rest of the room looks like a hardware store!

x

Artist I love: Chloe Croft

 Totally taken with these stunning prints by Chloe Croft. Each print is limited to 95 editions across several available sizes and prices. The original piece of each print is an intricate paper cut.
The vibrancy, palette and compositions are stunning and a beautiful bold statement piece for my living room. Chloe's talent doesn't stop here, she's a masters fashion graduate of the Royal College of Art who has designed outfits for the Scissor Sisters! (wow) and..the Spice Girls (so, so cool).

A girl who does loud like a pro.

Magenta Flamingos

Blue Budgies

Amaranth Flamingo

Visit Chloe's website www.chloecroftlondon.com and her etsy, here.

Missoni home - cheat

I'm a huge sucker for anything Missoni - I drool through the window of my local Missoni Home stockist and go to bed dreaming of multi-coloured zig zags.

 

Missoni Irvin Collection

As I (still) haven't made the big bucks, real Missoni is absolutely out of my reach. That is why I totally adore this very missoni-esque 'Neble' custom duvet set from Design your Home - Bespoke Bedding, on etsy.
It's $170US + postage and is made to order from your size and finishing specifications.

 Neble Custom -Bedding from Design Your Home

Couple with a couple of these zigzag pillows.

 $34.99 from lucyspillows.

Sweet dreams!