Trade show mania

Gearing up to do my first trade show on Thursday. Plenty to do. Plenty of nerves...not fun. Putting it all out there to be be scrutinized and hopefully there will be a little appreciating thrown in to make it worth while. Follow me on Instagram (miawidlake) for a little progress report. A few recent product snaps.

Happening

Last week was a busy one... my son turned six, I prepared for two shoots, Kate and I shot some of our ceramics at my Moms house, we had birthday parties, swimming lessons, decked out Anatomy with lots of new stock and made all the new items that are making their debut at the fair, and I'm in for another. We set up our stand for Food Wine Design tomorrow, paint put up shelves and unpack everything on Thursday for the event to start Thursday evening. So excited. I hope that everyone that possibly can will join us for a glass on wine and an unwind. Here are a few pics from this past week.

A chair I upholstered in home made fabric for FWD

Some new platters

Round mirrors I finally finished after months

Copper arrow cushions for FWD

Closing doors

The shoot we did in my Moms kitchen, love those tiles!

Love this shot of Kates cup filled with Olives

A whole collection of Josephine Road

The new Anatomy store at 44 Stanley, go visit!

A favourite thrift score

New pencil jars for FWD

I manged to grow only one artichoke, we're all deciding who gets to eat it.

New plates for FWD

Big spoon jars

Another thrifting score, those strange scientific glass beakers.

The Assembly

A little home shoot that Kate of Josephine Road, Tiffany of TJW Designs and I threw together at high speed. We set it up in the studio and managed to get a whole bunch of shots done even with the kids rocketing around us ( revved up on cake pops from an earlier food shoot)  I promise more info on all the items in the shots, but right now its time to finish packing for three for a week in Cape Town. YAY!!

M&M

You've got the Missibaba bag, now you can have cushions too! Adore this Missibaba and Mevrou colaboration. They've combined their assets and designed this amazing range of (oh so gorgeous it hurts) bags, cushions, and scarves.

all images via the missibaba blog

Yeah!!

So excited to see my ceramics and cushions in this months House and Leisure. Thank you Leana for styling everything so beautifully and Judd van Rensburg for beautiful photographs! Excuse the dodgy phone pics.

Made and Found

Have not done one of these for a while. So thought Id share what I've been making other than the dishcloths. And things I've found on my travels around Johannesburg. This weekend we did some picking in my mom in laws back rooms (we've done the garage and moved on to a storage room filled with trunks) We found her old tea set, in the most perfect condition, still in its box, still with petrified elastic bands holding the cutlery in place. Amazing!

Its the most gorgeous jade green colour with little deco details and not at all like the crappy plastic tea sets you find these days.

I got around to making this necklace who's bits and pieces have been starring up at me from my work bench for months now. Some gorgeous old cufflinks, buttons, coins and chain from Brimfield.

The embroidered cushion amongst all the other sofa stuff. I've had orders for these....who could'nt use a cushion that tells you 'It's OK!"

This chair that I found at the Hospice store! Whoever got rid of this must have a house full of awesomeness.

The 'little dear' cushion is from the new collection of prints, tried them on nice thick linen and they came out really fab. There were 8 printed of each design so let me know if you would like one.

'Planes over spain' also from the new range of prints.

'Lobster' is something you've seen before but re-imagined into a cushion. Oh, and the tiny anchor on the cushion next to it was a quickie.

'Scully' at home in the lounge also from recent print run. And that's it for now, hopefully this holiday I can find some time to do some more 'making.' Have a good week all. xxx