The new blog button ~ Ra Ra Bazaar

Got the gang together for a photo shoot.

Ra Ra Bazaar, home of the sock monkey's

Sock Monkey ~ Jocasta

Meet Jocasta, she is looking for a new home. She's a funny monkey, but desperately needs to be loved. She's a great companion, listener and longs to be your friend and has a heart of gold. Jocasta is pink and navy with a little bit of black. Her eyes are felt. Jocasta is a hand sewn monkey and although she has no loose bits and bobs, supervision would be required for those under 36 months. Jocasta is a Tall monkey, she is 19" high.She's not afraid of water and can even go in the machine on a delicate wool cycle. She needs to be reshaped whilst wet and dried naturally.

Materials

All New: sock body: 82% Cotton, 17% Nylon, 1% Lycra Stuffing: 100% polyester (complies with 1988 Fire Safety Regulations)

 You can buy her HERE

Claire's Accessories ~ Shame On You!

Imagine going into a shop and finding a direct copy of the jewellery you designed and created, not only a possible copy, but an absolute direct copy.  That's exactly what happened to Laura Figiel, a graphic designer from Kingston Upon Thames.  Claires Accessories are selling a direct copy of her Hello telephone necklace.

Claires Accessories COPY!

Laura's ORIGINAL
You can purchase it HERE



You can offer Laura your support HERE.

ADDED 23/02/12:  You would think that with all the negative publicity this drummed up, that Claries would be more careful in the future, but just over a year later they are up to their old copying tricks  read my new post here

Feature ~ Finally made it

It was a lovely surprise to find a note on my folksy shop letting me know that my Hermione comb had been featured on the blog: Finally Made It.  Linda, thank you so much, it's always lovely to see my work on other peoples blogs.

All Creations Sings ~ Keith and Kristyn Getty

Sock Monkey ~Erroll

Created from all new quality materials, this sock monkey is one of the range of monkeys made by Ra Ra Bazaar.

Erroll

is looking for a new home. He's a little bit mischievious, but desperately needs to be loved. He's a fun friend and has a heart of gold. Erroll is navy and cyan with a little bit of black. His eyes are felt. Erroll is a hand sewn monkey and although he has no loose bits and bobs, supervision would be required for those under 36 months. Erroll is a Tall monkey, he is 19" high. He's not afraid of water and can even go in the machine on a delicate wool cycle. He needs to be reshaped whilst wet and dried naturally.

Materials

All New: sock body: 82% Cotton, 17% Nylon, 1% Lycra Stuffing: 100% polyester (complies with 1988 Fire Safety Regulations)
He's for sale Here

Famous Wedding Toppers

 Last Night's Holby City on BBC1 starred a very important little character.  His creator Pauline was contacted last year and asked to create the tiny groom from polymer clay.
Pauline usually creates slightly larger wedding cake toppers.   Pauline notified us that tonight was the night and I sat glued waitig for a fleeting glance of him.  It turned out that it wasn't such a fleeting glance as the scene shot below shows. Pauline must be very chuffed.
You can catch up on the episode this week here.

Click on the pictures to make them bigger!

Craft Juice Tuesday ~ Art Attack

I really love this beautiful art work.  It is actually a 50 x 60 cm canvas with plaster paper and copper and acrylic.

It's been created by Total Art Soul.

another Total Art Soul piece.  This one is the most stunning blue.

Sock Monkey ~ Jerome

 

This is Jerome.  He's a sock monkey!

 

Jerome

is looking for a new home. He's a cheeky chappy, but desperately needs to be loved. He's a great cuddler, listener and friend and has a heart of gold. Jerome is Green and purple with a little bit of black. His eyes are felt. Jerome is a hand sewn monkey and although he has no loose bits and bobs, supervision would be required for those under 36 months. Jerome is a Tall monkey, he is 19" high. He's not afraid of water and can even go in the machine on a delicate wool cycle. He needs to be reshaped whilst wet and dried naturally.

Materials

All New: sock body: 82% Cotton, 17% Nylon, 1% Lycra Stuffing: 100% polyester (complies with 1988 Fire Safety Regulations)

 He's currently watching his cousins come to life.  Will show you when they are finished.
If you would like to offer Jerome a home, you can see him here.

The Grand Unveiling

 I have been a little distracted for the last week and allowed a little dust to build up on the blog.  In my defence, I have been incredibly busy starting two ... yep two, not just one! New shops.

Crystal Velvet on Folksy is a store where I'll be selling my jewellery, tiaras and occassion jewellery.  

 and

Ra Ra Bazaar on Folksy  is a store where I'll  be selling handcrafted items like sock monkey's notebooks, jewellery (casual) decorations and gifts.

It's early days yet, but pop along, have a look and tell me what you think.

Folksy

Folksy, for those of you who don't know is an UK based online site where crafts persons and those supplying the handcraft trades sell their wares. There are some truly amazing examples of work on there.  For a while I've been looking and although I signed up, I didn't actually do anything.

Until today that is... because as from today, I have begun to list my products on there.  It's early days yet, but you can pop and have a look at what's there.

My Beautiful Hyacinths

 

Every year, my daughter plants me some hyacinth bulbs.  This years are a creamy peach colour and they smell beautiful.

Raku

 This beautiful piece of Raku pottery has been created by Mr Gittens.

 Raku pottery is first given a bisque firing and then a second firing in a special propane fueled kiln where it is heated for 30 minutes before it is put into a metal container with lots of combustable materials.  The heat from the pot causes the materials to catch fire.  A lid then goes on and oxgen removal from the pot happens.
The patterns and colours adhere to the pot from this process.  After this the pot is plunged into cooling water to seal the design.

 It is impossible to predict how a pot will turn out.

Craft Tutorial ~ Make A Book Bag