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Report from Camp Creative: Beading Bliss
by Pepe Newton on 2/20/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
If you haven’t already caught up with what I’ve been up to over the Australian summer holidays then have a look here at my post about Camp Creative – a week of creative arts courses in the lovely town of Bellingen, NSW. We weren’t completely unaffected by the fairly extreme …
3 Generations of Creations: Camp Creative 2011
by Pepe Newton on 2/14/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
Lovebird Earrings | Pepe Newton Jewelry Designer
For one week in January (in the Australian summer holidays) for the last 25 years creative people have been flocking to the Northern Rivers district to the little green hamlet of Bellingen, NSW, to go to a summer school with a difference. It’s called …
Reporting from Camp Creative
by Pepe Newton on 1/29/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
For the last 25 years over 1000 people from age 6 to 90 have piled into the town to attend a week long course in the creative art of their choice. Dance, drumming, writing, painting, textiles, metal and woodwork, cookery, music, singing and on and on and on. If you can make it or perform it then chances are you can learn it at Camp Creative
Etsy Collectives: Inspired by Language
by Pepe Newton on 1/01/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
On a recent search through my favorite Etsy shops I found a beautiful artwork made with butterflies. It reminded me instantly of the collective noun “a kaleidoscope of butterflies.”
Original Real Butterfly Artwork | $499 | ArtisticButterfly
I wondered if anyone else makes the connection to the evocative language peculiar to collective …
Alphabet Soup: Fonts and Letters on Etsy
by Pepe Newton on 12/15/10 | View Comments Comment(s)
I must say I go gaga over a good Garamond. Type styles have always caught my eye and stirred my creative heart. Starting with the classic Times New Roman on my morning paper to the elegant Copperplate Gothic on the lunch menu and then ending the night with a bit …
Eco-Spark: Dirty Dishes
by Pepe Newton on 11/26/10 | View Comments Comment(s)
Pendants on Sterling Silver Chains from YOUR Broken Plate | $120 | thebrokenplate
OK, so the title of this post might lead you astray somewhat but when I started thinking about how to make a brief title for the subject of the post all I could think about was a bunch of …
Eco-Spark: Anyone for tea cups?
by Pepe Newton on 11/12/10 | View Comments Comment(s)
Don’t you just adore old tea cups? Apart from often being terribly pretty they evoke a sort of whimsical reminiscence of a simpler time when a cuppa with your grandma fixed everything.
I love the look of old porcelain and it’s pretty hard wearing but sometimes there’s only one or two …
Eco-Spark – Recycling your fur
by Pepe Newton on 11/02/10 | View Comments Comment(s)
Whilst I totally recognize the politically incorrectness of my views I must say that personally I can’t get enough of fur.
There, I’ve outed myself… I will say however that all my own fur purchases are vintage, I don’t really know if that makes it any better! Fur is …
