Lovely to see everyone at our last event, thanks for your support.

Have made a whole new batch of poetry brooches and issue nine of Tiny Titles.

Please call in and buy presents from The Happy Tea House, special rates for poets and poetry lovers.  Email me for my phone number, or ring first if you have it. Thx.

My embellished boxes now all contain poetry books, made especially for each container.

Please call to see my work at The Happy Tea House, Grey Lynn by appointment, or order from this blog.  Just contact me at raewynalexander  @  hotmail.com  (use the address without those spaces).  We also have an open day soon, 27 November if you'd like to attend just ask me, (it's a Poetic Junk Sale as well, 9am - 4pm).

Some of my one-off fashion pieces are now available from Happy Tea House, and you can see where my fashion career started in the fabulous new book from Random House, The Dress Circle.    

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Have added some new photos of the boxes with their little books and hope to be at the next Kraftbomb, 28th November, Sunday 11am to 2pm Grey Lynn Community Centre, Richmond Road, Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland, Aotearoa Enzed.

Happy Tea House now or Kraftbomb end of May

Be good to see you here at Blue Haven, my craft is in The Happy Tea House so I can show you the pieces any time you ring and ask.  Let me know if you'd like to view.

Also, LOVED Kraftbomb again, 30th May - at Grey Lynn Community Centre, Richmond Road.  It's 11am - 2pm last Sunday of every month.  Lovely they let me have a table again, I so enjoy the atmosphere and so many other crafters all with such excellent wares.

Shall apply for another soon and meanwhile we have Opera and Poetry here at Happy Tea House so message me or ring if you'd like to attend, 27th June, a Sunday 11.30am - 3pm or so, koha and pot luck lunch please.  Dress as someone from opera or poetry and win a prize.

x 

This Kraftbomb, 28th February 2010, Waywin has some feathered books and treasure chests for seeds, poetry featured with each. A few pictures of these are on this blog, other versions will also be available on the day and also, at Happy Tea House, 7th March, 2010.

Meander along to Kraftbomb this end of February, 28th Feb., 11am, be good to see you there. Richmond Rd., Grey Lynn, Community Centre.

http://kraftbomb.blogspot.com/

Shall have much of what is still available shown here, see pictures please - plus some surprises.

My mother recently passed away, thanks to crafters, writers and so many others who have sent lovely messages to my family and myself. x

The art's birthday event including craft exhibition, at The Happy Tea House, is on this video.

New poetry brooches

These popular brooches are carefully made to wear well, look pretty and also, they have a secret pocket in the back which holds a poem. It could also hold an emergency $20- note or what-have-you.

I've made these all round the $18- size, which appears to be the price most people want to pay. Also, if you want something more elaborate let me know and I can see what can be achieved.

Postage round NZ is $2- for an untracked parcel or $5- for a tracked parcel.

They are surprisingly light so could be much bigger.

Some available in Bhutti, upstairs 600 Great North Road and hopefully also, I will have some at the wonderful Kraftbomb next time.

The art's birthday movie is here and also, others in the series, "Myths and Legends we Live" will appear on youtube when they're completed. I'm making a series of these to work as a full length film in time, there's also a second one just finished.

If you want to feature in one of these little films, (part video, part iMovie stills) please let me know and I'll see what I can arrange. If you are a commercial enterprise then I'd need to like your product, see it is ethically made and good for people while there'd also be a small, negotiable fee. My film will be on youtube, facebook, myspace and this blog so a great many people could see it.

Also, eventually I want to show the whole film at a public screening and performance event.

I aim to find myths and legends people have made of their lives, or personas people 'put on' to live their life, or great collections and products created by many people.

My Happy Tea House is a place where I live the life of an artist, performer and writer, for instance, in a fanciful place where free speech, discussion, relaxation, art, writing, performance and enterprise are all encouraged. It is my own legend-making process, so what I do may be seen by others, talked about then become a story, or a legend.

Maybe too, the myth I'm promoting is like the punk idea anyone can play music if they feel drawn to it. In this case, I'm showing anyone may create, sell and show their work, (mainstream galleries and publishers do not have to be the only ones to do this). We've had art events here at my place for local artists too, on the front lawn a couple of times.

In my case, the invited audience decides if my work is worthwhile and may too, decide on the price for themselves. My work is also sold in other places. The Happy Tea House is the least stressful place for me to show my work however, since it is close to home.

Please contact me if you'd like to be in the film I am making. The 'fee' for commercial people may be a contra-deal of product too, it need not be money.

Art's Birthday at The Happy Tea House

Please let me know if you'd like to attend this event. THTH - The Happy Tea House 17 Jan 2010

We're presenting craft, art and poetry, with teas and cake available too all at a reasonable price,
plus some of the art and craft is 'make an offer', (and be nice to us) then you could get a great piece at a price you can afford.

It is also Art's Birthday on 17th January, (a Sunday), co-incidentally, which was explained to me by a friend visiting from France. They have birthdays for art where he lives, every year.

So we'll be celebrating that too. Art's Birthday was started by Robert Filliou years ago, he calculated art was a million years old, (now it is about one million and fifty years old). He says art was created so life would be more interesting, and he was a member of the Fluxus art group, with also a degree in economics. I love how he believed art could be anything, any medium.

Okay then, at The Happy Tea House you'll see many of the things here plus also, join in with lovely people enjoying themselves and you're welcome to view a great deal of new art and craft.

THTH is a converted sleep-out in Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand, with a large, covered entertainment area outside. We have a Mad Hatter's long table with myriad tea cups and the world's longest tablecloth, (possibly). Many chairs and a garden for wandering.

Contact me if you'd like more info. Happy Tea House, art's birthday, 17 January 2010, from 2pm

All the best for 2010 and craft on happily, please do - hope to see you, love XrX