Great activity now leading to the festive season or the silly season according to some people. The new photos show you what we've been making. What do you think?

Waywin has three versions of the Political Voodoo Doll, basic with just doll, instruction book and pins, ($35-) a boxed version with instructions, pins and lucky charm, ($45-) and a deluxe version with lucky charm, instructions, pins, plus Big Bag of Words divination tool or writing revelation, ($55-).

We are also working with Geneva and selling her wonderful re-purposed old books. She takes those with great covers but outdated or damaged interiors, then turns them into a secret treasure trove, sometimes to amuse, sometimes with useful items and then too with things for fun or to inspire wonder. These are just $25- to $30-. The House of Whispers is shown on this site, it's been sold and it had a sewing kit inside, the interior is below the cover.

Please see us at the street fair in Grey Lynn this Friday 9 December 2011, http://www.greylynn2030.co.nz/or Kraftbomb Sunday 18th December, Grey Lynn Community Centre. http://www.kraftbomb.blogspot.com/ or order from Waywin, email raewynalexander at hotmail.com, thank-you.

Stay safe and be kind to one another this Xmas and New Year.

Newton Central School has a craft and cake fair this Saturday 3rd December, from 11am, come one and all, support education. It is near Great North Road, Newton on the way to Grey Lynn from the city, down some little back streets, in Auckland, NZ.

I will be there with the wares you see on this blog, plus new work like Inspiration Books, Political Voodoo Dolls and Tall Poppy PhDs (framed), all most reasonably priced just for this day. My daughter also has some amazing books with surprises, she makes these with such wit.

Newton Central School is a lovely place, they have planted a native forest between them and the motorway, so clever and thoughtful. http://www.newton.school.nz/

The Lyrical Brooches at the top of this page are light-weight, hand-stitched and each poem secreted in the back is different. They're $25- each and available at Crafternoon Tea soon, Kingsland, Auckland, 10am - 2pm 19th November. I also sell by mail-order and at Kraftbomb. Please email me for more info., raewynalexander at hotmail.com

http://crafternoon-tea.blogspot.com/p/flyers.html

Tiny Titles are made from clean, found paper, they contain some poetry and also, spare pages for your own verses, quotes, dreams and souvenirs. The beaded tie is a bookmark. Each has an individual collage cover and a small collage inside, they are $28- and have their own sturdy bag made of sheet music or science book illustrations and so on, so they can be carried around easily.

The other crafts on this blog are also reasonably priced, please just ask me.

Tiny Titles

Now available from the Women's Bookshop, 105 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby, Auckland.

ph (09) 376 4399

Lovely store and a fun street to explore later, too.

http://www.womensbookshop.co.nz/category/About_Us/4085.html

25 September 2011 Spring Sprung S p r o n g

The Happy Tea House is delighted to present Eye Street Poets, Genevieve McClean and Doug Poole, poetry, with music from The Rocking Roller-Coasters, and Raewyn Alexander will perform with Transistor Davis Jnr - work from their upcoming CD Family of Artists.

Art and craft most reasonably priced for this event, in the exhibition room.

Please contact us for more information and if you're in Grey Lynn, Auckland, NZ that particular Sunday, we'd love to see you. Koha entry, tea, sandwiches and cakes available, cash or cheque only and a lovely garden setting with large covered area, (a lania). raewynalexander at hotmail.com

Eye Street Poets are Jack Ross, Jacqueline Crompton Ottaway, Alice Hooton, Rosetta Allan, Ila Selwyn and Raewyn Alexander. Google our names and see our fame.

Next weekend is Crafternoon Tea in Kingsland, see you there.

http://crafternoon-tea.blogspot.com/p/flyers.html

10am - 2pm in Kingsland

Trinity Methodist Church
400 Great North Road

Waywin will be there with Lyrical Brooches, Tiny Titles, Treasure Boxes and Jaq Tweedie's fabulous Cartes Shark, so good for a laugh.

Having a soiree at my place 26 June, 2pm - 4pm, please ask me if you'd like to attend, craft available and I'll be giving people a cup of tea too. Some really good china to drink it from, I can assure you.

Lovely fire going, inside warming the lounge and dining room. Essential to let me know you're coming and when, (small house, only room for ten people at a time, *laughs*) We could go on til 5pm if there's a lot of interest. email raewynalexander @ hotmail.com (without those gaps) to RSVP

Tiny Titles, Lyrical Brooches, some of the work from my IGIJDK exhibition and other craft all most reasonably priced, (cash or cheques only please) some fine conversation and poetry read aloud, just one at a time to a few people as they please. xR