February - Summer Whimsy

Embroidered linens featuring poetry quotes this month. A linen tablecloth with an excerpt from a Katherine Mansfield poem I'd not heard of before, Camomile Tea, also two linen doilies with quotes from Emerson and Edgar Allan Poe. Photos are below.

I also made two larger notebooks with collage covers. The heavy packaging from Christmas presents were useful with those. Such durable boxes that various lovely cosmetics and so on arrived in.  Two new Tiny Titles, from a tea packet were finished yesterday. Do you like the pictures of those new books, below?

I hope to see you at Kraftbomb end of February again, I haven't heard if I am in yet but I did apply. Shall keep you all posted and thanks for your support. Comments welcome.

http://www.kraftbomb.com/

New Tiny Titles (#14)

These are the latest Tiny Titles handmade books, created from flotsam and jetsam, discarded paper and cardboard, the finest trash known to Earth, an alchemy of stitching, beading, writing and cutting. 

Each has pages for your own souvenirs and writing, along with a few pages of my poetry which is often verse previously published elsewhere. I've had seven books of poetry published and many also in magazines or on websites across the world.

Make your Tiny Title into your own treasure. Buy from me at Happy Tea House in Grey Lynn Auckland NZ, or at Kraftbomb, some are also in The Women's Bookshop, Ponsonby Road, Tamaki Makaurau Auckland NZ.  http://www.womensbookshop.co.nz/

My novels, non-fiction, poetry et al are mentioned here.

http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Alexander,%20Raewyn

the lacy one in the middle has gone to a good home

Please contact me on raewynalexander[at]hotmail dot com for more info. We can also send these books across the world and have done so many times. Beauty is everywhere, trash may be treasure, art gives meaning to our lives.

Kraftbomb Sunday 24 November 2012

New cards for Kraftbomb tomorrow.


http://www.kraftbomb.com/

  Kraftbomb where people wear the coolest things, love seeing what the crowd has got going on, this is the creme de la creme now too leading up to Christmas, only the very best available and some prices are as low as a few dollars.

Kraftbomb
Grey lynn Community Centre (a recent building with a Maori archway carved as two figures)
510 Richmond Road
Grey Lynn
Auckland

11am - 2pm

collage cards with poetry inside $5- each or $9- for two (and some old stock are $3-)

Here's one of the poems from these cards -

script a rewritten summer sky


people ran into the streets
every television dissolved
we danced the roads
our voices raised windows
tinkered built-in obsolescence

where empty houses creaked
no one heard any board complain
conversation weather
strangers taught each other languages
young people braided green

a line of unknowns held hands
in a spiral out and on
wound through the streets
their coloured clothing
looped high spots and larks






http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Alexander,%20Raewyn

backs of cards are collage too

a couple of these have magic tricks on the back

made a few without anything inside - here's three of them only $3- each

                           stacks of them, plus Tiny Titles, Lyrical Brooches and more - see you inside
Kraftbomb Sunday 24 November 2012  - from 11am - 2pm  *smiles*
Richmond Road - Grey Lynn Community Centre, o you know it, you do, Grey Lynn end, Maori carvings outside, on the bend there....

Look Bookish 17 November 2012 Grey Lynn

LOOK BOOKISH                      17 November 2012

Waywin Craft will be available at this event, new craft and also some retro items and books.

Happy Tea House 45 Ivanhoe Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021


11am - 5pm  INVITATION ONLY please contact me for your invite - I am on facebook
and also, at raewynalexander [at] hotmail dot com    then RSVP

Dress up like something in a book or to do with books, we have great prizes.

Musicians, poets and a puppet theatre will also entertain you.

Happy Tea House has refreshments and we take cash only for the wares, plus there's a koha for the performers, should you feel so inclined.

Halloween Kraftbomb 28 October 2012

www.kraftbomb.com/

 

I hope you like my eerie ghost brooches, especially retouched for this promotion

Kraftbomb is on this Sunday 28 October, 2012, 11am - 2pm

Some Tiny Titles scary prices, (scary for me that is) only $20-

BUT this below is one of the gorgeous new Tiny Titles $25- made with crafty things from Finders Keepers.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Finders-Keepers-Recycled-Wardrobe/156541407698608

They sell retro/vintage things, sometimes have crafty scraps too.

Below - close-ups of new Lyrical Brooches 

also through the kind help of Finders Keepers.

Thanks for reading and following, lovely people, 

be happy to read your comments and queries.

See you at Kraftbomb Sunday 28 October 2012

Chinaman's Hill Market 29 September 2012

Go along and see the new market in Grey Lynn. The market is at the top of what is known as Chinaman's Hill since the area was once populated by many Chinese market gardeners. They used Western Springs for water and could be seen carrying it from there in buckets on long poles, many years ago now.

The market is in the car-park of Farmville, which has excellent fruit and vegetables at really good prices. 

Go to the Surrey Crescent shops, cnr of Surrey Crescent and Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland, NZ
 
The market is open 9am - 4pm Saturdays

Squeak - Pop-up Shop September 1012 Only

Newmarket, Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland from Thursday night to Saturday day and maybe Sunday, Waywin is available at pop-up shop

S q u e a k

Some young friends are also selling retro, vintage clothing, new jewellery, art, DVDs (arthouse) and more there.

Hours are 10am - 4pm Friday and Saturday

Opening night we'll have poetry readings and you can get in first to see what's what.

Opening is 6pm - 8pm Thursday 6 September, this week.

S Q U E A K

  278 Broadway




  Newmarket




  Auckland