Oh. My. Monkeyness! It’s launch week for Bonnie Christine’s 2019 Surface Design Immersion Course and enrolment only opens once a year. Registration closes on February 26th, which means it’s crunch time if you’ve also been umming and ahhing about whether or not to sign up for this comprehensive training from one of the industry’s most
My second guide to unique gifts for sausage dog lovers showcases the best Dachshund-related jewellery I’ve come across. By “best”, I mean the most elegant, the most unusual, the most original, or the cutest.
Showcasing the vibrant patterns of the extremely talented Italian artist, Gaia Marfurt, whom I discovered through one of Spoonflower’s weekly Design Challenges.
Until I started making my jazz-themed Dachshund brooches, I didn’t truly appreciate the almost cultish popularity these little characters enjoy, nor how paradoxically photogenic they are. This gift guide is a collection of striking, minimalist art prints that do these enigmatic hounds justice. Carefully curated to delight the Dachshund lover in your life.
Continuing the zig-zag theme of the Fab 40 series, this basket is for another very special friend, Jane. We met in our first year of boarding school and…
I turned 40 this year. Gasp! Where did the years go? This means that several of my dearest friends also turn 40 this year. To celebrate, I intend to weave each one of them a special “Fab-40” basket…
A few days ago my iPhone started to misbehave to such an extent that a reset was required. The reset itself was fairly painless, but I only discovered after a resync that I’d lost most of my wallpapers. So I decided to design some of my own…
I recently changed my business name from Hit the Spot to Monkeyshine. Hit the Spot wasn’t hitting my spot any more. In fact, it had become quite an identity crisis…
For the past fortnight swarms of fluoro-clad cacophonists have been eviscerating the streets of South Hobart to lay optic fibre cable for the National Broadband Network. Last week I caused the crew some amusement when I stopped to ask what the inside of the cable looks like…
As I mentioned on my facebook page a couple of days ago, I’ve been in a frenzy of flowers, photography and indecision. I needed to take some stylised photos of my cards for my Etsy shop and I’m rather chuffed with the results…