Slaying inner demons is exhilarating. Last week I launched my new blog, SockShine (because why should shoes get all the news?). It’s a sort-of fashion and life blog entirely dedicated to socks, driven by my own passion for this humble garment. It’s something I’ve been wanting to start for years, but have let the fear of “putting myself out there” hold me back – in so many aspects of my 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…
Well, I finally bit the bullet and set up shop on Etsy. Yay! I’ve been deliberating over the “To Etsy or not to Etsy” question for far too long now and some dramatic action was required to haul me out of my deep ditch of procrastination…
I weave baskets. Out of telephone wire. On top of mountains. Weaving with telephone wire is a traditional South African craft of the Zulu people that has developed into an internationally recognised art form. After my last trip to South Africa in 2004, I set about teaching myself the soft-wire weaving technique…