The Hottie Challenge - Final Days

Can you believe there's only two days to go?

I went to the visit the Hotties at Open Drawer today after my HLTTV Editors meeting, and my fellow double lung transplant recipient (and photographer extraordinaire) Snap Happy Ian bought along his camera gear to take some lovely photos for me.
(I promise I won't subject you to any of my crappy iPhone photos in this post).

There are lots of Hotties still up for grabs - anything that DOES NOT have a red dot is still for sale.

If you're interested in buying one of your very own, I'm happy to collect it from Open Drawer and pop it in the post for you next week. All you need to do is email me - mscurlypops@gmail.com

Alternatively, leave a comment on this post and I'll get back to you - but please make sure your email address in enabled in your ID or I won't be able to email you back.

They're all just $40 each - bargain price!

But the best bit of course, is that all the funds raised go to the Margaret Pratt Foundation for Lung Rejection Research at the Alfred Hospital.

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Last but not least.... Rhonda and Ketut are up for silent auction - current bid is sitting at $55.
Let me know if you'd like to make a silent bid yourself!

Hope you enjoyed the show.

Upcoming Crafty Event to benefit the Margaret Pratt Foundation

If you're looking for a crafty workshop with a fantastic benefit, then why not check out this event that Open Drawer is holding in October.

All the proceeds from the morning and afternoon workshops will be donated to The Margaret Pratt Foundation Heart Lung Transplant Trust which raises funds for the Alfred Hospital for research into heart and lung rejection after transplant (the leading cause of death).  

Show Us Your Drawers

It's time for the Open Drawer Art Textiles and Learning Centre Goodwill Exhibition.

This year, the chosen charity is the Alamein Men's Shed.

“The Alamein Men’s Shed” is part of the Open Drawer local community. It is moving into a new space at Alamein Station and needs storage space and big boy’s toys (tools and other blokey stuff). With your help and through the funds we raise the Men will be able to fit out their new “Shed”.

This years challenge is to Show Us Your Drawers

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From the Open Drawer Site:

‘Show Us You Drawers’ Themed Challenge

Create an art piece inspired by ‘Show us your Drawers’ using
any art or textile techniques that you enjoy working in.

Join the Challenge – this is a way that you can donate your time and a little money to a very worthy cause while having fun using your creative skills however great or small they may be.

This Challenge is to support Opendrawer’s chosen ‘goodwill’ for 2012 – ‘The Men’s Shed’ – a project that aims to supports the Men in our lives as they support us.

The Men’s Shed is a community-based, non-profit, non-commercial organization that is accessible to all men and whose primary activity is the provision of a safe and friendly environment where men are able to work on meaningful projects at their own pace in their own time in the company of other men. A major objective is to advance the well-being and health of their male members.

What do they need? -  well for starters the men would be looking at buying some new equipment so that they can start doing some metal work alongside their wood work. They would love to be able to buy a Bench lathe for metal work valued at about $800. Then they are wishing for an Arc Welder and safety equipment to weld like helmets etc. estimated at about $300. A storage shed that would be approximately $600 would be great to store everything in. It would be wonderful to raise enough money so we could fulfill all these wishes and more.

• Entry fee/Donation: $5.00 – Opendrawer will only use monies raised from the Entry Fee/Donation for publicity of the project, any surplus will go to ‘The Men’s Shed’.

• You need to send in your entry form to register. We will then send you a registration form to be completed and sent back with your finished entry 

•  The purpose of the ‘The Men’s Shed’ is to encourage discussion and communication between men re their health and wellbeing. We encourage the ‘art pieces’ to be made by small teams / groups for the same reason – these could be made up of couples, work mates, friends, parent & child/children, kids and families to name but a few. 

• Single person entries are also very welcome., entries from Men especially encouraged

•  Age is no barrier. 

• Size: No larger than 30cm in any direction (30cm x 30cm x 30cm)  2D or 3D

•  The finished entry is to be donated to ‘The Men’s Shed’ for sale during the Exhibition, unsold works will be given to ‘The Men’s Shed’ to be used as they deem appropriate. 

• All entries will be displayed in Opendrawer’s Art Gallery from Friday July 6th to Sunday July 29nd, 2012

• Finished entries must be received by Opendrawer by Friday June 24^th 2012. Please make sure your entry is clearly marked with your name and a short description of your masterpiece and / or why you entered.

•  There will be a public vote for the most popular entry and the winner will receive an awesome trophy and much adulation. 

• There will have a gala opening on Friday July 6^th 2012 between 6.00 – 8.00pm

 Download the entry form here:

Hibernating

'Twas just a little bit too warm for me today, so I spent the day hibernating in the air-conditioning sewing iPad Sleeves.

Some manly (as in 'for men' not as in Manly the suburb) ones are heading to Open Drawer tomorrow

Along with some lovely bright colourful flower brooches....

Just a reminder, the shop has re-opened, so if you're looking for any goodies... click on over!

A tour of Open Drawer

When I visited Open Drawer to stock up my crafty goodies last week, I took some happy snaps so that I could take you on a little tour and show you some of my favourite things.

I only had my iPhone so I apologise in advance about the photo quality.

I love that each time I visit, there are always lots of new pieces to drool over.

I spotted these beautiful stitched blind contour drawings by Sarah Daly as soon as I walked in the door.  Sarah is one of the new artists stocked at Open Drawer.

I've added the little yellow birdie to my wish list....

There are also beautiful handmade christmas decorations. All of the hexie lovers in blogland would love these!

These new poppet dolls by Rozie Hart are completely adorable. Each one has a name and a little backstory!

Now these have been on my wish list for a little while now. Beautiful textile art by Nola Bailey.

If you're in Melbourne, I highly recommend a visit. Make sure you allow plenty of time to explore the retail gallery, the back room, and the upstairs gallery. The extra bonus is that there's also a lovely little cafe just two doors away!

Open Drawer Art Textiles and Learning Centre

1158 Toorak Road
Camberwell (Hartwell Village)
Victoria 3124
Mel. Ref (60 C6) See Contact Us page for map
Tram No 75 - Stop No. 52

Adding to the iRange - New iPad Sleeves

I've been working on these iPad sleeves for a little while now, so I'm very excited to finally have them ready!

The front panels feature my hand drawn illustrations, and of course, the fabrics have been printed right here in Melbourne.

These iPad Sleeves are available in the shop right now, and you can also find them at Open Drawer.

Advent Blog-A-Long Day 2 - Cushion City and a Market

I'm having computer issues at Chez CurlyPops.... my PC was on the way out, so I bought a new one, only for my 9 month old HP screen to die......so I'm blogging from my teeny tiny mini laptop instead.

I headed off on a Melbourne road trip yesterday so visit some lovely stockists.

First stop was Open Drawer in Camberwell (Hartwell Shops)

You can now find Go Granny Cushions, Fabric Packs, and Cards along with my usual range of goodies.

Next stop was Gleaners Inc. where I dropped off some lovely new cushions and some super-cute zip pouches.

I'm still on the lookout for an Egypt teatowel if anyone has one lying around that they no longer want/need!

Tonight I'm off to the Made'n'Thornbury Twilight Market.

Cathy from Tinniegirl and Cathie from Melbourne Epicure are both having stalls so it will be lovely to catch up!