The Craft Off - Event

I haven't updated for ages because I have been a bit busy moving house and ting, but now have the perfect excuse to start again:

This Sunday the gorgeous people at Spinsters Emporium and MerriMaking are joining forces to host a fabulously fun and seriously creative night of competitive crafting. The Craft Off takes place from 7pm at The Malt Cross, Nottingham.

Expect live music, drinking, dancing and general frolocking in a jungle of decorations. As for the crafting, they are keeping the competition brief secret until the night. But the Jungle theme suggests rain forests, giant snakes, birds of paradise, tigers, man eating flowers, sunshine Gods, totem poles, Tarzan, monkeys and more.

All craft materials are provided and there are prizes up for grabs including:
Merrimaking hoods
Spinsters Emporium goodies
Home-baked cakes
Twisted Hearts Club tickets
More T.B.C

If you don't live in the Nottingham area, don't be sad! Check out Spinsters Emporium and MerriMaking websites for lots of gorgeous creative goodies and wonderfully unique Christmas gift ideas.

The event is £5 to working folk, £4 with student card!

Buy tickets here and here.

Sue Blackwell - Artist

Su Blackwell is an artist and art director, working predominantly within the realm of paper.

She has worked for Nicole Farhi, Pilsner and O2 among others and I love the fairytale feel of her work. Find more amazing paper stuff here.

Maskull Lasserre - Artist

Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre creates secret anatomical sculptures within everyday objects in an attempt to explore their hidden potential and force us to re-think the things we are most familiar with.

I think they just look cool. Whatever the reasoning behind it you can't deny this guy is a master of his craft and he certainly who knows his way around a bit of wood.

Dalton - Artist

Artist Dalton, who is originally from Brazil, but now works as a carpenter in Connecticut, USA, has been carving art into the tips of pencils for about 25 years.

I first saw his work about a year ago when a friend of mine posted a jpeg on Facebook, but the image had no title and I had no idea who it was by. Then today I found a link to his work and so decided to share it with you all.

Dalton creates his pieces by hand, with only a razor blade, a sewing needle and sculpting knife and without the use of a magnifying glass.

I particularly like his 'cemetery collection' -a Styrofoam display case which house all of his broken designs on pinheads.

Chicken Made of Eggshells by Kyle Bean

The brilliantly talented Kyle Bean has recently been exploring the age old question 'What came first? The chicken or the egg?' with this chicken sculpture made entirely from eggshells.

Cara Barer - Photographer & Artist

Cara Barer's sculptures were first influenced by the chance finding of a copy of the Houston Yellow Pages on the street and since then her work has continued to evolve; blurring the line between object, sculpture, and photography.

She now continually searches for more books that are no longer in use in old bookshops and abandoned houses, and more methods to change their appearance, including paper folding and soaking them in the bathtub.

Gehard Demetz - Artist

Woodcarvings by Italian artist Gehard Demetz.