A whole year, new me, Klomp Ceramics

Wow, it's been a whole year and 3 days since I last blogged. Bad blogger! Besides for recovering from a brain tumour I've just been too busy to blog!

I'm spending a lot of time pinning inspiration here if you'd like to take a look. It's kind of like lazy blogging!

And I've just launched my handmade ceramic collection Klomp Ceramics online here. Here are some pictures...

So now you know where to find me!

Deep Dark Africa New Product Launch

So this is what I've been up to...

Last day of specials!

It's Deep Dark Africa's last day of launch specials! Animal Hooks, Crochet Lights, Double Wooden Heart, Bunny Bowls, Cotton & Bamboo Shawls, Plastic Nguni, Fan & Onion Earrings all less 10%!

Shop here.

Deep Dark Africa online shop launches!

Yay! Now I can say this for me...SHOP HERE! Follow the Deep Dark Africa blog for daily special updates. I hope you like.

The Imaginarium Easter Show

An intimate evening of illustration, photography, industrial design, ceramics and clothing.
Date: Thursday 14th April 2011
Time: 6 :30 pm
Venue: Keenwa Restaurant
50 Waterkant Street
Cape Town (opposite Free World Design Centre) (Parking in Bree St)

Participating Artists :
Simon Berndt (One Horse Town)
Jade Klara
Cassandra Leigh
Jason De Villiers (Further)
Lauren Fowler
Daniel Orme (Bison)
Padraic O'Meara
Jonx Pillemer
Tanya Laing (Sootcookie Ceramics)
Lyall & Marc (Thingking)
Deborah Polonsky (Iracema Boutique)
Justin Southey clothing

Looks good!

Abode and Quirky.Me

Abode and Quirky.Me have opened up a shop at the Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock & they have amazing things!

Award-winning Abode's unique & very local wicker lights & furniture are incredible and all of Quirky.Me's products are on my Christmas wish-list.




Images from Abode & Quirky.Me websites. Shop and order online.

Beetle & Flor

After travelling to South America and Asia, Beetle & Flor discovered how they could put their "design services to good use" by offering their design assistance to "under-served communities who depend on making crafts as a living" but who need assistance in reaching a wider international market. "We began offering low-cost or pro bono services, spicing up traditional creations or reconfiguring designs to the "needs" of their target market, and helping with elements of branding and marketing."  To fund these low-cost/pro bono services, Beetle & Flor started producing their "North American Wildlife" series, a collection of porcelain animal skulls inspired by Christine Facella's science illustrations for the Museum of Natural History in New York. I just ♥ them.

American Beaver | Raw Porcelain with 16K Gold Lustered Teeth

White Tailed Deer | Raw Porcelain with 16K Gold Lustered Teeth

American Muskrat | Raw Porcelain with Transparent Glazed Teeth

Skunk Jaw Pendant | Raw Porcelain with 16K Gold Lustered Teeth

Raccoon | Raw Porcelain with 16K Gold Lustered Teeth

White Tailed Deer | Raw Porcelain with Transparent Glazed Teeth

Snapping Turtle | Raw Porcelain with 16K Gold Lustered Beak

Aren't they amazing?! Visit Beetle & Flor's online shop or their website for retailers.

Images from Beetle & Flor,  The Otherist & The Shiny Squirrel. First spotted on The Otherist.

Corezone

I have a small obsession with the heart, as an organ I mean, so when I found this I thought it was so coolio. "Corezone is a closed ceramic space, where one can place their thoughts, feelings, emotions. An attempt to fulfill emotional needs by the means of an object, a try to withhold immaterial being in a material space."

Buy your own Corezone online.

Alexa Lixfeld

♥ these porcelain & concrete designs and projects from Alexa Lixfeld.

Cups | "porcelain vessel"

Concrete Tableware | "Creacrete™ meets Wajima-nuri"

Circle | "decorative concrete bowl"

Kubus | "porcelain vessel"

Ricebowls | "porcelain bowl"

Metamorphose | "process based development of contemporary design"

Lovely little Gardening Thingies

By Wendy Jung.

Ninainvorm

"Ninainvorm is all about color, ceramics and creative (re-)design". From the Netherlands, Nina is in to collecting, making and redesigning ceramics, melting & matching the old with the new. Collages & (screen)prints are also her thing.

Shop Ninainvorm.

First spotted at I Dream Of Letters.