Sustainability at its best

Emma Grace Treasury workshop

The Treasury is a jewellery "fix-it- remake it- recreate it-preserve it- don't throw it out!" workshop being run this weekend by the clever and talented jeweller, Emma Grace.  I've also been invited along this weekend to share some ideas and inspirations on adapting old things into new things.  

In Emma's words, this it what the workshops are all about:

"It is an opportunity to re-connect with the idea of community; to exchange skills, materials, thoughts and inspiration. Participants will sit around the table with plates of food and tattered jewellery piled high and leave at the end of the day with a bundle of ‘new’ jewellery and a bunch of new friends.

The Treasury is about sustainable fashion – moving away from ‘throw-away culture’ and leading back towards the way we used to live; where if something broke, you fixed it, and if it got old, you made it into something new."

Wow.  I love it.  Come join us!

Tix are $20. Sunday 31^st Oct, 2pm-4.30pm. RSVP here to get involved!

a part of the process

On Tuesday, screen printing in the outdoors turned into a quick dash and scurry inside as the droplets started falling.  Oops!  At least its water-based ink I'm using and not a great deal of accuracy is required, its just the texture I'm after for the screen printed t-laces you can see below.

Screen printing on the ironing board!

Drying the printed tees

Cut, stretched and bound.  Just the labeling to go.

I've been seeing a few similar accessories to the t-lace of late...In fact they seem to be everywhere, but largely not created from recycled materials.  Let me assure you that MüCKE is a design label (ie. I design solutions, I don't follow fashion) and that the t-lace was created out of an explorative process, over 4 years ago.  In the coming weeks I'll post some pics and give you more on the background of the MüCKE t-lace.  For now, feel free to browse a selection of them for sale here.

BüD ss1011

If you want to see the new collection in the flesh...

MüCKE will be at the Sisters Market in 

BRUNSWICK

this Saturday 9th Ocober, from 10am till 4pm.

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Freeckin FREEZING

Apparently, there was snow in Victoria yesterday, down to 900 metres.  Well, I believe it.  This morning, and don't be deluded by the sunshine in the pictures, my face was actually frozen...in shock...as I stumbled back into the house after a brief morning stroll.  The wind here is FREEZING but the countryside is inspirational.  Looks like I wont be here for much longer so I'm soaking it all up whilst I can.

temptation

This Sunday we'll be at the Abbotsford Makers Market.

1 St Helliers Street

Abbotsford.

10am-4pm

With our new earings.

And necklaces.

And other tempting pieces.

Sunny September Sale Sale SALE

Come and help clear out the MüCKE racks to make way for the delicious new SS1011 range.
Grab a WINTER BARGAIN whilst it's still raining!

www.mucke.etsy.com

Sale ends 30th SEPTEMBER.

A brief overview

A survey of the last month.

I'm not sure what happened to the month before that...Oh yes that's right, I was so frantically run off my feet I nearly forgot to breathe. The last month has been quite the opposite!

Here are a few of the things that have inspired me.

In images in sequential order are from:
Daylesford, New York, New York, New York, Trinidad and Tobago, New York, Trinidad and Tobago, New York