Sunday, 8 August 2010

Bike Chain Jewellery now sold in Italy!

A few weeks ago a couple of fine Italians snapped up a load of my recycled bicycle chain bracelets & keyrings, to sell in their shop in Italy.

So if you are heading over there in the near future, look out for an establishment under the name of 'Cheesecake' and you may spy a few of my creations!

Their website; full of info on the shop, style & all sorts of on trend going-ons; is here:

www.naplestreetstyle.it

(Although be warned; if you don't speak Italian - like myself - you may find it a little tricky to understand!)

Wednesday, 4 August 2010

New Bicycle Earrings Online!

Check them out here:

Hand Knitted Bags For Your Treasures


Bags to stash your mobiles, cameras, MP3s & any other treasures you choose, hand knitted by myself, giving a use to all my odds & ends of yarn from knitting projects of yonder!
Now available on my website

Tuesday, 3 August 2010

Egg Mag!

I have been using my old copy of the fantastic Egg Mag to create paper bags, which I use to sell my items in at my market stalls.

Here they are having made themselves onto the lovely EggMag's website:


Check them out and keep your eye out around London & Brighton for a free copy of the mag, it's utterly awesome!!!
Not to mention the magazine which inspired me to donate my profit from all of my bee sales to help save the honey bees!
I have also finally been able to part with my pile of old Howies catalouges; (for some reason they're so lovely it's hard to part with them?!) by recycling them in the same fashion.


Have a look through my previous posts for some pics of them! Better still, come and see me on Sunday's at the Backyard Market on Brick Lane and view them for real!


See my website for more information on my creations & my honey-bee-saving-bees!


www.laurabaxendale.co.uk

Saturday, 31 July 2010

Bohoboutik - blog of blog

Just a quick blog of another blog that I have been featured on -


Lots of other fantastic recycled creations on there so give it a look!
My bicycle chain bracelet with anodised titanium was featured from my Folksy shop.
Check my Folsky shop out here:
Also available on my website, with many more bicycle chain jewellery creations, here:

Friday, 23 July 2010

Latitude 2010 Knitting Tent

I was lucky enough to work at the Knitting Tent at this year's Latitude Festival. The tent was run and organised by Amy Twigger Holroyd, who is the owner and mastermind of her own knitwear label, Keep & Share. Throughout the weekend, me and the other members of the knitting team were on hand to teach the joy of knitting completely for free.
Some early morning knitters:
All the samples that were knitting were attached to each other and people were able to leave little notes & memories, written on ribbon, on their work. The knitted samples will travel to the other festivals the knitting tent shall be at this year.
A view across the river - it was such a pretty festival!A group shot of the amazing multicoloured sheep:They were indeed real!
Beautiful brightly coloured painted flags were dotted about all over the festival & camping areas:Finally, my favourite act of the entire weekend; Lewis Floyd Henry:

Thankyou to all the lovely people who stopped by to quickly learn how to knit and ended up stopping for the next hour or two, have a knit and a natter with me!

It was fantastic to see all ages, boys, girls, women & men wanting to have a go at a fantastic craft!

For more information on Amy & her knitwear label please check out www.keepandshare.co.uk

Friday, 9 July 2010

Bethnal Green Country Fayre

COME AND SEE ME TOMORROW AT THE
BETHNAL GREEN COUNTRY FAYRE!
From 1pm at the Gallery Cafe, Old Ford Road, just around the corner from Bethnal Tube.
It's going to be an all day event full of Americana, Country & Bluegrass, not to mention craft stalls, a bric a brac & a raffle with a chance to win one of my creations!
Organised by the Margaret House Settlement, a charity based in Bethnal Green.
More info here:
Hope to see you there!