New Blog and Website

Emiti's had a new facelift and our new website is up and running! It's been a very exciting time as we've released heaps of new products and you can check them all out by going straight to the web site www.emiti.com.au
We also have a new blog in the actual website so from now on all blog posts will be posted there.
You can also stay up to date with all the news as well as special discounts by following us on our Facebook Page.
Do come over and check out all the goodness.

:) Kim

Sneeky Peek

One Year On and a Whole New Beginning

How many times do you hear the saying "wow how time flies". Apparently I've been blogging for a whole year. Who would've thought. This blog was a place where I could record my explorations in making creative products and its allowed me to play and experiment.

One year on and I'm pleased to announce that Emiti is about to head in an all new direction. One that has been building over the last year with little hints, thoughts and ideas and sudden bursts of change.

I started as a crafter with a wish to make handmade products to sell at markets. Gradually my tastes and views have shifted as I was exposed to more and more amazing creative "stuff" that is out there.

I now find myself interested and passionate about the design world. About making high quality, well designed environmentally friendly products that people are proud to own.

I've moved from a hobby craft business to a full time, trend orientated design business. I've found my particular creative talents suit this type of business. In short Emiti has been undergoing a massive overhaul in the last 4 months and very soon you're going to be able to see the results.

We have 4 products launching to start with that feature gorgeous hand screenprinted illustrations on organic fabrics in an assortment of colours. Without giving too much away at this stage they will feature both fashion and homewares accessories. Our aim is to provide you with products that are beautiful, unique, high quality, locally made and environmentally friendly. They will be interesting, feminine and designed to appeal to the inner arty type in everyone. Our website will be launching next month so stay tuned and all will be revealed!

xxKim

WheatBag making in the sun

I have just been loving the beautiful warm sun the last few days. The view from my studio is great but there's nothing like being outside on a sunny day. So when it came time to fill up my latest batch of wheatbags I moved everything outside.
There's been a lot going on here at Emiti HQ and I will share some of it with you very soon...

:)Kim

Roses & Eucalyptus

Happy Flower Monday...


:) Kim

Flower Monday: a perfect gift

This week I got given the most beautiful bunch of flowers from my lovely best friend Lou. What was especially good was that she choose her own flowers rather than a pre-made bunch which I always think works better. Lou chose red gladioli, pink lillies finished off with eucalptus leaves.

I've never been one to mix native foliage with 'european flowers' like lillies but I really really liked the smokey green colour of the eucalyptus combined with the pale pink of the lillies. Just gorgeous! I'm declaring the eucalyptus leaves a new favourite.

:)Kim

Greeting Card Bonanza

I've just added these cute greeting cards to my MadeIt store. You can purchase them here.

Cute As A Doll

Coming Up Mushrooms

Balloon Flight

Follow The Rabbit

All Roses

Lillies Divine

:) Kim

Flower Monday: Rose Play

I bought my very first rose bush a couple of weekends ago. First a vegie garden, now a rose bush - how domestic! The picture above is the beautiful bloom that I couldn't resist drawing.

I had so much fun and even though it was purely a 'for pleasure' exercise the drawings above have helped me further develop a fabric pattern that I've been working on which will feature in my first collection of handbags. It'll be another month or two before I can show you but its very exciting.

:) Kim

Flower Monday brings some carnations...

I surprised myself this week by buying carnations. I NEVER buy carnations. Something about them has always cried cheap and tacky to me. But I was really taken by these red and white ones and I just love how they contrast with the bright lime green molucca balm. Molucca balm (also known as irish bells) is a big favourite of mine - it makes anything look good. They remind me of some sort of alien bell tower. And they can last for over 2 weeks. Then for bulk and just cause they're pretty I added a bunch of pink dahlias.

:) Kim

Flower Monday

I've always had a love of flowers and now that I'm in my lovely new house (with an amazing florist round the corner!) I've found myself buying flowers every Saturday. I love buying a few bunches and arranging them when I get home. It warms the heart cockles. Plus I can't help but photograph them because I smile every time I walk past them. So I thought I would try and post these photos every Monday for a bit of start-of-the-week cheer. So here's the first Flower Monday.

This week I chose pink oriental lillies, tuber rose (which smells amazing, a bit like gardenias) and some unknown bright green foliage I've never seen before. I asked the lovely Asian lady who owns the florist shop and her reply was 'leaf' and that's as much as she would tell me :)

:) Kim

Phillipa Finch Heartwork

Ok so I'm so in love with 'The Demise of Phillipa Finch' that I'm going to blog about it some more. As mentioned below you can go to this interactive website and make your own heartwork. Here's mine! It's lot of fun and I'm blown away by the whole idea and concept. It fits in perfectly with what I'm working on at the moment (illustration and design outlets) so excuse me while I go "ARggghhhh this is sooo freakin cool!!!' Ahem. yes.

:) Kim

The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch

This is sooo gorgeous I can't even begin to describe it. This is episode 6 of a new series of short 1-2min episodes that are airing on ABC. They're made by Emma Magenta and narrated by Toni Collette. There's also an interactive website where you can watch the episodes and make your own 'heartwork'.
I find it so heartening that the ABC are supporting something like this. Its whimsical, different and just amazingly beautiful. I'm inspired! I hope you find it so too.

:)Kim

You Gotta Check Out These Exhibitions

I saw both of these exhibitions last week and I was blown away by them. The Art of Australian Picture Books featured some amazing original illustration from recent children's books as well as books I remember as a kid. Great exhibition and since its free and on till May I'm definitely going to pop my head in a few more times.

I love Disney and this is a huge and detailed exhibition on at ACMI about the art and processes behind Disney films. It can be easy to forget how amazing the artists are who draw the films when you're busy watching the story. They also have cool films about how they shoot the hand drawn frames etc. But make sure you allow at least an hour and half to see everything properly. Well worth the entry fee!

:) Kim

Lookie What I Made

This little dress was my weekend project and I'm surprised it actually turned out ok! I'm not the best at following patterns and it took waaay too much brain power to figure out how all the pieces went together.

What made it hard was this vintage pattern I found. Very cool dress (ok I admit I've been watching A LOT of Mad Men and just had to have a Betty Draper dress. Tehehe.) but the pattern was really hard to understand! Besides being in yards and inches, it also didn't explain the steps very well and the pattern pieces have no markings.

I took it to Spotlight to see if someone working there could help me because I couldn't figure out the skirt part of the dress. But they were no help either - there were 3 of us scratching our heads. I just went home and got stuck in to see how far I got.
In the end the bodice was so much harder than the skirt. The 2 darts they had in the pattern just made the fabric bunch up and bulge around my bust which looked terrible. So I improvised and made one long curved seam that ran from the waist to the armpit (like I'd seen in other dresses). Needless to say I was very impressed when it actually worked and pulled the fabric into a nice snug fit. Yay! Then after that the skirt was pretty easy. It took me 7 hours but I reckon the next time I do it it'll be a lot less. Although I have 3 other vintage patterns to try first...

:)Kim

Art Play

I'm playing around with different mediums at the moment and I'm in love with chalk pastels and inks. This piece is one I've been working on as exploration for an exhibition I'm considering submitting for. I'll see where it leads to...

:)Kim

New Illustrations

Boy am I glad its Monday today. Not something you usually hear someone say but its true because last week (or maybe the last two weeks) was just super crazy busy. You know when all of a sudden you have all these things to do? But now its Monday and they're all done. Yay! Time to organise my Australia Day BBQ.

One of the 'things' I did last week were these 4 illustrations. I turned them into greeting cards that I had printed for the North Melbourne Market. They looked so cute (and professional hehe) and they got a really good response so I'm going to do a few more over the next few weeks.

Basically the idea behind them was to juxtapose black and white realistic drawings with colourful fantasy elements. So I drew the sketches and then added the colour elements on Illustrator. It was fun and a great way to learn how to use one of those super-annoying-takes-lots-of-hours-to-figure-them-out kinda programs like Illustrator and Photoshop. I can definitely say I like Illustrator a lot more than Photoshop. Hope you like them!





:) Kim

New Year, New Toys!

Wow how fast did December fly by! And here we are in the New Year - woohoo. I always love the energy of the new year, it's a great time to reassess, plan and scheme for the coming months. And trust me I have been scheming up lots of new things so I can't wait to roll them out.

In the meantime I was very spoilt this Christmas and Santa got me a new Canon digital SLR. Yay! I can't wait to dive in to some photography. I've been holidaying in Perth for the last 2 weeks and on my last night I took these photos to experiment with the camera and remind myself what the hell shutter speed and aperture do again.

The pictures are of Como jetty - one of my favourite spiritual places in Perth.

How beautiful are clouds. I always love looking at the different patterns and shapes and Perth really does get some amazing skies.

Here's to the New Year and looking skywards...

:)Kim