magazineness

In the Christmas issue of Inside Out is one of my artist plates,

miranda skoczek for douglas & hope

and you have the chance to win all 100 items listed in the guide,

or you can buy one online here

one week on....

this is my day today, one week out from closing the shop and it's all about preparing for the heat of summer ahead! I fixed flyscreen to a new door for the front of the house, fixed the broken flyscreen on the kitchen door (the blow flies are driving me nuts!!) and cleaned the filters on the air conditioner. all between preparing invoices ready for the arrival of my new artist plates this week.....

here are some random castlemaine shots

castlemaine botanical gardens.... can you see him?

 I am fairly sure this woman has no idea who Romance was Born are!

 castlemaine tip...

 one of our resident kookaburras

my poppies

au revoir brunswick street

After a mammoth pack and move out of the shop on Monday, the truck then went via my house and collected my home contents before heading on up to Castlemaine. 3 days later I am still unpacking and squeezing far too much into a 2 bedroom miners cottage!!!
The closing of the shop was celebrated on Saturday night with lots of champagne, and lots of fun.
thanks again all who have been a part of the last 12 years of douglas & hope, I look forward to the change and keep posted to the online store, as product is being added slowly.

last day....

today is our last day in the fitzroy store
come in and visit us......
thanks for all your support

sneak peak

a little peak at some of my new plates,

miranda skoczek, douglas & hope, ghospatrol and miso.

fries cup dawn tan

bendigo show 23/10/2011

M magazine Sunday Age 23/10/11

Excuse my terrible photo!

Three of my new melamine plates were in the Age yesterday, the ballerina, the Dylan Martorell bird plate and the Ghostpatrol.

All of the artist plates will be available from next week online.

david band auction

hi, this will be a great auction, and a fantastic cause,
there is some amazing art for auction, have a look

Jan Murphy Gallery

DAVID BAND 1959-2011 Earlier this year, David Band lost his battle with cancer. In his memory David's friends and colleagues have donated works. These works will be auctioned and the proceeds raised will go to David’s partner Fiona, and their son Alfie.  We hope you can help to make this auction a successful event and please feel free to share the catalogue with anyone else who may be interested.   Please click here to view the catalogue

auction

one week left.....

one week left

fitzroy shop closing 29th October

come and visit before we disapear into the world of online shopping

Stabs at Backwoods Gallery

Last Friday night was the opening of the Stabs exhibition at Backwoods Gallery,

anyone who has lived in inner city Melbourne in the last few years would have seen his work. I have seen it around here in Fitzroy for years, and I LOVE it.....

this is his first gallery exhibition, go and check it out.

Dawn Tan for douglas & hope

ok, I can finally share with you an exciting collaboration I have been working on for months,

I have a new 'artist' range of melamine plates, which are due to arrive next week.

One of the artists involved is the super talented Dawn Tan,

her 'burger and fries' are a burger plate and fries cup.

In the latest Frankie magazine just out, you can see the burger plate.

Stay tuned for the rest of the range...... it is very exciting!!!

ballerinas

our lovely new ballerina cup and plate have arrived today.... and in the shop already,

I was terrible at ballet, more of a jazz ballet girl, but all I wanted was point shoes and a tutu.... it never happened!

2 weeks left

There is only 2 weeks left until we close our store,
please make sure you come by for a final visit.....

181 brunswick Street, fitzroy
tel 03 9417 0662

please help me with this one

I have just been alerted to a web site in the U.K, can you please have a look and give me your thoughts,
you can check it out here
thanks, I am in shock still.....

ana serrano

I adore these buildings made by Ana Serrano, her mexican heritage so evident in her use of gorgeous colors and the festival feeling she evokes.
this first one called cartonlandia is my favorite

marry me now....

I am speechless, these are one of the best things I have ever seen.....
my obsession with gypsy wagons has never waned....

buy one here

yes please

I have the perfect tree for one of these.....
imagine lying in there surrounded by cushions and quilts,
it is very 'I dream of jeanie'

love love love this

well my love of teepees is widely documented on my blog, this one is exceptional..... a growing teepee!

by Alexis Tricoire fro french garden show jardin jardin

quilts galore.....

there is a lovely new stack of colorful, happy quilts in the shop....

miso & ghostpatrol

I love this, ghostpatrol and miso are overseas, have a look at these photos of them
ghostpatrol and miso here

I have recently collaborated with both of these guys on a new range of artist plates, I will post some images soon.

pacific islands weaving circle

Over the weekend I was lucky to go to the 'Pacific Womens weaving circle' workshop at

Alpha 60, as part of the mis-design art project.

We were taught how to weave with ribbon, and made a fish and a star, I took my 4 year old boys along as they are prolific producers of anything that involves textas, sticky tape, paper, ribbon, and lately potatos and toothpics! So I thought they would enjoy it.

It was loads of fun,

Most of these photos were taken by the boys....

this is the mobile we made when we got home, now hanging in the boys room.

New exhibition at the V&A

This 'power of making' exhibition has just opened at the Victoria &Albert museum in London, have a look at more images here

this baby cake is a bit creepy, see more of michelle wibowo here

store closing update

We are still having our closing SALE at douglas & hope, it looks like we have another month or so before we close the doors.
We have some sale stock in from Limedrop, and hope to receive tomorrow some sale stock from Arnsdorf to keep things interesting for you.
I have just finished a new lot of quilts and they hopefully will make it in to store in the next few days.
In my quest to reduce my fabric stock I have some new tees and bags also arriving in the coming weeks, and cushions are constantly coming in to keep up with the huge demand.
Keep your eyes peeled for my new melamine ranges due in soon.
Here is a sneak peek at the new ballerina!