Early Christmas present:)

I AM SOOO EXCITED ABOUT THIS ONE!!!!

Earlier this month I entered a competition and I opened my mail today only to find that I've been selected as a runner-up!(my design shown above:)

Its all so exciting as finally I plucked up the courage to get my work out there and not be scared to enter competitions coz I think I'm not good enough...

Its great to receive feedback and see my design featured on the tigerprint blog!!!

That said,I hope to be doing many many more new and exciting design-y things in the new year and look forward to meeting more design-y folk who exist in blogland:)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE...!

brooch#1

Finally managed to take apicture of "A" brooch that I made,I gifted a few off without taking pictures-lesson learnt!

Hope you like it..let me know what you think...very simple,clean,black and white with a little bit of banana fibre used for highlighted texture!!!

ho!ho!ho!

With christmas around the corner I figured I needed to put myself in the spirit with some christmas card designs.

I've never really done any before,but I'm very happy with how these turned out.Inspired by christmas balls that seem to adorn my home year after year:)
Enjoy!

something blue and something new:)

Took some time to change the look of my blog title..Now that my blog has become part of my design life and I thought it might be a good idea to have a better design/better looking title header.
Hope you like it:)

dabbling in illustrator...

copyright 2008 tanya d'souza

Just some fun creating in illustrator...cushions perhaps...?????

Went to the design market yesterday...and ofcourse wanted to buy EVERYTHING!!!!!!
The stalls were fabulous as were the goodies up for sale....I in particular went to sneek peak at the ink and spindle stall...and WOW...the fabrics/products were soooo gorgeous to see and actually touch and feel in person....:)Awesome..!

The brooches mentioned earlier are still in the making....pictures to come soon...:)

MAKING...

Oh I'm enjoying my holidays so much that I forgot all about christmas thats around the corner.

It was our graduate show last night and I had a great time.Took some picutres of my display and will post them up soooooon with some more info. on the show.

In the mean time,I had deicided earlier to make brooches for all the lovely ladies in my life for a christmas present.
I printed onto some plain felt squares and had all these plans to cut them up and make pretty things out of them.
They are currently a work in progress and a couple of them turned out quite nice, though I might finish a few more before I take pictures and post them here....something for my readers to look forward too???:)

I hope everyone is as confused as me with our very melbourne-ish weather:)but I hope its a good weekend for all...

and oh- excitment excitment about the design market this sunday!yay!

some fresh summer prints.in fresh summer colours:)