Metal Rocks @ the V&A this Friday

This Friday, we will be helping to host an activity at one of the popular 'Friday Lates' at the V&A Museum. The event is in conjunction with the new exhibition 'Metal Rocks' and is made up of various installations, workshops, stalls and activities. Jiggery Pokery will be collaborating with Lucie Gledhill and Autumn Abebrese to bring you a fun-packed solution to all you gambling and bling needs in the form of an edible jewellery arcade machine called 'The Half-Baked Arcade':

A few things I have been getting up to recently in between working and sleeping.

Visiting a really inspiring exhibition (following text taken from the Makezine blog):

"A derelict and soon to be demolished block of flats close to Elephant & Castle is the site for Art Angel's and Jerwood's latest commission Seizure by Roger Hiorns - a seductive cave of cobalt blue crystals. The realisation of the art work is a chemistry experiment on a grand scale. One of the bedsits in the block was made into a watertight tank and then filled with 90,000 litres of copper sulphate solution. As the solution was drained from the premises, over the space of a few weeks, it revealed a mesmerising space of sparkling blue crystal shards."

Unfortunately it finished on the 2nd November. For those of you who didn't see it and are sorely disappointed why not give it a go in your bedroom. Easy peasy.





Catching a quick Vietnamese on Kingsland Road in the planning stages of our upcoming shoot in the birthday issue of Volume Maggzine. You know how people say that dogs often look like their owners or vice versa... In a city that never sleeps, could this be the futuristic version of that observation??



A little trip to Argos in Haringey educated me as to just how far you can go with nail art i.e having 3D acrylic shapes molded and stuck onto your nails. These are the most eccentric I have seen. Apparently they were done in a shop down on Crown Dale near West Norwood if you fancy a pair.



Steppin' out on Halloween couldn't have been more exciting after we found these badboy little hat numbers in our favourite shop. Not sure who that is pretending to be Anna cos her hat definitely isn't in our gang.

IdN Magazine - v15n5: The Geometric Issue

We are featured in the new issue of IdN Magazine. Go get yourself a copy and cop an eyeful. Our good friend Vaughan Ward has a nice little feature too.





Also, if you haven't been yet, take yourself down to 'With Others' Finding Home, an exhibiton of photography by Liz Hingley and others (Ella Charles, Sara Smith, Katie Waters and Thomas Forsyth).

The exhibition responds to the activities and philosophy of the Emmaus communities and all proceeds go to the organisation.

Workshops and Fair trade coffee are available along with beautiful furniture and other odditys that are for sale including garments from Emmaus Community Shops that have been re-worked by fashion designers.

Tomorrow is the last day and as a big fan of Liz' and the others' work as well as the ethos behind Emmaus, I feel it is a very sensitive and beautifully executed exhibition - one not to be missed.

Big Blag Blog

Do you have any space-filling stuff that you would like Anna and I to take off your hands? Make some space in that house/garage/shed/skip of yours and help us out at the same time?! Or perhaps your family/lover/flatmates have stuff they want to get rid of?

We have a large personal project where we need to build 5 sets on a limited budget and could do with all the help we can get. Free would be amazing but if something is a bit special and you want a bit of money for it we can work something out. (Damaged stuff is cool too, we can work wonders on others' rubbish!)

We are looking for:

Coloured paint - as much as possible all bright colours gloss/matte/silk - Tins, tubes, spray paint. Full, half empty, scraps...whatever is going.

Fabric- glittery, sequined, silky, satin, parachute material, velvet, psychedelic, 50s, 60s, 70s (old curtains, bedspreads, dresses... any form whatsoever that these fabrics might come in, we'll take them!) + cushions (large and small).

Furniture- Tacky bed headboard (plastic, 80S... fake plastic versace esque... large and lavish or something along these lines that we can paint/adapt) Dressing screens, a vintage style wardrobe, a long dining table and chairs, any faux regency/grand looking chairs/sofas that are past their sell by date or just don't match the new roasted bracken paint job in your living room? Any heavily patterned rugs, unwanted dinner services, a Roll-top bath (metal or plastic, we'll find a way to transport it!), a corner sofa...Mirrors...OR ANYTHING that you might think of that isn't on this list but could be in keeping?

I am sure there will be more but if ANYONE can help with ANY of this, we would be eternally grateful!!

*PLEASE FORWARD TO ANYONE ELSE WHO MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP TOO!! OR LET US KNOW IF YOU KNOW PLACES WE COULD LOOK! THANKS xxxxxx*

Lauren- 07976 796 789
Anna- 07931 348 00

P.s If you think this is a tall order I just saw an advert on Freecycle for two lifesize cutouts of RZA and 2PAC made of good old durable MDF- guaranteed to last a lifetime. Bargain and 'n' 'alf. So you just never know what you might find...

Creamy

To document the change from summer to Autumn these are now making up a window display - a sticky mess amongst autumn leaves. Sarah Fotheringham and I were up super early today to document our recent projects but I don't have the final images back yet. I am going to wait and put them up on the website when I know how to do it properly. In my recent attempt to update the site I got a bit over ambitious and kind of messed it up... Oh well it could have been worse and I have to learn somehow!

I made some post cards today. They are for a RCA show where you don't know who the post card is done by untill you buy it. I made one inflateble, after a long day at work I'm sure it's taken me longer than it should have to do this! They all have the pound shop in common! I knew buying all these bits and bobs had a reason! Long live the magpie inside me.

Whoooo

Don't you just love it when you meet people who are on the same wavelength and you sit and talk through ideas for a project and it feels a bit like there is magic in the air. Well that's what happened yesterday when Anna and I went to meet up with Chloe Richardson (Stylist) and Julia Kennedy (Fashion Photographer)...Even if I was totally hungover, with a bruise the size of a large fried egg on my leg and no recollection as to how I got it. I am fairly certain that a big adventure is about to begin...

Ice-Cream Sunday

A big thanks to everyone who made it down. The vibe was cosy and colourful, the tunes made us smile and the ice-cream cone cakes went down well. Thanks to our brilliant DJs, Mr Wonderful, Mr.Bit, Alex Sheridan, Moxie, Rattus Rattus & Klose One (and Session for making it on his way back from Marrakech even if he didn't get to spin any tunes in the end!). We will be hitting the Vibe Bar on Brick Lane to decorate it up for a big Halloween party on the 31st October so make sure you get your fake blood and fangs out and come and join us for a bop.



In the meantime, if you liked the music you heard at Ice-Cream Sunday or didn't make it but want a good night out, check out Nuts to Soup and Onra where Mr Wonderful will be playing amongst others tomorrow night: www.myspace.com/nutstosoup or www.myspace.com/onra

or City Lights next Saturday @ Bar Rumba: www.myspace.com/thecitylightsclub (Sorry hyperlinks not working at the moment so you'll have to do a good old fashioned bit of copying and pasting)

Sometimes it Helps to Look at Ice-Cream Upside Down...

Summer is very much coming to an end despite the sunny few days we have had over the last couple of weekends. Researching a window display I am about to embark on, I wondered whether an upturned, melting ice-cream was a bit of a morbid way to describe the transition from hot to cold. I decided I could put a bit of humour into it and make the ice-creams into characters with wooly hats, a bit like Mr Potato Head or something. However, the thought of a lonely melting ice-cream that some poor kid has dropped and the rivers of creamy liquid filling the cracks in the pavement, always makes me feel a bit depressed. I decided to go with the idea anyway and see how where it took me. Looking for a good shape to build a prop, I consulted Google Images. My-oh-my was I in for a surprise. Melted ice-cream doesn't have to be sad, it can be glossy and sexy and super-alluring and it would seem that other artists, designers and makers would agree with me. I have always been a huge fan of ice-cream and ice-cream imagery but up until now, mainly when the ice-creams were the right way up...

(They are all easy to find if you search for 'melted ice cream' in Google images apart from the second and fourth one which were under 'dropped ice cream')













And yep... I know this one isn't really melted but I just had to include it as it is f*****g cool! And for anyone that follows this blog at all, my second ice-cream throne!

love you longtime

It's been so long. Bad Anna.
Today I'm playing catch up, tax, emails, phonecalls, nails! Because the last few months have been hectic! We have been making and creating delights left right and centre. There has been little time to play on the blog. But here goes.
Yesterday I adopted 3 'NEW' letters. Saved from the land fill they will have a new lease of life one day, feeling them big time, and so was everyone else as I left work, asking me are you putting them in the bin? Are you mad? Dear oh dear!
Other from the usual bin raiding Lauren and I spent last week juggling the last few days of Orange work at Peepshow and making a castle for YCN. We spent about 6 hours trying to find plastercine. Sadly it seems kids don't play anymore, just sit on their xbox or playstation. We went to 4 different Woolworths, a W H smiths, Early learning centre and a few pound shops. Eventually we found this set (such fruity colours) and then revelled in covering our mountain in the stuff. It smelt really nice too...!
I have spent a lot of time playing with Ruairi's puppy. She is called Beans and so cute I cant leave her alone! Makes me want a pet to call my own. I keep telling everyone about a hedgehog I found for sale on the gumtree. £50 for a little african hedgehog. Apparently it was 2 years old and not getting along with the owners baby! It was so sweet. But my room is to full of stuff for any pets just yet. Maybe when I move to somewhere bigger everyone can come check my city farm all adopted from the gumtree.