Creative Candy: Happy Red Fish

Two things I love: thread art and vintage images. Throw in some pics of oldish houses with character and you've got me sold. This is exactly what Happy Red Fish does. Happy Red Fish is a creative studio run by artist and designer Hagar Vardimon-van Heummen and is based in Amsterdam. The artist's statement says it all: "Love paper, love thread and adore the combination."

Please visit their site. Even better, check out their shop on bigcartel. There is so much more awesomeness there. I love art with a sense of humor. Beautiful work!

DIY Thread Rack Projects

Hullo, Creatives! While sewing costumes for The Music Man it finally dawned on me that I really need a thread rack. It's bad. The tails of loose thread from each spool are forming their own united cluster and I'm afraid they will morph into some sort of super being that will take it's revenge on me (using swan snips, of course).

Ok, enough joking. There's the boring white rack that everyone knows, or if you want to be cool, there's these three stylish DIY projects I found on the web. Now to figure out which one I'll try...

#1  Festotu

# 2  Grey Luster Girl

# 3  Bonjour, My Name Is Minitoko

Creative Candy: Gabriel Dawe

What looks like enchanting, rainbow-colored mist is really enchanting, rainbow-colored thread! Check out My Modern Met for an interview with the artist. You can see more of his awesome work on his website.

plexus no. 4 by Gabriel Dawe, 2010

plexus no. 4 by Gabriel Dawe, 2010

plexus no. 3 by Gabriel Dawe, 2010

plexus no. 3 by Gabriel Dawe, 2010

plexus no. 5 by Gabriel Dawe, 2011

plexus no. 9 by Gabriel Dawe, 2011