I had to rush to get these and 15 of the ones in the previous posts off to Fibre+Clay before the Bank Holiday.
So I thought you might like a tour of the post hurry premises.
This is the production floor.
Please note very strong adherence to H&S advice.
The risk of cutting the phone cord has been assessed and is managed.
Here we have the packaging department which doubles as the ironing board.
And next, the office.
Or 'Admin'.
As the Chief execs laptop is bust, and the big fat printer won't take big fat card, she had to carry the old old printer upstairs and attch it to the office mainframe.
(oops the choccy buttons packet is vey old)
Next we have the labelling department.
The ink in the old old printer wouldn't dry for some reason so she had to use the warm air fan. (Hairdryer)
But she managed to get the the brooches made, labelled and packed and posted.
All 20 of them.
These were the last 5
made last night during the 'big debate' (good old Gordon)
and snipped/trimmed today during the meeting of Embroidery 2000.
Now the office cleaner must come and do her stuff.
Where's me overalls?
43 comments:
I find that doing what it takes to get your work into shops and shows is infinitely more work than making the art and something that I'm much less organized with. How nice it would be to have an instant employee to take care of those kinds of details!
Kim
I did laugh! How can you be so funny as well as so clever and creative in making your lovely brooches?! Hope the cleaner turned up and did her stuff before the factory closed for the holidays?
Jane
Love LOVE the brooches and thank you for making me laugh a LOT on a not very good day ...
Jackie for Prime Minister! :O)))))
I would be happy to clean up for you just to be able to have a good snoop at all your gorgeous felt and velvet and sneak a peek at you doodling on your machine!! I love the latest bunch of leafy brooches.
Word verif......perti
they certainly are very perti!!
Ditto the above....I laughed...I Ahhhhed!! ...am thouroughly amazed and I'd vote for you...if I lived in UK.
I've left my key under the plant pot if you can see your way to sending your ofice cleaner round to mine when she is finished, thankyou!
I love this post Jackie - I work in 'organised chaos' too, and it does work! The leaf brooches keep getting better - my favourite is the one on the right in your last photo.
Thanks for the laugh. Love the leaf shape.
Brilliant!, must show my DH this post just to prove that other creative people manage to live work and survive in apparent chaos and its not just me. Well done, it was definitely worth it the brooches are wonderful.
Have a good weekend.
Brilliant post - have had a "bad" week and it's made me smile. I think these are just getting better and better - love the colours and the shapes!
Love the colours. I hope the cleaning lady appreciates your world. Maybe she needs a raise.
Great brooches. The only thing you didn't show us what the production line for the products. So glad you are following all the H & S directives.
Your work is so beautiful and always packaged so well and stylishly that I never imagined that you would work in the same sort of chaos as I do! Love the colours in these last five brooches.
I like your confessional creative space! I have occasionally shown my mess. Truthfully, mine is never tidy!
Hope you join in the game again soon.
That's what I like Jackie a "one woman army"--then you know that the jobs will get done on time.
I love the last lot of brooches-the colours are wonderful.
Beautiful colours, love your production unit, much like my every day sewing mess!
Those brooches are absolutely gorgeous - I love the shapes. And it is reassuring to see that other people work in chaos too - I have to admit to totally messing up one room and then moving on to the next...
They're beautiful, all beautiful, even the weird ones, & from such adverity!
I mean adversity!
Nice to know someone else works with the same production team! Thanks for the laugh Jackie.
Beautiful colour choice as always.
We saw some highlights of the debate here in Canada. Gordon did well.
Oh I do hate the labeling and packaging bits- it takles so very much time and it gets so frustrating!!! You certainly ahd a very productive debate time!!! Love the new leaf colors!!!!
Your latest brooches are gorgeous Jackie! As always ; your use of color makes my heart glow. And thanks for the laugh too :).
Dot xx
:-) Oh, so true.
Love the brooches as usual!
Just love it! Thanks for the chuckle!
Glad to hear other people work in chaotic mess and not just me. Whenever I have a tidy up I can't find anything afterwards!!!!
Brooches are brilliant. Hope you get lots of sales.
And just adore your screen saver ... beautiful Willow.
...same mess.....
....different address! :o)
They are ALL gorgeous brooches, and I'm very pleased to see that behind the scenes at your place looks just as *tidy* as behind the scenes at my place! x
Enjoyed the production tour. I know what you mean about printers not doing their stuff - I have a similar one here...lol. Your textile brooches are quite gorgeous.
Really like these leafy brooches Jackie and hope that clearing up didn't take too long! Lesley
Your artwork just gets more and more glorious and yummy every time I visit Jackie. These are positively delicious and I want them all. Interesting to see the DDC workshop at last ;-)
Arh so I am not the only messy person round here, so good to see!
I like the leaf shaped brooches Jackie, my fave so far. Are you doing Art in the garden this year?
Love
Lyn
Brilliant post Jackie, the colours of the brooches....Yum.
You cannot be creative and tidy at the same time.Having to worry about the mess inhibits the muse.Love the latest creations.
I am in love. Your brooches are
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. And you are very funny too.
Breath of fresh air ... that's what you are :o)
te felicito. todo es absolutamente hermoso!!!
These leaf brooches are brilliant. Generally I am not into bright colors, but these make me an instant convert.
Margaret
fun, delightful... liked the hair dryer attachment for the printer! (I'm super messy too like so many of your other visitors here). And I agree -- the pins just keep getting better!
brilliant! your post really cheered me up out of my bad mood today, thank you :) beautiful, beautiful brooches! Your "employees" are much like mine ;-)
I like you system! It's similar to mine....but your art work is another story! So original, colorful, cheerful, retro but modern. I've been a fan for a while, but haven't visited in quite some time. I'm so glad I paid a visit today!
Thank you all for your comments. I am heartened to know everyone has tidying up and space issues! Mine was tidy for a couple of days until I started again.
Beautiful new leaf brooches.
I love the colours and designs. I like your working environment. You are very organised!;)
Have a lovely weekend.
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