Let there be light!

Being a Monday, it's normally a day of rest for us Mookah chicks.  But not today.  Yesterday we decided to commit ourselves to an interstate market.....next weekend!  Crazy I know, but sometimes you need a little crazy in your life.  So it was full steam ahead today marking, cutting, pinning and sewing. 

I can hear you now, "that doesn't look like fabric".  Well it's not.  Just to make things a little more interesting, we decided that it was time we made a few more of our retro inspired rocket lamps to take with us as well.

We have two different sizes, being a table lamp and a floor lamp version, but both of the same style, and all made completely by hand out of aussie hardwood and aussie handprinted fabrics.

I have two of these birch design table lamps in my bedroom and I adore them.  Now I just need a floor lamp for the living room......but how to decide what fabric I want!  The more options there are the harder it gets.  I have to come clean and tell you that there is some help from Mookah Man to make these guys.  Not that us girls couldn't make them of course, just that time is tight this week, and you know how it is, right?

So where are we off to?  Somewhere warm and balmy?  We wish.  Nope, we're off to the capital to the Handmade Market at the National Convention Centre in Canberra where it's supposed to get down to minus 5 degrees on Saturday morning.  Yep, like I said, CRAZY.  Oh, and to top it off, all Gippsland is expected to be in floods this week, making that road trip just a little more interesting.

Hope to see some of you at the market on Saturday or Sunday.

My Creative Space.....

It's been a little while, but at last I feel like I have worthy post for this week's My Creative Space!

So much time is easily taken up in the humdrum of running a small business that often there isn't a lot of time left to do what you really wanted to in the first place - be creative. For the last few months now there has been lots of thinking, sketching, designing and playing with an idea to come up with the latest product to be introduced to the Mookah range.

Oooh timber. Can you smell it's loveliness? Do you know what it is?

Now of course there has to be some lovely fabric added somewhere doesn't there?

Tada! The first finished prototype of our Mookah designed and handmade Floor Lamp. It stands 120cm tall, is made from Australian hardwood and you can choose your own fabric to create your very own designer lampshade. And even better, it will also be available as a Table Lamp, (not shown) which will stand 48cm tall.

Now, you're probably (maybe) thinking.....'gee those Mookah chicks are clever', but I have to admit that Mookah Man has played a large part of this new project. Thanks Mookah Man, you're the best.

Both the floor lamp and the table lamp will be on show for the very first time at The Finders Keepers market at Docklands in Melbourne on the 9th & 10th October, so make sure you drop in to check them out, and say g'day while you're there.