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Ellie Beck weaving detail, naturall dyed yarn.JPG

Ellie Beck Weaving : The Things I Do Not Know 2018.JPG

2014, woven wall hanging, naturally dyed greens and landscapes.png

2017, woven wall hanging, wool & silk, naturally dyed, with flower stems.jpg

Ellie BEck weaving : Don't Let the Raptures pass you by.JPG

Ellie Beck Weaving: The Space Between 2018.JPG

2014, woven wall hanging, indigo dyed fleece and found stick.png

2017, woven wall hanging pinks, naturally dyed silk thread.jpg

2014, woven wall hanging, naturally dyed wool and fibres.jpg

2014, woven wall hangings wool, silk, naturally dyed indio.JPG

2015, woven wall hanging, botanically dyed fleece, silks and theads.png

Ellie Beck - loom weaving with Indigo dyed yarns.JPG

Ellie Beck - Petalplum - Weaving Myself - loom weaving blues and whites naturals indigo web size.jpeg

Ellie Beck Petalplum woven greys and pinks her landscape.JPG

Ellie Beck Weaving Natural Dyed yarn detail.JPG

Screen Shot 2018-05-03 at 7.05.57 pm.png

Ellie Beck Petalplum Loom weaving work in progress.JPG

Ellie Beck Petalplum Loom Weavings My stories - Seasons of our Creative Lives.JPG

Ellie Beck Petalplum Seasons of Our Creative Lives stories and ideas, loom weaving.JPG

Ellie Beck Petalplum Seasons of our Creative Lives Weaving .JPG

Ellie Beck Petalplum Weaving detail Deep Inside Her.JPG

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I made these today & am quite in love. I’m going to hand stitch into them with my dyed threads, and stitch words & some shapes / patterns / wonky lines... And then I’m going to sew them into a ‘tea quilt’ which is a sweet name for a little placemat to put your tea pot & tea cup on, while you sip quietly, contently.... is that some wishful thinking ??!! the quiet tea sipping 🍵 ☕️ ⠀
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I’m offering these available to you, and thought perhaps you’d like to choose / suggest the words, poem, quote I stitch onto it. They’ll be $49 each + postage if you’d like one you can dm me or leave a comment. And if you fancy one in a different colourway let’s chat!⠀
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*made using my naturally dyed fabrics and patched in a very improv manner. Lots of joyful making 😊✨⠀
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ps closeups in my stories

This mama cow stood there ever so patiently while the not-so-small child-cow pulled & yanked & slurped from her teat. Then she just walked away, saying enough now, with her calf trailing after her.⠀
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Mothering hey!!⠀
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I’ve had some conversations (in real & messages) about mamas wondering when their self & creative moments will come back again. It will, it does... slowly slowly. Sometimes we have to walk away & say enough now to our bubbas. Sometimes we have to stand with them & be the Mama being pulled, yanked & tugged at! And sometimes it’s beautiful kisses & running in the grass together.
And had to share the pic of that sweet blondie too

Last week I went to a special @peppermintmagazine lunch - celebrating the 10th Anniversary of this amazing woman @kelleysheenan for all the dedication, commitment, hard work, beautiful inspiration, courage, creative confidence and sheer bleeping persistence.

I met Kelley at the launch of issue 1, all those years ago. And we became friends, over shared interests & ethos. Our kids played together while we both did the hard early days of our business. I got to hear so many (horrific) stories about the magazine industry, and witness Kelley bucking the trends to stay true to her ethics & her vision.
She would never say it was easy (I doubt many indie-creative-business owners would), but every single person who has ever read Peppermint magazine knows it’s been worth all every single emotion.

I feel privileged to say that I contribute to Peppermint - I have a piece in the current issue as well as many over the past 10 years. My sister modelled in issue 2 (I’ll have to find my copy, such a gorgeous shoot!), my husband model-skated in one issue, and our family was featured last year.

Thank you Kelley (and the whole Peppermint team) for showing us that it is possible, to follow our dreams, stay true to our ethos & ethics, that hard work is worth it, and creating community, changing perceptions is what we’re all wanting.

First photo, of Kelley and me taken by @peppermintmagazine, the rest by me

I often wonder why we humans always feel the need to mark our names, state our having been somewhere, impact the environment around us. Often in small ways, such as carving a name into growing bamboo, but we can see that small individual actions create larger impact - people follow, copy, add their own “just one more, why I shouldn’t I too” to the space, the environment.⠀
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Thankfully bamboo can and will continue growing with a hand carved love tag. Alas so much more wont.⠀
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Small changes, small actions can sway our community & society, our environment & our world either one way or the other. Each action we choose has the chance to add to the tipping point of the balance which side do you choose to add to??⠀
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It’s totally entirely possible to appreciate the bamboo (environment or person) without adding our mark, just by looking, slowing, noticing, appreciating.

🐌🐚This is what I sometimes do with my dyed threads - to allow them to dry, make sure they don’t tangle, even throw them in the dye pot wrapped around a stone (makes lovely variegated dyed colours). And also cause it sort of just looks good, and makes me feel a tiny tingle of *something* when I look at them and hold them!⠀
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The shell in the bottom left is a large forest snail shell, found in our garden. And teeny little ocean snail shells top right. Stones collected, gathered and even gifted.

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