Author Archives: milliemosca

Well, feast your eyes on this!  

…So I was recently scouted to participate in this wonderful project run by RAW Artists International. RAW promote up and coming artists and give them a global platform – Millie will be showcasing on the runway this FRIDAY 12th August. Above: my sewing table and inspiration wall… The theme of my collection is Harvest &Continue reading “Millie does RAW Artists Melbourne // REVEAL”

Yesterday I had the rather lovely task of coordinating a little brooch making workshop alongside Plan International Australia and the Three O’Clock Collective. It was one of many little events run alongside the gallery’s current exhibition A Girl’s Place. The exhibition is the culmination of Plan Australia’s recently conducted survey into the sense of safetyContinue reading “Millie Mosca x Plan International Australia x Three O’Clock Collective”

I’ve had a couple of lovely things happen to me in the last two days! Firstly: I had a visit from Alvin the Pomeranian and his darling fur-mother Emma who is one of the sweetest and most BOSS humans I have the pleasure of knowing! So to celebrate I made them this slice (below) fromContinue reading “A little slice of happiness!”

Hello again lovelies! This weekend I decided to take the plunge and start damn-well making use of my blog! I have been putting it off and telling all and sundry I am not disciplined enough to be a blogger but the truth is – I AM!! I’ve been reading this ace book The Handmade Marketplace:Continue reading “Millie Mosca is BACK!”

This wearable art piece was inspired by my time spent living in Mexico and the constant and joyous celebrations I witnessed when I was there. Handcrafted using a traditional Japanese Kumo Shibori technique, the resulting ‘stars’ were hand painted in the Mosca rainbow – echoing the shape, colour and texture of the exuberant fireworks displaysContinue reading “Pa’ Arriba”

It’s motherflipping 2016 already! I am so thankful for everything that came to pass in 2015, it hasn’t all been rainbows and butterflies but what would life be like if it didn’t have a few hurdles anyway?! 2015 was the first year I got semi-kinda-almost-mainly serious about Millie Mosca  becoming a proper money making businessContinue reading “oh HI 2016”

It’s funny how motivation seems to come in waves and troughs. Since the Craft Hatch market I’ve been barely able to bring myself to enter my studio – other than to water my house plants and occasionally throw more things on my desk that don’t fit in the rest of the house.  I keep writingContinue reading “where for art thou…motivation?!”

This coming weekend I am going solo for the first time ever with a stall at Craft Hatch!!! Yippee/OMG/squeeeeeeee I have been sweating it out in the studio for the past few weeks trying to get myself market ready: I’ve had fabrics, flyers and stickers printed and I’ve been painting and cutting and sewing andContinue reading “CRAFT HATCH”

I headed on down to my childhood home of Tasmania last Friday to spend some time with the Fam and see the beautiful sights of the North East coast. The whole thing came about as mum suggested I do the Bay of Fires Art Market with her on the Sunday. So I pulled together someContinue reading “The Bay of Fires Chandler family adventure”

Now I have had a loving relationship with shibroi for quite some time. I remember the first time I tie-dyed a t-shirt at ‘camp’ back in the pre-teen years // yes we ARE talking rainbow spirals in the early 90’s!  I loved it, and begged mum to re-create the magic as soon as I got homeContinue reading “shibori for your viewing pleasure”

So today was a bit disastrous: queue emotional breakdown and pass the tissues! Weeks of pre-deadline weird sleeping patterns, an even weirder diet (we’re talking lots and lots of cookies, ice cream, peanut butter sandwiches at midnight, and on one occassion an entire block of blue cheese…)oh and having LITERALLY NO SOCIAL LIFE finally caughtContinue reading “Just one of those days…”

SO those of you who know me will be well aware of the fact that I am a self confessed cat lady – I love them – often not mutually – I will cross a busy street to try to coax them into a pat – it doesn’t matter how late I am running IContinue reading “THE MANY KITTIES (and a deer and a pug) OF EUROPE AND MOROCCO…”

First of all Happy New Year and all that jazz! There is a fair bit to catch up on since last I wrote… (if you hover over the photos then you should get a little bit of info about where and what they are about) I have just spent an entire weekend in bed andContinue reading “ABBREVIATED TRAVELS…”

My Mama shared this little gem with me today – Zandra is a textile design heroine to the both of us so why keep her inspirational words to our selves?! Buen Provecho!

So whilst I have been busy living, travelling and learning I haven’t been doing a whole lot of blogging and there is quite a backlog of events both trivial and exceptional to put out there to the world… so over the next week I’m going to trickle as much out as I possibly can. NoContinue reading “THE TIME HAS COME THE WALRUS SAID…TO REMEMBER TO PUT UP BLOG POSTS!”

Goose fair – home to cheap thrills – hot donuts and mushy peas & chips with mint sauce So it really has taken me this long to write a blog post – SOZ ABOUT IT! A lot has happened in the last couple of weeks: –       I turned 27 –       I met long lost familyContinue reading “NOTTS : FRESHERS : FEELINGS : FACTS”

Above: the rainy view of Paris from Montmartre  close to the Sacre Coeur (and my hostel) I literally felt I could be violently ill at any second for the two days before I left Melbourne. A combination of nerves about leaving my gorgeous friends, my darling handsome man, my indifferent little silver fur baby andContinue reading “PARIS…AAAAH MER SEE?!”