By Alice | Published:
February 11, 2008

I have posted my midwinter Gocco swap! It is quite exciting to be
posting things to all over America and one to Norway. I have been to
Norway once on a postal boat but have not been to America as much as I would
like to. I lived briefly in Santa Monica in Los Angeles when I was
about 13 but haven’t been back since.

Here are the weather stats. I was enjoying seeing those 4 round suns! The weather is very nice at the moment, very much spring.
After taking the picture of my post office I noticed that my shoes were nice and jolly today.
Anyway this is the print I did! I think it came out ok. It is the third Gocco I have ever done. It is from a
drawing of the chair my sister and I gave my mother for her wedding.
The picture on the wall is of my Irish great-grandparents.
With the Gocco print I also sent to each a copy of a Swiss magazine from the 40′s and 50′s. They are from a stack of magazines I saved from my grandparents house. My grandmother Ilse lived in Switzerland at the end of the war and obviously must have carried on subscribing to this magazine when she moved to Japan with my grandfather. These magazines have been all over the world and I didn’t see any reason that they should stop now :) I hope that the people I have sent them to enjoy them as a little curiosity. My grandmother was a knitwear designer and very creative so I think would have liked the Gocco medium.
I am very much looking forward to getting the Gocco prints from the others in my group. So exciting to be waiting for 12 parcels :D
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By Alice | Published:
January 5, 2008

I am taking part in the mid-winter gocco swap as set up by cloth.paper.string.
Good idea for a swap isn’t it. Now I’m off to think of what I can print….
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By Alice | Published:
December 12, 2007
If anyone should dare to suggest that releasing a record is easy THEY LIE. Well it is when you hand-make the packaging. This is the third handmade packaging that I have done and you would think I would learn. I am not actually ‘releasing’ these myself – I know enough label owners to know I am not made of that stern stuff, but I do need to finish 120 handmade (sewn fabric) CD packages for a ltd edition give away next Wednesday. THAT IS LESS THAN A WEEK PEOPLE. Ok I will stop shouting now :)
I will reveal all (if) when it all comes out fine next week. In the meantime please witness my gocco frenzy…



Oh yes and I did it all whilst wearing my new woolly hat. I bought the hat a few days ago as I felt I needed a non-controversial hat for those days when I wasn’t up to being out and loud in my Sonic Youth bobble or brown stripey peaked hat. But tonight I discovered that it is great to wear when you have a gocco frenzy going on. As is a massive jumper tied round your waist like a sack. Did I mention it is cold here?

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By Alice | Published:
November 18, 2007

I hope, if they come out ok, that these will be my Christmas cards. This is halfway done; I have another colour to add on top.


I also had this thought… Christmas bunting? I am trying to decide if it is right or wrong.
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