Hi there! Welcome to the first official post of the Radish Mart blog. I intend this to be a sort of ‘development’ blog ; that is, a ongoing log of all the various projects and products I’m working on. With any luck, it’ll be of interest to someone!

With that out of the way, I’d like to mention a few things I have going on for Radish Mart. Firstly, I have purchased a fairly large amount of 100% cotton velvet. I will hopefully start dying it this weekend. I also ordered an assortment of dyes. I can’t wait to get started! I will have every color of fabric I’ve ever wanted at my fingertips. It’s also a much higher quality fabric than the fleece I was using before. The velvet is not quite as stretchy as the fleece, so it will be interesting to see how it holds a shape. 

Secondly, much to the chagrin my poor, enduring husband, I purchased a Yudu. I’ll be screenprintin’ away. I already have several products in mind – handbags, wallets, pillows, stationary – the possibilities are endless. I ‘m not particularly interested in doing t-shirts, as I’d have to purchase a lot of stock beforehand. The last time I screenprinted was back in high school, so we’ll see how that goes. After my failures with block printing earlier this year, I’m a little apprehensive, but screenprinting has a tendency to be slightly more forgiving.

I also made a silicone mould for little resin radish pendants about two weeks ago. They’re round with little radish faces on them – I’ll be using red-tinted resin to make them, then painting the bumped-out features. Making the face was pretty difficult! I made a polymer clay master for the mould… I’m honestly not the greatest sculptor, so I’m pretty proud of myself.

I’ll be posting photos of my various exploits this weekend!

Also, about the layout - just want to get this out there - this layout, while obviously done by me, it's actually a recreation of Bloggerstyles' Wooden Fence. As such,  I've kept the links intact at the bottom of the page.  I suggest you check them out; pretty cool stuff! I came  across it while trying to think of cute ideas for my blog layout.  So yes, it's a bit of a rip. Just gettin' that out there.