The Ghostie Collection

Under the 'Take Away Tees' label, I decided to expand on the 'ghosties' story. The crossed mouth ghostie and the pirate ghostie were in my original folio, whilst the others are new additions. All the ghostie tees are printed on Bonds kids raglan tees. I have future plans to do tees for adults too.

Take Away Tees

I have got a section of the shop devoted to my make a tshirt vision. Basically I put together a folio, made a lightbox sign and bought a heap of blank kids tshirts. I decided to print a few of the tees just to give the customers a taste of what is to come.

The cuckoo clock

This one is a pearler. While it doesn't go off on the hour, every hour, the times it does go off, always brings the shop to silence. Everyone stands in awe as the computerised sounds of the forest and a chirpy cuckoo ring in the hour. One not to be missed upon a visiti to the shop.

Mum's dresses

Mum had made some dresses out of fabric she'd brought from Lincraft. For fear of having the same fabric as someone else, she sourced vinatge shirts to make the dresses from. As a child, Mum's riding teacher was Mrs Coffey, so I made a swing tag of a young girl on her horse at pony club and placed the name "Mrs Coffey" along one side. The dresses hang above one of the changerooms.

Three more brooches

These brooches are medallions from sporting and other prestigious clubs. They fit perfectly into a souvenir teaspoon case and a piece of astro turf adds to the sporty/vintage feel of the brooches.

Bat Brooche

I hand cut a bat out of black lino / vinyl and attached a brooch pin to the back of it. Packaging was in the form of a printed piece of paper which held the brooche and was inserted into a cassette cover, it was snapped up on Thursday night when I had drinks at the shop.

The grey robot

He also sits in the window, on display in the expedit. The oversize 20 cent coin is a money box, part of a small collection I have throughout the store.

The blue robot

He sat in the window with the blue section, which has now changed and was sold just the other day!

The yellow robot

The shop opened for trading on Saturday, 31st March. Here's one of the robots I made to go with my first kids collection - Robots and Rabbits. It was sitting alongside Harv's cat which sold along with the elephant - another of his stuffed toys.

A laminated sign

We still have the old Subterranean shop sign on our awning, and Harv made this one for our window. We're hoping to make signage for our lightbox and get the old sign removed from the awning.

The other half of the shop

We've all seen the left hand side of the shop, and here's the right hand side. All merchandised into the colours and sitting quite well together.

Merchandising

Cath and I had no idea of how to merchandise, but Harv did. Everything was merchandised into its colour and against the white walls and on the not so white expedits, the whole collection sat well together and we were ready to open.

Carpet Tiles

We needed to do something with the floor. The tiles in the middle were white, which fit well into the scheme, but the outer tiles were an ugly beige colour. After a lot of searching, Harv found these carpet tiles at our favourite junk shop, just up the road in Northcote. With some elbow grease, heavy duty glue and a spare Saturday, we lay the carpet tiles to cover the beigeness and frame the whiteness!