Healesville Market this Saturday

We've been busy little bees getting ready for the Healesville Twilight Market this Saturday. Can't wait to see all the lovely crafty things for sale. Can you believe Christmas is in a little over a week? I wonder if I'll be able to sneak away and get some Chrissie pressies while Kim mans the stall? Sshhh.

We're taking lots of new work to the market that's not on Etsy at the mo. Here's a selection of some of the new canvases:






Plus, special for market-goers, Art by Wiley original hand-painted gift tags - Christmas ones as well as lots of tree designs that can be used any time of the year.

So you'll find us at the Healesville Twilight Market this Saturday 19th December, 3pm-8pm, Healesville-Kinglake Road, Melways 269 H12. Entry is free, parking costs $3 ($1 of which goes towards a community grant scheme). You'll find us at site #350. Hope to see you there!

In the Media

We're featured in this week's Diamond Valley Leader newspaper! You can read the story here.

Giving gifts

This is a canvas we've gift-wrapped, complete with hand-painted gift-tag, ready to send off. Jessica in Canada is sending it to her friend in Melbourne for a housewarming present. What a lovely friend she is!

Speaking of gifts, I haven't started the Christmas shopping. Not at all! There aren't many sleeps to go when you really think about it. I haven't hit panic stations yet; there's still time. To shop and to panic...

The 'Quite a Few Things Must Go' SALE!

We have many grand plans for next year's artwork and so we need to make some room, lots of room! So we've decided to hold a sale in our Etsy shop.

We've discounted lots and lots of gorgeous original canvas artwork and all sale items come with free postage Australia-wide. There are even some non-sale items that we'll post out for free too (these are marked on the item listings).

We're calling it Art by Wiley's 'Quite a Few Things Must Go' Sale!! If we had to choose all our favourites the whole lot would appear here, but for the sake of brevity, we'll just post a few:

'Little Green Birdie': 'Cheap, cheap!' (sorry, bad joke)


'Little Red Trike': buttons on the wheels. Need we say more!?!


The Caravans (set of 3): because it's summer holidays soon and that makes everyone happy!

When you visit our Etsy shop you just need to scroll down to get to the sales; more on the second page too. Please drop us a line if you have any questions about the sale items, or any of the artworks actually, or even if you just want to say 'hello', we'd love to hear from you!

Oh, and I just have to share this photo taken this morning. We are beginning to reap the rewards of planting a veggie garden entirely from seed! Here is tonight's dinner...well, there'll be other stuff too but this is the most impressive ingredient because we grew it! Hooray!

Have a great weekend!

And the winner is...

The winner of our 'Pink Flower Garden' canvas competition is 'Miss Fancy'. Hooray and congratulations! Here are the pics from this morning's draw.

Our lovely competition entrants:

We had a respectable 23 entries. Not to be sneezed at! Thank you all for entering!

The draw itself!

And our winner. Yay!

What fun! We will have to have another competition soon methinks...

And just because we like giving stuff away we are sending a 'Just Because' prize to Naomi. We didn't advertise this but we thought, well, why not? And Naomi was nice enough to become a 'follower' on our blog so we think that's lovely and are sending her a pack of 3 hand-painted Art by Wiley Christmas gift tags.

While we're on the topic of winning, we just wanted to congratulate our very good friend, Amra Pajalic, for winning the Civic Choice Award in the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2009 for her excellent Young Adult novel The Good Daughter. Well deserved! Well done! All this winning makes us happy!

Button Trees - New!

We've had a busy week working on new button trees and looking after a sick bub. Nothing serious, just a nasty cold. But it's not much fun watching a seven-month-old miserable and unwell. Red-rimmed eyes, yucky cough, snuffly nose and disturbed sleep (for all of us!). So, therefore, we've had to hold over some canvases until next week but there are still a whole 8 new works in our Etsy shop. There's cool multi-coloured ones:


A white button tree (by popular request!):


And even a Christmas canvas which would be a cool keepsake to display every year as a really different, unique decoration.


So we hope you like these new offerings, but please pop into our shop weekly because we'll be adding new stuff all the time.

Oh, as well, you can still enter our competition. Thanks to everyone who's entered so far - so many worthy recipients - but in this game of chance there can only be one winner! We'll draw the lucky entrant next Wednesay 2nd December.

Giveaway!

We have been busily working on new canvas artworks to re-stock our Etsy shelves. After our Curly Button Tree appeared in the paper we were completely inundated and haven't really caught our breath yet.

It's been fun though. We got an email from Kate Boulton who owns Buttonmania in the city letting us in on the fact she's having her bi-annual button sale this week. So yesterday Kim went in and stocked up on the most amazing, quirky, striking buttons you've ever seen. We sorted through them last night with a bottle of wine and I have to say, I was in button heaven! So our next curly button trees will bear the fruit of yesterday's acquisition. We will be starting to add to our Etsy shop towards the end of the week so please keep checking in.

Kate was also nice enough to hang one of our Button Trees in her shop so you can go and check out "The Button Tree" canvas at Buttonmania, Level 2 - The Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne. I don't have a decent picture of it, apologies, but it means you just might have to go and take a squiz for yourself (and maybe pick up some cool buttons at the sale while you're there). "The Button Tree" has a rich gold piped trunk and branches against a soft white background, and is covered in playful, colourful, wonderful! (I was just looking for another '-ful' word!) buttons. It's also for sale, so if you'd like to purchase it just talk to Kate when you're there.

But now, what you've all been waiting for...drum roll - Art by Wiley's Very First Competition - how exciting! As part of Meet me at Mikes' 3rd birthday celebrations we are giving away a mini canvas and all you have to do to win is leave a comment on this post. Yes, that's right. A comment! Too easy!


"Pink Flower Garden" measures 30.5 x 10 x 2cm (12 x 4 x 0.6"). (You can see the green version in our Etsy Shop for $25.) This artwork was created with acrylic on canvas and features a set of very cute button flowers of different sizes, colours and textures. It is finished with a gloss varnish. It's an original, unique Art by Wiley piece and comes signed, dated and ready to hang. The winner will be drawn out of a hat next Wednesday 2nd December.

Good luck and thanks for stopping by!