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Hannakin
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Artist/crafter/procrastinator Hanna Mancini (she/her) living and working in Naarm/Melbourne www.hannakin.com.au
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A better look at the little garlic sprout friends from my 2026 tea towel calendar (orders are open now if that’s your jam www.hannakin.com.au 🌱)
a picture of the characters from Hannakin's 2026 tea towel calendar. It has a dark background and is covered in little rosy-cheeked anthropomorphic garlic characters with bodies and legs but no arms and a garlic bulb for a head amongst green wibbly sprouts and sparkles all about.
November 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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🌱🧄It’s here! My 6th annual Calendar Tea Towel has just launched for pre-order for this 2026 design! 🧄🌱

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a photo of Hannakin’s 2026 tea towel calendar design which has a dark background and is covered in little rosy-cheeked anthropomorphic garlic characters with bodies and legs but no arms and a garlic bulb for a head gathered around the calendar months along with green wibbly sprouts and sparkles all about. The tea towel has been cut out and sits on a green background.
November 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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2026 Tea Towel Calendar reveal!! 🧄

I’m a little later than usual getting these up this year (and I’ve had a few people asking about them!) but better late than never!! Preorders go live this Saturday November 1st! 🤩

#teatowelcalendar #handmadeteatowel #calendar #2026calendar #garlic
October 28, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Day 4: Gingham
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Just a little scribbly messy gingham dress ghost friend gal for #peachtober you know, the usual.

#peachtober25 #peachtober25gingham #peachtobergingham
a watercolour painting of an unimpressed femme character with blue/grey hair in space buns, wearing a red and white gingham dress with a big frilly collar and a big white bow at their neck, a navy jumper with a confused white face on it, striped socks, black boots and a red pointed hat with white spots on it. The character is holding out their hand and a confused blushing ghostly apparition is emerging from it. A close up crop of the pervious painting
October 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Day 3: Slug 🐌

Slug life is the bug life and the hug life! Keepin' it simple on #peachtober day 3 with some slug love!
#peachtober25 #peachtober25slug
a photo of a purple pink and olive green illustration of two happy slugs meeting under a mushroom with little ferns and plants and sparkles about. a photo of a purple pink and olive green illustration of two happy slugs meeting under a mushroom with little ferns and plants and sparkles about sitting on a green gridded cutting mat with some pain palettes and brushes in the background
October 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#peachtober25 Day 2 - Kite 🪁

I’ve had this spesh piece (and a handful of others) of “Dodgy Paper” waiting for the perfect use, and I thought this was it!
It’s been a long time between collage seshs (but it used to be my main go to for illustration circa 2009-12 ish)!
A snippet of a collage illustration on a blue and white circular piece of textured handmade paper with a green hill with a femme character with long red hair and a green and red striped dress sitting on it flying a red kite with red bows trailing behind. It’s sitting on a green gridded cutting mat with some out of focus paint brushes, paper scraps and an ink bottle in the background a collage illustration on a blue and white circular piece of textured handmade paper with a green hill with a femme character with long red hair and a green and red striped dress sitting on it flying a red kite with red bows trailing behind.
October 2, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Day 1 - Acorn 🍂

I already know I won’t be able to do every day this #peachtober but I do want to try and squeeze a few in here and there (because otherwise I have way too much fomo)!!

#peachtober25 #peachtober25acorn
a watercolour painting of a femme character with an acorn cap had, caramel skin and hair in two side buns, and a checked dress with puff sleeves and a large collar. She is surrounded by an oval border of oak branches with oak leaves and acorns adorning them.
October 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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New earrings! These will be landing in my shop this Saturday August 30 along with 4 to their new designs and a restock! 🤩🌼✨
a photo of a pair of daisy earrings with little faces and a dangling green stem with leaves is being held up by a white hand on a black earring hanger illuminated by sunlight with a dark, barely visible room behind. The earrings both have happy faces, one is looking to the side and one has its eyes closed.
August 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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❤️‍🩹Can you help my friend Umm Awad?❤️‍🩹
She is a mother at severe health risk due to malnourishment. Her teeth have started to crumble and fall out and her bones hurt so she can’t walk! 😭💔
She needs urgent access to essential vitamins but they are $300!

Please donate: www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
A screenshot of an illustrated garden scene from a Ghibli Movie with banners of overlayed text which read: “URGENT APPEAL My friend Umm Awad is in extreme risk of malnourishment and needs our help to access vitamins! Please read below and help!” as well as a round photo of a woman and her two children.
July 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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This is “Subterranean Isopod”!

One of 8 hand sewn soft sculpture pieces made for my solo show “Dream You Sprouts” opening TOMORROW Saturday 19th 5-8pm at @ Beinart Gallery in Brunswick, Naarm.

Would love to see you there if you’re local! ♥️
The back half of a side on handmade felt soft sculpture art doll on a white background resembling an isopod/roly-poly bug with plating layers in dark peacock blue on its back and small white mushrooms growing in clusters from it with clusters of mostly white beadwork around them. It has strange purple sparkling eyes and is wearing 10 pairs of hard, sculpted, slightly-heeled sparkling blue/black boots. The front half of a side on handmade felt soft sculpture art doll on a white background resembling an isopod/roly-poly bug with plating layers in dark peacock blue on its back and small white mushrooms growing in clusters from it with clusters of mostly white beadwork around them. It has strange purple sparkling eyes and is wearing 10 pairs of hard, sculpted, slightly-heeled sparkling blue/black boots.
July 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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A little collab illo I made with my brother @mrjackart.bsky.social for our Dad’s birthday today! Line work my me, digital colour by my bro! ✨
an illustration of a young masc human with white hair, a pointy hat and cloak sitting in between two isopod type insects all with their backs to the viewer sitting on a quilted blanket on a rock surrounded by nasturtium leaves. The isopod on the left is larger than the other, is holding a lantern and is covered in little green leafy sprouts. The smaller on the right and the human are both pointing and looking up at the soft starry sky.
June 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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One of my two new (first ever!) notepads! Saucy Tomatoes Notepads (A6, 30 sheets per pad, printed on 100% post consumer recycled paper) are here now! 🍅🌱
www.hannakin.com.au/collections/...
A white hand is half lifting up the top page of a notepad which features anthropomorphic tomato characters and tomato vines with a mint border and cream centre. The pad sits on a pastel green background with real cherry tomatoes strewn about, as well as a red pencil and a tomato themed washi tape.
June 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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One of my two new (first ever!) notepads! Craft Cuties notepads (A6, 30 sheets per pad, printed on 100% post consumer recycled paper) are here now! ✂️🧵🪡
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A craft themed illustrated notepad sits on a pink background with a collection of threads, scissors, needles and other craft items strewn about it. The pad itself features illustrated scissors, thread buttons and two little craft inclined characters, one perusing a giant piece of lace and the other holding a huge (for them) thimble.
June 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Here’s a mostly proper peek at one of my pieces for my first ever solo show opening July 19th at Beinart Gallery in Brunswick (Naarm/Melb, Aus)
a cropped photo of a hand sewn felt doll with a soft and sage green and orange palette. It has a bulb-ish head, a hard beak, tired looking little eyes and is covered in hand stitched leaves, mushrooms and felt ball flower/berries.
June 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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A white tile with the following black text in a pixelated font: PANCAKE RETROSPECT: MY VIRTUAL PET • GROUP SHOW & POP-UP STORE 24 - 25 MAY 2025 MICROLUKE 28 JOHNSTON ST FITZROY VIC 3065 10AM - 6PM
May 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Meet Tompomo!
Virtual Pet 2 of 2 made especially for ‘RETROSPECT: My Virtual Pet’ hosted by PANCAKE at Microluxe in Fitzroy!

24th-25th May 2025
SAT-SUN
10AM-6PM

» TICKETS
events.humanitix.com/retrospect-m...
A front on photo of a cute strange handmade felt soft sculpture art doll in primary red, blue and yellow on a whit background. It has a sideways cylindrical blue head with a yellow face, and rosy red cheeks, red eyes and a red mouth made out of a glass bead. It has a small yellow body, 4 skinny beaded legs with pompom feet, and it’s covered all over with yellow, red and blue bead and pompom decorative attachments. A slightly side on photo of a cute strange handmade felt soft sculpture art doll in primary red, blue and yellow on a whit background. It has a sideways cylindrical blue head with a yellow face, and rosy red cheeks, red eyes and a red mouth made out of a glass bead. It has a small yellow body, 4 skinny beaded legs with pompom feet, and it’s covered all over with yellow, red and blue bead and pompom decorative attachments.
May 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Ok I feel like the explanation post of what this is for kind of ruined the perfection of this little guy so here they are alone 💝
A slightly side on photo of a handmade felt soft sculpture art doll in light pink, teal and cream. It has a round head with leaves on top and a pink berry/flower in the centre, a cream face patch with beaded eyes and mouth and rosy cheeks. It has a short straight body ending in 4 separate chunky tentacle legs that are alternating pink and teal with alternating opposite either pink or teal embroidered bead tentacle suckers.
May 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Meet Binku!
I made this silly little friend for RETROSPECT: My Virtual Pet

If you’re in Naarm/Melb here are the deets to check out this cute show!

Microluxe
28 Johnston Street
Fitzroy VIC 3065

24th-25th May 2025
SAT-SUN
10AM-6PM

Tickets: events.humanitix.com/retrospect-m...
A front on photo of a handmade felt soft sculpture art doll in light pink, teal and cream. It has a round head with leaves on top and a pink berry/flower in the centre, a cream face patch with beaded eyes and mouth and rosy cheeks. It has a short straight body ending in 4 separate chunky tentacle legs that are alternating pink and teal with alternating opposite either pink or teal embroidered bead tentacle suckers. A slightly side on photo of a handmade felt soft sculpture art doll in light pink, teal and cream. It has a round head with leaves on top and a pink berry/flower in the centre, a cream face patch with beaded eyes and mouth and rosy cheeks. It has a short straight body ending in 4 separate chunky tentacle legs that are alternating pink and teal with alternating opposite either pink or teal embroidered bead tentacle suckers. A white tile with the following black text in a pixelated font: PANCAKE RETROSPECT: MY VIRTUAL PET • GROUP SHOW & POP-UP STORE 24 - 25 MAY 2025 MICROLUKE 28 JOHNSTON ST FITZROY VIC 3065 10AM - 6PM A white tile with the following black text in a pixelated font: PANCAKE FEATURING Abby Goss Beanynne Comfy JaspeR eunybo Gungorou Hannakin Jo0ia kurobite Lauren D'arcy madebyabra Makita Namina Meru plasticpeco ruki sighsra tabetaaii uglymalrat Wawe Studio witcat y2kyle RETROSPECT: MY VIRTUAL PET
May 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Mushroom Earrings!

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This design is from a while back but they’ve been sold out for a bit, and now they’re back!
If you’ve been dreaming of toadstools and/or rosy bum cheeks to adorn your ears you’re actually deeply in luck!! 🍑🍄✨
A pair of earrings, one a red toadstool mushroom character facing forwards showing it’s smiling face, the other a similar toadstool mushroom character facing away revealing its round rosy pink bottom, photographed on a flower and leaf filled garden background.
April 30, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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WIP 🧵🪡
a photo of Hanna’s desk which has a dark green gridded cutting mat with four loose crinkled felt leaves with white embroidered veins sitting on it. Out of focus in the background is some red thread, red and orange pieces of felt and a slightly hard to see handmade red felt bulb/radish with a little face on it.
April 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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A little peek at some things that have been happening on my desk…
A photo of some handmade felt soft sculpture fragments sitting on a green gridded cutting mat on a desk. The shapes in the foreground are two arms and legs, one arm and leg covered in hand sewn white shelf mushrooms and the other pair in green sprouting leaves and moss. Out of focus in the background is a felt snail shell with mushrooms and things growing from it, and a creature coming out of it that you can’t quite see.
April 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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please enjoy this little bunch of clovers which were painstakingly stitched by hand (and maybe seem a bit underwhelming now but they TOOK ME HOURS OK!?! It was fun though sorry I shouted…)

#textilecraft #felt #feltcraft #textileartist #handsewn #handsewnfelt #fibreart #fibreartist
a white hand holds up a bunch of bright green clovers and white clover flowers with bright green stems all hand sewn out of felt. They’re being held up in front of a big display of rolls of felt in a kaleidoscope of colours.
March 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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I don’t know how to do polls on Blueskay (they probably don’t exist because it’s too beautiful and pure) so we’re just gonna have to do it the old fashioned way (i.e. comment replies):

WHICH DO YOU PREFER?
1) Blue Background
2) Brown Background
An illustration of a cluster of three mushrooms with cream stems, and rusty red caps with faces on them sitting in an oval shaped navy blue background with ornate white patterns on it. An illustration of a cluster of three mushrooms with cream stems, and rusty red caps with faces on them sitting in an oval shaped brown background with pale ornate handwriting with red underlined running vertically.
February 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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sure yep seems simple enough

Just one question. How much water? I’m heating the food packet before I open it? I’m steaming it or cooking it? How many times am I serving it?

Maybe that’s more than one question sorry
A close up photo of the label on a food packet with the cooking method circled in red which reads: “Cooking Method: Heat & Serve 1. Add water to the pot, bring it to boil. 2. Add the food packet and heat for 5 minutes 3. Cut open the package and serve. Cut open the packaging, Put the food into a bowl. Steam for 5 minutes and serve.”
February 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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experiments in clover ☘️
A photo of a green gridded cutting mat on a desk covered in scraps of paper, felt and thread in shades of green with little sewing and embroidery experiments of creating clover leaves
February 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM