Thistle and Fox
illustrations by Lauren Kelly on fabrics, wallpapers & handmade
What are you looking for?
This website is now home to all of my creative endeavours, from my fairy tale illustration work as Ginger Kelly to my graphic design work Thistle and Fox fabric design and other surface pattern illustrations, as well as being the info hub for sewing lessons held at Ginger Kelly Studio.
Ginger Kelly Fantasy Art
Commission custom illustrations for book covers, oracle cards and other published work. You will need to contact me with details of your project and your artwork budget. If you are a published author, please ask your publisher to reach out to me as well.
Sewing Classes
Sewing classes and workshops are running at Ginger Kelly Studio in Upper Orara NSW.
We also have a social sewing club planned for monthly meetups and crafting days.
Contact me for more info
Fabric & Wallpaper
I am available for custom fabric design, artwork licensing and can make just about anything from fabrics printed with my designs.
Reach out if you have a project in mind we can work on together
Welcome! Here's what you need to know
My business is a very small one run entirely by me. I'm an illustrator, not a custom printer. So I only sell fabrics, papers and handmade products printed with my own designs, all of which are printed on demand (by other small businesses) as they are ordered by my customers.
In the last year I've received barely enough orders to pay for the printing of the supplies I needed to fulfil those orders. On top of this, the cost of keeping the lights on for this website have doubled in the past year. It has been very difficult to keep a small business running with all the changes to international shipping costs, selling requirements, taxes and the various other hoops businesses have to jump through. Although I'm always designing and working on sewing things behind the scenes, I have been feeling like the behind the scenes business side of things is defeating me this year. Also, marketing and creating content for social media does not come naturally to a hermit like me.
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In view of all this, I have temporarily re-opened my website shop for Australian customers only. If you are located elsewhere, you can continue to order directly from me via my Etsy shop.
To support me by buying my fabrics, drawer liner paper and wallpapers, shop my designs on Spoonflower (US based/International shipping), Next State Print (AU) and at The Telarie (AU)
Links to all these website are included here: Where to Find Thistle and Fox
For those wishing to buy my Ginger Kelly illustrations, hair accessories, handmade jewellery or to book sewing classes at Ginger Kelly Studio, please SHOP HERE.
Thankyou for your support. It means the world to me
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To all those other small businesses who keep contacting me asking me to print their designs: that is not a service I provide. You can use the same custom printing services I use if you wish... I have my designs printed by the metre at Next State Print in Melbourne, and some fabrics I have printed by Spoonflower in the US. I hope this info is helpful.