2013 card range

The initial thoughts, ideas have been finalised for the new 2013 card range.
I'll be sketching and designing collages for most of the cards.
For those who follow the blog you will know collage is a medium I love,
I'm trying to wait a while before I start as other projects need to be finished.

A birthday trip to London tomorrow.

Marc's garden

Gorgeous recycled shed

A lovely weekend away in Oxford.

Sun sun Sun 

We are lucky enough to have yet another hot day in Hastings
and it looks like the sun is going to keep on shining throughout the weekend.
I'm away in Oxford visiting family and friends, will be back on Monday.

Have a good weekend.

 

New notecards

A photography day with varying degrees of success.
I have also recently noticed  the blog photos once uploaded are out of focus.
What to do what to do?

Pretzels on the beach yesterday

Market day 19th May

This was on our table when we arrived. 

Setting up.

Customers

I can now say I'm a market trader, the day flew by and I enjoyed it all.
I think I was a little optimistic in the stock I took up and didn't need all the props,
but apart from that everything worked out well.
Julian helped me on the day and between us we managed to pack everything in one large and one small suitcase and one large bag. My favourite fold up chair came along too and I'm so glad we decided to take it, as I was shattered towards the end of the day.
Thank you to friends who came to visit and of course all the customers.
I'll be returning on the 21st July.

First market

 Click on poster to enlarge.

I'm trying to finsh everything off for my first Designers and Makers market in London this Saturday.
I'll let you know how it went next week.
If your around this area come and say hello.

Have a good weekend.

The sea colours looked gorgeous today.

Our House

 Five layers of wallpaper had to be removed

I leave the week with the sun shining into my new white studio.
I haven't moved in yet as I still have to sort through lots of  paper etc. I'm trying to streamline the business so I can move in and still see lots of floor space.

Have a sun-filled weekend.

Trying to find a little summer with this textile design by William Kilburn.
The dark rain clouds are looming again.
More textile designs by William Kilburn can be found on the V&A website.

A visit to the British design 1948-2012 exhibition at the V&A yesterday.
Showing until 12th August.

Have an enjoyable Bank holiday.
Camping was on the agenda for this weekend, but the forecast
is rain, so we've put it on hold.

A postcard sample Stella and I worked on yesterday.

Collage postcard collaboration

I'm off to London tomorrow, meeting up with Stella to finish off the postcards we have been working on.
So far we've produced the work and sent it back and forth by email, so I'm looking foward to being more hands on.
There is still a way to go before they are ready for the shop shelves, but the artwork should be finished.

UPPERCASE magazine, which I haven't subscribed to yet have just bought out issue 13.You can read more about this lovely magazine aimed at crafters on their blog here.
This has just gone onto my birthday wish list.

beauty in the making

Yesterday I met up with Jon, a fellow greeting card publisher in London.
We went round a GF Smith paper exhibition called 'beauty in the making' being held in Victoria House basement in Bloomsbury.
The event was about celebrating 'the making' as an art form, in this case it was about paper.
A good day.
To see flickr photos from the event click here. 

Have a fun weekend.

I haven't achieved much today, it's Julian's birthday and I'm still recovering from a busy yet enjoyable time in Liverpool.
Tomorrow I'll work...

Royal de Luxe

Today Julian returns from New Zealand, then tomorrow we're travelling to Liverpool for a long weekend. The main reason for the visit is to see The Royal de Luxe, a street theatre company who travel the globe. The company work with these magnificant giant figures above to tell a three day story.
"The Voyage Of The Sea" is a new story they will be telling in Liverpool about Giants that will celebrate the centenary of the sinking of the ill-fated Titanic.
It looks so magical.

Have a good weekend.

My days are flying by and I'm still correcting notecards, designing new postcards of London landmarks and generally racing around!

Have a bright weekend.