Cheap Affair 4th April, Easter Sunday

Hello! Debbie and I are going to be at the next Cheap Affair Event on Easter Sunday, Islington Mill, Salford. There is going to be lots of live music, food and I'm pretty sure some tasty Easter treats. Please pop by and say hello, we will have are usual crafty delights and possibly some treats aswell.

Stall 27th March

Hello! it was my turn to design the poster, its Debbie and me at our last stall talking about her lion story book.
We have another stall this saturday (27th) at the Contact Theatre, Oxford Road Manchester between 12-5pm part of the monthy Art Rumble.
Please come by and see us as we will have our usual tasty wares and there will be coffee and cake somewhere I hear, which is always a winner. Look forward to it :)

Bluebird

I have a twitter account now, I hear its good and Debbie was adamant I join so I'm checking it out, if you'd like to follow me there please do! I hardly know what I'm doing but I'm sure I'll figure it out soon.

Tweet!

I've been blogged

I am very happy to say that I have been blogged about on *pur-ple greeting cards and design blog! The lovely StephSaysHello has been posting about her favourite artists and has choosen to mention me, please check out the blog and steph's work. I have been a fan of her work on flickr for a while and she designs some brilliant cards and characters!

Rainbow

Today was cleaning day , after I'd finished the bedroom I went to make a cup of tea and saw this beauiful rainbow! it was huge and arched all the way over the buildings and carpark below. I've not seen a huge raindow like this for years and years, It quickly disappeared but just had time to grab the camera and take some pictures.

Stall Round 2

The lovely Debbie and I are having another stall on Sunday at Chorlton Library between 12:30 and 3:30pm at the Craft Fair and Bake Sale. Its organised by 'Threads and Jewels" raising money for the Haiti Appeal. Please come by and give us a wave, we'd love to chat and maybe share our hobnobs if debbie hasnt nibbled them all already.

The image below was drawn by debbie and its us at our last stall trying to count, we manged it in the end but had alittle help from the calculator.

Carry On Crafty

New crafty update, stamp sticker packs! Packs of 6 stamp inspired stickers.
Look at those lovely ladies and gents, who says the queen is the only one who can have her face on a stamp aye!

Catch Up

Hello, Ive been up to some bits and bobs of late, mostly crafty things. As I said in my previous post Mrs Snail and I shared a stall at the Cheap Affair event last Sunday. We had a great time and I had lots of fun making stuff to sell, we have some more stalls lined up over the next few months (more info soon) so this is the beginning of my crafty wares. I had some A5 prints, teatime badges and lino prints greetings cards. I took some pictures of the very messy process, I used soft cut lino which is brilliant stuff; to cut down on the distractions I just chose to do images of things that I like and to use my two favourite colours.

I was really happy with how they turned out and I will be doing some more larger, detailed lino cards throughout this month. Ive also included some close ups of the prints, badges and mini cards all packaged up. They arent the best quality photos as my camera doesnt like close up but they should do for now.

If anyone has any feed back on my work please feel free to post, this is my first real attempt at having my own mercandise and I'd really like to do more but sometimes I'm unsure about what works and what doesnt. I'd appreciate any advice :)

Look at them there wares

Hello! had a lovely time at the Cheap Affair at Islington Mill on Sunday. There was some brilliant stalls there, tasty food and lovely live music, huge thank you to Cheap for having us! Debbie and I shared a stall and it went well, we had a lovely time doodling, nibbling hobnobs and talking to people so I think we will definatly be doing it again next month. I managed to get some stuff together in time, hooray! I had some A4 and A5 prints for sale aswell as tea time badges, packs of lino print cards and some adorable cupcake pin cushions which my mum made, bless her talented socks. I will have some close up pictures on here soon but for now please take a look at the pictures I lifted from Mrs Greenaways blog (check out the nervous grimice on me, lush)

Go Red

I went Red as part of the creative collaboration Go Red! organised by The Partners for Richard House, London's first Children's Hospice. The idea was for different artists to design one section be it the head, body of legs so that they can all be mixed up together to make some awesome characters. All designs are to be sold in an auction at the end of this month and there will also be a gallery show to showcase the designs too. Please check out the links as there is some fantastic artists involved and Go Red!

As you can see I got excited and did all of the sections but I do like this chap a lot