Very excited to say that I am taking part in a Pop Up Shop in Brighton with lots of other local talented artists and designers. The shop opens on Thursday 16th August and closes on Tuesday 21st August and is at 11 Dukes Lane in Brighton! Do pop in!
Busy few weeks ahead as it is the start of the Christmas Craft Fair season! I’ve been busy making new products (basically adding to the rapidly expanding family of Oscar’s Friends!).
On Saturday 25th November I will be at the Great Missenden Village Christmas Fair (I will be at 38 High Street with my friend Kate). The fair starts at 3pm and finishes about 8pm.
The following Saturday (2nd December) I will be at the Brighton Etsy Christmas Fair at the Dome. This was incredibly busy last year so hope this year will be the same. I only have a small space so will be taking my smaller items (loads of different seagulls, Christmas decorations and From Brighton With Love themed household items).
On 9th and 10th December I will be at the Renegade Craft Fair at the Truman Brewery in Brick Lane. I will be taking as much stuff that I can fit in my tiny car as the stands are pretty big and I wasted a whole load of space last year. I’ve bought some new display stands this year so hoping to my the stand look really good! Thats the plan anyway!
I will be taking part in the Renegade Craft Fair at the Truman Brewery in Brick Lane on 9th & 10th December. This is a really big fair so there should be lots of great stuff to buy! Trying to plan out exactly what my stand will like like in good time as it never really looks as good in reality as it does in my head! I need to get lots of height but make sure nothing falls over. Always a challenge! So that will be three Christmas Fairs on consecutive weekends, better get on and make some lovely things!
So the summer is over and the next big event is obviously Christmas. I have applied to take part in several Christmas Fairs and have just been confirmed as a stall holder for the Easy Made Local Christmas Fair at Brighton Dome on Saturday 2nd December. Super excited as this was a great fair last year and totally packed! If you are in the area it is definitely worth a look, who knows you may manage to do all your Christmas shopping in one go!
I am also taking part in the Great Missenden Christmas Fair on 25th November thanks to my friend Kate, who lives in the village, and happens to have a fabulous shop window crying out for a lovely display! Not sure how well seagulls will go sell so far from the sea so maybe I will be showing more cushions at this one!
Still waiting for a response from another application, fingers crossed!
Article in the August issue of House Beautiful!
The British Craft Trade Fair is now just a distant memory (well not really it was only a week ago) and now I am looking forward to taking part in Artists Open Houses, where I am showing in two locations.
I am excited to be exhibiting at 21A Brunswick Square with a fabulous group of artists, designers and photographers, and having been a visitor to this open house on several occasions I know there will be lots of lovely things for everyone to look at and (hopefully) buy! Check out the website at http://www.21abrunswicksquare.com
I am also showing at my studio in Kemptown with fellow studio members and guest artists. Again there will lots of lovely things on show!
I do hope you can pop in to one (or both) venues! Hope to see you!
I am featured in the April issue of “The Simple Things” magazine. The photos were taken on a cold and blustery day in November and the ice cream I am holding wasn’t even for me as I was fasting that day!
Wow! Where did those last few months go? When I started this blog I thought I would be posting at least once a week, but obviously have fallen at the first hurdle!
My last few months have been a whirl of seagulls “Oscar’s Friends” and “Oscar’s Friends Mobiles” which are proving rather popular, especially in Cornwall. Twenty four were despatched to Padstow to the Rick Stein gift shop (quite exciting really) and then another twelve to a lovely shop in Fowey “The Webb Street Company” also some mobiles to The Webb Street Company which are selling well and I am due to despatch a second order of those tomorrow and have already been asked for a third order! A bespoke order of “Oscar’s Little Friends” (basically the mobile sized seagulls but without the mobile!) to a shop in Whitstable and a large order to The Bowery Arts Centre in Leeds!
Off to Harrogate for the British Craft Trade Fair at the end of next week so am busy working on stuff for that as well and trying to do a new range of felt birds but at this rate this may or may not happen! Not sure I am not really looking forward to five nights in the Travel Lodge but at least it is central Harrogate so nice and handy for Betty’s where I am sure I will succumb to a Fat Rascal (or two)!
Sorry to have been a bit quiet over the last month but have been trying to finish all the orders from CRAFT in September before all the Christmas Craft Markets start! First up is the Renegade Craft Fair in the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane on 5th & 6th November. Not done this fair before but I have heard great things about it so fingers crossed for bumper sales! I then have a stall at the Unitarian Church in New Road, Brighton on 19th November and the following week I am doing “Made in Clerkenwell” from 24th – 27th November. I am in the first floor sink room (yes, that is just a room with a sink in it) at 21 Clerkenwell Green. Last years show was quite successful so hoping for good sales this time. Finally new stock will be going up to Fringe in Alexander Park Road in North London after Renegade Craft Fair. Phew! I thinks that all for the moment!
So last week was a little bit frantic for me!
The beginning of the week I was working on an order for a lovely looking shop in Cornwall, Thursday I had a photo shoot at the house which lasted all day, quite good fun though apart from the part where I had to have my portrait taken and then Friday was a lovely day up in London at the London Design Festival, where we actually came back with a stunning oar (yes I do mean an oar!) from a Canadian company. Their stand stopped me in my tracks as it was sooooooo beautiful! Check out their website https://norquayco.com/collections/artisan-canoe-paddles
I have now dropped off the parcel for Cornwall at the post office where 12 of “Oscar’s Friends” will be living for the next few weeks although hopefully they will all get sold over the Autumn half term (hence the rush). Now time for a quick tidy up in the studio and then I have to start on the next order, I have got a bigger flock of seagulls to make but first some throws and cushions for a shop in North London.
