Creative Boom!

I was asked by Lucy from Creative Boom Reading to write a little bit about myself and my work to go in their LookBook section and here it is! Go here to read the full article.

Only a week to go!

Well, less than a week to be precise, but that just makes me more nervous! Gathering Threads opens next Saturday 1st May and I still have a lot of framing to do. I did manage to get to a couple of other exhibitions this week. "Room to Manoeuvre" was a fascinating exhibition of conceptual sculpture, installation and video works by artist led group arjeea21 at Open Hand Open Space in Reading. Images are below. I also went along to the private view of the first Reading Contemporary Art Fair where there was some stunning work and I could have spent a lot of money! Instead I just came away with this print by Jasmine Mercer because it made me smile!

Busy busy busy

I'm flat out with sewing new lovely (hopefully) things for my exhibition in May at the National Needlework Archive called "Gathering Threads," details below. Now we've done all the bits and bobs like adverts and flyers, we can concentrate on actually producing some work to exhibit!

In between I've also popped another couple of card designs up in my Etsy shop, enjoy!

Trying to be prolific

I've been updating my Etsy shop over the last couple of weeks with all of my hand stitched pictures, so now almost all of them are up there. I've also been busy sewing lovely things, designing some new cards and kOodles creatures which will all be available very soon!

Wow Thank You launched today!

This fabulous new website full of lovely handmade-in-the-UK goodies launched in style on this beautiful sunny Friday! I'll be selling my wares through the site now as well as Etsy so if you prefer to buy through a UK site, this is where to go! Be prepared to fall in love with some of the beautiful products though. Currently only my cards are on there, but I'll be adding lovable creatures over the next few weeks.

Original Artwork now online

Hello all my faithful frOodles! I have finally pulled my finger out and started popping all my original hand stitched pictures up on my Etsy shop. I need to clear some space for all the productiveness I plan for the next two months (before my exhibition, that is). So please browse here for my artwork at heavily discounted prices I might add! Check back regularly though, there's plenty more where these came from!

New card and new news.

The new card design added to my Etsy shop this week has already proved popular. It's a cute card to send to just about anyone that means a lot to you. Get one here. I've been busy sewing away and also trying to get all my old and new items photographed and ready to upload to my shop, watch this space, I promise it won't be long! In the meantime, satisfy your cravings with a keyring or two!

New Best Seller!

So I've been a little bit quiet in January, to be expected I suppose, now I must be motivated! My totally awesome and very versatile new best selling card is pictured here. Fill in your own greeting for the easiest personalised card available. Tell me what to write on the front and inside, give me the address to send it to and I'll even do it for you! The ultimate anonymous Valentine's card perhaps?! Buy them here.

Happy New Year!

What a fantastically fun start to the year! The first three days were just glorious and now look at it! Actual Narnia! Anyway, here are just a few pics of our snowiness.

Being the organiser

I seem to have taken it upon myself to organise a joint exhibition in 2010 with some people I've never met. That's why I haven't written for a while, that and the fact that it's Christmas, the season of procrastination and staying snuggled up on the couch for days watching rubbish films. So I'm not usually an organiser of things, but I appear to have fallen into it fairly easily, although I can't say I'm too keen on the pressure. I've finally sent in my application for the 2010 Newbury Open Studios, the deadline of which is today, so to brighten up this post, here's my image for this year's event. Enjoy, and look out for it!