Monday 22 September 2008

Columbia Road & Howies

I've been a bit slow on the blog-front lately. So today I am going to make up for this with a fairly picture-heavy post!
Decided to go in to London for the day yesterday, Mum & I. We'd been wanting to go to Columbia Road in Bethnal Green for quite a while. Mainly because of this:

Rob Ryan's shop Ryantown. The pair of us are slightly obsessed with Rob's work. But we were quite restrained yesterday and simply drooled over the prints and tiles, and left with just a card.

Columbia Road in genereal is such a lovely place, though. The other reason we wanted to go was for the flower market that's held on Sunday mornings. People all over the place wandering around with massive bunches of sunflowers. Lovely :) All just very relaxed.

From there we headed to Carnaby Street. My entry for the Folksy/Howies competition reached the final nine, meaning it's on display in Howies in Carnaby Street for the week, for people to vote on!

The whole display looked fantastic. Really nicely put together. Everyone's pieces looked great.

And that up there is my piece, and the high-tech voting system of sticky stars - got to love it! & I'm pretty chuffed to have so many stars, I must say.

Monday 8 September 2008

Book making

The weather was grim on Saturday. I went and had fish & chips with my Nan, then came home and sat at my desk for three hours. The result was this:

Those tea and biscuit drawings I'd done were part of my college summer project about conversation. I'd got a bit stuck with new ideas, so instead of coming up with something new, went back to the teapots, and made a book. I like making books, but by the time I'd finished I was absolutely exhausted! And my desk ended up looking like this:

It was my grandparents's wedding anniversary yesterday. As a present, I did a drawing of their house - put one in a frame and made a set of notelets, too. They were pretty pleased :)

And finally, my aunt & uncle have just moved to Edinburgh, so I made them a new home card. There seems to be a great deal of "Now, Lucy...it's so-and-so's birthday/anniversay/moving day/whatever coming up...I don't suppose you could...." lately! Not that I mind - it's nice to actually make things for a purpose :)

Thursday 4 September 2008

I love mankind mag

A wonderful new issue of Design For Mankind magazine went online yesterday. And I must say I'm pretty chuffed for my little piece of hand lettering to be a part of it.

Monday 1 September 2008

New listings!

I've been very lazy on the Etsy front lately. Not listed anything new in a month. But I got round to making a few cards and bits this weekend :)