We Make London

Not long now.. Everyone very welcome!

Summer!

Lovely sunny weather for the third day in a row -I think this might be summer! We had a lovely weekend in the sunshine. The new mini greenhouse is now up in the garden and we also went to a Steam Rally in Corbridge and had nice meals in the garden.



I also took a photo of Madam, the slightly moody bird who lives in a tree in our garden. She builds her nest in there every year and looks after her nest full of little ones. We even get to watch her teaching her new additions to fly. I don't know why she is grumpy, she gets quite a good deal really. One of our neighbours even buys grapes especially for her!



Talking of birds in the garden, number 7A is still vacant if anyone is interested?



Back to Storeyshop, I woke up to 2 more card orders which I have made this morning. Both blue love cards..





Right. I am off to post these two orders and then back to monkey making. I only have a week left to get everything ready for We Make London as I am travelling down next monday to freelance on Company magazine the week leading up to the fair. Lots to sort out!

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Neon Monkeys!

I have another sock monkey production line on the go! They are all lined up along the back of the sofa in various stages of development. I'm stocking up for We Make. The newest monkeys in the range are neon and are looking fab. I do have a bit of a thing for neon!





The design job I mentioned a couple of blogs ago is now 'on hold' which is a shame but, nevermind. All the better to concentrate on Storeyshop and learning web design. I kept saying I wasn't going to hold my breath about that job too. It's funny how you get a feeling about these things..

Finished Bags!

The finished Nanny Print Little Bags. A true Storeyshop joint effort with Beca designing and hand-printing the fabric from her amazing hand-cut lino stamp and me making bags from it! They will be available online very soon..

Right I'm off to get an indian takeaway to celebrate the new Storeyshop bag range and just that it's friday.

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Back Up North

My latest freelance stint in London went well. I got back home really late on friday and then Dave and I headed off to the Lake District early on saturday for a bank holiday camping trip. Neither of us had any mobile phone signal at all so trying to find our friends who had come up from Reading was all done with paper notes attached to cars. Much more fun! It's lucky Dave's Ibex 4x4 is very recognisable!

We had a great time. The weather was lovely and sunny just really windy! Our tent held up at night (some poor people's didn't!) but it was very noisy and we didn't get much sleep. I was grumbling about hating camping at one point in the night when the wind was literally lifting the edges of the groundsheet up, I was freezing cold and had to brave it outside to go to the toilet. In the morning though, with bacon cooking on the little camping stove, I loved camping again!









Right, I must go and finish off my card orders. I made 5 yesterday and I have 2 more to make today along with a monkey who needs packing up and sending to the U.S. Then it's more monkeys and bags to start making ready for We Make and the shop.

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Older

I had a fab birthday! I managed to celebrate for 4 days, ate lots of nice food, saw my friends and family and got lots of nice presents. I like being 27 so far! This week I'm working in London again on Cosmopolitan magazine. It's good. I'm enjoying being back in the city but am also looking forward to getting back to Storeyshop. Beca has started printing her own fabric and it looks so nice! She has made me some to make little bags out of, looking forward to creating those!

The posters are going up around London for 'We Make'. Beca is hand-printing paper bags and business cards and I am thinking up new card designs. Woo hoo, not long now!

'Google'ing Storeyshop

Typing Storeyshop into Google is always fun. I just had a look and found some fab mentions that I hadn't seen before. Raw Soil has written lovely things about a card I made for her sister recently and Chocolate and Steel blog has featured one of my mother's day cards I made a while ago too (for a moment I got really worried that she was saying it was horrible but, phew, she isn't!) There's also loads of links to mine and Beca's blogs and to our shop. All very exciting!

Right I have finished two more card orders this morning and photographed them. Now I must stop finding more and more things to look at on the internet (where do the hours go sometimes?) and get packing for my weekend away!

Here are Amy's (my most regular customer.. thanks Lovely if you ever read this!) latest cards..





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