Christmas Stall

Hello All,

This weekend my sister and I got together and ran a stall at my local village Christmas fair. I was selling my journals and labels and Fliss was selling her gorgeous jewellery:

Our stall looked lovely and Christmassy and it was great fun running it with my sister. The fair was lovely and busy and a great success, and it all helped to raise money for our local school.

Hopefully it is the first of many for Fliss and I.

Bye for now!  xx

Weekend Work

Hello All,

This weekend I had loads of time to work on my various projects. I am doing a another stall next month, a local Christmas fair. I have plenty of journals and labels left over from the last stall but I wanted to add something a bit more christmassy so I set about making packs of christmas labels:

I made these using my Gelli plate and some Christmas washi tapes.

The other thing I worked on was my commission which is coming on nicely but still has a way to go, here it is so far:

I also had a friend over who has been going through a rough time and has started coming to my art journaling sessions as a form of therapy to try and help her make sense of things and vent her emotions. It is brilliant for this and I myself use it in this way a lot! She was stuck though, she had started a page and just didn't know where to go next with it. We got out loads of materials and I helped make suggestions and point her in the right direction. She managed to finish her page and was happy with the result:

Susan's page

I really love that about teaching art journaling. It is really relaxing just to sit and play with all the different mediums and at the same time it really helps to get things sorted in your head and process how you are feeling about something. To see that working for the people I teach is wonderful. :)

Bye for now! xx

Dovefest Stall

Hello All!

This weekend saw the long awaited Dovefest craft stall. The day started early, setting up at 9am but the gates didn't open till 12.

It was a slow start but picked up at about 3pm. It went alright but perhaps not as well as I had hoped and I still have lots of journals and labels left. I think I may start to put some up on my etsy shop instead and perhaps look for a Christmas stall later on, Regardless it was a fun day and I really enjoyed it :)

Bye for now! xx