Getting ready for xmas fair on 3rd Dec

Have a Christmas Craft fair coming up next week so been working on some more designs and printing all the xmas designs I've done so far. Been photographing everything to put onto my Loie&Co facebook page and printing more business cards out.

Frodsham Craft Market- 19th Nov 2011

Another Craft market at Frodsham today and I think the best so far. It was a really good day- dispite the chilly weather; I sold a lot of my designs and gifts which is a really great feeling :)

My stall

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Designing Away

I've got another Craft fair coming up in a few weeks and since I got back from London I've been working on new designs and gifts ideas in preparation for Christmas. I've done quite a few Christmas designs that I'm hoping will sell. Doing all this is defentally keeping my creative juices flowing.

Placement; Studio Assistant- Thornback & Peel

That was an experience; the accommodation situation was a bit of a nightmare but the placement was really good. Everyone was so nice and friendly, and made me feel welcome. It's one studio where everything happens- sometimes it's amazing what you can fit into one room. The first day I was making up boxes for cards that were required for an upcoming trade show and orders, which was quite a lot- luckily I had some help from another intern. After making up well over 100 lids and bases (sometimes twice in one day) I can tell you that by the end of the week I'm confident in saying I'm a pro. I was also folding and wrapping the tea towels, napkins etc and packaging them up for orders ready to be sent out.
It wasn't just all packing though; I was heat pressing and carrying out quality control checks on all the linen and prints and even did a bit of screen printing too. I also got to see how a small company like this is run and get a real feel for it.

Craft Fair- 15th Oct 2011

Another Craft Fair at Frodsham today; it went quite well- much better then the first one did. I sold a few of my gifts & designs and made a profit; which is always good :)
People seem to be quite interested in my designs and have given me quite a lot of possitive feedback.

Heading down to London tomorrow for week placement- so up early again!

Placement- Thornback & Peel

Thornback and Peel are a small company based in London that hand prints their designs onto homeware items such as napkins, tea towel and aprons etc. I have a weeks placement with them, their work is rather illustrated but it will be great experience for printing and seeing how a small design business is run.
www.thornbackandpeel.co.uk

I think this is defo my favourite design

Hankies

I'm lovin this deck chair

Freelance work

Since July I've been doing a bit of freelance work and selling my designs at craft fairs. The first one was a bit hetic- all the preparation (designing & printing etc) and then making sure I had everything sorted the night before. The day itself wasn't great weather wise and I had a few problems but it got me started.
I then had a few cancellations for the next ones due to the weather (rain- of course). The next few however were quite good and it was a great feeling when someone actually bought some of my designs :) 
I've got another one planned later this month and a Christmas fair booked for Dec- that should be good.