Adieu 2012

The year is finally coming to an end - and what a year it has been, thank you to all the amazing buyers and supporters of handmade in various guises.
I will finally be taking a well earned break over Christmas.

The  New year will bring a new direction for Papa Totoro.

It can only get more interesting.......

A slow Sunday

I have made some storage pods in my favourite pattern and colour combination - Raja in indigo blue ink against crisp white linen with exquisite duck egg blue linen for the lining.

 I only printed enough linen to make three and as I loved them so much I decided to keep one for myself :)

The morning after

A brilliant evening at the Tate where I and nine other very talented Etsy sellers had the opportunity to meet the public and sell our  handmade goods.
It was a very busy and  enjoyable evening, the surroundings were beautiful, the event was well organised with music, pop up bars and a fantastic atmosphere.
It was lovely meeting the people who came to the event - many who were already aware of my shop and some who discovered it for the first time.
It wound down at 9.30 pm, by which time myself and my fabulous helper (and best friend -thank you Val!) were exhausted yet elated at the response and turn out to this amazing event.
By the time we finally packed up and got home it had gone midnight and wearily we all crawled to bed......blissful!

Come along............

And meet myself and nine other Etsy sellers tommorrow evening in London - the Late at Tate 6-9.30pm.
Everthing in my shop will be available for sale - plus some limited edition specials created for the day- come snap up some bargains!

The run up

Its only a few days before the Tate event and Im in the final stages of packing my stock. Neat tubs of carefully labelled and folded items begin to emerge from the chaos of production.

Saying that, I still have a fair amount to do before I can breathe out....lots of itemising, labelling etc is very much in progress - and for my sins some last minute printing needs to be done.

So it might go quiet on my blog for a few days - but as Christmas is almost here I decided to get just a little festive and hang  up some of the clay birds I made...