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Ejectorseat Arts Festival 2011

Well I'm very excited to be writing about my lovely weekend last week down in sunny Southampton. To be honest, you should really read Keiron's excellent blogposts about the event here. I've even stolen some of his photos for my little overview-- I'm still waiting to get my film photos developed!

The festival is in it's 2nd year, and after enjoying myself thoroughly in 2010 (as a punter) I jumped at the chance of selling my wares in the arts & craft market this year. I was really impressed with the variety of stalls and how sleek and professional they all looked! I have to give some massive credit to Daniel for setting up my stall so artistically!

Image by Keiron, of course! Down the front are some beautiful prints and digital collages which I was selling on behalf of Nina.

I also ~premiered~ some new products, including some handpainted badges. but i'll write more about these in another post :)
Simon gave me one of these cool metal tabs. definitely gonna get me some!
To the exciting stuff! There was lots of cool installations and events at the festival. Here's a snippet:
Keiron's Monarch Butterfly paper installation, inspired by this:

Images by Keiron: Giant Rangoli ~ Painted birdboxes by Simon Abbott, live epic illustration of The Odyssey by Hannah Simpson.
I even did a little swap with Simon and got my own lovely little yellow birdbox!

Red + Brown

Had a fun afternoon on Sunday making up some new products to sell. I wanted to make use of some stamps I carved a while ago, and decided on using some large brown gift tags I bought on ebay. After trying some colour combos/layering, I was most happy with this simple red on brown theme. I've decided to sell them in pairs of patterns.

Below: Stars and stripes, available at my etsy shop

Below: Spots and dots. Will be selling these next month at an arts fair
Below: Waves and triangles, will also be selling these at the arts fair.
Below: the reverse of each tag, in matching ink
Below: how each product is being sold. Will test out these, and will eventually like to sell large batches (once I know it's profitable to invest in a big batch of tags!)

website update

just updated my website with some new stuff, and the linking image above for my shop. fun and games!

Jaqueline Jones

I teamed up with my future sister-in-law to make some banners for mummy-daniel. she has opened a sweet folksy shop here, selling hostess aprons and other nostalgic items. I digitally coloured the line drawings by louise, and added the font (from dafont.com).

below is a lovely cath kidson esque apron.

p.s. she does requests, too :)