CHRISTMAS SALE

All my christmas items are now HALF PRICE in my Etsy shop here.

All cards are now £1.25, shop extra early for next year.

★ Canvas competition ★

I recently visited the Year nine GCSE Textiles pupils of Walkden High School in Salford, Manchester to give a careers talk.  I showcased my University Textiles work, images and samples of my greetings cards from Hallmark cards and some imagery and produced canvas designs from my current job as a Wall art designer.  I hope they found it inspiring, I tried to make the talk as inspiring and visually stimulating as possible with plenty of work to look at and pass around alongside an indepth powerpoint presentation...

I also set a Canvas design competition.  The pupils had to design and create a canvas which included a word, a pattern, a stitch and an object.  The winners would then receive their design printed on to a canvas to keep (3rd - 20x20cm, 2nd - 30x30cm & 1st - 40x40cm)

After working on the canvasses for a couple of months it came to judging time for me and Miss Quinlan (the Textiles teacher).  We were both very impressed with the standard and variety of designs, soooo here goes...

THIRD PLACE...

Georgia

SECOND PLACE...

Grace

AND THE WINNER IS...

Lauren

As I didn't have my blog this time last year I thought I would also show you the canvas competition winners from last year.  The competition was held for three classes so there was a first prize for each class...

Georgia

Holly

Nicole

Out n about in Ramsbottom

Went for a little breezy walk around Ramsbottom yesterday, I would definately recommend visiting the Atelier Rose & Gray Gallery (opposite the urn) It is full of beautiful contemporary prints, original works and cards and gifts.  Featuring the work of local and well known artists including Peter Blake (sgt. pepper album cover)

Peter Blake prints

The lovely window display...

The Gallery staff were very friendly and I received a complimentary glass of mulled wine to warm me up while browsing. 

You can visit the Atelier Rose & Gray Blog and online shop here

I also visited my favourite shop Memories Antiques which is a huge antique shop spread over two floors packed with lots of weird and wonderful treasures

A few things I have bought recently from Memories include...

Fun at the Fair

We had a stall at a local craft fair this weekend, due to bad weather we didn't do as well as expected but was fun anyway and the mulled wine was flowing nicely...

I will be placing leftover items in my NEW ETSY SHOP soon so take a look in the next few days.

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