Handmade Arcade Take 2

So despite having a very important deadline on Tuesday I have been sneakily working away at making things to sell online and at craft fairs! I wanted to go to Handmade Arcade again because firstly - its always nice to chat with Nathan and Hayley and the other crafty people, and secondly, I figured this time it would be warmer and more people would be around than before christmas when it was freeezing!

I got a lift with some of the second years Ben, Miles and Bevin, who decided to get their faces painted in exchange for artwork :)

They had a lot of prints, cards and tshirts for sale and made this awesome collaborative drawing over the course of the day!

There were lots of beautiful crafty things for sale and we had some amazing vegan cakes (thanks Hayley)

My stall was in front of the Good Golly Miss Molly shop, I am in love with this place, they sell a huge range of handmade jewellery and accessories and hand printed cards and notebooks! If only I was rich...

Crown and Glory hair bows were teasing me through the window all day! 

Here is me all set up and some of the things I had offer, had an awesome day chilling out and chatting to crafty people, and managed to make a little bit of money too :) . If you are in the Exeter area I recommend heading down to Mccoys arcade and Fore Street, there are so many unique shops to explore.

Handmade Arcade

Last weekend I got up super early along with Holly Liminton to go to Exeter and sell our wares at the Handmade Arcade Craft fair organised by No Guts No Glory. 

The idea behind this fair is for illustrators and artists to have a place to sell their handmade items. The No Guts No Glory shop sells all sorts of Illustrated things from mini-zines to sweatshirts and badges so we thought it would be a good fair for us to go to!

We took work by a few people on my course which meant we had a wide variety on sale. We carried it all in a borrowed suitcase (thanks Katie) which we also used as a display case, it looked pretty decent in the end :)

It was a very, very chilly day, we did a lot of foot stamping and taking it in turns to get up and walk around. Ben and Abby came down halfway through the day to help with the selling and let us takes breaks to go out in the sunshine and warm up!

The NGNG team kept us happy with vegan chocolate cupcakes and hot cider which was amazing. All in all it was a fun day and we will hopefully be back next year with more to sell (and hopefully it will be a little bit warmer)

darkroom

I guess this goes away from illustration a little bit but ah well! I did a darkroom workshop this week which means I can finally get into the darkroom to do exciting things with prints! For this workshop I just developed some photos of Exeter as I have been working at their Animation festival this week. 

 Test strips!