paper cut commission for a brothers wedding...

hello lovely people...

oh my it's been a while hasn't it? sorry my fault, i reached my quota of photos on my blog, so i had to potter though some boring blog things blah blah blah, all so i could continue! 

anywho, back to the fun stuff, this was commissioned by a lovely gent who wanted to give his brother something special as a wedding gift. i was asked to include the couple, their treasured cats, paper cranes, butterflies, ferns and mushrooms! here's what i came up with...

Christmas Workshop at Ipswich Town Hall...

hello, what are you doing tomorrow?

if you are in Suffolk why not pop into Ipswich Town Hall and join me at the Suffolk Craft Society Christmas Workshop. along with the excellent artist Katie Walker, who will be showing you how to make felt christmas decorations, i will be making paper cut decorations! It is tomorrow, Saturday 17th, from 12 till 4. the workshop is aimed at the kiddies, so if you have a little person looking forward to christmas this is perfect, but adults are also very welcome! just come into Gallery 2 and you can pretend it's already December!

come make some festive jam jar tealight holders...

or try your hand at decorating a paper cut bauble...

paper cut commission for a romantic wedding gift...

this is a commission i cut recently for a lady to give as a gift to her good friend on her very stylish wedding day. i was told their lovely story, which i hope they don't mind if i share with you. The old flames re-met at Latitude and got back together. The next year they returned to Latitude as a very happy couple. Simon suggested they go for a walk, he took her to the lake stage where he had organised for Sara's favourite band Admiral Fallow to play her favourite song Four Bulbs, where he proposed...

Christmas Exhibition 2012 Ipswich...

hello there 

if you live in Suffolk, or thereabouts, i would like to draw your attention to a lovely christmas exhibition that has recently opened it's doors in Ipswich Town Hall. run by the lovely people at the Suffolk Craft Society, and stocked by many talented crafter/makers, it'll get you right in the mood for christmas, and should help you with your christmas shopping too. it has beautiful but practical items you can use, and lovely things you can display. which is especially useful for those awkward family members that have everything, you know the ones... so why not get them a one off locally handmade piece? and if all this knackers you out, you can take some time to relax in the up-and-coming Snobs coffee cafe, which is right next door to the exhibition, also in the Town Hall.

i was honoured to be asked to design the poster for the exhibition, so here is a closer look at the cut i made for it...

The Suffolk Craft Society Christmas Exhibition 2012 is open from the 3rd November to the 24th of December, Tuesday to Saturday, 10am - 4.45pm, at Gallery 2, Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich. you might as well go have a look...