Pet Flea Plushies

Since getting two little kittens recently, one being white, I have managed to find a couple of fleas...even though she has been treated!! This got me thinking for what I could make, with the next craft fair quickly approaching. PET FLEEEEEAS!!! Here there are, the first of my flea circus: Fleabee, Fleainn, Fleaix and Fleaiona.....

Festival Critters

Recently I have been busy preparing for and carrying out workshop at the Isle of Wight Festival. I was volunteering for Vinspired, a charity that opens up exciting volunteering opportunities for 16-25 year olds. I held "Critter Creations" workshops where I taught and helped people to make their own plush critters to take home with them. It was a really successful weekend, with potential to do more. Before hand I created some of the line up of this year's festival, including Devendra Banhart, Marina & the Diamonds, Jay-Z, Florence & the Machine and Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro.
To follow on from the workshops, I created a blog where I documented most of the critters people had made over the weekend.

Gruffles & his friends

Back in April one of my critters was part of Helen Frik's exhibition "Difficult". Here are some photos from the successful show including Gruffles amongst 200 odd more hand made plushies...

LSH in the EADT

Last week I went down to LoveOne to meet a journalist and photographer from the local press. However, our photographer was held up for an hour as he had to rush off to Capel St Mary for a Post Office drama!! Any who, after the delay in elections, the article has finally popped up in today's EADT. Nice little article...strange right hand of Luce's in the top picture!!
Sadly LoveOne is currently being saved from a hole in the floor, so until this is all mended the shop will be closed. But every cloud has a silver lining, and Cathy is available to provide urgent gifts if you so require them...

Film poster

Poster created for CurtLouis Films' debut short: Rene X. The films produced by UCS 3rd year students will be screening at the end of this month.
You can watch this film now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Or8U-atvg

Pirate Pouch

Every pirate needs a little leather coin pouch...so I had to nip one of these together for the pirate man. Men always have loose change, which only ends up falling out of pockets or into the wrong hands... no more 50p's for me...

My cloud of happiness

Cathy, the owner of LoveOne rung me yesterday to tell me a lovely reaction to my work.
A woman picked up one of my little hanging clouds:

"Your little cloud of happiness.
Remember, something good
will come from the bad.
Every cloud...x"

The lady started crying in the shop explaining to Cathy this is exactly what she needed to send to her brother who was having a rough time. My cloud critter said what she felt she could not.
Hearing this really touched me, I hope my cloud cheers him up even if it is just a little.x