The Weeks are flying by

This weekend has been officially designated as my catch up weekend :} A little bit of time to batten down the hatches and gather my thoughts. The Tiny Gallery has take up quite a bit of my time, no regrets, but I need to produce some work myself for a craft fair on Wednesday evening at Greenfields Community Art Centre and of course theres the Aycliffe Angels exhibition to think about. I picked up a short documentary a fortnight ago about the history of Aycliffe Village with references about the Aycliffe Angles and need to go through it again and start a research sketchbook....

Creatively it's been a fantastic start to the year with my 'scavenger' sketchbook on tour in America with about 10, 000 others http://arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject there are some absolutely fantastic sketchbooks to view and the standard of artwork is very high. Lots of very inspirational work!

The Tiny Gallery

We are now exhibiting at Darlington Library with Kim Tillyer of Witchmountain http://witchmountain.wordpress.com,

Lindsay Thirlwell http://textilestrash.blogspot.com and Rachael McClafferty of Toasted Cat http://rachaelmcclafferty.com . Take a look at their work on our facebook page. We are also having a lucky dip on our facebook page. Post a comment on there in the next 48 hours to enter and have a chance of winning a mystery gift :)

The Tiny Gallery: Follow us on twitter

You can now keep upto date with The Tiny Gallery on twitter.

TG Giveaway

The Tiny Gallery launch giveaway goodies created by Poppy Lee, Papaver Designs http//:poppylee.blogspot.com and Karen Syms, Karyn, http://www.karensyms.co.uk/

Aycliffe Angels research

A couple of days ago I contaced Aycliffe Village Local History Society and have arranged to meet up with them to talk about the history of the Aycliffe Angels.

I'm really excited, I believe there is a lady who was herself an Aycliffe Angel! It will be fantastic to meet her. It's difficult sometimes to realise the real life experiences people had when reading or watching programmes about the Second World War. So it will be a delight to meet and chat to someone with first hand experience. I really can't wait to get started on some visual resources and get some initial sketches down! This is the moment when the exhibition really feels like it has begun it's no longer an idea swilling around in my head but has become a reality! :)

Cupcake Gift

It's lovely to put handmade gifts together and I've packaged up one of the cupcakes for a friends 50th Birthday. There's a couple of Chocolates in there two.

Arthouse Coop Sketchbook Posted :)

Today was the day the Sketchbook was posted! Can't wait to see what happens when it's added to the Brooklyn Library. This is the second piece of my artwork that has travelled to America. The first being 'Joy' my Momiji Couture Contest entry which was exhibited at the Royal/t Gallery in Los Angeles.

http://http//lovemomiji.com/couture_contest_profiles/karen-syms

Sketchbook almost there!

Almost there! Can't wait to pop my sketchbook in the post, really glad I registered for this project and looking forward to seeing how many times people take a look.

A few more pages!

Sketchbook Revival!

So much has happened over the past few months it's been difficult to focus completely on my sketcbook project. I'm determined it's going in the post this week!!! I decided to scavenge some of my drawing sheets from my first year at University and the following photos are the results of very enjoyable gathering of imagery :)

Reindeers & Cupcakes

Over the past couple of weeks I've been busy knitting Reindeer brooches and cupcakes which are just soooo lovely to make. I designed the Reindeer brooch pattern myself so I'm especially proud of them. They were originally for a craft fair at a local community arts centre but the weather saw the event cancelled. But I've really got the bug and am busily knitting more for the next craft fair that comes up.

Knitting tips

I'm looking for instructions for knitting socks and came across this site which has great photos of the circular knitting technique.

www.purlbee.com

I'm also looking for circular needles short enough to knit socks on but can only seem to find 40cm ones. Let me know if you know somewhere you can buy shorter ones.

Recycled Earings

Ever wonder what to do with all those bits of jewellery you never wear? Break it up and revamp into new pieces of jewellery. You'll have some very unique pieces and fun re-inventing them.

Knitty Knora's Knitting Circle

The venue is perfect! and it's a been great to have a chance to have a natter over a cuppa! Maggie has knitted some Festive Reindeers which are just adorable :) Looking forward to next Tuesdays circle and getting my poppies finished!

Ravelry

Just signed up to Ravelry. Sooooo much to to look at brilliant site :)

Nora's Knitting Circle

I'm really excited to be holding a knitting circle at Newton Aycliffe Library. A chance to catch up have a cuppa and cake whilst sharing creative ideas and tips. Don't worry if you can't knit I can teach you the basics. Please come along if you can or let me know if you would be interested at a later date :)

P.S. if you prefer embroidery come along to :)

Recycled Jewellery

got a recycled jewellery workshop coming up for some young people and just putting some ideas together using bits and pieces i've got stashed in my sewing box. I really loved playing about this evening I've missed being creative over the last few weeks and it's going to be brilliant to inspire others and see their creations... can't wait! :)

Lime Pink

My second knitted cushion cover of the week. Turned out a bit baggier than I expected but was simple to make and I enjoyed adding the little lime ties. Might add a third colour maybe some lemon ties?

Playing around with images for Artsthread Graduate website www.artsthread.com promoting portfolios of graduates from many colleges and universities around the world. Mill road Antique shop The Hive http://www.hiveantiques.co.uk/

surrendered some gorgeous finds yesterday for the garden party as did Oxfam a delightful fine bone china teaset. Can't wait to put the photo's up! Favourite blog postings today http://threadandthrift.blogspot.com

Homeless!

I miss my little house.....:( I'm really happy to be in Cambridge but I'm missing my own space so much and with all my personal belongings in storage I'm stuck for making things... maybe I'll pop out and make a little sewing box and then maybe I'll begin to feel more at home :)