Happy New Year

I hope you all had a great Christmas. I thought I would start the new year with a look back at 2014

It got off to a busy start when I exhibited for the first time at Spring Fair. It was a great fair to do and I am already planning for this year which starts on 1st Feb at the NEC in Birmingham.

Launched two new ranges Jubliations and Top Dog

Exhibited for a second year at PG Live, always a great show!

Was asked to design a Charity Christmas Card for Action Medical Research by Lynn Tait

Had my very own Pop -Up-Shop for a week on the North Norfolk Coast

Attended the Ladder Club Seminar an invaluable day for greeting card publishers

Finished the year off with the Ely Cathedral Christmas Gift and Food Fair

Thank you for all your support throughout the last year, lots of exciting plans for next year so here's to 2015!

Ely Cathedral Flower Festival

Last weekend I was lucky to be a part of the Ely Cathedral Flower Festival.

It was a four day event and I was in the craft marquee. Thankfully the weather was kind to us except for a bit of rain on Saturday.

The Cathedral was transformed with flowers based on the theme "The Creation". One of the highlights being a river of water running through the nave.

There was also a Diamond Jubliee theme too, this coronation throne was amazing.

It all looked wonderful there are some very talented flower arrangers out there.

Over the four days there were 20,000 visitors and I met some really nice people. I really enjoyed it and I could have easily have stayed there another few days. The cards went doen really well and I sold out of a few designs including the cycling and gardening cards which were the best sellers of the show.

Telephone Box Exhibition

Way back in September I was going to have my very own exhibition in The Phonebox Gallery close to where I live. Unfortunately it did not go ahead then but I am pleased to say that it is now back on and yesterday I went to set it all up. It is such a quirky space and I thought it would be a fun thing to do.

As it is a local gallery I decided to use the Ely Cathedral postcards that I produced last summer which have been going down well with at all the local fairs I have done.

The Phonebox gallery set up by curator Nick Edell has been running for over two years and is an innovative scheme to encourage and promote local arts and crafts. You can read the full story along with past exhibitions on the website phoneboxgallery.org

The show is running until the end of February and the Ely Cathedral postcards are all available in the art shop along with other original screenprints of the Cathedral too.