I love a fresh pack of business cards, lately I’ve had two different lots done for me. Mini moo cards (I love how much they’ve improved the custom options for the backs) for me & Vistaprint cheap-and-cheerfulness for tinybadges.

Today a copy of Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities was brought to me by Mr postman. It’s a visual reference guide with 1500+ 19th century engravings. The book itself is beautiful – as well as the contents. If you like vintage illustrations and imagery this is a must.

I know my posting has been a bit sparse of late. I’ve been busy preparing stock for the shop/fairs and hunting for a part-time second job. Here’s a few little things I’ve been meaning to update with:

♥ I’m now using Tumblr. Let me know if you have one too!

♥ I’ve also made a formspring account if you’d like to ask me anything.

♥ Dilys Treacle did a great write up of the fair I did in Sheffield a couple of months ago, Hello Amber and 365 zines have both reviewed one of my zines each, and Hello Bee and The Brighton Collective have written a bit about my work (ps. thank you).

Last week saw the opening of the brand-spanking-new Handmade co-op shop. It’s run by the same people who put on the Handmade Brighton art and craft fairs at Komedia, and I’m renting one of their retail spaces. They’ve got a fantastic variety of different types of work in there all by independent artists/designers/crafters, and they did a great job putting the whole place together for us.

It’s on St James street in Brighton, and open Tues-Sat 10am-6pm and Sun 11am-5pm.

That’s my space above.

I’m throwing a give-away!

There are 3 different sets of prizes to be won. If you would like to enter just comment with your choice of print (see prints on offer here). Entries are open till April 26th, and winners will be drawn randomly from something hat shaped. International entries are also welcome!

For extra entries, you can:
- Become a fan on facebook
- Tweet, blog, or otherwise promote the giveaway

(Leave a comment telling me you’ve done any of these! You will get one extra entry for each)

First Prize:
♥ A 8×8 polaroid print of your choice
♥ A copy of each of my zines
♥ Some badges, magnets and stickers
♥ A set of 6 postcards
♥ & a felt moustache brooch and some sugary treats.

Second Prize:
♥ A 5×5 polaroid print of your choice
♥ Moustache and heart badges

Third Prize:
♥ A set of 6 postcards

I now have a whole bunch of prints listed on my Etsy shop, and to celebrate and give of them a bit of a launch I’m offering all of my Polaroid prints as buy one get one free for the rest of October. Add the code: oohprints in the “message to seller” box at checkout, along with which 2nd print you would like (of equal or lower value) to get your free print!

Yay, after faffing around switching hosts I’ve finally got my website back. I’ll get back to posting very shortly! :)