New collection

This weekend I'm launching the new Butterscotch & Beesting collection at Pulse.

Everything will be in the shop soon, but in the meantime here are some shots from the new catalogue (... ooo fancy ...). I hope you like them.

I'll be at stand LP9 if you want to come and say hello.
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The circus is off to Pulse

Next weekend (12-14 May) I'll be taking the Butterscotch & Beesting Circus Pulse.

I'm *almost* ready.

Here's a sketch of what the stand will look like.

The shelves on the left are based on trapezes, with oak shelves suspended from hemp ropes. The ones at the back in the middle are a very simplified ferris wheel, and they'll have painted semi-circular 'gondolas' at the end of each shelf that twirl round. There'll also be a few oak-topped podiums sprinkled around, and some wall lamp fittings.

It's lived in my head for so long, and now it's on paper too. It's about time it existed in the real world.

screen-printing tees

Lots of exciting things happening in the circus tents recently. I've almost finished the new collection which will launch at Pulse from 12-14 May (I'm even on their front page, so probably best to have everything ready in time).

One of things I've been working on is a redesigned logo and packaging, which I'll tell you more about soon. As part of that, I've been screen-printing some tshirts. I haven't printed tees since I was at school, but it's the most fun I've had in ages. So if everything round the house soon has a top hat on it, you'll know why.

I'll post more peeks of the new collection soon, I promise. I just need to finish it first! (If you look closely at the photo, though, you might be able to spy a corner of a couple of the new prints).

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PS. I've been a bit preoccupied lately. Trying to squeeze four different jobs and three children into one week with a three-year-old at home on most days is proving tricky. There's been lots of jigsaw building on the studio floor (thank you jigsaw makers – you're a godsend). So, sorry for the sporadic posting and communication. And if I forget to phone, or email, or reply, or talk to you, or pick you up from school, please just bug me until I do.

Woodland wall

Yesterday was the last day of the holidays. I'm a bit sad I didn't get to spend more time with my children, but we did do a lot of skipping, tie sky-high balloons around our wrists and make a woodland wall. 

happy easter

This year it's pink and white bonbon bunny tails at our house.
We're still waiting for the Easter Bunny to arrive.
I hope he hops along soon or we may have a riot on our hands.
Have a wonderful Easter. See you in April.

crafty fox-timers + crafty fox-vourites

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CRAFTY FOX-TIMERS

top row / left to right   

'Teo doll' by WhiteFoxinBlackBox

'Texture necklace 1' in silver and gold by Julia Almeida

'Leather circle necklace' by Benu Shop

middle row / left to right

'Bunting cushion' by JonnaxKangan

'You are the bees knees' papercut by Papercut Writer

'Triangle postcards' by Be Good Stay Good

bottom row / left to right

'Squeak' dish by Yas-Ming Ceramics

'Hand-drawn porcelain plate' by Pen & Gravy

'The dog bowl' by Made By Me Me Me

This weekend Crafty Fox will once again be taking over the Dogstar in Brixton.

Scootching (is that a word . . . it's underlined in red on my screen, so I'm assuming it's probably not) through the list of stalls, I found a rather exciting collection of makers whose work I haven't seen before. Discovering makers for the very first time and finding new products to love is always a delight.

[I do have one tiny weeny confession. I first saw Yas-Ming Ceramics last year at Designers/Makers. But she's never been at Crafty Fox before. Not even once. So she's new here. Am I allowed get away with that? Please say yes?]

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CRAFTY FOX-VOURITES

And I couldn't do a post without mentioning some of my other favourite people who'll be there too.

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'Big Ben London Print' by Cecily Vessey

'Scooting Squirrel Screenprint' by Ketchup on Everything

'Fox Brooch' by AndSmile

middle row / left to right  

'Fox With Green Hat' by Bel's Art

'Sourrounded 1' by Jamie Mills

'Coconuco' by Anna Wiscombe

bottom row / left to right

'Time for Teacakes' by Charlotte Farmer

'Goose in a Propeller Beanie' by Birds in Hats

'Cake Sloth Plate' by JimBob Art

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I can't make it to Crafty Fox. I've been snowed in.

Where has all this crazy weather come from? Last year it was 25 degrees and today my plans have been scuppered by a mile-high (almost) pile of snow. I am pretty devastated not to be going, but there will still be millions (almost) of utterly fantastic stalls there, so I'm sure I won't be missed. I hope you all have a wonderful time and that the snow doesn't make down it to Brixton. Love you Crafty Fox xx

a handmade living

So . . . a few weeks ago I had an exciting phone call from the very extraordinarily nice people at Handmade Living magazine. They were doing a circus issue, they said, and wanted to feature my work, they said. Ooh, that's nice, I said, and imagined a little mention somewhere.

It turned out to be a bit more than that. How my heart raced when my husband returned from town, a copy in hand, and I flicked through not one, not two, but six pages of Butterscotch & Beesting (if you count a mention on the front page - which I definitely am).

I got a whole armful of goosebumps when I read Elaine Pearson's words about the imaginary world I've been building. I felt like she had climbed under the canvas of my mind and explored the circus until she knew every part of it. Seeing the issue for the first time was probably, or almost definitely, one of the best days I've ever had.

From now on, anytime I feel a bit low, overworked or overwhelmed, I've promised my family I will get out my magazine and disappear in its lovely pages and India's beautiful photos.

PS. It's the April issue and it's out now.