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These are some pictures of my stall at my first craft fair, at The Chorlton Arts Festival craft market.
It was a fabulous craft fair with loads of great stalls. Unfortunately I didn't have much time to look around as it got quite busy. Ollie got to see Wallace and Gromit The Curse of the Were-rabbit in the scout hut with daddy, he came back really excited because the curtain fell down half way through, how exciting.
Monday the 18th May saw the book launch of The Jewel Keepers in Chorlton.
The Jewel Keepers Book One: Albion by E.J.Bousfield is a fantasy fiction trilogy.
Elaine is a lovely member of the SCBWI book group I attend. This is her first book to be published, I've got my copy for my summer read if you want yours it's published by Kings Hart Books
ISBN-10: 1906154147
ISBN-13: 978-1906154141
The Jewel Keepers is a magical fantasy that centers around two girls, separated by centuries of time, but united by a mysterious Jewel. The novel is set in Katie’s world, the modern world of Britain but we are also taken to Mortunda’s world – the Celtic past of Britain when people lived in tribes and believed that the world around them was alive and magical. Mortunda’s tribe is the Brigante and it was one of the largest tribes in pre-roman Britain.
I have drawn on lots of historical research to paint Mortunda’s world and although Mortunda herself is not an historical figure, there are people in the novel who are (especially in book two). The trilogy is set at the time when Albion was on the brink of being taken into the Roman Empire and explores what that might have been like for the different tribes, as well as following the story of the Jewel Keeper.
The Jewel Keepers is a tale of power, religion, war, belief and friendship.
This is very exciting. I haven't really seen all my work in one place since my college shows. I have to say I've impressed myself I think it looks really good. I hadn't realised I had been so busy drawing and painting.
My exhibition Twilight Twinkle and Fairy Fun is at The Pottery Corner, Until the middle of July as part of the Chorlton Arts Festival.
34 Beech Road
Chorlton
Manchester
M21 9EL
I really should have put some make-up on for this one.
My first craft fair... These are a selection of pictures of the chaos in our house when I was making stock for my first ever craft fair. There were a few issues like when Ollie broke my badge machine trying to make himself a blue bunny badge but all in all I quite enjoyed myself. Although Ollie's first words to me the morning after the fair were...
"Mommy why do you do all the boring stuff and not play?"
Keep cutting, should have brought a cutter!
Framing prints.This is the Virgo in me, I can't bear to tape the back of my prints so I had to cut out hundreds of little triangles to hold them in place.
Right it's blogging time. I've been pretty busy lately but I've done and dusted a few deadlines so it's time to clear my head of all the things I want to blog.
The last SCBWI North West regional event for 2009 took place on the 2nd May in Manchester.
It was a talk by the author Philip Carvey, the writer of the Sebastian Darke novels. I arrived feeling a bit poor but 2 minutes into the talk I had to get myself one of those books. Philip Carvey was a great speaker telling the story of how he came to write for children, which he did initially for his daughter who wanted to read one of his books, his adult stories were highly unsuitable. When he told of how at the beginning of his writing career he was so slow it took him a year to write a novel I nearly choked, I've been writing mine for about four years. I think it takes him about three months now, I can only dream. I love these events it's great to meet other creative people and learn from them. He's from Manchester too, we have loads of cool people here!
The next event is on the 7th November 2009 "The things I know now that I wish I'd known then." A Talk By Steve Hartley
Steve was at the first writers group I ever went to and gave me some invaluable advice. He was one of the winners of the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices 2008 and has signed an eight-story, four -book deal with Macmillan to publish Danny Baker, Record Breaker. Danny Baker was Steve's entry to the 2008 Undiscovered Voices anthology competition.
Tickets are £5 to book email Stephanie at lilyghost147@yahoo.co.uk
I am somewhat busy at the moment with my first Craft fair in a couple of weeks and an exhibition to hang. It is all part of The Chorlton Arts Festival, Manchester.
It's also time for submissions for UNDISCOVERED VOICES 2010 a competition run by The Society of Children's writers and Illustrators for unpublished aspiring authors, so double cramming!
I have loads of photos to blog because Ian was having a black and white photography day Sun but more of that later. For now I'll post my exhibition poster!
And here's one I made earlier! I have repainted this sketch digitally. It's called The Owl Encounter. I'll be adding it to my Etsy shop later this month.
