A Bee, a Butterfly ...and a Hare...

Wow! What a week!!!

I entered artWEEK just to see what happened..... and things certainly happened!!!

I sold my pictures, and a lot of mirrors and prints of the pictures, I won a prize....and I even got recognized in the street!!

I think that may count as my 15 minutes of fame?!!

The more lasting elements of the week were these beautiful postcards I bought, by my lovely friend Lisa,
and they are indeed very lovely....and then, of course, there is the hare by Sue Jenkins that I bought with my prize money.....here he is!

What a cutie!!! and a lasting reminder of my wonderful week!! Now, there is no time for resting on any laurels....I have a countdown for a designer-makers fair in 12 days time!!! and at the moment I have NO stock!!!!

At this precised moment though, am working on another stitched picture (just wanted to see if I could still do it!!!). Hopefully can do a show and tell tomorrow!! x

A little bit blown away...

and I don't just mean by the great gusty winds that we've had today!

This week is artWEEK, a local exhibition where 425 amateur and professional artists exhibit their work in the Civic Hall - there are also 30 fringe venues around the valley.

This is the first year that I decided to join in - and I put forward two of my sewn fabric art pieces of local lanes...... first South Lane....
then Daisy Lane...

I loved producing these and got a bit carried away at the time, starting to see everything in terms of stitches, so I am very fond of them but I wasn't sure what anyone else would make of them.

So it was a huge surprise when I went to the exhibition today on the first day, and found not only have they both sold already!!!!!!!

But I had won an award!!!

The Florence Parker memorial prize no less - for the best newcomer!!!

Surprised and excited doesn't really sum it up!!!! Giddy, giddy giddy!!!

The prize was some money to spend at the exhibition which I had great fun doing today! Guilt-free shopping!! And my beautiful Sue Jenkins hare sculpture will be coming to live at our house on Saturday... Wonder where my pictures will be going?!!!!x