Typography on my Floor

I rusted a piece of my steel typography signage without a protective floor covering and look what happened! Many would be horrified but I'm quite excited about the effect. I love having a typographical floor in my workshop!

The Chipping Sodbury Vintage and Handmade Fair

I had a lovely day at The Vintage and Handmade Fair. It's the first time I've done a fair and I was a bit nervous as I couldn't hide behind the veil of an online shop. I actually had to sell my wares the traditional way!!! It was fun and lovely to have the opportunity to chat to people about the things I am passionate about, namely producing hand lettering the traditional way but adding a modern twist. I like the contrast between the gentle art of pencil drawing and then using a harsh industrial method to produce it. It's what I have always understood to be one of the foundations of good design, a contrast or juxtaposition. This doesn't need to be jarring. I like it to be complimentary.

The vintage style personalised metal signage went down well, perhaps because the possibilities are endless as to what you could have made up to go on your wall. I was hoping someone might place an order for a rude word but sadly no one did...

Above is my bespoke business card dispenser which cost all of 10p and was cleverly (if I do say so myself) constructed from an ancient Mills and Boon paperback by simply folding all the pages into the centre of the book.

I made mini blackboards out of old frames and then wrote prices and other useful bits of infofmation on them. It made people smile!

It all looked like organised chaos really but I got lots of lovely compliments which made me feel a bit giddy. I took my eldest daughter and we felt like we had a proper day out as we were surrounded by the loveliness of all the other stalls. I meet Michele who also sells great cards on notonthehighstreet.com and Jess Quinn whose small art was inspired and whose dolls had the most beautiful faces. The WI was there providing delicious cakes...I had a particularly good lemon drizzle.

My letterpress cards were popular and worked well in old office filling drawers.

I recreated the blackboard look on black card with white pencils and it made really cheap but effective signage. I was amazed that it looked so chic as I find it hard to put a look together usually because I get so over excited and have too many ideas!

Everyone loved the roses and they added to the stall and made it look pretty. All in all it was a fab day and I would definately do it again!