... Christmas is a coming

Today at Designer Mart was certainly a good pointer as to what people are looking for for Christmas. 'Just You', was an outright winner, but the Christmas(sy) prints were favourites with 'Foxy Dreams' and 'Sleep Tight' golden tints and a 'partridge in a pear tree' lovely robust feel. See piccies.

Tomorrow will be a work from home day, a spot of nice relaxed Lino cutting, woo hoo, bring it!

Lewis Glucksman Gallery

Ah, the joys of this space. What an amazing fair to do. Bright, light, spacious and relaxed, what more could you ask for! Here's some pics of the beautiful architecture and interior space - clean-lines-tastic! For anyone who doesn't know where to find it, it's in the grounds of UCC just a skip from Cork city.

How did I get on you might ask? It was so nice to have my first fair outside of Dublin here. I worked really hard on my display prior to the show, and with the new 'FAWN' logo that was essentially launched here, I'm happy to say it was all very well received... Particularly the gift boxes which got a lot of attention!

Preparations for Creative Island

So I know it's coming up to the C-time (apparently, I'm allowed to say the actual word after Halloween), however I've been busy designing new work, the new logo and new displays. I have a lovely spot for Creative Island in January, and one of the new pieces I will be showcasing are these two, 'swoosh' and 'just you' - some of you may have already seen these bit thought I'd share the excellent photos, courtesy of Trevor Harte Photography! The end!!!

New website now live!

Quick post just to let y'all know the new site is now live - a few tweaks to make (and possibly a much larger, general tweak!) but I think it's looking great. Take a look http://www.theprintingrooms.ie/index.html, or at fawn.ie and, although I've been promising for many weeks now, a discount code will be sent out to anyone on the mailing list early next week, so don't forget to get your name down!

New website... Nearly there!

It's been a fiddly, busy few months. Not quite feeling like I'm getting a huge amount done, but in reality quite a bit has moved on with the Printing Rooms. The website is in the final stages of being completed; some lovely packaging, after quite some trial and error, and lots of research, has been finalised. A few interesting projects coming up, and lots of finalising of 'things'. In between all of this, I have been trying to design a few new pieces, and will knuckle down to this in the next week or so.

So to satiate you, here's a wee pic of the new packaging, available now in the lovely Liberties in Westport. They fit my smaller printed frames, are laser cut with the flamingo pink tissue or (grr, manly) black tissue, with ribbon handle... still testing the strength of the handle and have swung it around a fair bit, but looks like it's good to go!

Don't forget to add your details to the mailing list, if you're interested in hearing about new site launch offers!

some pics of Bloom work

Nothing much to report from The Printing Rooms Studio except a lot of printing has been happening in preparation for Bloom in the Park, 31st May - 4th June. I promised on my last post that I would load completed images of new work once done, so that's all, here they are!

If I can get spare tickets for Bloom, I'll be posting updates on Facebook, so don't forget to like the page to keep updated!