Dawn Turner Designs

  

I just love this sunny coloured treasury I was featured in, it proper cheered me up!  You can see the full treasury, and click on the links, here COLOUR ME HAPPY Treasury – if you can’t tell, mine are the Groovy Baby coasters….

Well, there’s not that much of it I am afraid!

Last week, I worked with a local school making Chinese lanterns with willow and tissue.  For two days, I worked with Year 6’s (or for you of a certain age, fourth year juniors!) – one class each day – 22 lovely children each day.  It  was a challenge to get done, but the kids worked really hard and by the end of each day we had a classroom full of pretty, rabbit inspired lanterns.  By Wednesday, I thought I’d gone deaf though, as I didn’t hear anybody calling my name, or ‘Miss’ for ages…

Sadly the weather wasn’t very nice on Saturday for the Chinese New Year celebrations on Ilkeston market place – after those howling winds (where’s my fence panel gone?  Did it skip off into the sunset with the trampoline cover?) – although there was still a good turn-out for the dancing and festivities.  Just not many lanterns – not that they stayed lit in all that wind.

So what else have I been doing?  More listing on Etsy – and the Frit Happens Etsy Street Team have been working hard as usual to promote everybody…. I made it into another treasury or two…

Listing on Etsy is a bit addictive… mind you, checking how many views the items in your shop has had is even more so!  They say a watched pot never boils, so I need to stay away!

I’ve got to start thinking of new ideas – I am loving using the decals, but I want to start designing my own – although my supplier does some lovely ones, they aren’t unique.  And I also have some ideas I want to try out for the exhibitions that are coming up in spring.

I might share with you when I have had a play!

Last week was full on.  The school seemed really pleased with the work, I just want to go back with a bit more time to take some better photographs, so I can use some images for publicity material.  Meanwhile, I took a provisional booking for a workshop, along with some lantern making workshops I am doing next week, did a bit of networking,  I sold another item on Etsy (yay) and, erm, what else – oh, yes, I did the cap and gown thing and graduated, officially, on stage.

This week has been a bit mixed, mostly non-work problems that I won’t bore you with, but include my new all singing all dancing phone breaking down, what a pain.  Hopefully, if I set it up right, I won’t have lost too much information.  A few other things, mixed in with a great time visiting my past by going to Rock City to see The Cult (a bit too old for all that mosh pit stuff these days though!)

Anyway, I have been featured in another Etsy Treasury, this time my VW Camper Coasters:

On the Shed 2 Studios front, we’re opening for the Derbyshire Open Arts 2011 event, which is at the end of May.  I will tell you more about that nearer the time.