Last Weekend of Ashdown Artists!

How time is whizzing right now!! This weekend is the LAST chance to visit Ashdown Artists, a wonderful house which is part of the Worthing Art Trail. The house features 7 diverse artists and designers (including us!) and is well worth hopping on the train if you're not Worthing based. Here's a little glimpse of some of the treats on offer!

Screen prints by I Am John Bond and Ellie Bond 

Hand drawn birds, houses and tea cups by At the Little House

Original ink paintings by Anna's Drawing Room

Beastie Bunnies by Ellie Bond, brooches by At the Little House

hello DODO t-shirts (which are 20% off!)

Hand drawn bunny At the Little House, Handmade Doll Ellie Bond, and George of course!

I Am John Bond cards

Poster by hello DODO

Have you visited yet? If not we hope to see you this weekend! Seen any other houses in the Worthing Art Trail?

p.s. You can read more about Ashdown Artists plus interviews with some of the artists over on Anna's Drawing Room blog here.

George is a WINNER! Mollie Makes Handmade Awards 2015

Ello ello! What a whirlwind we are living in right now?! If you didn't see last week ourselves and Karli from designosaur spent the day in London with the wonderful Mollie Makes crew as we had been shortlisted for the Collaboration Award as part of their annual Handmade Awards! It was of course all because of George that we were there! 

AND WE WON!!! Surprised is a bit of an understatement as we were in the company of such amazing inspirational handmade business owners! We were also the last to pitch to the panel of 8 judges so we had allllll day to get nervous about it. Luckily the judges were all super friendly and it's pretty easy to talk about something as fun as George!

Photo Credit: Mollie Makes

Rewind to the beginning of the day! After having a coffee and meeting everyone we all went off on a photo walk with Xanthe Berkeley in the GORGEOUS London sunshine! Can you spot Jam in the above pic?! Haha.

Here's Karli from designosaur just before she did a star jump and I got an awesome pic of her TOTALLY flashing her pants. I think maybe if I posted that picture our collaborating days might be over...

Our Brighton friends Amy & Claire from Super+Super were also up for an award! The Established Business award to be exact. Another Brighton Babe Lynsey from What You Sow (in the dungarees) was there to give Amy moral support. Was lush hanging out with these girls! The lovely ladies from Margot (Worthing based collaborative Artist Beach Hut, part of East Beach Studios) were also shortlisted and it was so nice to meet them and chat about Worthing! So yeah, the South Coast were well rep'ed! 

Gormless surprised winning faces!

The entire day was so fun, inspiring and a little terrifying (but the good kind of terrifying). We had fantastic informative talks from Pavilion about How to Publish a Book and also from PinterestUK...I wrote LOTS of notes during this one! Mollie Makes did a wonderful job at organising the day and all of the people we met were so so nice. We're hoping that the success doesn't go straight to George's head! Want to hear designosaur's account of the day? Check it out here!

Lucky Dip Club X Folksy launches tomorrow!

We're a TAD overexcited this week as not only is it the Brighton Etsy Team Craft Party tomorrow (got your ticket??) but it's also the day that the Lucky Dip Club X Folksy box goes on sale! This has been such a FUN unique project to work on and massive kudos to Leona of Lucky Dip Club and Camilla from Folksy for all the organisation and bringing it together so beautifully. We cannot wait to see what everyone else involved has made! And for you to all meet our new little friend we've created ;o) Here are our fave picks from the wonder talents involved....this gives you no clue however of what they've made for the box! Aaaah the suspense.

From the Top, Left to Right: DIY Needlepoint by Cotton Clara, Bear Collar Clips by Frilly Industries, Nuthatch Card (with bird seed!) by Kate Broughton, Fried Breakfast Necklace by Kayleigh O'Mara, 'Stuff I'm Likely To Forget' Notebook by Bread & Jam, Dinosaurs by hello DODO (that's us!), Cactus Brooch by Delphine & Max, Moustache Man Wooden Brooch by Elodie G

From the Top, Left to Right: Cocktail Lino Print by Ella Osborne ,  Set of 4 Gift cards by Paper Beagle,  Push Me Pull You  by Little Birdy, City in the Fox Screenprint by Bel's Art World, Cotton Message Doll by Kekekaka, Sunset Necklace by I Am Acrylic, Children's Plywood Clothes Hanger by Red Hand Gang.

What an amazing bunch huh?? Boxes go on sale on Lucky Dip Club tomorrow at 7am :o)