Soggy Cycling

Easy exercise day today, cycled to the studio in the rain. Felt quite refreshing! I'm working on a few commissions and quite a large wholesale order, so I'll be busy printing over the next few days. Ordered some materials and a new screen, which is always exciting, but not so nice for my bank balance! Eek! Damn you cash flow.

Some jolly badges.

I am no longer a woman, I am a machine...

Donned my short shorts for a 'speedy' 5k this morning. Felt good and really tried to pick up the pace, but wasn't actually much quicker than usual. C'mon legs! Ah well, enjoyed it anyway, it's a beautiful day. Did some squats and super-light weights when I got in. Gotta get tough. Tough like a...robot!

Printing in progress.

Nellbots drying

Robo-bibs

How's that for a tenuous link?? Today I am doing more editing and updating, you can now buy little robot bibs on my Not on the High Street store. Other nice new things are on their way!

Saturday Sunshine

This morning I cycled to work in the glorious sunshine. Cycling from Chorlton isn't really a challenge as it's fairly flat. The problem is the traffic when you hit town. Busy busy!

New Vans to compliment Gino.

I printed up a couple of custom baby bibs and posted out an owl print commission.

Soya ink Risograph print on recycled card. Yum!

Oh, did I mention I personalise baby wear?!

I thought I'd put down some of my goals for the month, as writing them down in public might help me to achieve them!

Firstly, join my local running club, The Chorlton Runners. A combination of natural shyness and laziness has prevented me from going before now. I will conquer my fear tomorrow!

Secondly, do a Park Run. See above paragraph for excuses. Add to that working a lot of Saturdays means that it hasn't been easy to get to. Until next week when I will be taking part, no matter what! It's at 9 a.m at Platt Fields Park, so I should just have enough time to complete the run and cycle to work if needs be. I've just registered, so there's no turning back now!

My work-related goal is to have good photographs of my main products to start a website revamp by the end of the month. I made a start on this yesterday.

So now they are here in black and white, feel free to berate me if I fail!

Winners!!

Hello and Happy Friday! I picked out the winners of my give-away a while ago now, but then got too busy/distracted/lazy to post them. Sorreeeee! So here they are:

Cristina has won Mr Owl poster - hoot!
Danielle Wood has won the Lion - roar!
Dan Lord has won Tiny Tiger - grrr!
and Mammasaurus has won the Koala print! G'day mate!

Get in touch with your postal addresses via email you guys, I will send your creatures to their new homes! 

Thanks to all for entering and have a lovely weekend x

FutureEverything Workshops

Hello! I'm way behind on posts, I've been super-busy running, cycling, printing and teaching workshops! Here are some photos from the HANDMADE workshop at Victoria Baths. It was a super-fun, busy, hectic day!

More photos on my Facebook page! The next workshop I'm running is on the 30th June at Fred Aldous for the Ministry of Craft. In August I'm running some workshops for 10-15 year olds, so if you know anyone who'd like to have a go at printing in the summer holidays, send them my way! Details here: Craft Academy

Giveaway! Win some hand printed goodness...

Ok, you don't get owt for nowt, so I'm running a little competition in exchange for some help with getting the funding I previously posted about. Up for grabs is one of my best selling Owl print Amercian Apparel sweatshirts, in XS, S or L, plus 5 runners-up prizes of handprinted treats, including badges, notebooks and tote bags!

This takes 1 MINUTE!!! You will be helping me receive funding to progress my business and thus you will become a Good Egg.

1. All you need to do is follow this link & vote for Nell in Fund101! http://www.enterprisenation.com/funding-applications/nell/

2. Have a little read of my Fund101 application if you like!

3. Click where it says SIGN UP on the left.

4. Type your name, email address and password. (there is an option to click if you don’t wish to receive any emails from Enterprise nation! They just need emails to make sure makers aren’t voting for themselves!!!)

5. Click VOTE

6. Once you’ve voted, LEAVE A COMMENT about my work at the bottom of my Fund101 application and LOG YOUR VOTE NUMBER AND EMAIL ADDRESS THERE TOO so I can contact you! (you’ll see other comments there already)

I will be choosing the winners at random from the comments once I’ve reached the 325 votes needed to receive my funding! If I don't get the funding there can be no winner, so please help me to spread the word!

I will contact the winners and announce them on my blog, facebook, twitter etc!

GOOD LUCK!