PlayPark / Oor Monsters game

Gabi & Phil have been asked to create an alternative version of the old carnival game "hook & hoop" for the SMart Consultant's "Play Park" event on September 28th & 29th in Rubislaw Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen .

Full details on facebook here :

Here's a quick peak at some of the monster heads (Oor Monsters) that'll be making up the game parts....

Oor Monsters III at Junction Art, Aberdeen

Preview Evening - Friday 26th 6 - 8p.m

During the months of May and June Junction arts will become a temporary monster emporium!
Created by artists Philip Thompson and Gabrielle Reith, this will be their third venture into the world of all things monstrous and with many other special guest artists invited to take part we are very excited about what will most definitely be a very memorable and exciting show.

The Idea of the "monster show" has been left open to interpretation by the artist and maker.
Work will range from fantasy to reality ‐ utilising the very open idea of what a "monster" is. The one
parameter of the interpretation, should be "creativity" ‐ what monsters work with or against artists and makers when they create work? Be that in everyday life (a car breaking down) or those little (but oh so weighty) little critical daemons on our backs…

Artists taking part are;
Philip Thompson, Gabrielle Reith, Cosmic Nuggets, Iain Gildea, Mags Gray, Katie Guthrie, Melodie Stacey, Aubin Stewart Max Stewart and more...

Gabi @ Bridge View 8th March - 26th May

Gabi will be showing new work at Bridge View (Aberdeen) along with Martha E Anderson, Hazel Fortescue Irvine & Mel Shand.

"Bird" will run from 8th March - 26th May Preview 6-8pm - Thursday 8th March.

for the downloadable full resolution invite, please click here.

Gabi at the Lighthouse, Glasgow

Gabi will be selling her Small Stories wares at the fantastic Made in the Shade craft fair at the Glasgow Lighthouse Museum today. Along with many other fine Scottish crafters, Gabi will be selling Xmas Decorations, Baby apparel, drawings, prints and much more...

Getting busy...again...

Just a quick post to let everyone know we (Gabi and I) used to post our news through the G-R-A blog - which we have let slide for a while now...

BUT! We promise to get back on top of this - post more news regularly, and not rely on faceBook to drop our news onto... after all, this is a little more "permanent" and specific. We're also using the blog to populate other streams... filtering news etc, and feeding it through www.feedburner.com (pulling out Small Stories specific news for example).

Anyway... we promise to put our news on here more often.

Eyes peeled for news about up and coming Craft Fair's Gabi will be taking part in leading up to Christmas...

Our NEOS 2011 event @ the Wyness Hall, Inverurie.

Here's a wee video by Phil showing what the NEOS 2011 event at the Wyness Hall looked like. hope you enjoy!

My Etsy Shop is back up and running...

After setting it up this time last year, I had taken my eye off the ball, and let items expire, failed to update or maintain my Etsy profile...

So! I've re-populated it with some new items, and I promise to keep uploading new things every month!

I've already made one sale since re-instating my shop!

Phil and I are also working on a new G-R-A website, Small stories site + lots more plans for 2011...

and we promise promise promise to get the typefaceaweek CD done and dusted this year (only a year late).

don't forget, we've got a Small Stories facebook page too, where you can also access new images of my work and comment (please do!)

Small Stories featured on Baffie Blog

We've had a lovely, glowing review of Small Stories (and more specifically, Gabi's hot hot hot skills!) on Baffie - A fantastic online shop for Scottish Crafts.

thanks Baffie!

Gabi has been accepted for the Lovely Pigeon Pop up!

Nice one! Gabi will be showing with the Fife's lovely - Lovely Pigeon! at their Festive Pop Up, which will take place in the Murray Library, Anstruther from Friday 26th November to Friday 24th December ... full details can be found here :
Lovely Pigeon

Phil & Gabi's work on the BBC NEOS feature "in pictures"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/northeastscotlandnorthernisles/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_9015000/9015583.stm

Thanks to Dave Officer for reminding the BBC that NEOS was on...

NEOS day 2 (3.15pm)

slow start to NEOS's 1st sunday at Wyness Hall... a fine chance to sneak out and nab a bacon roll (om nom). Saying that, Gabi sold a few pics this morning... around about 2pm, things have been picking up! A lot of people stopping and talking, some interesting stories, and it's really heartening to see people feeling comfortable to speak to artists and makers... A lot of nice compliments about the booklet for me too.

NEOS first day at Wyness Hall

After last night's lovely opening night for our NEOS event 2010, we scurry in to the Wyness Hall bang on 10am.. oops! (we needed to get the massive tea urn on!)

Pretty much straight away, we've got a few visitors trickling in... we've got a steady stream of couples up until about 11am - then we're hit with a crowd, and with kids too! "Fire up the Craft table! We've got Incoming!" Several cats, butterflies and backpacks later we have a lull. (time for a coffee and a cup cake (£1.50 donation, if you please, thank you very much).

The afternoon had a steady stream of people too (at the end of the day we'd had about 80 visitors all in)... but at about 3pm or so, nearly all visitors stopped coming... works out that someone had a bad crash, and the roads to Inverurie were chokka... the police even turning people away from Inverurie, apparently... (hope it's all OK!)

Needless to say, I had a chat with some old friends, and some new ones... it's what NEOS is all about for me. If you make art, and want to see what "the public" think - join NEOS, it's a blast, and bloody good value, getting in a world class booklet / directory...

Small Stories featured on Bags of Ethics store

Gabi's Avian Alphabet tea-towel has been used as a button for the "Bags of Ethics" website, the suppliers of fine ethical merchandise.

There are only 12 Avian Alphabet tea-Towel's left from the original Ltd Edition of 200.

The new "Owl and the Pussy-cat" tea towel is going strong too... If you fancy purrrchasing one, they are £8 + £2 pnp. For contact details, check out www.g-r-a.co.uk

Gabi wins the Spider and Fly competition!

Gabi entered the "design a logo for the spider and fly" competition for magpie market in Edinburgh! They'll be running a craft / design pop up shop in Edinburgh over the summer, so please visit them, and check out Gabi and other amazing Scottish creatives...

http://www.magpiemarket.blogspot.com

Small Stories FaceBook Group

We've set up a faceBook group - especially for Small Stories - you can joing, and find out more - see new work etc on http://www.tinyurl.com/smallstoriesfb . Tell your friends!

Gabi showing at teacosy too

Gabi will be showcasing more Small Stories work at Tea Cosy Too on December 5th & 6th

The highly successful venture "tea cosy" at Aberdeen royal infirmary by Aberdeen based SMart consultants is getting a second life! It will be held in the old Pier building (Belmont street) and will feature a fantastic array of local makers & artists. for more information, please visit http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=177358808492&index=1



or download the PDF poster from here

Small Stories in California...

Liza Lee Millar, bird blogger extraordinaire has been tweeting and blogging a few of Gabi's Small Stories news now and again... and as a thank you, we'd sent her a small "thank you" package of some cards and a tea towel...

she was over the moon to get the package the other day, which she immediately blogged, so if you want to see the lovely story, check out http://egretsnest.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/no-no-this-is-my-new-most-favorite-bird-artist-ever/ leave a comment too...it's always nice to share.

I <3 UTG exhibition

The first in a series of I ♥ UTG campaign awareness events;
"insert".

An exhibition of local artists coming together to help raise awareness for the problems facing Union Terrace Gardens & Aberdeen’s new Arts Centre.

All works based upon the theme “heart” and will be on sale for £20 per artwork to raise funds for the I ♥ UTG campaign.

Gilla Brooker
Alicia Bruce
Libby Day
Fraser Denholm
Jim Ewen
Jo Gannon
Katie Guthrie
Eva Merz
William Moulding
Gabrielle Reith
Stuart Simpson
Anita Stewart
Philip Thompson
Sarah J Tingle

and more to be confirmed……..

So come spend the evening with Project Slogan & I ♥ UTG and help us create a better, greener and brighter future for out city.

Tea Cosy photos

I had a fantastic time at the SMart consultants / Grampian Hospitals Art Trust "Tea Cosy" - contemporary art and craft fair this weekend.

I showcased 8 new card designs, my new tea towels (separate posts coming soon!) and lots of new Small Stories jewellery.

Thanks to everyone that came, it was a brilliant turn out, and I've met a lot of new people interested in my work, fantastic.

yours,

Gabi.

Tea Cosy craft fair 21st August.

Gabrielle will be showing a new collection of her Small Stories work at Teacosy art and craft fair on Friday the 21st of August from 5-8pm and Saturday the 22nd of August from 10-4.30.
Teacosy is at the Ross Crombie Hall, The Courtyard, Ashgrove House (next to ARI), Foresterhill Road, Aberdeen.

Click here for the invite! http://www.g-r-a.co.uk/downloads/teacosy.pdf