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...

Tea Cosy Carousel this weekend...(sat 24 - 25th July)

Tea Cosy Carousel is an alternative art, craft and design fair celebrating Scotland's finest in a local setting. It takes place in Aberdeen city centre - The Academy (in the old Pier Unit), Belmont Street, Aberdeen.

Gabi will be showcasing some new work... Babywear! (very exclusive!) - as well as her and Phil's "oor monsters" prints for sale.

check out the Olympiad website for full details!

or check out the tea cosy facebook page

Tweeting!

Just to let you know (and also to test twitterFeed!) Gabi has created a twitter account (twitter.com/gabiReith)... so she can tweet good news to one an all! We've also hooked up this news feed from Blogger to twitter and facebook... post once, see it all over the shop.... excellent! So, there are now more ways to keep track of what Gabi (and Phil) is up to... There is quite a lot lined up over the summer... so eyes peeeeeled!

In the meantime, check out the "Oor Monsters" show at the Beautiful Mountain.

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

Oor Monsters - New work from Gabi and Phil

Gabrielle & Philip have made 12 new prints each for their show at the Beautiful Mountain (Belmont Street, Aberdeen).

Join them for the opening on Tuesday 29th of June 6pm - 8pm. The Show runs till mid August.

Massive thanks to Anita Stewart & Chris Whyte (for organising the show), the Beautiful Mountain (for letting us show there!), Peacock Visual Arts - for the Screen printing Facilities, Ewan MacDonald (for being very understanding!)

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

Coast Festival

For this weekends Coast festival Small Stories Gabrielle will be creating an evolving multimedia piece. You are invited to get in touch this weekend via text message to 075057910147 to tell her what kind of creature to create, whether real or made up, bird or beast or indeed any piece of nature.. Looking forward to hearing from you! I will upload the results to the Small Stories Facbook page after the event.
www.coastfestival.co.uk

Small Stories will be at Made In The Shade (Edinburgh)

http://www.wearemadeintheshade.com/

Gabi will be showcasing a lot of new work and products at the fantastic craft fair - Made in the Shade. Check the website for more details.

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