In August, for the first time in ages, I treated myself to a holiday. After lots of research I chose to do a pottery course, and it was awesome. We spent a week learning different techniques, mainly focusing on throwing on the wheel. After 4 months I finally got hold of my finished pots, fired and glazed by the teacher, a very experienced potter. Here are a few pics and if you’re interested in taking a course check out Deborah Baynes Pottery School as it was great. Good setting, good food, good people and great fun.

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So, it has been ages, but I’ve been moving house, and got some new responsibilities at school, so it has been pretty hectic the past few months. About 6-7 months ago I applied for the “We Make London” Christmas fair, and as my only market this year it was a big thing to work towards. It was the first showing of my new laser cut artworks, which went down a treat, and I actually made some money for once… I’m working on pics at the moment. It was a really fun day, and good to see and talk to other crafters trying to do similar things with their time. Anyway, it was good to start getting the name out there, and people liked both the cards and new work enough to part with their hard earned cash, which is a massive compliment.

2010 is going to be big for Cosmo Cards so keep checking back.

I’ve been working on some new designs to go alongside the cards, something a bit more arty, and today managed to use the laser cutter to do a first test cut. I wanted to see how far I could push it in terms of complexity and see which papers worked best with the cutter. I think it went pretty well and you can definitely see the potential for the project in the future.

My summer hols start in under a fortnight so will be producing a lot more real soon.

Recently I’ve been pretty busy at my day job so ain’t been up to loads with the cards, but I’ve just confirmed that I’m cutting down to 3 days a week from Sept so I will have a lot more time in the very near future. I cannot wait.

I have just finshed an order for 50 wedding invites. These were new designs that pushed my little cutting machine quite hard. But I was pleased with the result. They’re made from 2 sheets of this Murano paper, it’s really nice, deckled on one side, comes in lots of nice colours. The sheets are hand sown together. They’re about as quality as I think I can make.

Sorry about the rubbish pic, I’ll sort some better ones soon. Working on designs for matching menu and place names.

For the opening of Cherry Cherry I wanted to get some business cards together, they were a development of a previous design and used this new Murano paper that has a slight texture on it, I think they came out pretty smooth. Might be using the same paper in some card projects soon, it comes in over 30 colours and is really nice quality at 160gsm so plenty of scope for applications. Is anyone else a little turned on by that?