Seeking Va Va Voom!
It has not been the best of times recently – the magic little pills appear to work at a very slow pace indeed and I am not back to my normal self yet (don’t ask what normal is!), I am still completely out of va va voom; hence the silence on the blogging front – sorry about that. Consequently I have not been able to do anything in the least bit creative so my hoped for “share” mentioned in my last post will have to wait a tad longer until my creativity manages to resurface along with the energy levels.
However I do have a couple of things to tell you about. Firstly I hope that lots of you will be coming to the NEC this week for the combined shows – Hobbycraft, Fashion Embroidery and Stitch, and Sewing For Pleasure. One ticket gets you in to all three shows, and it runs from 9.30 to 5.30 Thursday 24th March through to Sunday 27th (show closes at 5 on Sunday). I will have some Friendly Plastic masks on display on the DOT stand ZP21. DOT (Designs On Textiles) is the computer based group that I work with, and the display is selected works from our recent exhibition Consequences which we held at the Millgate Museum in Newark.
Some of my textile work will also be on show on the NOLITEX stand ZG07. We are bringing some of our touring exhibition TideLine to the NEC, and the work I have submitted for that is shown below. However, due to hanging restrictions I cannot guarantee that all of it will be there, particularly as my work is really not at all easy to hang!
This is my 6.5m long necklace. Yes I do mean metres.
This is a 2.5m tall mobile
This is a regular .75m tall – pretty small in the scale of my work for the exhibition.
For keen followers of the blog, you will remember that I have shown you these things before, but now is your chance to see them for real if you come to the show. Due to my imperfect health at the moment I will not now be stewarding except for a bit on Sunday, otherwise I would have loved to say hello to as many people as possible.
The second thing I wanted to tell you is that I have (and please don’t faint!), another date for Friendly Plastic on Create and Craft TV – 5th April. I will hopefully be able to tell you more as we get closer. I don’t want to make a big tantarah over it, just in case it fails to materialise again. Fingers crossed all will be well and everything will be back on track again.
So sorry to hear you are still feeling unwell and hope those pills pull their socks up soon. I love that long mobile and hope you have a great time at the NEC. Looking forward to the next C&C show.
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Hope you soon find your crafting ‘mojo’, I have M.E. so I understand.
I notice there are 2 dates for FP on Cand C, is it April or May? I am soooo looking forward to it as I live in Cornwall and don’t get to any of the ‘shows’. I hope it all goes well for you.
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hi liz hope youre feeling better soon, wondered where you had vanished to! been missing my FP blog fix! sound like you need some sun and sea! Hope to see you soon on c and c ,but dont overdo it!
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Aww Liz, zo sorry your get up and go, got up and went!!! Know how it feels when my thyroid levels fluctuate etc… also sorry I won’t get to see you at the NEC, but glad to see you posting and announcing(a pied douce!!) a date for a show on C&C… I look forward to it with unbated breath!! ha ha…
Keep on keeping on honey
Love and light
Frankie
xx
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I hope your va va voom comes back soon Liz. 🙂 The visitors to the show are going to be blown away when they see the masks in real life.
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Very sorry to hear you are below par and hope you will soon get the spring back in your step and the mo back in your jo.
Your masks are always amazing so inspiring show stoppers. Unfortunatly I cannot make it to Birmingham this week so will miss seeing them in the flesh hope there will be another opportunity. XOXO Zoe
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Poor Liz, Any chance of a holiday lying in the sun doing nothing to help you feel better? Oh I wish I could do that too! Sorry you are having a ruff time. Get well soon. Please remind us about C&C nearer the time, I hope you will be up to it!
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Liz
I got to the NEC and saw you mobiles and the giant necklace – gorgeous – but somehow missed the masks – kicking myself. Loved the textile show, so many gorgeous things to see, sorry you weren’t able to be there.
Adrienne
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