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Rock Cakes Winter Dates

admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:31:06 +0000

So PLATFORM 2011 has been and gone, I really loved doing it, so thank you Lomokev, Lucy, Liw and Piers for taking part and for all of your hard work. Thank you also to all who came along, much fun was had at the private view. The new Rock Cakes woodland and woodcuts collections are out there for all to see, Rock Cake can kick back and relax now, well sort off…

First up is the October Makers Boutique taking place on Saturday the 29th, 10:30 until 5:00pm, in the Unitarian church in the Centre of Brighton. For the past two Halloweens Rock Cakes has done a scary give away and this years is super special. I will be giving away 13 trick or treat goody bags, each of which include a starry head limited edition gold mirror acrylic skull and bone pack (wow, that was a mouthful). All you have to do is say “trick or treat” when you buy anything from me at the stall or use trickortreat coupon code at my very pretty Etsy shop checkout with any purchase, valid from Thursday the 28th until the goody bags have all gone (first come first served).

Rock Cakes will then be taking part in Art Junky and it is our first time at the Brighton Phoenix Centre, we cant wait. It’s a two day bonfire weekend event, Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th of November. There will be 50 stalls taking part so it is going to be full of great work and inspiration from lots of local Brighton Artists.

Next up will be the Christmas shows and we are taking part in Makers Boutique and Craftaganza during the first two weekends of December, I am planning some super festive treats so there will be more about them when the time comes. I reccomend that if you are planning to get any precious jewellery that you put an order in nice and early (ie: before December) to insure that we have time to make your order with out any panic or rush!

That’s all for now so thanks for reading, there is lots going on at this end, we are planning a joint Rock Cake and Lomokev talk about online media and promotion for crafty makers which will probably be next year now, hopefully at the handmade gallery (ladies if your reading?!…) and I will also be posting about the things that I learnt at the amazing helloetsy Berlin summit, once it has all sunk in!

I hope to be trick or treated by you either on Etsy or at Makers Boutique…

P L A T F O R M

rockcake — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:09:34 +0000

Time is ticking and I am getting nervous, I haven’t worked quite this hard for a long time, at least not since I had a boss. I am a tinsy winsy bit obsessed with my little company Rock Cakes at the mo’ and working as hard as I can, taking into consideration that there is a 17 month old on the scene who needs quality food, love and entertainment on a full time bases. But that’s how it goes, the more that you have to do, the less time that you have to think about it, you just don’t stop and seem to get a million things done.

And so it was at a quieter part of the year, mid winter to be precise, when I had a eureka moment “I’ll put on a little mixed media show” I had taken part in a show at the Brighton Fishing Quarter Gallery in May 2009 and fell in love with the venue. The location is beautiful and the little fishing museum and smokehouse hold a nostalgic piece of Brighton’s history, plus the gallery is subsidised and therefore affordable for us “artists” to hire. Luckily for me there was some availability so I booked it without a second thought.

Taking part In Platform are five locals whose work is exciting, fresh, bold and of a high standard, with the aim being that everyone works in a different medium. There is Kevin “Lomokev” Meredith, I am guessing that most of you will be aware of his photography (that’s why I married him but he doesn’t know that). Next is Liw Banks, a printer and stitcher of owls and elephants, also a next door neighbour which has been very useful for morale. Piers Evershed who creates full impact paintings and Lucy Ashworth who makes the cutest, boldest and friendliest plush toys that you have ever, ever seen. I will be writing a blog post on each over the next couple of weeks, so look out for them.

As for yours truly, I have just completed the most adorable collection of precious jewellery that you have probably ever seen, a collection of Woodland creatures supporting golden crowns, diamond eyes and ruby hearts (did I mention that I’ve been busy?). The new jewellery will be launched at the gallery on September 8th and online at the beginning of September, I am going to find it emotionally hard to part with some of them. All being good there will also be a non precious collection which is currently work in progress…

So there will be free crisps and maybe wine (of course there’ll be wine but I don’t want you to just turn up for that) so please pencil in the dates September 8th to 19th, from 10am until 5pm. The private view / party is going to be on Tuesday 13th of September, 6pm until 9pm, if you’ve had the patience to read this far then you’re invited. If you are planning to come dropping me a little email with attendee’s names to info@rockcakes.com will help us to know how many crisps to buy.

We all hope to see you there….

Every Cloud… in Easy Living

rockcake — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:03:57 +0000

Ok, so it’s only a small mention but at last Rock Cakes has made it into a national glossy. In this months (September 2011) edition of Easy Living you will find a picture of the Every Cloud… bracelet on the page entitled “This month we love” (it’s page 22 to be precise).

Rock cakes was very, very excited and hopefully it’s the start of things to come…