The wonderful Paul Farrell at T&M!

How lucky we are to have the very clever Paul Farrell (http://www.paul-farrell.co.uk/) with us at the Christmas Tea & Make?  Here are just some of his designs (check the new gold, mirror vinyl decals - loving them!):

Hannah Waldron at Christmas Tea & Make

We're really excited to have Hannah Waldron and her lovely prints and handmade books at the next Tea & Make - we're particularly looking forward to seeing her brand new book - "Rain Day".  Hannah explains "The book gives you a glimpse of the life of a town, through the eyes of a boy trapped indoors because of the rain, looking out through his window. Through the situation of being bored and frustrated the boy begins to notice all the details of his surroundings and think of others who might be in a similar situation".  Here's a sneak preview from her website - it looks beautiful....

BFR Mag at Christmas Tea & Make!

We are SO excited to have Rob Ryan's daughter Barbara Ryan at our Christmas Tea & Make event.  She's still at school but ridiculously cool - you may have seen her doing a spot of moonlighting over on the Tatty Devine website modelling their gorgeous jewellery but at the next Tea & Make, she'll be selling her 'zine, BFR - a collection of observations and lovely illustrations - "all hand drawn, glued and sewn in my bedroom" she explains on her Etsy shop (http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6432295) - as soon as you get a copy in your hands, you'll be addicted!

Images courtesey of http://bfrmag.blogspot.com/ 

Getting in the Christmas spirit for Christmas Tea & Make...

Cassie English at English Design & Co has already been busy in anticipation of Christmas (and Christmas Tea & Make) with her new Christmas card collection - we can't wait to see her Christmas garlands either...

We're staying close to home for the next Tea & Make at Christmas - how could we resist - we've been offered to do it on a particularly Christmassy day at The Honor Oak pub.... more details coming soon!

The Christmas date is set....

Christmas Shopping Tea & Make - Saturday 5th December 12-6pm. More details coming soon...

Belated THANK YOU...

It's been nearly a week since our first event - can you believe it?! We want to say thank you to everyone for coming last Saturday and for making it such a wonderful day - great people, great handmade things, great workshops, great cakes, great tea, great weather, and a great setting. We were so pleased to see people trying things on, asking how things were made, getting stuck in with the workshops, wearing beards, relaxing with their children - it was a totally chilled day so...















Thank you card by Cassie of English Design & Co.
www.englishdesignco.com

News of our next event coming very soon - promise!

Photos from Saturday on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/teaandmake/

Check us out on the Wee Birdy blog (again!)!

The Artic are busy getting ready for tomorrow too!

Pete Fowler's busy getting ready for his workshop...

Dorset Cereals!

We've just made friends with the rather amazing Dorset Cereals. A seriously great Bristish brand, they have helped us out with some prizes for our coconut shy and we have also been nominated for their Little Blog Awards - please vote for us!

http://www.dorsetcereals.co.uk/little-blog-awards/thanks

We cannot wait to work with Dorset Cereals in the future and plan to ask them to come to one of our events in the future with a big stall and their lovely Dorset Cereals deckchairs!

Jenny Curtis' Sponge U Like...

My (Sally) sister's new company 'Sponge U Like' (brilliant name) will be making its debut at the first Tea & Make. Known for the most amazing Victoria sponges and cupcakes, she's always in great demand from family and friends, and will be putting on a fine spread of cakes to eat with a cup of 'Make Us a Brew' tea. Esther has just finished designing her shiny new logo (thanks Esther!):

Here we are on the beautiful Selvedge blog today...

http://www.selvedge.org/blog/

Sponsorship from our local!

Our lovely local has agreed to sponsor the Tea & Make event next weekend, by paying for the hire of our coconut shy - how nice!

If you need lunch or fancy a drink while you're visiting us next Saturday, The Honor Oak is only a very short walk away, and comes highly recommended by Sally and I :)

http://www.thehonoroak.com/

Time Out London Magazine

Our event is featured in Time Out this week on p25, and is here on their web site:

http://www.timeout.com/london/shopping/event/156471/tea-and-make

Amazing illustrators, Catherine Grimaldi & Yumi Okuda at Tea & Make!

Yumi's beautiful cards and books and Catherine's Inside Out range of "batch" plush toys which have inspired her lovely stories, will be on sale at Tea & Make!

Also, to compliment her new book "Its Windy" Catherine will be running a mini kite making workshop. We cannot wait!!!


www.catherinegrimaldi.co.uk

www.yumiokuda.com

Cup of Sea

Leese Johnstone makes gorgeous jewellery, and from a look at her etsy shop, we're not sure if we're going to be able to stop ourselves from buying everything!

www.cupofsea.co.uk

English Design & Co.

Cassie English is a greetings card designer who makes printed and hand gilded cards, as well as gilded art prints and paper garlands. So come along to Tea & Make and stock up on her wonderful cards!

www.englishdesignco.com

Selvedge at Tea & Make

Wow! We are extremely proud to announce that Selvedge, the most beautiful creative textile publication ever (offering "the world’s finest textile photography, unparalleled design and peerless writing") will be with us at the first Tea & Make. Despite their hectic schedule having just opened a gorgeous shop in Archway, N. London (see below), they'll be setting up their Selvedge Market stall selling beautiful textiles sold at their shop, as well as back issues of their gorgeous magazine and getting people to subscribe - amaaaaazing.

www.selvedge.org

Cornelia O'Donovan - hoorah!

We keep saying it about everyone we confirm for Tea & Make, and Cornelia O'Donovan is no exception - we can't wait to have her there. She's bloomin brilliant at illustrating, making sweet stylized toys, playfully painted ceramics - everything she creates will make you smile and THAT is original art worth investing in...

Hannah Waldron

Having enjoyed her "Castle Mountain" print for so long in our flat, Esther and I are seriously pleased to announce that Hannah Waldron (www.hannahwaldron.co.uk) will be at the first Tea & Make with her fine array of enchantingly-illustrated handmade books, limited edition prints, printed stationery (very excited to see this new collection), and finger puppet badges!
Take a look...

Capital Bee at Tea & Make...

We're really proud to have Camilla Goddard, founder of Capital Bee, with us at the first Tea & Make. Based in South London (just around the corner from St Saviours actually!), Camilla makes her own delicious London honey (and honey cakes, and beeswax candles!) to sell, as well as educating people on the importance of the conservation of the endangered honey bee, and helping people to set up their own hive of bees to make their own lovely honey, even in an urban setting. If you have any questions about honey or bees, Camilla is on-hand to answer them! She'll also be selling her honey (we can't wait to stock up), books on keeping bees, and some vintage bee-keeping kit too - from jars to equipment.

http://www.capitalbee.co.uk/

Our new Garudio Studiage pet...

Last night Esther and I popped along to see what the V&A Village Fete had to offer, and we met up with future Tea & Make-exhibitors Garudio Studiage, winning one of their very special (and pretty priceless actually) golden cats in their cool competition - we can't wait to have them at Tea & Make!

THE ARTIC at Tea & Make

Great news - yet another amazing design duo will be joining us on the 22nd August... This time it's 'The Artic', a collaboration between graphic designer Kenn Munk and his partner, artist and illustrator Annabelle Hartmann.

Promising an arctic-themed stall, they'll be selling everything from eskimo toys to polar bear paper kits, as well as providing a little mask-making workshop complete with "polar photo opportunities" - sounds brilliant!

http://www.kennmunk.com
http://zeit-geister.blogspot.com/

Polly George brings her pretty ceramics to Tea & Make

We're so excited to have such an amazing ceramicist at Tea & Make. Polly George (www.pollygeorge.com) has long been admired by myself (Sally) and my fellow stylist friends and we can't wait to get our purses out at Tea & Make and invest in a few pieces for pressies and of course for ourselves...

.....AND Whole Lotta Lovely

The blogs are lovin' Tea & Make today! We're also on amazing stylist Marie Nichols' blog today...
http://wholelottalovely.wordpress.com/
Here's some of her own gorgeously-clever crafty styling work...

Tea & Make on Wee Birdy

They love our name (oh the pain of deciding on one!), and have included us on their "Craft Capital: London handmade happenings (pt1)" today - take a look at our feature on the brilliant Wee Birdy blog...
http://www.weebirdy.com/

Pete Fowler's "Design a Monster" workshop at Tea & Make!

Describing himself as a "UK illustrator, painter, scribbler, toy creator, knob twiddler and Scrabble enthusiast" on his blog, you may know the super talented Pete Fowler for his Super Furry Animals artwork or Monsterism toys.

He's bloomin' amazing at knocking together a beautifully drawn monster or two in just minutes so we thought a spot of workshop action was in order - whether you're 8 or 28, why not pop along to his workshop, watch the master at work (we will!) and see if you can draw a monster yourself...