Moseley Arts Market

beckyismyname will have a stall at Moseley Arts Market on the 25th July. The market runs in conjunction with the village Farmers Market and is the first event I will have taken part in in Moseley. I'm very much looking forward to it.

I plan to have some of my framed Warley Woods prints at the event and may even have some local prints of Moseley if I can get out of the house in this sunny weather to take some! It seems to be sunny when I'm busy doing other things at the moment and as soon as I step out with my camera, the heavens open!

I'm also working on a commission for a canvas print of one of my illustrations, which is very exciting, and may spell a new direction for my work. Keep your eyes peeled for further developments here...

Warley Woods Prints now available on Etsy!

I now have four of my photographic prints available to buy on Etsy. Check out the shop for more info:

www.beckyismyname.etsy.com

A Walk in the Woods

I have a new range of photographic prints available of Warley Woods in Bearwood. The posters are £4 for A4 size (297 x 210mm) or £7 for A3 size (420 x 297mm). Postage is £2 per poster, or you can pick them up from me in Bearwood if you want to save on the postage. All posters are printed on 290gsm high quality satin paper. If you're interested in buying any of the prints, please send me an email as these won't be available on etsy yet. My email address is beckyismyname@hotmail.co.uk

Handmade Saturdays at the Custard Factory

I shared a stall with a fellow Etsy Midlander Phillis B:
http://quiltgeek09.blogspot.com/
last Saturday at the Cuatsrd Factory in Birmingham. It was a great day, and I got to meet some lovely crafters and it also resulted in my first sale on Etsy!



The Market is organised by COW (Creative Open Workshops) who run a range of creative workshops from their studio at the back of the pool in the Custard Factory, Digbeth. They will be running the market every Saturday in June and I will be there again this Saturday. For further details on the event see the COW blog:
francine.posterous.com

I've been chosen in a treasury!

Treasuries on etsy are collections of fellow etsian's favourite pieces or pieces that fit a particular theme. One of my 'In Shadow' posters has just been selected and used in one. It's my first treasury so I'm a bit excited!

Follow this link to see my poster and other lovely Etsy items:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=64469

beckyismyname set to appear at Artsfest 2009!

I'm so excited about this! I have been chosen to have a space on the railings at Centenery Square in Birmingham City Centre to show my artwork.

Artsfest is an annual arts event held in the city and sees music, dance and visual arts dotted all around the city for 3 days. I have been every year for the past 4 years and always had such a great time discovering new music and artists.

I'll give more updates closer to the time.

Cards now for sale at Ikon shop, Birmingham!

I am honoured to now have some of my cards for sale at the Ikon Shop in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. Cards will be retailing at £2.00 each, and my notecards inspired by the tiles inside the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath will also be selling for £4.95.

Mr Elephant Presents 2nd Birthday Bank Holiday Celebration

I will be hosting a stall at this event at the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath, Birmingham on Saturday 23rd May. The 4 room festival-style event runs from 3pm - 3am, and will incolve lots of workshops (3-7pm) as well as a great lineup of some groundbreaking international artists, and inspirational birmingham artists, promoters, bands, djs, vjs, and local orgs, with plenty of ways for everyone of all ages and tastes to get involved with the festivities.

On my stall I will be selling a selection of cards, and posters, and will have an ordering service so if anyone fancies a custom poster, I will make it up and send it on to them after the event. Really looking forward to this!

Copy and paste this link in to your browser for more info on the event (sorry, I still haven't worked out how to add proper links to this thing!

www.mrelephant.com/events/featured/mr-elephants-2nd-birthday-bank-holiday-celebration-hare-hounds-saturday-may-23rd-2009

New Items on etsy.com, and the marketing begins!

I managed to take some photos of my cards, although I'm not completely happy with them. It's difficult to get the lighting right and they look really plain compared to others' photos. I'm thinking of putting them on some graph paper to re-photograph, so we'll see how that looks at the weekend. Anyway, I've got 5 cards on the site now:
www.beckyismyname.etsy.com

I made a visit to the flea market at the custard factory at the weekend and put some of my business cards out. I've also today designed some flyers for distribution around the city. Here they are:



I've also joined the etsy Midlands team. You can view their blog here:

New Etsy Shop!

So I've set up a shop on etsy.com. It's very new at the moment and I currently only have my posters displayed, but am planning on photographing my cards at the weekend and getting them up too. Then it'll be time to get marketing!
Here's a link to my shop:

www.beckyismyname.etsy.com