Cows Lane Designer Studio

Im working in the Cows Lane Designer Studio today, its in Temple Bar. If you haven't been you should really come and check it out, its a collective of different talented designer and makers selling everything from clothes to t-shirts, to pottery to hair accessories, to jewellery to metal sculptures! Its a great great place to buy gifts and you are supporting local craftspeople.

Come on down sometime!

Forward planning

I've been busy making the last few days, looking forward to getting stuck back into the Designer Mart in Temple Bar. I've missed it over the last number of weeks! Its always good fun and this Sat the weather is supposed to be great, there will be music and of course loads of cool things to look at and buy.

Trying to get stock levels up for the month of October as there is so many winter and Christmas Fairs coming up in Nov and Dec its impossible to get on top of of it all...so pre planning is needed, something I'm not always the best at!

A breath of fresh air

Im looking into new trends and planning for Christmas in ASTRID land. Whilst the use of feathers will always be used in what I do, I am incorporating a lot more beading and BLING! I'm excited to see what the outcome is and how it goes, I think it will be popular! I have signed up for a lot of winter fairs so November and December will be busy for me, which is great. They are hard work, but I always enjoy doing the weekend events, always lovely to meet my customers.

I've been in Spain for ten days which was glorious. I was in Andalucia, in the south of Spain, the weather was great and it was as inspiring as ever. I love visiting there.

So now I am revived, refreshed and ready to knuckle down!