Preparing the badges…

The Reveal Showcase exhibition starts next weekend, and just for once I’m prepared well in advance!

I’ve spent today preparing all the badges for display. I’ve used mini cards and postcards from Moo for my packaging. I’m a big fan of Moo, and the mini cards are just the perfect size:

I have forty individual badges, and twenty sets of four. I have no idea whether this is far too many, or nowhere near enough. I guess I’ll find out as the week of the exhibition goes on. I have plenty more materials, so I can always put together some more if I need to. (Or sell them at the next Art Market, if I end up bringing them all home again…)

My only concern now is how to display all of the postcards and mini cards at the exhibition itself. I don’t really want to spend money on a fancy stand that I’ll never use again, and I don’t really want to spend all of next week making something wonky out of cardboard.

What I really need is a pretty letter rack, or maybe a vintage toast rack of some kind…

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REVEAL: a showcase of quality hand-made craft

I mentioned this a little while ago, but some of my badges are going to be in an exhibition!

It’s called REVEAL – a showcase of quality hand-made craft.

It’s on from Sunday 6th to Saturday 12th July, 10am to 5pm every day, and entry is free.

It’s at the Henley Exhibition Centre.

The website has a gallery of work by all the exhibitors – I’m really looking forward to going along and seeing all the lovely things!

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Lots and lots of badges.

Today I have been mostly making lots and lots of badges.

This probably wasn’t a very clever thing to do with a bad wrist, but I needed to get some photographs taken to send to Lauren Denney. She’s organising an exhibition of local artists, and she saw my badges on Etsy and invited me to take part!

Lauren is a ceramic artist, and the exhibition will take place in Henley, from the 6th to the 12th of June. Rest assured that I will be advertising this like mad as soon as I have more details!

I’m submitting three different types of badges to the exhibition, all made from recycled paper ephemera:

Damaged Ordnance Survey maps (this one’s of Sheffield)

Discarded Library textbooks

An out of date Gil Elvgren pin-up calendar

Some of the badges will be sold singly, simply pinned on to individual Moo cards. Others will be grouped into sets of four – I need to design the packaging for these, and work out how they’re going to be displayed.

I’m on the reserve list for the Rising Sun Art Market the day before the exhibition opens, so I’m planning to make even more badges over the next three weeks, so that I can also sell them at the Art Market if I’m lucky enough to get a place.

I need to make lots of pillowcase tote bags for the Art Market as well, not to mention having a jacket and dress fitting day in the meantime, so it looks as though I’ve got a busy time coming up!

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