It’s been a while everyone, I’ve been busy with life, juggling my day lovely job in marketing – which is manic but so inspiring - and getting my new range of notebooks and tea towels designed and printed in time for Christmas. The notebooks are now available online and tea towels will be coming very soon! I wanted to create some smaller pieces in my printed designs, so there is something for all budgets. If you like my prints – I really hope you do - you can treat your friends and family to a little Charlie Pie love. The set of three notebooks makes the perfect stocking filler for the doodlers and list-makers in your life! When I find the time, I love going to see new exhibitions and getting inspired by other designers, artists and makers. There’s a fantastic gallery called Compton Verney, not too far from me on the edge of Warwickshire, set in stunning grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. They have two magical exhibitions running right now; Quentin Blake: Inside Stories and The Lost Words. The Blake exhibition features around 140 original illustrations including favourites from The Twits, Matilda and BFG. For me the most poignant – I admit, I had to hold back the tears and take deep breaths – were the illustrations for Michael Rosen’s Sad Book. Exploring the author’s grief after losing his teenage son. If you do go (it’s on till December) try and get on the guided tour, the guide was great, really informative and funny. Lost Stories was also lovely, looking at wildlife commonly found in our gardens, woods and rivers, but that studies have found children in 2017 no longer recognise. The illustrations and ‘spells’ that make up the book create a visual and engaging narrative to help our kids learn about wildlife, so they don’t become ‘lost words’. Now, more exciting news… I am joining a collective of lovely designer makers called POP, for a Christmas market at Wykham Park Farm in the beautiful Granary (formerly Bakery Girl if you know it). The Christmas Market is happening next Saturday, 11th November, so if you’re in Oxfordshire, come on down. POP curates brilliant indie designers who create handmade toys, clothes and accessories for babies and children, as well as cute homewares by people like me. I hope to see you there! Charlie x
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