E17 Art Trail event... Craftea Party!

"Craftea party" Sunday September 13th from 2.30pm to 4.30pm Vestry House Museum Walthamstow Village

A celebration of two fine British institutes: craft and tea! We'll be touching down in E17 for The 5th annual Art Trail and hosting our very own tea party come Crafternoon.
We've been hosting D.I.Y craft events and Crafternoons for over a year now and we're so pleased to be hosting this little crafty shindig! So here's a call out for all you D.I.Y creatures and fellow makers!Here's your chance to enjoy some fine company and to join in the creative fun,have a pot of tea and some home baked cake with the Craft Guerrilla Gals and their Bakerette friends in this pop up tea party.Lots of great special edition craft packs for you to make on the day or bring your own projects and enjoy the creative vibe of this very fun and fab Crafternoon!

for more info visit www.e17arttrail.co.uk

A BIG thank you to all our lovely illustartor friends...

We've had so many submissions for our craft-zine cover that I think we'll have to release it on a monthly rather then tri monthly basis!!!
So many talented people have come forth and offered their talents...I always knew illustrators were generous creatures but guys and gals,you have really surpassed all expectations.
Lots of grateful crafty karma's going your way!
The winner will be chosen on Sunday night (23rd of August) and because the quality has been so good we're throwing it to the lap of the gods.
Believe me it's getting more and more difficult to chose! So this way it's a case of Lady luck choosing who gets the honour.
We're putting names into a hat and pulling out a random entry. It's much easier this way because I really can't choose!
Also because of this we've decided that some illustrations that haven't made it onto the cover will be used in the Zine to illustrate articles.
So if you haven't yet sent in your illustration do so before Sunday evening.
All submissions will be posted on our blog...because we want to share our new friends talents,plus all entrants web sites will be linked on both our blog and web site and they'll get a special little treat as a thank you!
Once again thank you so much!!!

illustrators needed!!!

We're super excited about hosting our E17 Art Trail event in September! Last year was really great fun. It was the push we needed to start our D.I.Y. craft nights. As well as the Art Trail being a great inspiration for people like us it's also a great opportunity to publicise your work and collaborate with others.
It's not only an event for locals because we've had visitors from all over the UK and abroad.Now in it's 5th year it's caused quite a lot of attention.There have been other Trails popping up around the capital and the UK.It's always such fun to participate in the Trail. As this years guest editor writing the introduction showed me just how diverse and plentiful the borough has become. The amount of original events and art work is absolutely awesome! It's a true hot bed of ideas!

Our "Craftea party" is a celebration of two great British institutes...Craft and Tea! We'll be hosting a tea party in the Vestry House Museum and visitors will be able to relax and make some CRAFT while enjoying a cup of tea and a slice of cake.
To coincide with the event our tri-monthly Craft-Zine will be on sale during the whole of trail in the E17 Art Trail pop up book shop and in several retail outlets in the area.
This special edition will be a super duper homage to all things TEA related and of course CRAFT. We're basically on the look out for any illustrator that would like to do the cover for us. Unfortunately it's unpaid work but we'll feature you in the Craft Zine plus include your contact details. Let me know if you are interested and I'll send you a design brief. e mail Deborah at: craftguerrilla@yahoo.com

Please note that before we except you we need to see examples of your art work.

E17 Art Trail Blog

It's not that long away...September is just a hop and a skip away and we're frantically getting ready for our Craftea party on the 13th! The East London gals will be making special edition D.I.Y. craft kits for the E17 Art Trail event to keep all you keen crafters and D.I.Y. divas in the making mood.
The Bakerettes will be making scrumptious cakes. Spatulas at the ready,there has already been discussion of cake recipes and all I can say is CHOCOLATE is a big part of the menu choice!!! All types:from Brownies to French tarts. Yum, but then I am partial to Chocolate!
I also hear there are some mighty neat little projects like felt Kawaii tea bags,hand embroidered tea tray cloths, knitted cup cakes and more to be announced! It's all about our favourite British institutes:Craft and Tea!
Also I've been invited to write the editorial for the Trail map. It was great fun to write about our "HOME" which is a very talented but sometimes forgotten corner of East London. YES,it is EAST LONDON,North East but hey...EAST IS EAST!!! We're mega proud to be part of it and the Trail which is now in it's 5th year. We hope it keeps going indefinitely!
Well done Chris,Laura and Morag!
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