experiments

Christmas Decorations

Christmas Fair

Coop Girls Organising the Christmas Fair!!!

I hope its okay to carry on using this blog to post up ideas for new projects?

Here is a Fudge recipe, its american, but we can ignore that, looks really simple and with nice packaging, evvveryone loves fudge. (also, can make a week in advance and it will last)

Screen printed Stockings, Wrapping paper, Napkins, christmas tree decorations (stuffed), Christmas Cards and of course One Off Handmade Prints!

http://foodfromthesky.org.uk/category/media-coverage/

really good website

the table

Planting for coop

Coop under construction!

Backgrounds for posters?

Poster ideas...

We have a briefing 11-12 so after that could be good? Get some lunch and sit in the park/car park?

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hey sorry only just checked the blog. Hope you had a lovely bbq, weathers been amazing for it! I'm free to meet up on tuesday. Think we should all have another chat and clarify our ideas.

Iwas thinking that i really like the sustainability/eco vibe of the space we're making and i thought it would be cool to do a foraging course and read up a bit about foraging and maybe when we have the opening some of the food we serve could be foraged? What do you all think about that?

I've been looking up some courses but haven't found anthing free yet! kew eco village used to do a free foraging tour aroung richmond park but i think they've been evicted now? hampstead heath do a mushroom foraging course. Will keep looking. I want to do one anyway.

Is everyone free for tuesday?

Beth do you have a phone number?

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HELLO EVERYONE

I AM BACK FROM HOLIDAYS, sorry i haven't been updating the blog etc but it all looks really good. are you all in london? or when are you all back? we should meet up asap!!

if any of you are about on wednesday coming/april 27th. we are having a bbq/party day at our house we you guys should all pop into cos it will be fun and we can catch up/chat about stuff. Lu i know your already coming :) but yeah it will be good music good food lots of nice people.

xx

Hey hope everyones having a lovely break! When are we planning on all meeting up again to start on building? I'm in manchester this weekend but back in london on tuesday x

Church

Tit for Tat

Hallo lovlies!

I've been scouring charity shops and carboot's for interesting bits of tat we could use in our shop! found these nice wooden shelves and some wooden frames which i've painted up and gonna try and distress, i think they might look nice with a redy-brown on them, if we're still going for that theme?

I have been making an epic amount of bunting, these are the first 8 meters.. i have maybe 60 meters more to go.. i dont know if this is abit over the top!

Also looking at gardening apron designs, might try and make some up whilst ive still got access to a sewing machine. It would be great if we could do some talking about typography and logos? id like to start publicising that fair we're having when we get back?

I'm really going off the idea of the structure being round and having a wicker/willow roof and painted wood. I'm worried it's going to end up looking like a beach hut! I like the idea of there beng something organic about the shape and it growing depending on the materials we find. and i also really love the images we have of shacks and sheds with different woods together.

I know this signs really ugly but it could be nice to make signs using strips of wood like this, but nice wood and colours and fonts not like this picture.

Signs and fonts

I like rosie-lea. I also like the idea of having the font made up of letters from veg packaging. I can imagine the space being quite eclectic so i think that font would work well. We could pick out individual fonts from the mix aswell and use them for writing signs to explain how to plant the peat pots ect. Did that make any sense? I don't think t does...

yes! everything sounds brilliant. how long does it take to grow tea? 'rosy lea' or 'rosie lea'? i'll probably be back end of next week if not before, just cause i don't have much moneys. i've got loads of seeds to plant and will try and find somewhere good to get plain aprons from? dyeing with veg colour looks dead good as well. X

beetroot tote bags

Alphabety

Thinking of Type Faces.. this is a really interesting idea that seems to have worked really well, Rosie Pearmain assembeled her alphabet from the signs on fruit and veg market stalls, it looks really good... more here.