fine city friends

zine fairs are go

2010-10-02T10:33:00.002+01:00

here's a photo of my stall at the first Leeds Alternative Comic fair a couple of weekends back. the fair was a big success, lots of folk showed up, i heard talk of a second fair next spring.

tomorrow i'll be in Manchester at the Piccadilly Self Publishing Fair alongside a bunch of super zines makers. its from 11-6pm, hope to see you there.

more fairs tba soon

lancashire zine fair

2010-02-03T10:55:00.003Z

on friday last week i had a stall at the lancashire zine fair at preston uni. had a good day, met some nice folks, drank some coffee..

bust craftacular in london tomorrow!

2009-12-11T22:51:00.003Z

tomorrow (saturday 12th december) gemma and i will be in london for the bust magazine's christmas craftacular. its going to be a fun-filled day of handmade treasures, music, cocktails and cakes. come and check out our new wares and peruse over 60 stalls for unique christmas gifts. hope to see you there!

cards for christmas

2009-11-12T23:23:00.006Z

us fine city friends have been busy and just finished a group project: a christmas card pack. each pack contains 5 A6 cards and 5 envelopes, one of each design shown above.

from the top downwards the designs are by..

anthony zinonos

me (memo)

gemma correll

our friend sam

kate beckett

we will be selling the packs at lots of craft fairs over the next couple of months. they are also available from my online shop, and soon from gemma's shop too.

moleskine arty party

2009-10-24T11:10:00.004+01:00

on thursday night a project that anthony, gemma and i contributed to called the 'travelling moleskine project' came to a conclusion in the form of an arty party. it all happened at an amazing unused factory in leeds called the temple works..

i created a walk-in colouring book for people to colour in, heres a few pictures of my doodles..

see what it all looked like after the colouring in over at my blog

craft fair and cake

2009-08-27T12:32:00.003+01:00

the bust summer craftacular in london

Bust Craftacular

2009-08-17T16:59:00.002+01:00

We will be attending yet another fair this saturday (22nd)...this time the Bust Craftacular...York Hall, Bethnal Green London Noon-8pm. If the Christmas one is anything to go by its going to be a blast. So get on down for crafty delights by lots of talented folk...see you there

fair photos and one for gemma

2009-08-06T12:13:00.003+01:00

heres a couple of photos from the craftwerk fair last weekend in london. it was a fun afternoon of coconut maccaroons, haribo and idle chat with my friend kate.

the other photo is a treat for gemma, kates pottery pug that jim made for her at the cat pottery in north walsham. its lifesize and everything.

crafty times in sheffield

2009-07-20T11:58:00.003+01:00

heres a few pictures of the stall we had at the candy floss fair in sheffield on saturday. gemma and kate came to visit for the weekend. we had a pretty good day drinking coffee and hoping it didn't rain.

craft fair on saturday

2009-07-16T11:17:00.003+01:00

we will be at the candy floss fair in sheffield on saturday selling our wares. we hope to see you there!

upcoming craft fairs

2009-06-16T09:46:00.003+01:00

over the next few of months we'll be selling our wares at a couple of fairs across the UK:

candy floss in sheffield 18th july

craft werk in london 1st august

hopefully we'll see you there!

le petit chien

2009-05-12T11:14:00.003+01:00

i recently got a film developed that had been hanging around for ages, some of the photos were from the bust craftacular fair that us fine city friends took part in last december. this little lady perused our stall sporting a snazzy t-shirt. thumbs up for olive the dog.

cherry cherry

2009-03-30T00:24:00.003+01:00

fine city friends kate and gemma are branching out into the ker-azee world of retail and are opening a concession, cherry cherry, in the norwich homewares store The Perfect Pad on april 9th. as you can see, preparations are underway...
you can find out more on the cherry cherry blog.

craft crunch

2009-03-27T11:43:00.003Z

check us out on craft crunch ... they interviewed us at the Little Bazaar craft fair last weekend, very nice chaps... go visit their blog...

clutter city this saturday

2009-03-23T23:28:00.001Z

can you believe, it has been a year already... it's clutter city's 1st birthday this saturday and the fine city friends will be there to celebrate.
the first 100 visitors get a free badge designed by fine city gemma, too!

a little bazaar

2009-03-22T22:33:00.002Z

yesterday we had a stall at a craft fair called 'a little bazaar' in new cross, london. heres the evidence...

kate's houses

2009-02-11T13:53:00.001Z

i'm excited because finally my project for artforum is complete...woop woop! you can see the finished product here and they are available in shops now

dragons?

2009-02-10T16:44:00.006Z

fine city friendsters zara and gemma are exhibiting at the Norwich Dragon Festival this week. Take a trip to The Forum, Norwich to have a look-see.

i like these packets

2009-02-01T21:30:00.004Z

these crips are one of the only interesting things you can buy in newmarket. i came across them in a sandwich shop. each flavour has different animals on the packet. i saw them and thought of dirtbox.

crafty goings-on

2009-01-25T23:29:00.003Z

heres some photos from the clutter city fair in norwich yesterday. we ate some tasty chilli and had a nice day

fancy tattoo

2009-01-17T15:43:00.004Z

here is a picture of one of gemma's sugar skull tattoos. it was taken after i'd had it on my arm for 3 days. it lasted for about a week, then i peeled it off and used it as a sticker. multipurpose! i'd say they're as good as getting real tattoos, maybe even better because they don't involve pain..

next clutter city...

2009-01-13T01:42:00.000Z

be there or be... not there. there'll be vegetarian chilli and a lucky dip...

a fine new years eve

2009-01-04T21:02:00.005Z

new years eve at kate's house was lots of fun. a fine evening as demonstrated above by me and mr zinonos.

check us out

2008-12-14T20:56:00.003Z

at the bust craftacular, as seen on the indie quarter blog ...

a christmas craftacular spectacular

2008-12-07T20:56:00.005Z

yesterday, the fine city friends made our merry way down to london to seek our fortunes at the BUST christmas craftacular. there were lots of lovely things to look at, dance to and eat (cupcakes!) and even st. nicolas himself managed to pay us a visit...

busty ladies

2008-11-26T20:48:00.003Z

we're going to be at the BUST craftacular on december 6th : it's an all day-er AND an all night-er. come buy things from us and drink mulled wine! (pleasethankyou)

snow day

2008-11-22T22:12:00.004Z

today was the christmas clutter city fair here in the fine city. freak november blizzards didn't put the customers off (and made it all the more festive, really) and a fun day was had by all, even though they ran out of vegetarian chilli...

christmas shopping?

2008-11-11T23:52:00.001Z

come down to clutter city on november 22 for a christmas craft extravaganza... isn't it so much nicer to buy handmade gifts than the same old high street rubbish?

clutter city

2008-09-29T11:13:00.001+01:00

un grand "merci!" to everyone who came along to saturday's clutter city market. hope y'all had fun browsing the many and varied stalls and eating the yummy vegan cakes...

it's that time again

2008-09-23T19:18:00.003+01:00

yes, it's time for another clutter city market.
be there or be square- it's at the norwich arts centre this saturday (27th). also at the arts centre you will see work by fine city friends anthony and gemma as part of the "peripheral vision" exhibition.

More Clutter piccies

2008-08-01T16:48:00.008+01:00

You girlies were looking remarkably calm considering how hot it got towards the end!
Didn't manage to get a good pic of our very exciting FCF Zine except for the one with Libby in (on my blog) which doesn't show it in it's full glory ... anyway what are we going to do about this band idea ???!

le city de clutter

2008-07-26T18:29:00.001+01:00

a few photos from today's clutter city... i'm sure zara has a few to add too. thanks for coming, if you did!

clutter city this saturday

2008-07-22T16:06:00.003+01:00

bring yourself and your pocket money to the norwich arts centre this saturday (26th July) 10am-5pm for this month's CLUTTER CITY fair... we'll be there, come and say hello!

what a chap

2008-07-18T22:20:00.002+01:00

found this on my cyber travels and thought of helen, if she gets a hamster im going to sew one of these for it.

fine city simpsons

2008-07-18T19:30:00.004+01:00

if we were characters in the simpsons...

this is what we would look like...

busy busy bee

2008-07-14T16:06:00.002+01:00

yay another magazine has featured my busy bee notebook...this time 'essentials'. you too can own one of these bad boys by going to my shop http://www.ilikepens.co.uk/

mizz loves kate

2008-07-10T22:06:00.001+01:00

ooh, check kate out... her busy bee notebook is featured in the latest issue of everybody's favourite teenage girls' magazine, mizz.

new brooches

2008-07-04T13:34:00.002+01:00

heres a new batch of icecream brooches i made. the choice of flavours are: strawberry, mint choc chip or a vannilla 99.

Happy New Pad Memo!

2008-07-03T15:37:00.001+01:00

And this was the aftermath...

2008-06-29T13:14:00.001+01:00

a slightly traumatic day out

2008-06-28T20:04:00.002+01:00

as i'm sure kate and helen will agree, today began well and went downhill from there. we went to pleasurewood hills, the biggest (and in fact, only) theme park in east anglia. the scary upside down-y rollercoasters were fine, it was just when we got on the spinning chairs on chains ride, that was a mistake. we spent the car ride home in near silence, in case opening our mouths make us puke in an unladylike fashion in kate's car.

bye bye helen

2008-06-27T18:12:00.001+01:00

we are sad that helen has left the fine city for the sunnier skies of, well, newmarket...
it's ok though, she still gets to be a fine city friend.

2008-06-22T12:08:00.004+01:00

Hello peeps, on the 10th July pop down to your local shop and buy a copy of Mizz magazine...hopefully my work is going to be featured in it! woop de do...I'm pretty excited:)

The pic is something I made the other day!

FCF get together...

2008-06-20T22:11:00.007+01:00

Yesterday we got together in a basement cafe of a bookshop* and had a giggle infused caffeine fest of meeting. Except that I couldn't blame the caffeine - green tea all the way! We discussed important matters like the fact that Memo will be taking more paper than clothes to her new pad! Now that is the sort of serious commitment to the creative cause that us Fine City Friends salute - yeh!!

We shall be dead sad to see Me(ee)mo move away from our the name sake city - collective *sob*. But happy moving Helen! ^^ As is customary in the topsy turvy FCF world Helen brought parting gifts - here's gemma sporting a damn fine dog pic (not the best quality- sorry!) embellished in the witty way that is so trademark Memo...!
*see forthcoming zine to discover this top secret haunt

bird pie!

2008-06-12T19:37:00.001+01:00

this is a creation i made a couple of weeks ago. it made me chuckle

our friend sir larry

2008-06-12T19:23:00.002+01:00

this is larry, with a bird, and a memo keyring.

the latest

2008-06-06T17:32:00.003+01:00

it's been a busy few weeks for the various members of the fine city friends.
miss seaward of ilikepens has started selling her wares in various places, including on www.bonbiforest.com and www.bettyjoy.co.uk, as well as the red door gallery in edinburgh.
so now kate, anthony, helen AND gemma have all got things for sale there... they should rename it the "fine city friends gallery" really.

we had a meeting last night. we drank milo, watched magic e on youtube and discussed our forthcoming zines and exhibitions. plus a new ONLINE SHOP which we are very excited about.

flickr

2008-05-30T21:00:00.001+01:00

we've got a new flickr account and a flickr group that you can join!

Rainy day meeting ...

2008-05-30T09:40:00.007+01:00

The FCF crew braved silly weather and got together for a meeting yesterday to talk about our next project - the Fine Zine!! We've got lots of exciting things planned from illustrated pub reviews and airport drawings to squirrel doodles and word games.

That's all we'll reveal for now, but we all agreed that it's going to be inspired by our namesake - the 'Fine City' that is our adopted homeland. Expect to find our Fine Zine in unexpected places in and around Norwich and maybe even further afield- wooahh! We'll let you know here when it's coming out ...check back for updates!

Oh and Gemma, I've discovered another Soko-esque singer today that Anthony's going to love - her name is Sally Shapiro - Jackie Jackie track in particular! Enjoy!

larry and gladys

2008-05-27T13:47:00.001+01:00

meet the fine city friends' lovely mascots larry and gladys. larry is an ex-guitar playing grey squirrel and gladys is a cheap red squirrel from hemsby. they won't let the colour of their fur keep them apart, oh no.

this saturday...

2008-05-19T22:46:00.000+01:00

yesterday...

2008-04-13T16:42:00.005+01:00

...some snapshots from yesterday's 'everybody likes eggs' fair at the playhouse. (that's our lovely new member kate in the top picture.)
find us next at clutter city at the arts centre on may 24th and affaire a suivre... watch this space for news of an exciting new project.

edp

2008-03-31T17:04:00.004+01:00

i forgot to post this article about clutter city, which was in the edp (eastern daily press for non-east anglians). i'm not sure what was going on with the design but they did put a few of our things in (dirt box badges, gemma's bear zines)

everybody likes eggs

2008-03-20T16:32:00.001Z

poster by helen, aka memo

clutter city

2008-02-28T14:24:00.002Z

we're going to have a stall at the clutter city fair on saturday 8th march.
we'll be selling lovely things alongside other people selling lovely things, and there's going to be thai food and studio ghibli films too! Yay!

photographical evidence

2008-02-20T15:24:00.004Z

pics from the "we love good weather" fair

tomorrow!

2008-02-15T13:42:00.004Z

this is how excited we are that the "we like good weather" fair is tomorrow...
very.

4 days to go...

2008-02-12T14:02:00.000Z

the "we like good weather fair" is coming in...
oooh, 4 days!
grande thanks to amy at pikaland for mentioning us on her superfantastisch blog...

the "we like good weather" fair

2008-02-04T20:14:00.001Z

end of the line fair - CANCELLED

2008-02-02T08:52:00.000Z

this girl looks how we feel.
we've had to cancel today's end of the line fair because of the snow... it will be rearranged for a week or 2's time though, so please look out for new posters/flyers around norwich...
and watch this space...

tomorrow (tomorrow, i love ya, tomorrow...)

2008-02-01T14:49:00.000Z

just a reminder that the end of the line fair is taking place tomorrow...
10-5 in the playhouse bar (in the playroom, actually). be there or be, um, square.

pleasure corner snack

2008-01-11T16:16:00.000Z

my poster !!

2008-01-10T22:30:00.000Z

here is my poster for the fair. this guys tash is so good he should have a public holiday dedicated to him. hope to see you at the fair (unfortunately this guy cant make it he already has plans).

a date for your diaries

2008-01-04T18:15:00.000Z

that's right, it's another fine city friends craft-y fair.
hopefully the weather will be a bit nicer this time.
come along for more lovely zines, badges, plush toys, t-shirts, skate decks and oooh-so-much more!

tagine cat

2007-12-30T22:54:00.001Z

my new favorite hobby: collecting photos of cats in boxes. a tagine and perhaps an ashtray full of dirty cigarettes also in the picture is always a bonus...

happy sausages

2007-12-28T15:40:00.000Z

2 of the 3 members of the fine city friends spent a fine christmas in the beautiful land of cyprus. there, we were force-fed halloumi and cheese pies. and we saw this advert for sausages. sausage necklace? yes please!

let's all jump over animals

2007-12-13T17:52:00.000Z

last saturday, we hosted the let's all jump over animals fair at the playhouse, norwich.
the weather was rubbish but apart from that, it was really quite sucessful.
here's the poster...

hello y'all!

2007-12-13T17:19:00.000Z

hallo liebchens,
we're the fine city friends. welcome to our blog...
this is what we do:
we make things, sew things, photograph things, cut things out, draw things, sell things and drink cherry lambrini.