Fab new product just in time for Christmas!!

Looking for that last min stocking stuffer? Dragging yourself through town to the end of finding nothing original or interesting let alone eco friendly!
I have a new product hot of the press just in time for the Christmas fairs Ive been doing.. the up-cycled tea towel at just £8 its a perfect stocking stuffer and as a up-cycled product it has the history of the old and the illustrations of the new cake and tea check it out below and links on where to buy... Merry Christmas!
www.esthercoombs.etsy.com

Shop your socks on with Esther's Holiday season events!

Hi!!
I have some great events coming up for Christmas shopping events which are almost upon us! They are well worth a visit if your in town! Flyer's, tickets, PV invites and entry offers below..
Esther :)

Illustrated Fiction Post - Coffee

Another cracking little story from the misstess of fiction Ms julia F Green..

As she walked along Maiden Lane from the subway to her office building, Nell had to jab the fingernails of her right hand into the palm of her left, just to have something to concentrate on besides the cups of coffee that were glued to everyone’s hand, and the dense, lush smell of those brewed beans that sat like a thick blanket atop everything in lower Manhattan. The coffee—its smell, its presence, its phantom taste on the tongue—was everywhere, and Nell thought she could almost feel the dried ends of her hair trembling with the desire for it.

It had been four days since she’d consumed caffeine, and in the panicked haze that had settled in during that time, Nell could barely recall what her original motivation had been. The words clarity and purity and health flitted around her mind in animated thought bubbles, like in a children’s TV show. As she passed yet another coffee cart, Nell closed her eyes halfway and visualized the herbal tea she’d been drinking since Sunday. It tasted vaguely like dishwater.

Nell clung to the hope that soon the fog would break, and she would emerge renewed from the depths of her being, each cell revived and remade, ensuring a long, long life and none of the wrinkles that usually go with it. Until then, she would stumble through her days, protected by the image of her future self, a clean, efficient machine that ran itself on water and air and sunlight, like a big green plant on a fire escape, its healthy vines creeping along and embracing the ironwork whose years of rust softened under the green lattice.

Illustrated fiction post..

Sorry I've been so notably absent, so much to do after the Design Week shows so without further ado!...
A eargerly awaited illustrated fiction post from Julia F Green.. here it is..
Just a note.. I'm thinking of combining these cool illustrated fiction post into a zine, what do you all think about that good idea? Id appreciate your thoughts.. :)

Est


When Clarice turned the corner, she said shit. Somehow, overnight, two cranes had appeared in the middle of the block of 20th Street she walked down each day to get to work. As everyone in New York knew, cranes were falling out of the sky and to walk under one was to look God in the eye and tell him to go fuck himself. That dude was not going to laugh that one off. Kaboom, and they’re digging for your wallet in five feet of rubble.

She could have turned back—she could have gone back to 6th Avenue, walked up or down a block, over to 7th and then cut back to 20th. But what a waste of fucking time that would be. Who lives in New York and walks around in circles just to avoid danger? Clarice murmured the only prayer she remembered from her mandatory early childhood church attendance, opened her umbrella to the clear blue sky, and strode toward her destiny.

Prep prep prepping!!

I am madly squiraling away in deepest Hampshire getting ready for the big fab design week for me a trade fair and a little retail fair in the big smoke, so sorry about absence of new posts!
Thought you might like to see what im up to..
The first show is a one day designers sale at craft central info here.



And the big trade fair is Tent London info here.




so other yummy links:
The London Design Festival - the reason to get to town and look around next week.
the V&A museum - the hub of the design museum this year.

So I was in a bar....

Waiting for a friend and i had just purchased my wedding plimsoles and so couldn't help but commit them to my sketchbook, now what to paint them with!?

New pics for me&my products from the fab Charlotte Broster

Hey got some new pics done of me and my products for upcoming trade fairs like the fab Content and the pretty to good to miss One day designers sale at Crafts Central...
I love them im very pleased, as I knew I would be form my talented friend, she is very reasonable and i would defo (!) recommend her!!
Her info here: www.charlottebrosterphotography.co.uk
Pics here: