Last night I went to the final part of the Amelia Compendium of Fashion Illustration book tour, which was held in Tatty Devine in Brick Lane. I went with my BFF, talented writer and The Young Creatives founder Katie Byrne.
When we got inside we were immediately overwhelmed by how colourful and lovely everything was. Jewellery that looked good enough to eat and biscuits that looked like art. The biscuits were provide by the Biscuiteers, who hand make every single biscuit! As well as there being plenty to eat you had the chance to have a go icing a masterpiece yourself.
Here's picture of me icing a biscuit taken by Amelia Gregory.
Ta-da! The finished piece.
To wash down biscuits there was Lahloo tea in beautiful tea cups and bottles of Juiceology in some fantastic flavours.
After we'd all had (more than) sufficient biscuits and tea and Amelia gave her talk, balancing a laptop on her shoulder. It encompassed how she started the magazine, how it became a website, how the two book came about, and was full of lots of helpful tips on social networking and getting yourself out there.
At the end of the talk I got a bit of my work out for people to look at. People usually only see my work on screen so I think it was quite nice for people to see the originals.
Before I left I met a lovely lady from Dr. Hauschka and grabbed some free samples. I absolutely love Dr. Hauschka's products, so that was quite a treat. Can't wait to try my face mask. :)
Thanks for the lovely blog Emma - it was great to meet you and we loved all your collages x
Posted by: Tatty Devine | 06/08/2011 at 02:08 PM
Ooh I stood next to that biscuit gazing lovingly at it and being a tiny bit distracted by it during Amelia's talk (*confesses*) Husband furious on hearing its description that I had not liberated it for him. Your icing was as lovely as your illustrations, which is praise indeed!
Posted by: StepneyCityFarm | 06/08/2011 at 02:16 PM
It was such good fun, and it was lovely to meet you :)
I had a conversation with someone about your biscuit - we wondered whose it was and decided it was very Cath Kidston!
Posted by: Ickleson | 06/08/2011 at 02:35 PM