DecoGalerie

I now have my work on Decogalerie, a French website for selling the work of artists and designers. My biog sounds so beautiful in French....

Hannah Nunn, créatrice britannique, travaille exclusivement le papier. Elle le découpe pour en faire une collection originale de luminaires poétiques, inspirées par la nature et le monde botanique. Hannah conçoit et fabrique ses lampes dans son petit atelier de Hebden Bridge, en Angleterre. Lampes de table, de sol, applique ou encore suspension, tous les luminaires de Hannah Nunn ont un point commun : la délicatesse des dessins et la douceur de leur lumière.

...picture of me in my petit atelier de Hebden Bridge!

Busy Day (off?)

I'm working on my new website at the moment. Just chipping away when I get the time. I'd like to get it launched by the time I do GNCCF. Today found I had some images missing so I went to the workshop, made the lamps and photographed all of them. I'm quite pleased with myself. It's been a very focused day. My eyes are tired but I'm still a bit excited so can't quite switch the computer off yet! Monday is usually my day off but you couldn't stop me from working today.

I never have had a photo of my small oval Daisy lamp. At last!

I have been invited to sell my work on Decogalerie. It's a web shop for designers and artists based in France.' Une sélection de créations d'artistes, artisans d'art, designers en pièce unique et série limitée'. A whole new country! They will translate my product listings for me. so it's great. They asked for a shot of my studio so I took this one today. Now I am going to upload it. Bye bye...

Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair 2010

Next month I'll be exhibiting at the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair in Manchester. Looking forward to it....lots more planning and making to do before though. Today they launched their new website. There's an amazing kaleidoscope all made up of exhibitors work on the front page. It spins round and everything! It's stunning. Go and have a quick look!

Busy in the workshop

Sorry I've been quiet. I'm still here working away. Had a rush of September wedding fairy lights to make and struggling to find the right paper for them. Last year the mill that makes my lamp paper went bust (after about 300 years of being in business...how sad) but as it was a good seller my paper merchant made their own version of it which was the teensy weensiest bit thicker. This is fine for my lamps but has been causing problems with my fairy lights. The little bit of exra thickness has put extra pressure on the cylinders. I tried using thinner paper which I thought was ok but have now decided has less of an impact and doesn't show up the letters and patterns quite as well. Right now I am using all the last remaining sheets of my old paper (only 12 A2 sheets left) until I figure out a good fix....theres always something sent to try us!

This stack of boxes here are full of lamps going off to a good stockist of mine. Rural Living in Haselmere, Surrey.

Virtual tour of Radiance!

Hooray! Now you can take a virtual tour of the new Radiance shop. Joby Catto of Anti Ltd has once again worked his magic and created this new virtual experience! (you might remember the last one he did a few years back of the old Radiance). You can scroll around 360 degrees and zoom in and out to look more closely at all the pretty things. So if you're far away it's the ideal way feel like you have visted in person! I hope I don't bump into you while you're scrolling about!

Dorset

We have just had a lovely week on the Dorset Coast.



There were coves and cliffs and high high views...That arch in the rock is the famous Durdle Door. Would have been a lovely place to swim.



We walked over the top of Lulworth Cove. I loved being so high up and looking down over all the teeny boats. It was a really steep climb though with wet towels and beach stuff...



We saw lots of butterflies and coastal flowers. I havent got my book out yet to find out what that blue butterfly is. Anybody know?



There was sun and sand and swimming...



...and lollies. Ffion has been using film to take her photos alot this week. It makes all our holiday snaps look like the seventies...




Our boat trip from Swanage Harbour around Durlston Bay and the Tilly Whim caves was choppy and splashy but lovely all the same. Beautiful big blue sea.



My Dad always used to take me to the amusements when we went on seaside holidays so I have fond memories. Ffion couldn't see the attraction of trying to win a flip flop keyring....



.....she'd rather take her guitar down the beach and sing to the sea instead!!!

Allium Allium Allium

I just did a Google image search for Allium (looking for website inspiration) and THIS is the first page that popped up. So beautiful. I just wanted to remember it so I thought I'd put it here.

Is this a new Google layout? It's so lovely...

Taking the 'light-arted approach'

I'm in the Halifax Courier today. It's a fabulous two page spread about me and Radiance. Thanks very much to Virginia Mason for the lovely write up.

Cow Parsley pictures

At last all my Cow Parsley lamps have images on my website. I've been working on these over the last couple of days. Dandelion Clocks next...

Hello

Hello again. Long time no speak... I've been very quiet on the blog for a few weeks. Things have been busy here.... at work and at home. I have started to redesign my website. It's due for an overhaul. I want to re think my menus and make it easier to add new products as I design them. I've learned SO much whilst designing my Radiance site that I want apply my new knowledge to my Hannah site too so it will run more smoothly. I want to make it easier to order the personalised stuff too because at the moment that involves lots of too-ing and fro-ing!

It's also inspired some new photos. I have found a beautiful house to do a photoshoot in at some point soon. I'm looking forward to that!

Oh, I bought this String of beads plant today from Easy Cactus. I've always loved these but not had much luck with them. Wendy gave me a cutting last year but it didn't last long. I thought if I got a fairly established plant this time I might have more luck. I promise to take good care of you.....