Summer holidays

Well, it seems like a distant memory. I know the rest of the country is preparing to go back to school for the Autumn term, when we are heading into our third week....!
Anyway, we did have a lovely summer, with a week in Cornwall for the Jubilee week early on, a bit wet (that was a given everywhere this year), but much warmer than Scotland.
We had a week in London for the Olympics. This was the best fun and such an amazing opportunity for all of us. We saw handball, wrestling, Mo Farah & Tom Daley which meant we screamed, cried and Mexican waved. It really was an experience like no other and the atmosphere and organisation was superb.

 A trip to Brighton brought retail therapy, good food and Choccywoccydoodah and later in the week we caught up with friends from Chicago who were visiting the Cotswolds, and a fun trip to Giffords Circus, good food and chat.

Life has returned to our normal pace (whatever that is...full speed usually) and our southern sojourn a world away.....

Summer Catch Up

Life just scoots on by doesn't it and then you realise that you haven't blogged for a while! Things busy as usual for us here, with loads going on. We are near the end of our summer holidays, it still takes me by surprise, having come through the English school system, I still think it is August, returning in September, but August 15th everyone is back into the Autumn (!) term.
We have had a hectic time, Moose Towers still bustling with orders, and outside of that decorating in the Moose house, needle felting, print classes and trips away.

The panda is the first needlefelting experiment that G made, a great success, though he doesn't have legs (and I don't think he will gaining any). He has also made a selection of eyeballs (he has his mother's warped sense of fun) and I think a hare maybe next....

A quick snapshot into Lynsey Jean Henderson's studio where I did a day long screen print class. This is something I have been meaning to try again, as I last did it many moons ago at college. We were given a quick tutorial and then left to get on with printing with Lynsey giving advice where needed. It was great to experiment with colours, techniques and various designs on paper, fabric, T-shirts, bags or whatever we could lay our hands on....and get in a real mess too! Great fun.

We are currently away in the south of the country catching up with old friends and going to the Olympics, which we have been avidly listening to....more blogging about all of that on our return.

Olympic excitement

We had a great trip to see the Olympic torch and soak up the excitement that it's journey is generating. The kids got to come out of school early, then we travelled to Newburgh to see it's passing. It was a warm, busy and buzzing afternoon. So much fun for all who were there.

There is an annual scarecrow competition that takes place in the village, so trying to spot the characters hanging out of windows, from lampposts, sitting on benches added to the fun.
Life seems to get frantically busy before the long summer break, which is very soon upon us.....

We're back!

Well we decided to keep blogging....not going to catch up from Feb though...silly! The LucyMoose blog is still live and humming along, this is more general Moose musings!

We have just been to Cornwall for a week...the weather wasn't brilliant, but we had a couple of days at the beach. A lovely chilled week, exploring. The Eden Project & the Tate St Ives were pretty high on the list and didn't fail to impress. Back home to doodling and school.

New location

Hey we are going to move business over to the new updated website. I will check back every now and then, but generally all blogging will be on lucymoose. Keep in touch!

October news

Just quickly before our big exciting news tomorrow.....
It's been a busy month and things are really hotting up for Christmas, orders steadily coming in, this will getting more and more manic as we move into November.
Anyway, we were really excited to take part in Cupar Arts Festival with a window of LucyMoose madness in the Maisie and Mac gallery. There was an exhibition in the gallery based on drawing, including the work of Clare Knox Bentham too, who does huge crazy drawings in glue......

We have had some lovely sunny days and getting out with the boys and dogs in the holidays was good fun, if cold! We are all a bit Halloween mad in this house, so we have had carved pumpkins on the go for a week now....we are on the second round! Also soup, curry, roasted seeds, pie etc etc!

Sunny September

Well it's been nothing but rubbish weather most of this summer, but I think we have been saved at the very end by a few days of glorious weather. We have had the usual weird mix of orders this summer and we are now working towards The Cupar Arts Festival, which will be installed the first week in October. (Pictures and blogging to follow)
The Cool it Schools has been officially launched and is being rolled out across schools around the country. My son's school is also taking part, which will be fun, as there are so many projects to get involved in, including doodle stuffing.
We are doing a competition tie in with Know magazine, design a doodle and you get it made up, for FREE! If you are in the Warwickshire district, this is for you.
The fantastic US website Inhabitots did a great piece on us, as did Creative Boom, lots of lovely studio shots from Moose Towers.

And finally for now, the lovely Jacqueline Gold voted for StuffyourDoodles as one of her favourite Twitter #WOW businesses at the beginning of September.