Gee How Quaint

The Journal Oct 6 - The one about Newcastle Craft Mafia

Well, well.  Haven't we been enjoying our brief moment in the spotlight.  The Newcastle Craft Mafia has a nice article and photo on today's Journal paper.  Click on me and laught and sing to see the full article and a smashing photo of Leeanne Lowe, my lovely co-founder.

Incidentally, my photo is nowhere to be seen.  A photographer did come to my home for the previous article relating to artwork being taken to auction house.  I posed with my salvaged artworks.  I did as he said.  Tipped my head to the side a bit, looked in to the middle distance.  I think he must have taken about ten photos.  But alas, none are to be seen.

Which makes me conclude this:  I might be ugly.

It's such a shame as today is the best I will look as I shall only get older, more weather beaten and haggard as I age.  Things will slide south, the dark rings under my eyes will become darker, and my teeth will yellow with too much tea and red wine drink.

It's such a shame really.  I thought I had nice eyes at the very least.

For the complete story and comment

The Photography Pages is a very informative blog regarding the Art Works Galleries fiasco.  Everything from the artists' email of 'come get your stuff, we've closed' from the gallery to testimonials of money owed...it's all there. 

My biggest complaint about this fiasco, is how terribly Matt Forster handled it.  I think things would have gone much better if he had had the decency to speak to us face to face.  And possibly paid the Star and Shadow's rent to the council instead of pocketing it.  Does his business angel even know about any of this?  Hm.  Enquiring minds want to know.

Rescued art work from Art Works Galleries sinking ship

These are 3 of the 8 artworks I rescued from the auctioneers on Friday.  I could have been Lot 95 selling to recover Matt Forster's debts.

Today I and my two wonderful friends, Adrienne and Brenda, rocked up to Mr Forster's stand at the Art Fair and handed him invoices.  He just sat there looking rather tired.  And I stood there feeling very haggered and tired and actually just wanting the weekend to end.

www.cassandraharrison.co.uk for more of the same.

The Journal, Oct 3

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/10/03/angry-artists-hit-out-at-art-works-gallery-s-owner-61634-24842567/

The above link will take you to today's story in The Journal regarding the angry artists of Art Works Galleries.  There are some small inaccuracies in the story, however, the basic truths are there so I am not going to be too worried about the small stuff.

They did age me by about 2 years.  Ah well.

First Thursday Dec 08 invite

 

Yesterday I received my The Art Works Galleries December Invitation to all of their events leading up to Christmas.  Pleased as punch was I when I saw my purple reindeer Christmas stocking used as one of their images to lure people in.  Yes.  People.  Be lured in.  The shop is lovely.  To find out more about this event, hop to www.theartworksgalleries.com

In other news:  I want to swear a little.  It appears that I will be re-doing the Gee How Quaint website due to hosting issues.  Blast. I guess I know what I'll be doing in January.

Living North Nov. 2008

 

 

I found this quite by accident in my Living North magazine.  This was their spiel about the upcoming Christmas event in the region.  The intro on the previous page reads:

'With over 320 exhibitors... we are unable to do justice to every stand holder in these pages.  However, we did want to give you just a small taste of the extremely high quality and unusual gifts you can expect to see in our Shopping Hall and Christmas Village.'

and inside there is this lovely big picture of Gee How Quaint knickers and the write-up which reads:

'GHQ provides the perfect solution to holiday packing dilemmas.  They create unique and innovative travel accessories handmade locally by talented seamstresses. Most of the fabrics are designed and printed by the artist using a small Japanese printing machine.  They are the most fun and functional travel accessories: the perfect present for jolly jetsetters.'

Thanks Living North!

In the News: Bags pose with celebrities

 This is one of Gee How Quaint's famous bags posing with someone who has been on t.v. many times, in many shows, uhm, not sure who she is but she does seem very familiar.  Please excuse our ignorance.  We live in the UK and don't see much American television.  That's our excuse and we're stickin to it.  Just over this smily girl's right shoulder, you can see our other products on display during the event.  It's called the Dog and Baby Buffet and although that sounds like a horrific type of eating arrangement, it's actually where small business go to get snappy snaps of their goods taken with people who smile and talk on our t.v. screens.  Interesting.

Here's some one else...

We like this girl because she has in her hand a Gee How Quaint swimsuit bag AND a cute little doggie.  At GHQ HQ we think people who like dogs are ace.

I want to befriend this one because she looks very nice, too...

If you know who these happy, smily people are, please do drop a comment.  Perhaps a U.S. celebrity magazine as well.

Kind regards,

Cassandra of Gee How Quaint

We make bags for travel.  Love us.

Living North May 2008

Our write up in this magazine is brilliant.  It goes a little like this:

With summer round the corner, it's time to start planning for holidays and we have found some genius accessories by Gee...How Quaint to solve all those trivial, yet annoying, travel dilemmas for any trendy jet setter!  Everything from the hassle of stowing lingerie to transporting wet swimwear is resolved with this fabulous collection of handmade bags and 'crisis' kits - you won't want to go anywhere without them!  Polka Dottie Swim Bag, £16.  Available at Art Works Gallery Giftshop, Newcastle.

Breaking the record for knitting big style

 

Right, in my attempt to find ANY piece of news media containing a photo of myself at this event, I have had to resort to drawing myself in the margins of this photo taken by The Journal.

As you can see, Ingrid has just cast on her 10 necessary stitches.  What you don't see are her helpers, standing at the end of each needle to support them as she works.

I also found the video clip of the event and I think if you click on the link below, you can see the record being broken by Ms Wagner.  What is funny is that in the beginning, you see large basketball players supporting the needles in one shot, then in the next you see me.  It is as if those large men have morphed into a tiny short haired girl.

The link works, so click away! 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7280000/newsid_7287800?redirect=7287878.stm&news=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&bbram=1&nbwm=

Breaking records and I was there!

   

Yesterday, I was present at a record breaking event.  Ingrid Wagner, of regional Big Knitting fame here in the Northeast, broke the world record for knitting with monster sized needles.  As you can see in this photo, those babies are huge.

For this event, she had received all sorts of great publicity and even a spot on Look North.  She needed to adjudicators to witness the event and measure the needles.  And guess who was there?!  Anyway, if you click on this link, you can watch a little video of the news clip.  Watch carefully and you will see me at the end, holding one of those gigantic needles, then sleeking off camera at the end of the piece.

Attending this event was quite amazing.  Good on you, Ingrid.  You are such a firecracker.