Every year Innocent Smoothies run a campaign to get folks up and down the land to knit little hats for smoothie bottles. For every behatted bottle sold, Sainsburys and innocent - give 50p per bottle sold to Age Concern to help keep older people warm in winter. The money raised from The Big Knit goes towards providing hot meals, blankets and advice to older people on how to keep their houses warm.http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/thebigknit/?Page=thebigknit
Here is the link (above) I was hoping you could add some information about it on your blog. Its for age concern, a charity in the UK. It would be great if you had a little bit of time to make a few? And you could tell your friends about it too.
JO xxxxxxx
E-mail from my friend Joanne in the UK.
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What a lovely and kind person you are, Paula...Remember when I knew you...? I wasn't wrong about you...
How did you get on in the exhibition? Fer.
Hi.
I’m always glad and grateful over your lovely words about me…
Thank you!
The exhibition is next weekend and I hope I can go by car with some friends or may be rent a car for a day (I have a driving license but not a car…), just to see how it looks… I have just sent my jewelleries by mail, and the owner of the gallery will arrange it, to the best.
It’s a small exhibition at the countryside, but I think it’s a huge engagement!
As a jewellery artist in Sweden, the space to show or things aren’t so big, we have a few scenes to show our things and if I will speak with my hand on my heart, I don’t think that’s enough… The places who shows jewellery art is limit into two places, and this two places are for jewellery artist from other countries (witch is good, so we others could see by our self what’s going on in the rest of out fields, outside our boarders…) and also for the one who knows each others… I got the feeling of; if you like my thing, I like yours…
(I know that I put my self in really windy situation when I’m saying this, but I think that Sweden is too little for some of us jewellery artists, BUT the internet and this communication are good for us, for me… I can show what I want, with out being dependent of others thoughts about my art and pieces…This is one of the reasons why I started a blog, to show my own work and of course others that inspired me, but I have also done a active choose not to show people from Sweden who runs the galleries here…)
Hi, my dear friend...Tell me: when you say that Sweden "is too little for some of us jewellery artists"...do you mean that Sweden is a too little market to absorb the offer of jewells that you swedish artists represent? I know that Gotteburg is the second city of Sweden; well, what about Stockolm? I suppose that you are connected with people there; isn't it possible to place your production there? Or the number of Stockolm artists is also very huge?
I'm getting involved in your problems... You have all my support.
Hi…
First Sweden is too little in or as an jewellery world, even if we have Stockholm and Gothenburg and Malmö as the three biggest cities’ in Sweden… the jewellery art is a very little and relative new art form, so when you working with jewellery ART as I do, when your attention at the first isn’t to sell, sell things for me is an bonus (may be this sounds strange?! But I will do jewellery art with out compromise with myself, I don’t want to think; sell.
When I create… So for me that not the main point, even if I like that people like and want to buy and wear my things, they are wearable!)
We have only a few galleries in Sweden who show this kind of jewellery art (contemporary art) and it’s hard to get a show there, because of what I write before; I know you, you know me, and then we can play together… it’s a little bite hard to say it like this, and I know that people in my “world” get really upset of this kind of way of saying it, but I think it’s some kind of true in it, even if it’s the whole true, you have to be “good” to, even if that is something who is really hard to figure it out, witch one is good enough?!
It’s a little bite hard to explain this in English, but I think this is common in every field that you working in, you have to be in the right “company”.
I think that my jewellery art and some others here in Sweden don’t fits in so very well in just the Swedish “light” thinking way… I know that people in Spain and south America like my things “more” than people in Sweden does, now I speak generally, but I know that I got a lot of visitors at my blog from other counties who like my things in an other way that Swedish people does… In that I’m glad and grateful of and I like to have the whole world as a arena for my art and not just and only Sweden.
Its two galleries in Sweden who shows jewellery art (and only jewellery art!) it’s
Galleri Hnoos here in Gothenburg a very small gallery and very good jewellery gallery.
I’m glad that we have this place so close.
Then we have galleri Platina in Stockholm, it’s also a good gallery.
Sweden is a very small country so may be we don’t need any more spaces for just and only jewellery art?!
It’s some other galleries who show jewelleries, and other kind of handicrafts too.
It’s good to have your support!!! I’m sooooooooo grateful over it!
Thanks, Paula.
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