party fun and amazing books

Bonjour bonjour.

Unbelievably, it's already a week since our first birthday party. What a blast we had! Thanks to everyone that came, hope everyone got a party bag. Gill's food was great (the tatties went down a treat too!), the drinks flowed, the conversation rambled.... good fun. (Once I've sorted out my photos I'll maybe post a few. Maybe.) Now it's back to doing some actual work.

We're getting started on the models for Model Me Real. Each of the artists has submitted their final pieces - we're working from 2 photos (from Lydia and Rosita) and a sculpture from David. A good range - we think they should provide a nice range of types of models and levels of difficulty too! We're just prototyping at the moment, we'll be translating them into nets and drawing them up for the PDFs, and at some stage they'll be available to the public to try out!

D, one of our lovely neighbours here in the hidden lane, just emailed us this:



pretty amazing!
Fingers crossed to get a commission like that.

A finished model and a party.

We've finally finished the latest model for NORD Architecture, which we're happy with, and they seem to be too! The exhibition will be on the second floor at the Lighthouse, and from the sneak preview we got when we delivered the model yesterday, it looks like it'll be good. It opens tomorrow, the 20th May.

So now we're in full party prep mode - packing party bags and making a giant penguin, amongst other things. It's a celebration of our first proper year in business, which is something we think is worth celebrating in this "economic climate", as they like to say. We can't believe how quickly it's come round, and it's a little scary, but we're both looking forward to it!