Blog
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Soft Toy Making – Blue Room
The Men’s Room charity approached me to work with their Blue Room group as they wanted to work with artists to look at a variety of craft skills with an end product that they could take home. I suggested soft toy making as hey, who doesn’t love a teddy?
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Remembering Applique
Much of my work is bold and seen from afar so speed & strength are priorities over detail & prettiness. I use glue and tape and staples and if I do sew, it’s fast machine stitch. So I started attending the monthly Lo-fi sessions run by Craft Mafia after I started making my Wotnots in […]
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Nerissa’s Blog…
So if you talk about stuff once it has happened, that counts as blogging, right?
With this in mind I have changed the name of this section from News to Blog as I kept posting about my news once it had happened or at least wanting to.
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Transformation & Revelation Exhibition in Cardiff
The Society of British Theatre Designers exhibition of UK Design for Performance 2007-2011 will be at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff from March 18th to April 16th 2011. The theme is Transformation & Revelation. I have chosen to show the masks I designed & created for the Aqueous Humour show […]
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Aqueous Humour has Shiny New Website
Aqueous Humour is a physical theatre company based in Manchester. I am the Head of Design. We have had a lovely new website designed & built for us by John Ossoway of RAGINGtrifle (who also built this site). There is loads more information about our work, how we create it & how you can book […]
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Wotnots at Chorlton Park Winter Fair
I have a stall at this year’s Chorlton Park School Winter Fair on Friday 10th December 2010. It starts as soon as school ends & finishes at 6pm. I will be selling my new Wotnots range of soft toys, greetings cards & accessories (brooches, earrings, hairclips…). Photos & prices of these can be viewed in […]
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Christmas at The Mill
Christmas Craft Fair Islington Mill, James Street, Salford M3 5HW Thursday 25th November 2010 Doors open at 5pm until 9pm I am launching my Wotnots range of soft toys, greetings cards & accessories at this year’s Christmas at the Mill event at Islington Mill where I have a studio. I have been making them out […]
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Old News
Oh dear, oh dear. Have had a busy summer and while I have taken my new role as website & social media manager for Aqueous Humour on with great gusto; tweeting, updating news, posting to Facebook etc, I have been truly neglectful of my own website so here is a catch up on my summer […]
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Sky Muffins Performing at Brighton Festival
12.30 – 6.00pm Sunday 23rd May 2010 Brighton Marina The Sky Muffins from Aqueous Humour are performing at Brighton Festival. Head down to Brighton Marina for a free day of alfresco fun for all the family. This year’s Big Splash includes surprises around every corner from an array of weird and wacky street entertainers alongside […]
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Welcome to my New Website
I felt it was time for a change. Though my original website had served me well, it seemed to be very good at showing people my theatre work but not the other sides to my work. So, time to ‘rebrand’ and who better to do it than the lovely and talented RAGINGtrifle who had designed […]