Monday Morning - Six Month Plan Update

Good Morning!

Well it seems like so long ago that I last managed to get a chance to blog! I have been very busy with preparation for the Art Market I will be going to in Holmfirth this Sunday coming up. I've been planning and designing my stall, making papercuts, getting some packaging created and planning things to make sure I don't forget anything on the day!

For the rest of this week I will be carrying on with my Art Market prep, while also working on the Christmas window display for Hannah Zakari, that I will be installing on the 21st of November up in Edinburgh. I thought it might be a good time now, to give you an update on the progress of my Six Month Plan....

So far, I have completed several of my goals, but as each of these have been worked on - each thing has brought up new opportunities that I have lead to more work and interesting things, so a few of my Six Month goals have been delayed until the new year! So here are the things I've completed so far and the things that have been delayed until next year...

Six Month Plans Completed already...

* A papercut window display - preferably a Christmas one!

This Goal is still in progress and I will be installing a papercut window display for Hannah Zakari on the 21st of November.

* A few papercut illustrations for some editorial work (such as magazines, newspapers etc)

This goal was recently completed as I created a papercut design for Issue 3 of Paper Runway, which you can see here.

* To exhibit/display my work at a craft fair/trade fair

I will be exhibiting my work at my very first craft fair this coming Sunday at the Art Market in Holmfirth - if you can get to it, I would love for you to come by and say hi!

* To have my work stocked somewhere outside the UK.

Mr Yen Papercuts are now stocked in Halifax in Canada, in a great boutique called Inkwell. You can visit the Inkwell website here.

* To have my papercuts on display in some local businesses.

I have recently added some framed papercut leaf pieces to be in a paper craft exhibition in a local café to me in Leeds, at Café 164. You can see these pieces any time between 7th of November (today!) until the 16th of December.

Six Month Plans Still To Be Completed...

* A papercut book cover design.

I would love to create a papercut design for a company such as Chronicle Books or Penguin, which also leads me onto a newly added goal for next year...

* To start work on a book of my papercuts.

I would love to create an actual book, to be published by a publishing company such as Chronicle books. I love the books they bring out and I would love to create a small picture book of some floral papercuts!

* A papercut illustration for an advert for a cosmetics company

I would still very much like to create something for Crabtree and Evelyn. I think my work would suit some of their more floral and feminine products and I would love to work with them as a company.

* Create a papercut installation.

I think this goal is one of my personal favourites as since I've started planning a Christmas papercut window display, I love the idea of creating papercuts on a large scale!

* To work with a paper company to promote their paper and business.

I would love to get the opportunity to do this as it is the materials side of things that made love using paper to begin with. I think a small ad campaign, using the companies papers in creative ways using papercut imagery would be great!

As I am still working towards the rest of these goals and would love to secure more of them for early next year, if you have any information on how to go about creating/doing any of these things I would appreciate any help I can get...you can send me emails here - and if you would like me to create any of these things for you, you can see my portfolio website here and get in touch here.