NEW colours for framed flowers

The new purple/ hot pink colour way is used in these two complementing framed flowers. These RRP at £55, trade customers please contact me about wholesale T+C's

In London town and around

I went to an event which the princes trust put on for it's volunteers, it shows the volunteers and mentors what work the princes trust has been doing in the area, I went along with some of my work to show how the trust has supported my business and how it has grown.

I was also lucky enough to be invited to the party celebrating the clothing brand Eden Park sponsoring the Rugby Football Union at the Kensington roof gardens. It was a wonderful night with examples of the Eden Park clothes. I celebrating the evening with two friend of mine from university, Scarlett and Francie, who i share my London studio with Scarlett (left) is also a textile designer with a passion for cupcakes and creating her own recipes! She is based in Oxford check out her cupcake blog. 

I have also had a busy week with completing orders. Above is a 90cm x 90cm heart made for a private order. It was a challenge and also great fun creating this heart as it is the largest I have made to date. The heart is being sent out this week and I will post pictures of how it looks in situ!

I also sent out orders to a number of new stockiest around the country including the Arteria shop, Gallery 23 in Lancaster, the craft shop at the royal exchange theatre, Manchester and the Bankfield Museum in Halifax which also has a permeant costume and textile exhibition

I have also added the new products to the website of the framed flowers and hearts, these have been very popular. Check out all the different colours on the website, and I will add more as they are being made shortly. Pieces can be made to order so if you would like a specific colour way just give me a call!

Check out the article by the Irish house and home magazine showing the top trends for 2011. The ruffle cushion has been selected, check out the article here.

There are also a number of foreign language blogs about Lorna Syson Textiles, if you would like to see them check them out here!

PaperBlog

Dekorella

Business Woman of the year awards

I was lucky enough to get a ticket to go to the Vitalise Business Woman of the Year Awards at Birmingham's Hitlon Metropole Hotel. It was a wonderful lunch which included a Harvey Nichols fashion show with beautiful clothes. The host was Viscountess Cobham and the BBC Midlands anchor Suzanne Virdee and the guest speakers were Ruby Wax and Emma Bridgewater with Awards going to Katie Piper, Karen Darke and Suzie Norton

Vitalise is a brilliant charity which gives essential breaks for disabled people and carrers

In the photo below is Jo Edden a free lance textile designer, myself and Andrea Daly who is one of the cousins from the Two Cousins Bakery in Coventry. I have tried the cupcakes and they are delicious!

Debbie Bryan's Studio and Shop

Today I headed over to Debbie's studio and shop, in the Lace market, Nottingham. Debbie is creating a Quintessentially British Collection for Nottingham's creative October and I delivered some pieces from my new eco-friendly collection and some of my framed flowers and hearts.
Check out her blog as well for updates on workshops and other designers in her shop.

Live in Style Magazine

Check out the wall flowers being featured in the Editors choice for Live in Style Magazine

New articles about Lorna Syson Textiles

IDFX magazine

YSH London

NEW studio space

Monday will be the start of my first working week in the new studio! Francie and I are now completely set up and have a fully functioning studio. The studio has a really good atmosphere and I am currently looking for an intern to come and join me at Lorna Syson Textiles, anyone interested just email me your C.V and a couple of images of work!
Francie works as a freelance textile print designer for a textile design company who sell her work to design houses and fashion lables such as Kenzo, Ted Baker and Calvin Klein 

Eight Square in Spitalfields market

Today I popped over to the beautiful eclectic shop Eight Square in Spitalfeilds market. I forgot how busy it would be on a Sunday as I tried to walk threw the uber fashionable crowd with a huge hat box containing a new eco-friendly heart to drop off!
I recommend heading over the shop it is gorgeous!

Welsh sheep now have my necklace.

After the busy and successful time at Top Draw and 100% Design I decided to retreat into the Welsh country side with two of my friends, Francie and Sam for a well deserved break. Francie's parents own a beautiful little cottage on the edge of Snowdonia national park which is literally in the middle of no where so it was perfect. On the first day we headed for a walk, something which is think is fairly common for thoses on mini breaks in this area.


I decided to wear my favourate and most sentimental necklace (error), this necklace was given to me by a Scottish designer Mhairi Hughes at New Designers 2009. It was part of her finally collection for her degree show where she asked children their wishes, many said 'I wish I was a princess' or 'I wish I was a fireman' but this one necklace said 'May all your wishes come to be' something which I thought was extremely touching. 


Mhairi had laser cut these pendents into wood and metal and etched the wishes on top. This particular one was imperfect, the wood had part of the bark on and to me this made the statement even more special. I deliberated who I could buy this for and who would understand the story and the meaning behind it.

On the last day of New Designers 2009, whilst packing up Mhairi walked past my stand and left me this pendent. It took me a couple of months of trying to track her down and I eventually sent her one of my corsages as a Thank you. 


It fast became one of the few items of jewelry I would wear. Throughout the time I was setting up my business I would wear it to all important meetings, photo-shoots and at every trade-fair I have done to date. This is why I was devastated this morning when I couldn't find it and realised through photographic evidence I was wearing at the start of our walk yesterday up the hill but no on our way down. 


We went to check our route again with no luck, the sheep in that hilly field now have my necklace.

We discussed that I should look at it in a kind of symbolic way. The business is doing well at the moment with more clients, more orders and enquires, maybe the necklace did it's job in getting me this far and it was time for me let go to my wishes as many have turned into reality and I am on the path which i was aiming for when I received the necklace 16 months ago.


It is still a sad day and I have attached my final image of me wearing the necklace on a Welsh hill with Francie. I wanted to say a massive thank you to Mahiri, for such a thoughtful gift

Jemma and Lewis's wedding

The 1st of October 2010 was a very happy day for two of our friends Jemma and Lewis, after a year of planning we went to a very beautiful, classy and tastefully decorated wedding.

There were also a number of Lorna Syson Textile's pieces dotted around the wedding, I was honored when Jemma requested a couple of custom made flowers for her hair, I also created so flowers for my own piece which i sent over to Mary at Fabulous Fascinators who combined both of our work to create a statement art work in the form of a fasinator.

I also helped out with the design of the hearts used for place names and matching table numbers.

I wanted to say a massive thank you to both Jemma and Lewis for letting me part of their wedding! It was beautiful

I also created a bespoke wedding present just for them, last time Jemma was in my studio I saw she had her eye on the new textile hearts I had created for recent orders. I made a heart just for them to hang in their home and start their new married life together!