Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Selkies, websites and writing.

Hello everyone!
Fiona has been hard at work on a LOT of things! As mentioned in our last post, we finally have our website up and running! www.grannyfi.com and it's beautiful!
We're working on more toys, stories and a way to sell knitting patterns so that they can be downloaded instead of posted...watch the website for details!
While the website has been building, Fiona has finished the illustrations for her first picture book, written by the magnificent Kate Forsyth of Bitter Greens fame. Two Selkie Stories from Scotland will be published in May by Christmas Press Picture Books (you knew that Fiona started her own publishing company with some friends, didn't you?).  This is the beautiful cover she's done! I'm so proud of her!
The launch will be at our shop on the 10th of May at 4:30 if anyone feels like dropping in for tea and scones!
She's also been working madly on a proposal for a book on the history of Voodoo... she has a wide variety of interests! Plus working on picture books and her fiction works.
In her down time (ha!) Fiona has been knitting up some 'woodland folk' to be a new range of toys and patterns. She has been forced to watch 'The Labyrinth' (if you haven't seen it, you should!), 'The Dark Crystal' and 'The Princess Bride' for inspiration. What a hard life!
All the while we're BOTH working on the Booked In! Children's Literature festival that will be held at the shop for the second year in a row and she's working her boring 9-5 job out at the Uni.
We meet for lunch almost everyday and watch our favourite episodes of Escape to the Country and dream of where we'll live once we're rich and famous!
You can follow her (and me) on pinterest if you want to see more of the things we dream up or about! http://www.pinterest.com/beattiealvarez/ and http://www.pinterest.com/123fionadolls/

Love,
Beattie xoxo


4 comments:

colorsinfotech said...

nice post
http://www.colorsinfotech.com

Joan said...

Can knitted faries be knit in the round?
Joan from FL

Fiona McDonald said...

Hi Joan. Yes they can be knitted in the round although I haven't done it. If you want info on how to go to ravelry.com Fiona mcdonalds fan club because there are a lot of knitters thee who have converted my patterns. Good luck.
Fiona

Beth said...

Dear Fiona,

Thank you for your kind words regarding my Mother. Through her illness I knitted her Patience, which she got to see, and hold, and enjoy as her own before she died. Thank you so much for the pattern, and the light you shed on my Mother.

In friendship,

Beth