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In a month's time I shall be heading off to Finland for 6 days, and the excitement is already pretty high. I picked up two guidebooks that i'd reserved at the library today and sat flicking through them whilst eating a lovely shortbread and cherry cookie in the sunshine. In keeping with my desire to make lists all the time I am trying to come up with a list of places to go/people to see whilst i'm over there, this is what i've got so far:

Kaija (Paperiaarre) lives in one of the towns I shall be visiting so i'm hoping we are able to meet up for a little longer than we did last time, when she paid a flying visit to me at the Bust Craftacular along with Karen.

This is cut and pasted from an email, i'm not going to be able to make it unfortunately as it's something I wish I was able to go to as a) i'm really fascinated with learning about edible wild plants- I have lots of memories from my childhood of my parents and grandparents talking to me about what different plants were and what they could be used for and b) Fahrenheit 451 is one of my all time favourite films/books.

If you live in the Bristol area maybe you can make it along instead?

Since 2005 Brandon and Bunting have been mapping the edible plant organisms that exist within public realms of Bristol. Maps are produced in several forms, The Keepers is one such map. A Keeper is a person dedicated to learning by heart the locations, uses, histories and biology of a chosen plant, committing gathered knowledge to memory thus becomes a collective forming living map, with members agreeing to part with their knowledge and serve as guides when invited to do so.



Everybody Move Now


Ali Jones

First readings to take place Thursday 9 July2009,18:00hrsb to dusk
Leigh Woods, Bristol
A map of the location and further details can be found here

Drawing inspiration from François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451, Everybody Move Now invites the curious and the critical to journey out of the city to consider their relationship to the state. In a series of events taking place in woodlands at the Bristol city limits, printed texts will be nailed to trees for people to read and engage with, alone or collectively. Fahrenheit 451 closes in a woodland where enemies of the state – the book people - internalise one book each, repeating it aloud as they pace around their place of exile. This radical act keeps literature alive, in a culture that has rejected the dangerous ideas that exist beyond the constant flux of state-sanctioned media. Symbolically removing ourselves from the commodification of urban life, Everybody Move Now will explore issues surrounding citizenship and the power relations placed on bodies within a legal territory.

Well this is a small image I know, but if you hot foot it over to Etsy you'll be able to see me in all my glory. It's been really nice reading some of the comments the article has got- seems like I come across as funny, which is nice to know as my secret dream is to be a stand up comedian one day.

What's also nice is seeing that some of the items I picked have already sold- so i've sent a list of more things that can fill in the gaps, hopefully lots of the things I picked will sell and you will all shower me with gifts for promoting you so wonderfully...now spread the word!

It's been four years since I signed up to Etsy, in that time i've made a grand total of 126 sales, which works out at just over two and a half sales every month...clearly it's not keeping me in fizzy pop, but then i've never been very good at promoting myself, or updating my shop, or taking good photos...the list is endless really. Anyway i've was asked to write a bit about me and Etsy for the Storque (the bit of Etsy that's sort of a blog) which you can find here. Thanks for having me Etsy- sorry i've been a bit of a delinquent child recently.

By way of celebration i'm going to offer 20% off everything in my shop for the week starting the 20th June. I'll also be listing some of the work from my recent 'Calm Air All Ice' exhibition, as well as digging out some things I should've put in the shop months ago. Hop over to Made by Milla and snap up a bargain.