Accidents and Mistakes - Make them!

We are big fans of Keri Smith at Ellie Ellie and you may know about our postcard challenge, whereby we sent our little postcard on an adventure to different friends to see how far he could travel and how many people we could get to comment on him (we are chasing his location now and will update you soon). 

Keri Smith is absolutely brilliant, and is such a creative inspiration. Her books, including Wreck this Journal and Mess are brilliant in unleashing your creativeness and imagination! 

We are currently completing her book 'Mess', The Manual of Accidents and Mistakes, which challenges something you have been taught all your life, that making mistakes and a mess is a bad thing. Which it certainly is not! 

In this book are a series of exercises designed to throw you into a place you have little or no control over and to get you exploring a variety of different materials. 

For a perfectionist, this book is really stepping out of your comfort zone, one exercise is asking you to cover a page in honey or glue, drop something from a height and see where it lands as well as a number of other exercises that promote fun and creativity you may not think you had. 

The next exercise for us is this.....

We will let you know how we get on with the book, i'm sure it will be a complete mess once we have finished all the exercises but that is what is challenging in the book, stepping out of your comfort zone! Have a look at Keri Smith's other books which include a world of unknown creativity! 

Ellie Ellie's Postcard Challenge!

We have been involved in something we think is quite spectacular at Ellie Ellie recently, and if you follow us on our social media channels you may have spotted what it is. We sent a postcard out at the beginning of the year in the hope that it would travel around on an adventure and meet as many of our friends as possible!

Our postcard for this challenge came from a very very interesting and creative book by the talented Keri Smith, who has written several bestselling books and is a creative genius! Her book 'Everything is connected' is where our lovely postcard came from and includes a pad of interesting and fun postcards that you can use to send to friends, strangers, neighbours or colleagues.

Our postcard (looking very clean and un creased at the beginning of his journey in the above picture) has so far visited 8 friendly people since it left us, and continues to travel around until it is full up! Hopefully he will get back to us safely when he is completely jam packed with conversation and questions from our friends! 

Here he is on some of his journey...

Here he is having arrived at the Not on the High Street HQ! 

Arrived with the lovely Laura from Clara and Macy! 

Here with the lovely Cherry Pie Lane! 

If you want to keep up with his big adventure to every part of the country visiting friends take a look at our Instagram where we always keep a look out for him, and Facebook too! 

We also always like receiving postcards or letters from our jolly customers! You can always send us one too!