Merry Christmas!

well this is me signing off for 2011, I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and JOYFUL 2012, thank you for all your support and comments throughout the year, you guys ROCK!!! XXX

the BEST party!!

we had the best day yesterday and I really think olive GOT the fact that it was her birthday, after having 'Happy Birthday' sung at her all the time, she loved her princess cake and got spoilt rotten, it was FAB :)

Olive is 1.

Happy Birthday to the little one!! its been a rollercoaster year but what a mighty fine one at that :)

Olives got some mates popping over this afternoon ( ALL boys!) and then cake and present opening with tha family later, too good x

smile for the birdy.

I have been really enjoying illustrating birds this year and intend to continue doing so , this is one I was playing with last week for t-shirts x

Stig.

hallo!! been drawing my stig, stig is a rescue cat, bit jumpy to say the least, never sat on my lap and doesn't let me pick him up apart from the once in the cattery when we were reunited after 2 weeks and I picked him up for a cuddle and he lept from my arms whilst shredding the palm of my hand at the same time aah happy dayZZZZzzzzzzzz :) 

lush.

hallo last week at the Lush xmas party in the very delicious fresh and tasty Bills of Brighton we did secret santa and I was over the moon with these lovely handmade matryoshka dolls from Sarah, apparently her boyf was responsible for the faces. Cant wait to hang these on the tree for a small amount of time before Olive yanks them off and eats them!!!

give a whale a home...

last night I took my other half to see Turin Brakes in a church as a surprise, he loves um, it was fab, an acoustic celebration that echoed around this HUGE church, with beer...can you sell beer in a church...?!? apparently so!!

today my dad has flown back to Majorca and I have uploaded my remaining whales and head scarves to etsy. To peek click here

Steven Lenton.

this design caught my eye today in the window of Malarky on Bond Street, went in and there were lots more, by Steven Lenton and published by Lagom , Cosy is the range. I bought the gingerbread man for Olive. Check them out here.

To read a cool interview with Steven Lenton too click here.

Cute stuff.

this week I have been mainly mom, grandma moved house so they have had plenty of sorting out to do their end and I have been getting some quality time with my little lady, didnt ACTUALLY think it would be possible to get any tireder( is that even a word?!?) but it appears you can, am frazzled but  Olive is now saying mummy, byeee, night night and standing on her own but not quite ready to take those first few steps but sure wont be long!!!! look at that little mush :)

its POP time :)

hi there chaps so did a bit of Karaoke saturday night oh yeah delighted to see this on the choice list, my current fave poptastic joy bringer, if you dont dance there really is something wrong with you :)

had a lovely time on saturday at Cornerstone, met some lovely people and Olive was the star of the show again!! one man snapped up one of blue whales too which was nice, thank you to him :)

how many times can you say OOH???

its FRIDAY!! and here is one of the images I have had in my 'cool things' folder for ages, wish I could do this to my coffee ( not sure that it is coffee?!!) in the mornings.

Next sale tomorrow at the Cornerstone community centre XMAS fair, meaning another hectic day, and then NOTHING planned for sunday, aah pyjamas and eastenders omnibus...

strawberry chocolate.

Here are my latest 2 new fabric designs and how we have used them so far, scarf in my autumn zipsticks and we have made childrens waistcoats lined with delicious cord and modelled here by Olive in my new strawberry chocolate design :) all available to buy over at my Spoonflower shop x

hmmmm....

...could have had a better day yesterday thats for sure, but did get some good feedback about my designs along with this super cute photo of a little girl hugging my blue whale, good enough for me :)

fingers crossed for the next fair this Saturday... X

new scarves.

 I have also made some scarves for the stall tomorrow, fingers crossed for a good day :)

my whale pod.

I am pleased to introduce you to my whales, inspired by my LOVE of the great and wonderful creatures themselves, I would happily hug all 3 to sleep every night.

They are going to get their first outing this weekend at the LOVE IT fair at Hanover Community centre, Brighton and they feature 2 of my new fabrics, cool spots and ice zipsticks soon to be available over at my spoonflower shop...

life drawing 1.

hallo ooh have I been busy squirelling away in preparation of a couple of Christmas craft fairs!

exciting as have LOTS of new bits to show you and get some feedback V V SOON!!

I went to MADE at the corn exchange last weekend ( met sarah Young, she was very cool)AND checked out the Rob Ryan exhibition at Castor & Pollox on the seafront on a fresh and sunny Nov day.

AND last night went to life drawing courtesy of BIG.

It was cool, was like being back at college and I used an easel and everything...I had to be chittyed along into drawing faces but when I did I thought they came out ok :)

see you V soon with pics of new work x

Liberty Rocks.

OOH I have just been perusing these great prints over at Liberty. 

Liberty Rocks combines the creative talents of their design team with those of renowned musicians and artists who are passionate about prints. The result is a truly original range in seven design groups.

These are my 3 favourites, click here to see more. All images copyright Liberty 2011.

Kitty in the city.

Morning!! I have been wanting to do something for a local charity for ages so when I got chatting to one of the lovely cat ladies from Kitty in the City I offered my services.

Also appropriate as my stig is a rescue cat, here is the poster I have done for their local Christmas Fair.MEOW.

ps. my cold only lasted one day, weird but good!?!??

a good week.

well there have been lows, cleaning up cat sick off both of my sofas first thing wednesday morning and what seems to be the beginning of a stinky cold ( I have sneezed at least 50 times already today and its only 12 oclock ;(, and then there have been the highs, yesterdays print pattern post and seeing another of my xmas designs on the shelf in Paperchase, http://www.paperchase.co.uk/invt/00487836/

happy weekends lovely people X