Sunshine and rain.

I am currently up in the Midlands taking a bit of a break before we move house next week.

 Its sooo nice to hang out with friends, take some little trips down memory lane and my black country accent is getting stronger every day!!

I wanted to share with you my NEW cushion available to buy over at Envelop.

Part of my geometric range, it was inspired by the weather and how I wanted to be able to turn it over with Olive depending on sunshine or rain. I have named the design Sol y llvia, sunshine and rain in Spanish.

Hope all are well x

Miss Chief WINNER!!

HALLO! so we popped all of the names into the hat my grandma crocheted a long time ago and Olive picked a winner, Eleanor. Congratulations El and thank you all very much for your kind comments and please do keep swinging by there will be more give aways coming soon!!! XXX

canvases.

 I have a blank canvas and am not sure what to paint on it...this led me to thinking about the 2 canvases that I have painted in my life so far. The bottom one I painted whilst living in Kettering when my Grandma passed away, it took 2 weeks, was BIG 65cm x 65cm and was the perfect therapy, the top was for my other half, painted with love. I do love concentric circles, maybe I will do another OR something else...TBC watch this space x

Friday giveaway!!

hallo I have decided to giveaway 1 of each of my Miss Chief cards all you have to do is pop a comment on this post, spread the word and Olive will pick a winner Thursday 26th! happy weekends all :)

who'd have thought...

...when I bought these hair bands in Japan that I would be putting them in the hair of this little sweetie!!

PRINCE night.

hallo peeps, just one tiny small mention about my Saturday night which was all about watching Purple Rain at our local cinema which was totally brilliant followed by waiting in a queue in the freezin cold to go to the green door store and dancing and singing along to Prince classics!!! oh the joy I was genuinely sad when it was over but I had to go home, managed it till 3 tho, not too shabby x

Liebster blogs backatcha :)

so once you have been nominated for a liebster blog as I was :) the deal is you then pick 5 of your FAVE blogs with under 200 followers ( pop-i-cok you nearly didn't make it!)  it wasn't hard to list some of the blogs I REALLY enjoy reading on a regular basis and here they are in no particular order.

Pop-i-cok-  Dawn's entries makes me laugh every time and her illustrations are super sweet. She is one talented lady.

Filipa Cipriano-  Filipa works for MySugarcube, my textiles agent and she is a real inspiration her textile work particularly her use of colour is just gorgeous.

Mrs Cheese-  brings me lovely inspiration, she has a fantastic eye and subtle sense of humour.

Kay B-  I like the things you have been showing me and your write ups are cool, thank you :)

Inspired by Felix-  Ceri over at Inspired by Felix is a mum on a mission, she rules the sewing machine and creates fabulously colourful creations which I love.

Eggs.

hallo :) I just found this photo of some eggs I painted a couple of years ago, how was your easter weekends? we ate some nice food, visited the baby lambs at Coombe Farm, some were even in labour as we stood there, which grossed out the boyf, Olive loved it. did a car boot on saturday and got rid of some clobber before our move in a few weeks, busy times, and today the sun is shining which is an unexpected surprise too :) now on with choosing who to award my lieber blog awards too...hmm..

Cant wait to do an egg hunt with the Olive on sunday!!

Car boot tomorrow and then rancho relaxo for me and my little family :)))

have a great break everyone see you next week x

NEW Little tweets.

hallo, today I have been working on some new little tweets designs as they have been really well received with peeps so far :)

Liebster Blog!!!

look what I got...a liebster blog award from the very kind Clare over at Victor Fox!!!!

Thank you so much to her for the compliment of this award, made my day it has x x x

SUN SUN SUN!!

I am soo pleased with this sun, he is definitely going on a card...

Have a sunny day???

CLUCK.

I drew this little fella over the weekend and have just coloured him up, question is would he sell on a card?????

Brighton eye.

I thought I would post some pics from our trip on the Brighton Eye, it was the perfect day for it and I loved looking down on all the people relaxing on the beach.

nice that Steve Coogan does the commentary too :)

Olive the illustrator.

Hi guys hows tricks? I thought I would show off Olives drawing skills she is excellent for 15 months ( today) dont you think, I have been impressed with her drawing in the lines I must say!!

my own creative brain is being somewhat taken over with all this househunting we have seen 6 places now, I have become accustomed to the FISHEYE lenses the clever estate agents use after having fits of laughter in the first mouse house and now just need to get a pay rise,Brighton aint cheap!!

Sunny Monday.

Good Morning, well it was a lovely weekend filled with food, work and house hunting, still not found the perfect abode but we will soon I am sure.

here is another of my Miss Chief illustrations, seemed fitting for this sunny spangly day.

To see the full range ( so far) go to http://www.ilonadrewthis.co.uk/html/range_5.html

Miss Chief.

hallo, I don't think its hard to work out who was my inspiration for this one, she is part of my new range Miss Chief, happy Tuesdays everyone x

party on!

hallo how are my fellow bloggers???

its been a while since I have blogged as have been in a world of broken laptops (it wasn't me!) refreshing my website which is coming on strong with new ranges and the like and THEN being told that our flat is going on the market so we have to find a new home!! eek its all good nothing stays the same so we are going to find a new place to have Olives garden parties!

this is an old illustration but today made me think of it as it is lovely hazy and sunny, hope you are all well xxx

lilac love.

My lilac whale has been featured in this lovely treasury see it here http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NzQ0Njl8MjI2NzcwNTIzNA/spring-softly

M&S 2012 Mothers Day.

This week I was sent this sample of another design I worked on for M&S last year, it is doing alright in the charts, which is ace!

Happy weekends everyone x