One Happy head dress...

Last week I was given the challenge of creating a red indian style head dress for my friend Amelias hen party. I love them anyway so jumped at the challenge and off I went glue gun in hand I stuck, stitched and even found the label I had found with Amelias name on from last year, the perfect finishing touch.

Couldnt resist popping it on Olive too :)

had such a great night singing, dancing and laughing, looking forward to the wedding this week...in fact we have 2 weddings to go to, its going to be a fun week ahead filled with love awwwww!!

Blast from the past.

Out and about yesterday doing some research for a new project and there in WH Smiths were some Kevin and Linda designs I did for CB back in the day, good to see them still going strong!!

Wedding update.

Since the show life has certainly been busy with work but now I have to turn my attention to our wedding or else it will be here before we know it, I cannot believe how quickly the year has gone so far so 2 months is going to fly!

Today I went to see the fantastic Barbara at Miss Moles flower emporium and was delighted to see my designs donning her fabulous card rack and we then went on to discuss SOME of the pretty bits of the day, what I thought would be straight forward (the bouquet) I soon learnt isn't let alone what do the boys wear?!?? So my dress, bridesmaids are now well under way, Matts suit is very dapper, now just have some final touches to get under way along with the honeymoon destination I cannot WAIT for that!!!

Tiny Treasures.

Olive and I went to a big Sainsbury's yesterday and was cool to find a range that I did last year called Tiny Treasures on the shelves :)

Frack off!

A month or so ago I designed some badges for an environmental group called 'Frack off' who I met through Lush, they are raising awareness about fracking which has been given the go ahead in certain areas around the UK and will have serious environmental consequences. To read more about fracking visit http://frack-off.org.uk

PG Live 2013 review.

 I am back to Brighton after what I can only say was one of the best experiences of my design life so far. I Drew This was met with so much amazing positivity, I met lots of lovely fellow exhibitors such a talented bunch, lots of people I have worked alongside from my Watermark Publishing and Carte Blanche days along with lots of new stockists and people to look forward to working with in the future too. 

Having never lived in London I loved being a part of the buzz for a few days, travelling to and from the design centre on the busy squashed tubes!!

The team at PG made me feel very welcome and supported and the lunches lived up to their reputation as well, they were indeed delicious.

Doing the show really helped boost my confidence in my artwork and I will definitely be doing another show soon although I may need to focus on our wedding first haha so in the meantime just create lots of new fresh designs :)

Print Pattern support.

How wonderful to see my cards mentioned on Print Pattern this week really getting excited about the show now, a big thank you to Marie for the support, click here to see the full write up.

2 weeks to go...

 PG Live is fast approaching and thank goodness I have had a bit of time on my side with my prep as every job finds its issues, just cant wait to get stuck in and get the first one over and done with, I can only compare the feeling with that of my first driving test (which I failed!!) but at least I had done it and then I knew what to expect next time!!

Press packs...

This week I have been mostly packing up press packs to send out to lovely new stockists, its been a mission, luckily I have an awesome helper!!

My work on a window in Canada...

Just after Christmas a good friend of mine now living back in her hometown of Armstrong, Canada asked me to design a piece of artwork for her new and wonderful Wild Oak cafe opening soon. I was delighted when Heidi sent me some photos of how my illustration has already been put to good use on her business cards and window vinyls, cant wait to see it open and all hustly bustly!!!!

more show prep...

This weekend I took a bit of time to work on my show prep, getting soooo excited now!!!

a stitch in time...

After the last Fairy tale fair and a week before a new fair in Hurstpierpoint I decided to personalise my table a bit which led me to thinking about how...???  JOY!! an excuse to get hands on, here is the result so far and in so many creative processes it has been the happy seed of lots of new ideas, my weekend is going to be all about stand prep with a pub lunch and a bit of cake making thrown in too, nice x x x

Easter 2013.

What a lovely weekend away visiting friends and family again, Easter egg hunts and roast dinners,  we went to a garden centre and I fell in love with the idea that if I were a bunny rabbit I would definitely curl up and have a little sleep in this bed of colourful flowers!!

Happy Easter.

A big ol easter chick and an egg that Olive and I painted.

Have a lovely long weekend, I will be hoping to shake the hideous cold I have, I will console myself with eggs :))) x

A bit of this and that.

As I find myself working through bits and bobs I want to update I realise how much I have done since going freelance, now in my 5th year no less I love that I have explored and learnt so much already, being freelance has had many scary moments and I am sure there will be more to come as I embark on my new venture with I Drew This cards but I wouldn't change it for the world, happy Mondays all you lovely creative people x

Little tweets.

My little tweets balloons, happy birthday x

A break away.

 We got back last night from a really nice break away visitng friends and all their little kiddies, great to get some time out and now very slowly getting back up to speed and reminding myself how much there is to be striking off the list in prep for the show, it was v nice to walk into the studio this morning and find I Drew This listed in the PG Show News.

 Just before we went away I did my first photo shoot with Kate Trevor, Kate is a photography student I met at the Christmas Fairy Tale Fair, it was a learning curve for us both but we got some good shots and we are looking forward to doing some more soon, here is one of my Happiness range which has been going down rather well so far round these parts :)

Oh yes and please do pop over to I Drew This facebook page for a look, Your support means lots x x x

Spring Fairy Tale Fair 2013.

                                               

                                               

The Fairytale fair at the weekend was a super cool success, I met some new lovely local artists with amazing work Maygreen Fairies, Deborah Ballinger, Beetle Cherry, Toby Oliver Dean of I Like cats, and I had a great laugh with Kim of Madison Honey vintage, do take a look to see their fab work :)

My cards were met with such positive comments that I am looking forward to PG Live in just 8 weeks time even more.

Inspiration collection.

one of the thing Lilla Rogers suggests in her book is to collect inspiration over a week or so and then have a look to see any similarities, I decided to see what I was drawn to over the weekend and here they are, on Sunday Olive and I made her this little friend and did paint butterflies and there yes you can see my colour palette forming!! Today I will be applying this to my final range, which is very nearly there before stopping to crack on with organising my stand, coming round quick now and have to admit sleeping is getting harder as every time I wake up I cant stop thinking about everything there is to do but trying to stay calm and take every day as it comes at the mo and breathe!!

Very good.

 After seeing this book on Print Pattern I snapped a copy up and have read it cover to cover in 2 days, such wonderful inspiration and so much positivity for our craft, I would highly recommend it, thank you Lila Rogers :)