Fairy Tales

At the beginning of our fairy tale course with Carla Sonheim we were supposed to make self portraits in paper doll format. Life has been very busy but last night I got chance to make these little guys. It was so much fun!

I think this is the closest I have got to wearing a crown!

Fairy tales

This year fairy tales are everywhere!

A ginger bread house from my friend this Christmas carefully brought home all the way from Germany.

 

My new journal for this year. Couldn't help treating myself!

 

Not to meantion the great class that I'm taking with Carla...pictures coming soon of the Princess Frog illustrations.

 

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

It has been a long time since I have been here.

 Last year was full of fun and adventure.

A year long adventure

Joined We Make London in their Camden shop

Enjoyed being apart of the Kew experience

Scared myself doing a very large event.

Created new little characters - Bob the Dog

Created new little characters - Blue Bird

Embraced the lovely wood

Had my first professional photo shoot with Yeshen

This year feels like a year of love..I'm not sure why but 2014 suggests colours of reds, pinks and warm pastels...lets see! Here is a sneak preview of my plans this year.

I hope that you are all well and have had good festivities over the holiday break.

Enjoy drawing but can't remember how?

As a kid I always loved drawing, there was no stopping where your imagination used to take you. At some point we grew up and I'm not sure when it happened but it did! When it did, it felt like you had conform to be able to draw something everyone recognised, it had to be something not a random thing...somewhere the fun was lost...this was until Carla Solheim wrote some fab books that let us rekindle the silliness that is still trapped inside of us.

Carla is giving away five of her books just go to her blog and leave a comment to be within of a chance to win a copy of "The Art of Silliness"

 

I am currently part of her year of the giraffe group and we have been exploring lots of creative methods. Here is my mixed media giraffe from earlier in the year.

I hope you enjoy a little bit of silliness today!

 

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My Birthday!

Yeah it's my birthday today and it is also shove Tuesday where we traditionally eat Pancakes! For breakfast I had pancakes and tonight I was hoping to have savoury pancakes filled with crispy duck...mmm

Here is my birthday card from my best friend...it just goes to show, she is always connected even though we are over 100 miles apart and we hardly get to see each other...love you Bec x

 

Here are some of my favourite things (not including my lovely friends and family)

These are the stones and bark collected on days out with the boys

Orchids are one of my favourite flowers and the flowers last for a very long time

Dr Who now I'm showing you my geeky side :-) from cheeky geeky.etsy.com

Chilli and spicy food..mmm

Not forgetting my cat

 

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Happy New Year and new Goals!

Ok so I managed to blog yesterday and today I'm here again. After two months of nothing I'm now back! November and December we very busy creating pieces, posting and getting out to lots of different markets and even one weekend I had three markets to attend.

This year I have a few resolutions - no more piles! - not the bottom sort either I'm talking about piles of paper, clothes, toys you name it things that are put to one side to deal with later but actually end up growing into a tower!

Blog more - I find it very hard to find a little bit of time to write. I have also brought an new app so I have a better chance of making it happen.

Take more photos - no excuses just got to remember to capture the moment.

George concentrating very hard on the iPad

Not let the kids wind me up - ok failing that already!

Draw more and add sketches it's fun and I have a new scanner to learn how to use.

I have also joined Carla Sonheim's year of the Giraffe Class, which I'm hoping will help me be more creative and push me into new things. I love giraffes (well you would have to if you take on a whole years creative project focusing on giraffes!)

Happy New Year and I hope you have some great plans for 2013!

 

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