A new print now up for grabs! Available in both shops. I drew this portrait late last year but never thought much of it. It wasn’t until I gave it a splash of colour that I realised how much I liked it. I love the blue stripes and her chain most of all and I’m glad it finally turned into a print! I hope you like it too :) I’m in the process of working on 2 more new prints and (fingers crossed) I hope to have them up for show over the weekend. Also – the house badges featured in one of the previous posts have now been packaged up and are available to buy in the shops. Take a peek!

Have a lovely day!

A familiar illustration freshly tweaked. If you think back to February time I went through a short but intense phase of drawing magpies. This was all down to picapica magazine :) Here’s a link if you didn’t catch the original illustration I did for the competition. I was really pleased with the bird and decided to make a few changes making it more wall friendly. It’s available in both shops.

Today I’m off to have an AMAZING Sunday Lunch, doctors orders :)

A new print to welcome in the new year! I’ve been sat on this one for a couple of weeks, itching to get it out there and in the shops. I’m pleased to say you can now find it on etsy and folksy! It’s an open edition print so it won’t just vanish after the new year festivities, so panic not. The print measures 8″ x 10″ (landscape) and is printed on archival heavyweight matte paper. There is room around the edges for framing with or without a mount. The colours are all bright and crisp. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

Cha Cha Cha…

A friend mentioned ‘congrats for being featured in the folksy festive sampler!’ and my response was ‘hm?’ (pausing midway through a bite of mince pie). And heeere it is :) I have my own copy, which arrived this morning, but for now I’m using the image featured on the folksy blog (hope that’s ok!) Familiar little red heads? I’m well chuffed!

After soaking up all the visual yumminess that is the folksy festive sampler (I really like saying that) I went on my monthly trip to visit the unit 11,  middle of nowhere post office depot where they keep an eye on all of the big things that people can’t squeeze through the letter box (boxes of paper mainly). On my way there was beautiful sunshine, blue skies and patchy white blob like clouds… On the way back Nottingham was being devoured by this:

By the time I reached my final destination (between the black church and the windmill) I was battling off snow to the face and ready for a very big cup of tea.

This is going to be a very random post by the way. Illya’s been doing even more batty things. She’s currently picking fights with E.T:

(above: awful picture quality – I used my phone because it was to hand) and my slippers:

Today’s been a day for compiling lists. Some are practical and some are just for fun. I’m pleased to say that I’ve ticked 3 very important things off of the practical list today (horray!) which justifies me spending a bit of time scribbling down the fun lists.

Here are the fun film related ones:

My 5 favourite films of 2009:

1. Moon
2. Unmade beds
3. A serious man
4. Away We Go
5. Fantastic Mr Fox

11 films made in the last 10 years I could watch over and over and over again (it was a top 10 but I got carried away and refused to edit):

1. No Country for Old Men
2. Moon
3. The Assassination of Jessie James by the coward Robert Ford
4. A Serious Man
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. Donnie Darko
7. Milk – (even though I end up blubbering like at baby at the end)
8. The Good the Bad and the Weird
9. V for Vendetta
10. Dean Spanley
11. I’m a Cyborg, but that’s ok

Book related list:

Books (fiction, graphic novels, comics, art, kids) I’ve read in 2009 (and will happily reread in 2010):

A handful of dust – Evelyn Waugh
The Gargoyle – Andrew Davidson
Scott Pilgrim (vol 1-5) – Bryan Lee O’Malley
The Great Paper Caper – Oliver Jeffers
December – Elizabeth H Winthrop
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Hand Job: A catalogue of Type – Michael Perry
The House At Midnight – Lucie Whitehouse
Tyrannosaurus Drip – Julia Donaldson/David Roberts

I can imagine you’re fed up of my lists. Trouble is I could write them for England. I’m sure the few remaining posts of 2009 will contain a couple more.  Its time to pick up the pens and draw some pictures, possibly read a few more pages of my book. Have a lovely day, enjoy the snow if you have any :)

I’m having one of those ‘working weeks’. I’m either at the post office, printing or at the cinema. So I’m sorry for being a boring blogger. I haven’t really got much to tell you at the moment. Our internet is finally functioning – I have a feeling someone local is pinching the signal hence the impossibly slow connections… I will rectify this don’t you worry. Serves me right for not having a very secure connection at the moment.

On the print side – I have finally made an A3+ print of the ‘jug of flowers’. That will be in the shops very soon. I also have some beautiful gift tag sets which will be available at the start of October (if not sooner) - Just in time for that giant present buying season we’ve got coming up ;) . Everyone’s birthdays seem to pool at this end of the year, mine included. Gift hunting feels like a none stop activity which begins in September and works it’s way round to February – fortunately I like hunting for gifts :) but that doesn’t make it any less exhausting.

Anyway, this was just a small note to say ‘hello, I haven’t forgotten you’. I look forward to doing what I call a ‘normal’ post with pictures and diagrams in the very near future. I hope you’re all enjoying the September sale still :) There will be a print swap around in the night so by tomorrow morning 15 different pictures will be available at half price. I can’t believe how quickly this month is flying by…