Monday, 18 June 2012

A creative weekend



This weekend, could have been one of short fuses and ratty boredom, 
but in the end it turned out really well indeed! 



I am working on a project with pretty tight deadlines at the moment, 
and that means working over a weekend is often very helpful in pacing out my schedule.  



The above photo shows part of my work from over the weekend, 
work by Latter number 1, 
(Thats me! Or if you include my husband in this, I guess I'm really Latter number 2!)


This is actually an anniversary card for my parents
 but based on some characters similar to that of my current project for 
Little Tiger Press, 
(of which I will show you more of in a later blog, 
although for a sneaky peak, have a look at my website diary,) 

See both this month and May's page : ) 


I will now get back to my opening sentence, as to why potentially
 it could have been a weekend of short fuses!

Both of my daughters were off school with a nasty bug for some of last week,
and although bless them, my priority has been to look after them, and watch many Disney films with them, and give out much essential cuddle times too, towards the weekend when they were almost better but still just tired and a bit worse for wear, we were still stuck in the house, after the 5th day of 
NOT LEAVING THE HOUSE, Ahhhhhhh!!!

Anyway, instead we ALL enjoyed a very pleasant weekend of craft, sewing, painting and designing!


Latter number 3's design work, and see below a lovely handmade wool flower, 




And here is Latter number 4 painting and below her fantastic bear 
that she stitched all by herself!


And lastly another project that I am working on, 
designing a Christmas range of cards for Wells Cathedral who have their own resident cat! 

These are part of a new selection that are becoming very popular, 
designing specifically for Cathedrals, with Heritage Arts Papers

other ranges can be seen here 













Monday, 11 June 2012

London Pigeons


The sun wasn't shining,

and the constant rain had made the ground even more dirty than usual,

but the Pigeons didn't seem to mind!

(well most of them anyway!)






In fact Bert very much enjoyed the weather in London that day, 






however Buster was a little more grumpy to say the least!







"Come on Buster," said Bert, "cheer up!"






Thursday, 31 May 2012

Bunting and Strawberries




Wishing you very happy . . . 






. . . good old British. . . 






. . . Jubilee celebrations.









Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Time to enjoy the outside


Yeah, the sun has arrived!!

 And with that brings the want to be outside more, 
and in my case, in my garden with my paint brush and pens.




The lavender plant, such a classic, but one of my absolute favs,

and I have really enjoyed working on these images of herbs too. 














"Thyme" for more artwork in the garden now I think on such a sunny day,

groan, an awful joke I know : )




Just spotted the first rose of the year in my garden,
Its a David Austin standard, named Graham Thomas, 

gorgeous! 






Monday, 14 May 2012

Arts Festival


"Lindfield Arts Festival" weekend



My display,



Hey, I was awarded a Highly Commended award! 




Working next to my exhibit was a great idea, 
it created lots of interest and I received some lovely comments from people.




I also ran a workshop for 22 children on the Sunday, 
inspired by my "Inky Stick" method!

Here are some of the fantastic results. 




No pens, no brushes, just sticks
which were collected from the woods on a muddy walk the weekend before!! 






Check out more info on the Arts Festival official website 

http://www.lindfieldartsfestival.com/




Friday, 4 May 2012

Productive chaos!



Productive chaos!




Its a very good thing, 

however these last few weeks I have been very busy in deed. 





Meeting tight deadlines and working on new roughs and completing the approved finals 
for my next book with Little Tiger Press. 

(See my latest diary page on my website for the first sneaky peek!)






And also this week I have been approached to work on two new projects which is just great,  

but I need to produce samples for these during the next few weeks too,





and next week its the Arts Festival that our village runs a weekend each year, 

and I am hosting an already sold out workshop, 

plus exhibiting some of my artwork, so its all go!


Therefore at the moment my house and workplace resembles an area of utter chaotic mess, 

however its all productive chaos, (I promise!)