Its the taking part!

Its the taking part that counts!

At least thats what good old British spirit says!

"With a run and a jump, and a whoops and a skid!"

"Poor Mavis!"

(From "Keep practicing Mavis!" a story in progress)

Piggy dreams

Meet Cordelia Pig.

Cordelia, like most pigs is not the most dainty and graceful of animals!

But in her dreams . . . 

. . . Cordelia is a fairy pig!

"Finger Blobs"

"Crunch"

"Tweet"

"Joy"

"Squeek"

"Squidge"

"Boo"

"SHINE"

"Nutty"

(Whoops, sorry Sammy!)

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,) 

http://www.jillustrator.com/blog/blog_june.html

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 

http://Live.heritageartpapers.com/catalogue.aspx?ItemID=12b3f150-ebad-4934-b470-c514c0911473

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!"

The Royal Corgi

The Royal Corgi

Bunting and Strawberries

Wishing you very happy . . . 

. . . good old British. . . 

. . . Jubilee celebrations.