Rescue mission.

Bouquets of flowers the day after Mothers day, looking a bit sad, bruised and droopy. I rescued four bunches from the supermarket. One bunch was even covered in glitter (bad). So sad they didn't get their chance to sparkle on the day! Brightening up my living room...and kitchen...and bathroom now though!

New blazers

What I wore yesterday and today...Showing off my two new snazzy blazers that I bought in Beyond Retro www.beyondretro.com last week. Love the Soho store - some really cool bargains to be had.

Flamingos in love.

1st Wedding Anniversary

Can't quite believe it was a year ago today that I got hitched! Time does fly. Thought I would share this with you...the gift to give for the first anniversary is paper so my very talented husband made this papercut which includes the lyrics from a very memorable song for the day - 'One day like this' by Elbow. To say I am well impressed in an understatement - I cried when he gave it to me! Here's to the next one GB - you set the bar pretty high this year!!!

Can't quite believe it was a year ago today that I got hitched! Time does fly. Thought I would share this with you...the gift to give for the first anniversary is paper so my very talented husband made this paper-cut which includes the lyrics from a very memorable song for the day - 'One day like this' by Elbow. To say I am well impressed in an understatement - I cried when he gave it to me! Here's to the next one GB - you set the bar pretty high this year!!!

First Stencil Cards - Farm and Animals now available

 

 

The next two titles in this First Stencil Cards series that I designed and illustrated are now available to buy.
Check 'em out at theUsborne website.

*SPOTTED*

Caught up with my Italian pal and super fiction designer, Elisabetta today after the Christmas break. She spotted some Usborne titles in this beautiful book store in Bassano del Grappa, VI Italy - http://www.palazzoroberti.it/it/index.php (check out the gallery! WOW!)

Amongst the many titles spotted, there were two of my Sticker Dolly Dressing books - Sports Girls (middle left) and Movie Stars (peeking out, bottom right). These books get everywhere! 

Happy New Year!

Just what you wanted to celebrate the New Year...a doodle of me in my new onesie - donated by my lovely friend Laura! I'm having those 'back-to-school', and also 'not-wanting-to-part-with-my-onesie' feelings today. Not sure my art director would appreciate me wearing my onesie to work but I am very tempted to wear it underneath my regular clothes and burst out of them Superman style at around 3pm tomorrow afternoon when I KNOW I will need a nap. Urgh.

Hope 2012 is filled with everything you wish for and more. Going to sort some things out this year...starting with that Etsy shop...

Cool things

Just uploading the rest of my NYC pics and remembered I took these. The first two are part of an art installation featured in the awesome Flatiron building. The exhibition features loads of decorated cups hanging from string. The artist, Gwyneth Leech, rescues the cups from her social meets and greets with friends and other artists, which would otherwise end up in the bin, and transforms them into art. 

Secondly, I snapped these pretty birds in the changing room at H&M on 5th Ave. Would like to find out who the artist was...

Santa doodles

A little doodle of Santa from my sketchbook, and then coloured up in Illustrator.

Super Festive screen printing

Printed some Christmas cards in my kitchen a few weeks ago to give to friends and family. I love to print on brown cards, so hope I made the right decision using it here! Looking to take this screen printing malarky a bit more seriously in the new year and get myself an Etsy shop to start selling the things I make.

Christmas in NYC

Just got back from a lovely trip to the Big Apple. Anyone who knows me, knows that this is my most favourite place on earth! I'm lucky enough to have visited many times - but never at Christmas, so we decided to squeeze in a few nights during the festive season. Think I walked a million miles and eat my body weight in things that are bad for me but it's what I love about New York. We took time to visit our favourite foody places, book shops, comic book stores and galleries etc. Also made time to go visit Brooklyn which was ace and reminded me very much of East London. 

Anyways - thought I would post a few pictures to show you how festive the city was. Our hotel was opposite the Rockefeller tree and I did a little *squee* everytime I saw it out of the window, or passed it on the streets! No snow this time, but still magical!

Ooh, ooh, ooh! Also - *SPOTTED* - a few of my books that I have illustrated for Usborne. In Barnes and Noble at Union Square I found Sticker Dolly Dressing Sports Girls which I did last year, and in a very cool children's boutique in Brooklyn called Mini Jake, I saw my First Stencil Cards: Christmas! The very same stencil cards I blogged about last time! 

Christmas is coming!

Seeing as there are only 45 days until Christmas (eeps!) I thought I would share with a you a project I was working on in February! Christmas comes very early in the design department at Usborne Publishing. As the masses are still full from mince pie overload, we begin working on our titles for next Christmas.

So here is the first in a series we are doing - First Stencil Cards Christmas. A box of 12 festive stencils cards specially designed for little children to use. These are great as stocking fillers, or maybe a pre-Christmas gift so they can get crafty and make their own Christmas cards and wrapping paper. A fun way to improve younger children's co-ordination and motor skills. These have been designed and illustrated by yours truly, each card has a little doodle of mine as an example to copy.

To buy, or find more information on these cards, you will find them here on the Usborne website.
Here is a very sweet review of the cards by First4Dads

We have two more titles in this series to pre-order. Will post more details and pictures when they are available. © 2011 Usborne Publishing Ltd

 

Remember Remember to support Movember!

How are your 'taches coming along then? Hope you are all embracing your facial fuzz and supporting this chartiy.  The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men's health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that effect men. 

Visit http://uk.movember.com to find out how you can get involved.

Happy Movember!

Super Screenprint Sunday 6th November

Elisabetta and I got creative in the kitchen again today. I did a little painting and we both did some screen printing. Elisabetta worked on a Christmas card design and I did a little of this and a little of that! I painted some Christmas decorations that I may give as Christmas cards, and also finished off an autumnal screen print I started last week. Not sure how I feel about it but it's another one to add to the collection and sell I guess.

Elisabetta's sweet Christmas card design. Hope she gives me one!

Bits of my stencil

Pumpkins

We swapped #superscreenprintingsunday for #superpumpkincarvingsunday last weekend. I went for a Day of the Dead theme and Gaz got creative with a Sainsbury's bag!! Check out his spooky owl below.

                                               

Happy Halloween!

R2 nice to meet you...

Doodle I did after the London Comic Convention a few months ago. This moment was just so cute - the shock on the little boys face was brilliant. Think he had just come face to face with an ultimate hero.

Feeling autumnal (or as I like to call it autumny)

It was dark on my home from work tonight. First time I've noticed it. Always surprises me how much I like this time of year. Hat and scarf weather - what's not to like! Thought I'd share this sweet little poem that I was introduced to last year. It was part of another wedding book I did some doodles for.

Sock family

Little doodle I did as a present to my friend Louise, and her husband Josh, to say farewell as she goes on maternity leave. Baby Ansell is due in a few weeks and Lou has been busying herself with the nursery, which is jungle themed. I know sock monkeys don't live in the jungle, but they are still pretty cool. Lots of love and luck guys for the exciting times ahead!