back again

hello all!

i was planning on a break until the new year, but i've actually done some work so i thought i'd share. my fabulous husband bought me a gocco for christmas, yay, so the other day i made my first screen based on a little doodle/sketch of houses. i'm sooo glad i did lots of reading up on the process before jumping in at the deep end. i only got a couple of screens in the box, and i was worried to death that i'd ruin them both! but luckily it went swimmingly, and the result is 'little boxes'. this has been printed over a small basic collage of various papers, then hand coloured using watercolour brush markers...i'm kinda pleased with how it turned out, someone on flickr said it reminded them of the 'mr. men' books, which is exactly what we've been reading to the boys at bedtime. you never know where you're going to get inspiration...without even realising it! ;)

a little bit of drawing

oh, at last...something to report that's not christmas-y and not for etsy (not yet, anyway) a big achievement, i feel! this is a little drawing inspired by a piece of vintage hand blocked wallpaper i 'borrowed' from a wall in a shop i once worked in (before i get arrested for theft, in my defence, it was practically hanging off the wall...my boss was leaving the property and it was being re-decorated anyway. my only sorrow is that i wasn't around when they stripped the room of it ;) it feels good to be doing something other that worrying about getting something made and listed on etsy everyday.

tigerprint update and thankyou raspberry!

just a quickie as it's sunday...i didn't win the tigerprint competition with plant life, but if you want to see who did and the 5 runners up, check out bowiestyle at print and pattern.

if you're over here visiting from raspberry's blog, welcome to you all. your visits have given my blog counter a good workout, i wondered where all this attention was coming from until i saw all the referrals from raspberry. hope you enjoy your visit, i'd love to hear some comments from new (and old!) comers! have a happy sunday folks!

busy, busy

not a lot of time to do much work this weekend, or time to post for that matter. yesterday was manic; kid's party until 5pm, dashed home, had a quick bite to eat, throw me dancin' shoes and posh frock on and off we flew at 7pm for a surprise 30th birthday party. too many gin and tonics later, i was air-guitaring to bryan adam's 'summer of '69'. how embarrassing. anyhoo, the above pic is more progress on the doodle i've been, erm, doodling. (sorry, the top one has come out a bit rubbish) hope you all had a groovy weekend!