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Another bank holiday weekend here so we went away for a short break - the weather wasn't that summery but still nice to be away and by the sea. I did a simple page of text and line sketches which I ha…

I try to always have a sketchbook or at least a stack of paper so I can always be getting ideas on paper even if it is just a handful of line sketches - quite often these can turn into an idea. Workin…

Visited the Little Great Northern contemporary Craft Fair today, I have been to these smaller events before and they are always really inspiring. They are smaller spin off events from the main event w…

Time at the moment is just flying by, and annoyingly the one thing that is suffering is my work. Has just been easter so children around for 2 weeks - hardly get anything productive done, busy at work…

Had a lovely bank holiday weekend in Wales - lots of sun and trips to the beach! Took some photos along the way and collected some lovely wild flowers stems which I hope to use for some ideas.

A new batch of my purses are finished - can't take the credit for the making of them my mum has done all the hard work, I just do the decorative bit!

Just a small illustration, folk inspired, really like symmetrical designs - I have used the bird from my lino prints, would like to do more of these..

Mixed together some of the patterns and illustrations that have featured on here so far and came up with this - inspired by the illustration from my sketches I posted earlier ...

I'm often inspired by techniques I teach at work, one of which I've always been fond of is Lino printing. I remember first Lino printing during my art foundation course years ago, had a bit of a go th…

It seems a reoccurring theme is emerging, had a number of ideas relating to some sketches I did of birds. Also had a mention on a few blogs over the last few days - nice to get some comments about my…

Managed to get some things on the way to be made, cut out lots in the last few days and got some things ready to put together - here is where my mum comes in, she is the one who does all the complicat…

I have been multitasking, primarily looking after my two boys but managed to fit in some design work and some making. Continuing to experiment with small samples and new ideas. I bought some new fabri…

Had a productive day, firstly I received a couple of packs of off cut fabrics from Umbrella Prints which is a textile company based in Australia that sell really lovely printed fabrics. For several ye…

Received some new fabric samples from littelteawagon, always nice to work with new colours and new patterns. I'm not normally a fan of yellow but actually quite liking the yellow, got some new ideas f…

Had a productive day stitching some new ideas and making some new stock, would like to include some text within my work so have been experimenting with free motion stitching so I can easily control so…

Spring feels like it is here, noting the blue skies I captured yesterday. Working on my surface pattern designs today but also have started to collate some of my stitched work together in some montage…

I grew up with cats, would love a cat, a stripy one in preference, just one small fluffy cat would do........

My son seems to be getting more and more homework, most of which requires a lot of help... from me. He had to keep a food diary and decorate it with drawings of thing he had eaten. So I was helping hi…

Nice to see the start of the March, particularly after the wet soggy winter we have just had! Just a few weeks to go till the clocks go forward meaning lighter evenings which I love as generally I wor…

Owls seem to of been a constant theme in surface pattern and kids design for a number of years now. I never tire of drawing owls and they continue to be a feature of both my Illustrations and stitched…