This years Pumpkin

Last years Pumpkin sported a pretty scary face so this year I thought I would do the opposite resulting in this! I like him :-) He couldn't wear his hat though as the only candle I had was a tad too big!

Yesterday I ventured out of the village and bought lots and lots of lovely printed fabrics and I have been playing with the sewing machine all day. I think I've got the hang of it now :-)

...and the ferret...

Ferrets new home is in Newquay.

Birthday gifts!

Here are the handmade birthday pressies that have been occupying my time. I think everyone liked them, they certainly made the receivers chuckle anyway :-) I have been loaned a sewing machine now so I will shortly be starting the batch of christmas presents which, hopefully, will look a tad more professional. I will also be doing some for my online shop.

Ive still not made a start on my winter postcards so thats this weekend planned out along with some veg soup making ooooo and pumpkin carving! I also want to go somewhere that sell lots of awesome fabrics so I can upgrade the plushies from socks!

A little birthday gift...

Heres a picture of a sock creature, created for my sister Karen for her birthday. I must say that the end product did not quite look like the picture in the book but Im rather happy with how he turned out anyway :-) I want to do more now!!!

Comic snippet

Heres a little snippet of the comic strip i did for Stes first volume of the Ste regular.

Stes first volume of "The Ste Regular"

This is Stes first volume of his web comic "The Ste Regular" which will be shortly making its way to the British International Comics Show :-) It will be on sale from the 3rd to the 4th October but it will also be available to buy directly from his site very soon.

Cards

Paperfly have a few of my cards on sale here :-)

Comic-ing

Im currently working on a guest strip for stes comic collection which will be self published and on sale in a couple of weeks :-) I'll post a snippet on here soon. You can read his journal comic here.

...and postcard no.4

Im finished! well...my first set of postcards that is. Lots more to do if i want a stocked online shop by the end of the year!

Postcard no.3

Postcard no.3 complete and no animals to be seen. Just one more and that will complete a set of postcards for the shop.

Postcard no.2...

Postcard no.3 will include no animals i think, well, maybe just one... i have come to realise that i like drawing animals the most :-)

Postcard no.1...

Heres a sneaky peek of my first postcard design. This will be included in a set of four based on the theme of Autumn, quite appropriate now I'd say! I think its time for my scarf and awesome stripy fingerless, yet complete with little finger hood held back by a button, gloves to come back out. I love autumn :-)

Competition

Booktrust are giving five people the chance to win a complete set of this years Booktrust Early Years Awards shortlists. Visit here to enter :-)

Notecards

A little while ago two of my everyday cards, published by Roger la Borde, were made into a notecard set. They are available to buy online here.

Website, secret work and cow scares!

Finally my site is up and running and for once i am rather pleased with how its looking :-) woooohooooo!

Ive been working on a new project which i so desperately want to put on here but unfortunately it is still at that secret stage so i guess i will just have to wait. So whilst I wait, I am going to start some shop bits and bobs, there is so much to do, with what I have planned in my head I need to learn a few crafty skills! I have a new job now too! As well as working on my illustrating and at the post office, i now help out at a lovely B&B called Stoop Farm. I love it...well, apart from the cows on my way. There seems to be one crazy moo cow that has taken a dislike to me and my loaned bike, and with seeing one jump over the barbed wire fence and lack of phone signal its quite a scary place to be! If only I could afford one of these...it wouldnt be able to catch me then...

My Milk Toof

I love this!

Booktrust Early Years Awards

Im very pleased to say that "The Tail of the Whale" has been shortlisted for the Booktrust Early Years Award :-)

You can read more about the awards here.

The Site

My site will be up and running this week. Hooray!

Robot Cake!

For Stes birthday a robot cake was made :-)

i have new things to show...

I have been so busy since my last post! there was christmas, lots of portfolio building and a non stop month of fairy stories, time has gone by so fast!! I have lots of work to upload but my computer died a little during a power cut so now i cant seem to switch it on! Im hoping to get it fixed this week so i can upload some new things :-)

In other news, my agency has just launched there new greeting cards website and they are also launching a new site for the publishing section in march so im busy getting new work done for then.

You can see some of new card designs here: www.theheartfeltagency.com, theres more to come very soon...