Mobile Photos

A few mobile phone photos.

1. When my mum gives gifts she puts as many shiny things in as possible. But she's sneaky, she doesn't put them in all the presents so you aren't expecting it and she puts them in between the pages of books so you think there aren't any when you open the present and then get covered in them when you come to reading the book.
I love it :)

2. I made a cowl/infinity/loop scarf whichever you prefer to call them. I really enjoyed making it, I'm going to make more and they're destined for the shop.

3. A poor quality photo of what I got from Moo.

4. This morning I got the best post I've had in ages. The photos I got printed came from Jessops and the postcards I made have arrived from Moo. Almost a week early too! Number 3 is of the postcards and doesn't do them justice at all, they're beautifully printed. These are also destined for the shop, a few of my photos and a couple of Valentines designs too. They should be up in the next couple of days.
Also if you are one of the many that have stopped getting photos printed now that it's all digital I highly advise that you go get some photo albums and get your favourite photos printed out. I love actually looking through and touching the photos, printed photos look better than on a screen because they aren't made of light and the colours are so much richer and it's just better to be able to actually hold something. Well I think it is anyway, each to their own but I definitely think everyone should try it. And if you do, don't just get the perfect ones printed, it's about memories after all, not being a professional photographer :)

I'm off to (hopefully) print the rest of my zine pages. It's about half printed but our printer is a bit temperamental so I can't ask it to do too much all in one go. It's looking good though :)

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New Zine...

I can't believe it's been so long since I last posted.
But thinking back over the past few weeks it kind of makes sense.
I had a sulk inducing gum infection and a cold at the same time that caused me to do nothing but feel sorry for myself for about a week.

But once I got over the worst of that I commenced work on my next zine.







It took me a while to get going on it, for a little bit I almost gave up because I couldn't see it getting anywhere but now over the past week or so I haven't done much other than work on it and it's coming along quite nicely. Infact, I only have a few more bits to draw and then it's down to all the layout etc. which I'll hopefully get started on tonight.

I'm on my thousandth or so cold in a row and I'm incredibly fed up of blowing my nose but working on the zine and seeing it all come together is keeping me reasonably sane.

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p.s. seeing as it's been so long since my last post, Happy New Year! Hope it's going well so far :)

2 images I hadn't got round to posting from the Giraffe zine I made mum for her birthday.

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Christmas

I had a rather hectic few weeks before Christmas (I'm sure I'm not the only one!) and so have taken some time off over Christmas and feel like today is the day I will start to do things again.
Taking time off over Christmas was lovely, I got given some really nice presents and had some really nice food and we went to stay at mum and dad's on Boxing Day which was really relaxing.

I no longer work at the cinema! I am now just self employed. Scary but in a motivating kind of way. Realistically I know that I will almost definitely need part time jobs here and there in the not to distant future but that job just wasn't working with my art so I needed to get out of it to concentrate on my art and properly get started on it.

I'm really looking forward to finally getting my illustration work out there and putting even more effort into the shop too.

New year new start and all that, only a few days now!

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Mum's Birthday

Lots of fog.
A pile of lions.
My mum's adopted giraffe (her gift from my brother).

For her birthday my mum wanted to go to the zoo.
You might think that the zoo in December is a silly idea but you'd be wrong. I think it was the best zoo day I've ever had. We got to see quite a few animals that we never normally get to see, there were practically no people about and some of the animals were not only visible but being amazing.
A chimp came straight over to mum and just sat there looking at her for a while, the lions were in a massive sleepy pile on the other side of the glass, a sloth bear came over to us and tried sucking us up with his tubey termite eating mouth through the glass, the wolves were all lounging around on the close side of their enclosure, we saw the wolverines really close, there was a tiny little baby elephant that was only born in april and another not quite as little but still little elephant that was born last year and loads of other animaly goodness. It was an awesome day.

There are a few more photos on my flickr.
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Website

I am in the midst of playing with my website again.
A few weeks and it'll hopefully be just how I'd like it.

And then the playing with self promotion starts.
I'm rather looking forward to making little packages of illustration and sending them out :)

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Charlie

You might not be able to tell but Charlie is a white dog. He is also a bit naughty and has got himself all covered in mud, hence being in the bath.
He's not really too pleased that his hard afternoons work is about to get washed away but I'm sure he'll have fun putting it right again.

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