Illustration ~ Gifts

I did this for thank you cards to Will's family. It's a combination of the Christmas gifts I got from them, which as you can see, was a mighty fine selection deserving of it's own drawing. I drew it pretty small and am especially pleased with my Avenged Sevenfold cover. It's pretty much exactly the same as the real one.

30th December 2014

A few last snaps from 2014 from a classic between Christmas and New Year walk.



These flowers clearly have no idea what time of year it is.



A section of the river was frozen in the meadow so like the grown ups we are we threw stones at it for a while. It was surprisingly hard to break the ice.



Will finding part of a dead swan.



Not too shabby for the end of a year.

Crochet ~ Shaun the Sheep

The new issue of Simply Crochet is a pretty big one for me. I was asked to design an amigurumi Shaun The Sheep to coincide with the new film! That was a pretty exciting email, I can tell you. I'm still a little shocked I had the chance to be involved in something connected to Aardman. Including the fact that the drawings I did to show my ideas would have been sent to them. Even though I wasn't showing them as an illustrator the idea that my drawings of Shaun the Sheep were seen by anyone at Aardman is pretty daunting and wow. That boucle yarn was amazing, although a little tricky to work with. Worth it though. (You could definitely use regular yarn and he'd still look mighty fine.)



Aswell as my Shaun I am also lucky enough to have an interview in this issue! I don't really know what to say about it. Obviously it's an amazing thing but my shy awkwardness is making me want to turn my head and blush rather than type anything.



It's about a year since I had my first piece in the magazine which isn't something I thought I'd be saying if ever let alone now, so thank you everyone at Simply Crochet for working with me. I don't think seeing my work printed will ever get boring so hopefully I'll keep coming up with things you want to use  ^_^

Days 1 - 8 // 365 2015

I was wondering whether to do some sort of 365 project this year and saw Kaylah's post about photo a day projects and felt inspired to have another go. I managed it once before but wasn't all that happy with half of the photos so I'm going to try a bit harder this year. During last year I started taking fewer and fewer photos which definitely needs rectifying and this should help with that.



1 ~ A cosy start to the year.



2 ~ I have a sun catcher hanging in my studio window that hits the room differently throughout the day.



3 ~ Love a bulb photo.



4 ~ The river was doing a pretty fine reflection job while my mum and dad were visiting last weekend.



5 ~ Willliam, friend of pigeons.



6 ~ I held my suncatcher infront of the flash for this shot. I'd been playing with sweet wrappers and my phone camera over christmas and now want to try it with everything. Ugly unicorn courtesy of Will. I love his unicorns so much.



7 ~ My little oak tree is still going strong.



8 ~ This is my 'crap! 365!' sleepy face. I imagine it won't be the last but I ended up liking the photo so it's ok I didn't take any others that day.

December

December is such an odd month. All the hard work and extra craziness getting ready for Christmas seems so far away once Christmas starts and now that the first week of the year has happened it seems like even Christmas and New Year happened ages ago too.
December was good though, I was lucky to have to work so hard (so hard that my wrist gave up on crochet for a while, oops) and Christmas was a really good break from the work. It was really nice to have a massive sit down and eat and play games.

I also now have a mighty fine pile of presents to enjoy, including a pretty impressive book pile that I can't wait to dive into.

What My Phone Saw ~ December

Making huggers way back before Christmas // Playing Lego after Clutter City



Father Christmas on our tree // Sunset



Our wreath // I had a go at making lebkuchen



If you've never used sweet wrappers as filters, try it. It's really fun // Me and my new hat

Happy 2015!

Happy New Year from Will and me. Hope it's treating you well so far ^_^