Showing posts with label IN THE PIPELINE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IN THE PIPELINE. Show all posts

A new obsession?


I may well have started another new obsession. I started buying a couple of vintage plates for a new project and then last weekend I ended up with 8 more. For $7. How could I resist.

My new problem is that I no longer want to use them for anything other then to stack in lovely little piles.

Oh, and I want more I tell you. More.

Oh boy. Am I in trouble now. We really don't have the room to store any more of my odd little collections.

We may need to move shortly. Somewhere much larger!

What I'd rather be doing right now...


I'd rather be building a great fort to play in! It will have lots of fairy lights, good books, stars, balloons, soft pillows and cozy blankets. An art journal and a cute puppy are essentials, of course!

A New Garden for Dunedin

Got to visit the new Chinese Garden today, it is almost completed and it was a beautiful day too. Photos are just beautiful, great vistas and views from every angle.

And the fish, how could I forget the fish, they were slightly camera shy but I got them!

A Scrappy kinda Day

I've had a really great day today, finishing my catch-up of Paper Adventure 08. The photos of my finished pages are here. So much paper, Thickers are my absolute fav, and using some of my new photos, it was a great day. My fingers are now so cold I can barely type but it was totally worth it.


It was a great birthday!


I had just the best birthday, and birthday break (which is drawing to a close as we speak!). I'll pop up some more photos soon and there is to be a separate post about another big event!

BlueBird

I've been toying with the idea of a tattoo for a while now and the other day I sketched it into reality.I'm thinking of shades of blue/aqua and yellow. On my shoulder and eventually a little mirror image of it will go on my other shoulder. Now just have to work up the courage and the money!

Cutting, cutting, cutting...

I've spent a good deal of this afternoon cutting up some matt board offcuts I got from my local framer, for use as ACEO's. I now have enough little cards of varying colours to last me a good while. Best I get drawing then eh?

Sneeky Peek...


Just a little sneek peek of my new collection of drawings, soon to go into the shop.

Munny, how I adore thee!

Trina came back from Wellington yesterday and she bought me this little guy. I love his little shape. These "Munny's" are totally cool, they are made for you to paint/draw/decorate however you wish. I'm going to have a hard time deciding how to "do" mine so at the moment he is just pink. I'm going to ohave to make a few sketches before I commit. I can always get another on at popup as can you!


Portfolio

Having decided I really need a new job and having read a new inspirational book, How to be a Graphic Designer without Losing your Soul, I decided to update my portfolio. I am going to house loose sheets of my work in this hand-made case. It is covered in some beautiful gold, red and purple paper I got from Trade Aid.




Buttons anyone?

My buttons/badges (so hard to decide what to call them) arrived yesterday in the post, as well as a coupe of other goodies, but this was definitely the icing on the cake. I love them! They look much better then I hoped. There was even a little extra fridge magnet in there! This is them all packed up and ready for the shop, which should be open on Friday! (fingers crossed!)

Drawing while watching sunshine!

I had a really great night last night! Delicious kebabs for tea then curled up on the bed, spread out my stuff and drew two more little cuties while watching Little Miss Sunshine. I just adore that movie. I had to stop drawing to wipe away the tears of laughter when I got to the part with the horn... hilarious! Anyway here are the results...

A couple more little cuties...

I finished a couple more little drawings yesterday. I'm quite pleased with them and they are turning into a cute little series...


New Banner

A new project calls for a new banner for the blog, just to keep everything cohesive and together.

A new Ideas Notebook

I needed a little notebook for Ideas for a new project I've been working on and I really loved the previous Rainbow book so I made a smaller version (A6), this one has a woodgrained paper on the front and back covers. Its pretty cool and is starting to fill up already.

Some sneeky bunnies...

I have a little something in the pipeline, and in preparation for that, I have been working on these dead bunnies. They are very cute and look great as a little group on my desk at the moment. Hopefully I can let the cat out of the bag soon.