Category Archives: Design
Surface Pattern and Design Here I come!
For the last 4 weeks I’ve been participating (more or less!) in a fabulous on-line course in Surface Pattern and Design. It’s been a direction I’ve been keen to go, and an area I’ve wanted to learn more about for approx the last 18 months or so. You may remember me posting about it [...]
A Gift from me to You
Please feel free to download this and print out to adorn your fridge or pin up board, and if you would like to give it to a friend, or share it on your site, a link back to me for credit would be really good karma. Don’t wait for New Year’s Eve for a [...]
I *heart* you Line Juhl Hansen
I was blog hopping all over the place tonight and somehow stumbled across this amazing artist from Denmark by the name of Line. I’m not sure how you pronounce it (Louise – can you let me know!) but but she has some amazing work to see at her site. It’s fresh, grungy (i know – [...]
Today…
I wish I could give credit for this beautiful photo but I can’t. What I can say is that this is not my photo and full credits to the owner… Today… I’m dreaming of having a set of drawers just like this to be completely and utterly organised forever and ever… The peeps had swimming [...]
Loving Layers and Hand-cut Stamps…
I just love making marks from found and hand made objects. Recently I finished a painting where I stamped the entire background using an apple! And today I’ve completed a painting where I cut my own stamp from a rubber block. Thhe stamping in repetitive patterns is somehow cathartic, but I must admit, I love [...]
And another…
Just thought you might like to see another! Having lots of fun with these, especially thinking outside the square a bitmore with the designs and colours. We are hoping that they might also become small framed prints too, so that they live beyond Christmas Day and bring more joy! Hopefully soon I’ll have a set [...]
Christmas Cards Coming!!!
My friend Skye of Skyeandstarz and I are collaborating this year to design Christmas Cards!!! (you have to start early on these things!) I just thought I’d show you a sneak peek of one of our designs to see what you thought of it. What do youthink of this for a chirstmas card? Or perhaps [...]
Plugging Away…
I’ve been sketching Australian wildflowers lately, and why not? They are beyond doubt the most beautiful and intricate and lovely in all the world. No, I’m not biased at all I thought I’d try and see what I could come up with by way of a pattern, but instead I could only manage this. But [...]
Cookie Bear Wisdom #3
Cookie Bear says, that wagging your tail when you’re happy is easy peasy – it’s wagging it when you’re a little bit low that is hard work. But he reckon’s it can be done…
Cookie Bear’s Words of Wisdom #2
Living with Cookie Bear is like living with a sage… He is always coming out with these deep revelations. Today was no different – I had to rush to get pen and paper before I let this one slip away…
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