Warm Wishes!

Merry Christmas to all my fellow bloggers!  Hope you all have a fabulous festive time! See you in 2013...

Here's a couple of snaps of our Christmas tree.  It's a little one, high up on the sideboard out of Jimmy's reach but he is really captivated by it for the first time this year.  I absolutely love these fuzzy pipe cleaner santas, some of them came from my Grandma and Grandad and I remember being really fascinated by them when I was little.  I was really pleased to find a box of them in a charity shop a few years ago so now we have a complete set.  So simple, yet so charming!

Women's Wit Calendar

I just received some copies of this little calendar that I worked on last year, it's small and very cute, designed with a magnetic back so you can stick it on the fridge.  I remember it well as it was the last job I worked on whilst heavily pregnant, I was so big I could hardly reach my desk!

I illustrated the outer box and some little icons to go inside. It's always nice to see the finished result, it's just a shame that the art director credited me as last years illustrator Jean Tuttle! Hey ho, these things happen!

Women are like teabags!

This is my contribution to the annual Christmas coaster promotion run by my US agent AGM.
The theme this year is politics, which is a pretty hot topic over there at the moment.
I really liked this quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt and it was a nice opportunity to feature my handdrawn type which I really enjoy.

Mug Shots

My Personaliteas design has now made it onto a mug! It's available to buy wholesale from Beast in Show, and I'm selling some in my etsy and folksy shops. 
It's adapted slightly from the tea towel, and the design wraps around the mug with a little surprise character in the bottom:

I was excited to receive them the other week and as you can see I wasn't the only one keen to take a peek inside the box.  This is Alf, who is super inquisitive when it comes to boxes!

Giveaway Winner!

Thanks to everyone who entered my giveaway on here and twitter, sorry for the delay!
I asked Jimmy (my 11 month old studio assistant) to do the honours after his tea tonight and the winner is....... Fred!  My 'Personaliteas' tea towel will be on its way to you soon...

Personaliteas Tea Towel Giveaway!

My Personaliteas Tea Towel is now hot off the press and available to buy. Yay! You can get your mits on one from my etsy and folksy shops and from the fab ToDryFor website.

To celebrate I'm going to give one away, so if you'd like to be enter just leave me a comment below and tell me how you take your tea.  I'm a redbush tea fan myself, no milk or sugar and very weak so I'm pretty cheap to keep!  Coffee fans can also enter!

I've recently joined twitter so you can also enter by retweeting, or why not do both for 2 chances to win...

I'll pick a name out of a mug on July 31st...

Fifty Shades of Grey

Here's a recent illustration that I did for Baltimore magazine, about the latest publishing phenomenon that is 'Fifty Shades of Grey'.                  The art director wanted to show mums out for coffee sneakily reading the bestselling book which has been deemed 'mommy porn' in the USA.