Owls, Cupcakes, Robots and Fairies.

 Castilla Textil

Kipfold

Here are some designs we created for bedding a while ago for two home textile manufacturers. I especially like the Owls and Robots!

Shows and more shows!

Indigo was the last  show of the year until the big one next January, Heimtextil which I am sure will be here before I know it!
 Thank you to all our customers who came and looked at our designs whilst we were exhibiting at Indigo, we met some lovely people and again made some fab new contacts.

I love putting all the exhibition displays up and seeing all the styles of the different artists we have.

We had some lovely comments from customers about our stand and felt really proud of our small team of designers who continue to support us with fantastic and beautiful artwork!
Here is a pic of the stand and  some of the artwork we had on the backdrops.

Kate Ferguson

Rachel Taylor

Rosie Maddocks

Christine Gore

Linda Cavill

Lisa Martin

Under the Sea

We have been painting lots of sea creatures this week and since I made Miss Rosebud Petal for my daughter she has given me a long list of felt toys she wants me to make! The second item on her list was a jellyfish after seeing this painted one I did this week. Looks like I will be painting by day and  sewing at night!

Hello Miss Rosebud Petal!

This weekend me and my 4 year daughter Grace did lots of sewing and drawing. In my spare time I like to make felt soft toys for family and friends. Early Saturday morning Grace presented me with a picture of Miss Rosebud Petal and said "Mummy can you make Miss Rosebud Petal for me?", so with a bit of felt and colourful thread, and a late night stitching her lovely squiggles here is Miss Rosebud Petal! One happy little girl!!!!

All packed, padded and taped for South Korea!

We have been busy getting the collection ready for its trip to Kate our lovely super efficient Korean agent in  South Korea. We have lots of new brilliant lush designs from our team of designers. The collection is looking it's best so a big thank you to all our  creative team, Linda, Rosie, Mary, Jayne, Rachel, Christine and Pete. Oooh and a big welcome to our new designer Lisa, we can't wait to see what you come up with!!  x

Totally Tropical

I have been experimenting with inks and paint effects in the studio, it is so nice to get back to painting and mark making.
 I love my computer and AVA Software but always struggle with brush types. A bit of free hand painting, scanning and recolouring on the computer and this is one of the designs I came up with. It's quite nice to hear washing of brushes in jars of water instead of the hum of my computer, ooohh and have paint up my arms again!

It's nice to be home!

Sorry I haven't posted on my blog for a while.  It has been quite hectic since June. To start with a very wet week camping in Wales, (us being the only ones on the deserted campsite apart from a family of rabbits which my daughter enjoyed talking to!)
To recover from my camping experience we then flew off to Greece which was so hot I started longing for a little bit of rain...just a little!
A week later I was in hospital for a few days to have a planned operation, hospital food yuk, lots of magazines, chocolates and a bit of bed rest and I am finally back home.

My first day back in front of my desk, lots of ideas... tropical birds and new styles ....more painterly techniques...thinking I might need to get my dusty paintbrushes out and start making a mess!
It's good to be back!