I’ve been going through an odd Scandanavian phase this past week. I finally picked up ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” to read (although I initially only started reading it because my colour coordinated bookcase needed more yellow and it was a book with a yellow spine…) and I couldn’t put it down. I raced […]
Category Archives: Artwork
Woke up this morning and went swimming for the first time in ages (therapist’s orders!) It felt great, after nearly 5 months of being sidelined with the ol foot injury, to be able to exercise again, and to do so in a way which felt fairly weightless. It’s left me in a bit of a […]
Following on from the post about submissions to the Londonist’s call for ‘Tube Etchings’ ( more info here ) and a suggestion that I do more quick sketches, I thought I’d try a couple new tube themed water colour sketches. I decided I’d base them on this picture, which is one of my favourites. It’s […]
This isn’t a new project but a revisited project from a few years ago. The Londonist, one of my favourite blog websites, is searching for original artwork and photographs that relate to subterranean London for a show at the Bishopsgate Institute. Artwork and the Underground is a match made in heaven for me, so I […]
A while ago I went on a domestic binge and decided to hand sew pillowcases for the odd shaped pillows in the house. At the time, I never got further than the purchasing of material. This is not a huge surprise. But finally, a full pillowcase has been sewn! Got to this step without photo […]
Just a quick one today – still working on new background options for twitter. The tough bit is finding the correct dimensions for the twitter background. Every website you look at has different dimensions suggested, so I’m hoping that having a nice tiled photo collage will work out. Below are some options so far. Tube […]
Living with a photographer means my photos never ever look as good as the ones he takes. There’s just no competition, so I’ve got to try to come up with other ways to make my holiday snaps interesting. I took web images of maps of some of the places that I’ve visited over the past […]
After spending the better part of, say, my entire holiday in bed with some sort of evil cold/flu/plague hybrid, I managed to cut out all the letters for the tags that I needed. I then combined the tags with the two specialty papers: Add in a bit of Washi tape, brown packing paper, and red […]
On my continued determination to really nail my Christmas wrapping this year, I came across this idea on pinterest. The wrapping was similiar to what I had already done for the Christmas wrapping, but I thought that the letters would be a great simple way to tag my Christmas wrapping once I got over the […]
I get to have two Christmases each year- an English one with Paul and friends in England, and then an American one in the States with my family. I love for all my gifts to be wrapped in a cohesive theme but this inevitably leads to me flying from country to country with wrapping paper, […]
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