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 […]
The London Transport Museum, in conjunction with TFL, occasionally does ‘Vehicles on the Move’ days where they take old stock out of the depot and run it on the lines. On September 9th 2012, I went along to one of these days. They ran the historic Sarah Siddons engine with original (although very refurbished) Metropolitan […]
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 […]
I have an obsession with old tube stations and train stations. Since I’m still on sick leave with this silly foot, and can’t walk, I’m posting some adventures I’ve had over the past few years from when I could walk. This first one is taken directly from a WONDERFUL book which I cannot recommend highly […]
Click on the photo below to head over to Off The Map – a gorgeous collection of graphic posters for disused stations. Clicking on each poster leads to information about the stations, including what bits of them remain and what you can see from passing trains.
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, […]
In England it’s apparently not customary to tell people who had you for secret Santa after you open gifts. I must say, I find this tradition very odd. I’m 98% sure that my colleague Jo knows I had her, as being the only remote member of the office, I had to mail in the package […]
This year I decided to hand paint all my Christmas cards. This was very time consuming, but an interesting exercise in replicating the same design over and over whilst trying to get the same outcome. First, some sketches to get started. Then, drawing the design, over and over again. Adding some colour, using red acrylic […]
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