Illustration ~ Self Portrait

This is me. Hi.
I've done myself a painting to use everywhere I need some sort of icon/profile photo type thing. I also utilised my limited knowledge of digital colouring to do the orange background without completely losing the texture of the watercolour paper. Yay opacity settings!
Now to remember everywhere it needs uploading...
In other news I typed most of this without looking at the keyboard which I didn't know I could do. All those years of not going out and lurking online have finally paid off.

Crochet ~ Hats and Llamacorns

 
Yesterday evening I had a little shop update. Two hats and two new llamacorns. I really hope people like the hats, I loved picking out the colours for them and really want to make more. Same with the llamacorns, choosing colours is fun and then I also really like coming up with their little bits of story that I add to the listings.


Links ~ pink hat // blue llamacorn // orange hat // yellow llamacorn 

And here's some behind the scenes for you. I would normally have some front facing shots of the hats for the shop but I currently look like this. I was actually trying to draw attention to the bags under my eyes by drawing on them (as you do) but it kinda covered them up. I look better in this photo than I do in real life at the moment.

 Maybe this isn't the sort of behind the scenes stuff I'm meant to share.

What My Phone Saw ~ October

The first time I've had a fancy pattern on my coffee so it needed recording / Will dino-ing my leg



This pumpkin was so tiny cute it made the world glow / Norwich is full of these



Garden growth / Ghosty thank you note



I treated myself to Seconds from the local comic shop with some birthday money and it was awesome / Cutie pie pumpkins



He's at it again. On my shin this time, I had no idea how swollen a shin could get.



Bernard trying to dig a sheet / October tree



More lovely words



I drew that scythe for Will and he added it to his crap leg ^_^ / Kitty cat



Pumpkins at the market / Leaf being all like "yeah, autumn, woo!"

My Patterns Made By Other People #3

 

borg 1974 // csodaviki // fluffyowlsadventures // forestflowerdesigns

hannapopana // jannikoue // jobowery1 // saralai

rockan75 // vickyoddsocks // worldofstix

Another wonderful collection of found pictures of people using my patterns. This will never get old. It is awesome.

Autumn Afternoon

These were taken a few days ago when the weather wasn't being quite so mean and Bernard could dig himself a messy face all he liked.



I have no idea what's growing in this boot but it looks really pretty at the moment.
Ah, lovely autumn. Even though my toes are cold and there is drizzle in the air I really do like you a lot.

October

October was busy working and fighting off colds that never quite managed to get going and being amazed there are so many green leaves about and still settling into a new routine. Or not as the case may be but I'm pretending there's a new routine to settle into anyway. I'm sure it'll happen sooner or later. I'm a creature of habit so I'll make one out of whatever is going on.



We had a pretty good Halloween with lots of themed snacks and candles. We watched Spider House on the iplayer which was a nature programme doing exactly as the title says. It was both fascinating and horrid. But the best part was finding out about the peacock spider. I strongly suggest you check them out, here's a youtube video. The mating dance of the male is amazing, it really lives up to it's name and how he wiggles his legs around is just brilliant. Then we watched Night of the Living Dead. They're coming to get you Barbara!



And another photo I took of the origami cranes that I liked so much when we visited the castle.

I was also pretty chuffed to see my pumpkins in a folksy newlsetter.

I can't believe it's already November. It had to be said.

Inktober 2014 ~ Days 12 to 23

Day 12 This is also a self portrait 100 days so you may have already seen it but it's like 3 drawings so it totally counts.



Days 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17



Days 18, 19, 20 and 21



Days 22 and 23

Another little drawing project completed. It may only be 23 of the 31 days but once I started I did it every day ^_^

A Monday

Last week we found a day where we could both not work and headed off to the castle.



I love medieval illustration. This looks like it could have been drawn by someone that's around now.



We take pride in using all the displays aimed to amuse/teach children. Look at our arch! When we came across it it appeared the people before us failed because they didn't use all the blocks. Rookie mistake.



There were all these origami cranes hung up in the birds room. There were all different colours and some were made of maps too. It looked pretty cool.



I reckon this guy agrees.