Hiding!

Every year, I decorate the house Halloween stylee, I make a spooky supper (green spag bol or hot dog witches fingers and a dessert of jelly with body parts in or slime aka green yoghurt) and then we walk around the streets Trick or Treating. This year my daughter is too cool to go out and I guess will be in her bedroom on her phone and my son is going out with his mates dressed up as scary clowns! Hubby and I are redundant, we are not needed anymore for the Halloween extravaganza which seems to gain momentum every year. Instead, we'll be hiding behind the sofa with the lights off. Don't knock we aren't in and I haven't bought any sweeties anyway...

Spooktacular

I created this Halloween fabric Range for Dashwood Studios and it's in the shops NOW! It's printed on super quality cotton and there are 5 designs in the range. You can buy it here

Wise words

I collect wise words and write them in sketch books. Sometime they help make sense of the world. Have a fantastic weekend : )

Harvest Festival

At primary school we always had a harvest festival assembly in September. The centre piece was a spectacular sculptural work of art made out of bread. I remember being intrigued by it's intricacy and it's massive size. We were encouraged to collect leaves, conkers and berries to add to what I now realise was a display of gratitude (I went to a very religious school). We also had to donate tins and jars of preserved food that we took to local old folk (the old lady I met had no teeth and frightened me to death). It was quite an event and helping with the display was defo my favourite part of the Autumn term.

Aloha!

Here's a new range of children's cards I created for Cherry Orchard Publishing called Aloha! Really pleased how these turned out : ) They will be in good card shops very soon!

Ice cream anyone? Lolly? 99?

I worked on these prints last week but forgot to put them on here. There's so much social media stuff to keep on top of I loose track of what I've posted where sometimes. I will design some co-ordinates to go with these at some point too : )

Kate Bush - Moments of Pleasure

Have been listening to this today. Just a reminder how brilliant she is : )

Don't need a tropical island in this weather...

International Pineapple Day!

So there is a day to celebrate the wonderous pineapple. It was yesterday, here is my little celebration of one of my favourite fruits which also contribute to the yummy Pina Colada - yey! : )

Club Tropicana by Dashwood Studio featured on Print and Pattern

So excited to be featured on Print and Pattern again. Thanks so much Marie : ) AND you can by them online here at John Lewis : )