Heart Art...

Well it's been a while coming but I finally have my Love Bird Heart Art Mini Canvasses available in store!!! Yay! I know I have put pictures of the canvasses online before but here's a couple more to remind ya:


They are ever so slightly different from the version I sent to Fred Flare for the Next Big Thing 2008 store as they have a super bright Fluorescent red heart now instead...(I don't know why but this really doesn't show up in the images, perhaps computers just can't cope with those kinds of colours?). They are all hand printed and stretched onto wooden frames by myself and are so sweet as gifts with a little space on the back for a personal message. You can get them HERE!!!

I have more heart art on the way over the next week too: Love Cats!! So stay tuned for them...

My lack of posts (again...) this past weekend is because we spent it in a little village near Basingstoke called Rotherwick, where Mark was on best man duty at his best friend Rich's wedding!! It was a beautiful (and by the end of the reception a rather raucous dancing) day with a sparkling and magical theme. My camera ran out of battery so I'm afraid I have no pictures of the gorgeous reception decorations (or the Swarovski sparkling beautiful lady Natalie bride) but imagine if you will an old red brick hall decked out with leafy and Gerbera flower arrangements, giant pink and turquoise butterflies, twinkling fairy lights, jars of sweets with neon polka dot lids, rose petals, paper lanterns lots of bubbly and delicious BBQ food and you can kind of get the magical picture...It was so much fun and congratulations to the new Mr and Mrs Zabrocki!!!

Nest

Yesterday I found a nest on the ground outside the studio...

It is so perfect and neat and on closer inspection seems to be made up from moss, grass, baling plastic, sheep wool, tiny twigs and tail hair from our smallest pony, the little and palomino Carrianne...

Back for the time being...

A few colourful shapes from a very wet festival time...


The gloom followed me to London, bah! Field Day was SO wet and as usual I was mighty unprepared (surprising since I spend so much time outside with the horses and other animal folk!), all I had was a £2.99 umbrella bought on the way there. My shoes held up until the last hour when my feet got rather cold and wet and the festival itself was ok with so much effort put in to make it more of a day out than last year but it was still massively lacking in lady loos which is a big shame...

Anyhow, I shall stop harping on about that as on Sunday we headed to Derbyshire for the wedding of my cousin Angeline at Bolsover Castle!! It was a wonderful ceremony and they had the most amazing wedding cake I have ever seen - It was made up from lots of gorgeous little lemon cupcakes which had super pretty butterfly cases and were sprinkled with colourful edible flowers. The pictures I took don't really do them justice (er, a little inebriated to hold the camera in a suitably steady fashion) but I wanted to include them anyway...

And the native flowers accompanied by one of the cakes...!

Travels...

Well the sun has finally come out (for the time being at least) just as I am going away! The beau and I and a couple of other Cornish lovelies are heading to the Big Smoke this weekend to go to Field Day Festival. We went last year and while the bar and loo arrangements were less than savory it hasn't put us off going again this time around for some fun with London friends, some good music and hopefully some time away from the Cornish fog and gloom (I hope, it will probably follow us there...).

(Image courtesy of fielddayfestival.com)

Then on Monday we are going to the wedding of my cousin Angeline! I'm quite excited as I haven't seen her in AGES and I'm really looking forward to getting properly dressed up as I have a new dress to wear, yay!

So I will be back on Wednesday and probably starting to panic about the following weekend's design fair...What with all these weddings and parties (damn fun and dancing, getting in the way, hehe!) I only have 5 more making days left, eek!

Super Snappy!

Since I have been back I have also been adding some more new bits and pieces to the store. We have a new designer to welcome: Snappy Sausage! These super pretty jewellery pieces are the creation of Miss Abbi Kendall who uses a sparkling array of glass, Swarovski, plastic, wood, mixed chains and cute charms to make her unusual but very wearable bracelets, necklaces and earrings...

See and shop them all HERE!

Hidden Art

I haven't been on the blog of late, time has seemingly run away with me...It has been good time though as I went away with the horses for a few days and since I have been back I have been making, drawing and printing in preparation for the Hidden Art Cornwall Design Fair which is in a couple of weeks time over the August Bank holiday: Saturday 23rd - Monday 25th. I took part last year and you can see last years stand HERE! As you can see from that, my blog posting regularity hasn't improved very much!

The fair is held at the now National Trust owned Godolphin House, a 15th century part of Cornish history and last year as it will this year, had the extra attraction of a Hidden Art Curated exhibition and a show of work from recent graduates of the Falmouth College of Art. If the goddamn awful weather ever improves (greyness and fog for DAYS...where are you August sun??), it should be as great a fair as it was previously with games, bands, bars and all sorts going on. If you are in Cornwall that weekend I fully recommend it and if you manage to come along please come and say hello to me!

So at the moment I am full steam ahead! In the meantime I also have 2 weddings to attend and I am heading to London to go to the Field Day Festival this weekend as well. Again, I hope the sun comes out for that and I also hope that the bar and lavatory arrangements are better than last year...!