29 Project: Days 143 - 148

I have met up with a few people recently who I haven't seen in a while and they have asked me what I have been up to of late. As usual my mind has drawn a blank and I say 'Oh you know, working, riding a bit...oh yeah, I sold Lauder'. So I had a look back on my 29 project (and all of the other pictures I have stored in my Iphoto along the way...) and realised there are lots of things there that I would never have thought to have taken a picture of before I was doing this, and little details I would have long since forgotten. I'm enjoying this project very much.

29 project: Days 143 - 148...

Day 143: Tuesday 12th October - Winners! I rode my best and Pia danced her best and we won not one, but two dressage classes today on very good scores indeed...regional championships here we come!


Day 144: Wednesday 13th October - Photography Corner...You may (or may not have!) noticed that I have gradually been re-photographing lots of things in the shop. This little corner of my studio is where I make the picture magic happen...


Day 145: Thursday 14th October - Screen Making. I had lots of little bits of work and jobs to get done today...It's not the most interesting or pretty picture I'm afraid, but re-making this screen was one of them!


Day 146: Friday 15th October - The Railway. Mark and I were up in Devon this last weekend visiting his dad. On Friday night we went to a lovely pub called The Railway Inn which is always a delight.


Day 147: Saturday 16th October - Exeter Cathedral. A trip into Exeter for the afternoon. I spent lots of money on warm winter wearables!


Day 148: Sunday 17th October - Horsebox Roast. Back in Cornwall again and we went round to my folks house for a dinner of roast lamb. The aga had stopped working though and my mum had to make a roast for six people in the tiny oven in the horsebox! I don't know how she did it, it was delicious...


As usual there are a few more pictures over at my Flickr...I hope to have some new bits and pieces to show you this week. Stay tuned!
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The good horse Black Beauty

He's been around for a while, but I have finally got my original drawing of Black Beauty framed up all pretty and available to buy in the shop...


I will be updating the 29 project later today...I thought I might be able to keep on top of it and post a little more regularly but it has been a busy week and well, I failed at that! Hopefully from now on...yeah.

The product of a print marathon...

Here are the tee designs I have been waiting to show you...I designed and hand printed them for my long time clients Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip for their upcoming Autumn tour. It shows all of the places they are visiting with a couple of little Le Sac vs Pip birds chirping at each other.


I made one colour combo for the girls, one for the guys and then another for kids. I've not made kids tees before and it was really fun to do! The design needed to be shrunken down to fit their little size and I was a bit worried about the finer details of the print coming through, but they did and I am SO pleased with them. Yay!

I also made a completely different design for some Le Sac vs Pip babygrows which I have yet to get a good picture of, but as soon as I do you will be able to peruse it over at my Flickr account...

In other news, my Bonbi Forest goodies are now available over on notonthehighstreet.com which is a super online store with loads of really lovely gifts and things.

That's it for now, but I wanted to leave you with a little link to an AMAZING photograph I found on the Folk Object Tumblr (I think you will like)...There's lots to like about a massive deer!

29 Project: Days 139 - 142

I hope everyone had a good weekend? Here is the latest installment of the 29 project...

Days 139 - 142:

Day 139: Friday 8th October - Autumn. It's properly here isn't it? High winds have been stripping the trees of their leaves in a big way and carpeting the ground with them...


Day 140: Saturday 9th October - On Saturday night we headed down to Miss Peapods in Penryn to see some old friends play the last leg of their mini tour with their bands Trelawney, Bravo Brave Bats and Tessellators. Mark played some records too, it was much fun!


Day 141: Sunday 10th October - Walk home...Sunday rambles on the cliffs are becoming a regular occurrence, and this Sunday we rambled a little cliff top circuit all the way to the pub. It was dark when we left...Really, very dark.


Day 142: Monday 11th October - Christmas is a coming...(I know, already!) and today I have been creating some festive critters...


I have those tee designs from last weeks printing marathon to show you tomorrow...stay tuned!

Hello October...29 Project: Days 132 - 138

I have been a busy bee this week printing a brand new batch of tour tees for Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip who are heading off around the country next week playing their music...I created two brand new designs for them, one for a tee and the other for a little babygrow which was very nice to do.

I will show you the new designs in due course (they have come out very well indeed!) but since they won't be arriving with their musical pals til Monday I'm going to hold off until then so they can have the first look...

In the meantime, here are the outstanding 29 project pics from the beginning of October. I am going to try and be more up to date with this from now on...!

29 Project: Days 132 - 138...

Day 132: Friday October 1st - New things! A happy order of new and very pretty things arrived which pleased and cheered me up greatly. Especially since they were all complete bargains, hurrah!


Day 133: Saturday October 2nd - Stormy Skies. Headed into Truro at twilight saw the sky come over all yellow and stormy. It was very beautiful...


Day 134: Sunday October 3rd - Looking. (There are more pictures for this day over at my Flickr too...) Mark and I took a walk along the cliff path. The sea was being very strange, from a distance it looked quite calm, but big swell was rumbling under the surface and causing lots of crashing waves and foam at the bottom of the cliffs. Here is me, mesmerised by the water:


Day 135: Monday October 4th - Lou Lou. Need I say more? She is the usual distraction for me!


Day 136: Tuesday October 5th - Pile O Tees. Here they are, the blanks for the printing project I have been working on this week...hundreds of them...


Day 137: Wednesday October 6th - Pia and the Beasties. A little horsey (and beastie) fix in the middle of the printing mayhem! I have been riding her this week in preparation for a competition next week.


Day 138: Thursday October 7th - The print marathon is over! Two and a half days and 600+ prints, many hours of heat setting, lots of rolling and sticking later, here we are at the end. 300 T-shirts and babygrows are ready for the off!


I hope everyone has a great weekend...I will be showing you new work on Monday, yay!

29 project: Days 122 - 131

It's been a funny week...I have known for a little while but didn't want to say until the cheque went in and everything was final - I have sold my beloved Lauder horse. I have been meaning to sell him for the best part of six years (yes, really!) and have only sporadically, half heartedly advertised him from time to time because I didn't really want to sell him. But now it's happened! I've been so lucky to own him for the last seven years and it's very weird not to have him now, I miss him tons.

Still, I am a very lucky lady in that every so often I will still be riding the lovely Miss Pia so I can still carry on with my most favourite of pastimes. Very lucky indeed.

Anyway, a biiig 29 project update for you today. I have been working on lots of new stuff, going out and about and generally trying to distract myself!

29 Project - Days 122 - 131...

Day 122: Tuesday 21st September - Sketching...what quality drawings I come up with at the brainstorming stage! Working on new tee designs...


Day 123: Wednesday 22nd September - More Sketching. This time the design is being sketched into photoshop so I can work on layout and colour.


Day 124: Thursday 23rd September - Can you see a pattern emerging this week?! I was glued to the computer...More print design sketching, playing with layouts and sizing.


Day 125: Friday 24th September - Grubs Up! Ah, this is good Friday evening fodder, home made ratatouille, salad, bread and beer. Yum.


Day 126: Saturday 25th September - Thai Again! Yay! A big bunch of us went and had Thai for our friend Claire's birthday. It was delicious as usual (it's my favourite, I may have mentioned this before...!)


Day 127: Sunday 26th September - View from the King Harry Ferry. Mark and I took a trip down to Falmouth to have another dinner out (Nepalese this time) for another friend, Lisa's birthday. It was such a nice evening we decided to take the ferry. When I was a kid my brother and I used to call it the King Hairy Fairy...we were hilarious.


Day 128: Monday 27th September - Jewellery Trying...and photographing and measuring and getting lots of lovely new pieces ready to go in the shop!


Day 129: Tuesday 28th September - So Long my Beloved Steed...Today was the day he went. A hard, sad day. I spent the whole week beforehand trying not to think about it and enjoying him. It's taking some time to get used to not having a four legged beast to look after everyday, I keep feeling like I have forgotten to do something major! Anyway, he's going to be teaching someone new all of his dressage moves, I hope he is a good boy...I didn't want to take any pictures of him leaving, so here we are at a competition last year:


Day 130: Wednesday 29th September - Quartz. Taking my mind off things by going to watch a dressage clinic, looking at pretty stones and conjuring new jewels...


Day 131: Thursday 30th September - Cupcakes. I don't bake much (the last time was the rainbow cake attempt!) but I had the sudden urge to so made these ginger cakes. Wonky, misshapen, and varying in size, it's baking Bonbi style!


That's it for now...The 29 project will continue with October updates very soon!

Swallows, Autumn and Tiny Rings...

I have been squirrelling away some new jewels for you guys! I have a few pieces that will be going in the shop next week, and more (like the dainty rings you can have a peek at below) that will be part of a brand new collection coming soooon!

Have a gander:








ALSO: How cute is this little brooch?! I Saw Anna from Custom Made twittering about it and told her I wanted one and we did a swap. I sent her a tote and a card in return for this soooopa brooch. I love it, and we both agreed it would be perfect pony attire. After all, a red rosette means WIN!!

Yet again: I'm back!

This is turning into the year of frequent trips away it seems, aren't I lucky?! This last little holiday was really very good, spending fun time with friends at The End of the Road music festival, like I mentioned before, and then some time at good ole Centre Parcs = Awesome.

I have a MASSIVE 29 project update for you today and some new jewels for you tomorrow which include a limited edition garden themed pendant and a new bird bracelet. All with an Autumnal theme you understand.

Anyway, for now here are about 10 days worth of images from the last week or so, as always there are more on my Flickr Page:

29 Project - Days 111 - 121:

Day 111: Friday 10th September - Peacock Silhouettes. Our first day at The End of the Road festival in Dorset's Larmer Tree Gardens where they have lots of Peacocks roaming freely. it is very wonderful and this year there were babies to be seen...adorable!


Day 112: Saturday 11th September - Iron and Wine. I finally got to see him! After years of loving his music I finally saw Iron and Wine live and he played a beautiful stripped down set. Just him, a guitar and a bloke on the piano. So good and my highlight of the festival!


Day 113: Sunday 12th September - The Garden Stage. I love the setting at End of the Road, the main stage is set in an enclosed garden with trees all around. Everyone brings rugs and chairs and sits about during the day listening to the loveliness.


Day 114: Monday 13th September - On to Centre Parcs! After the festival, Mark and I spent the rest of the week at good old Centre Parcs with our friends Simon and Lucy and their little girl Charlotte. This here cabin was our home for the week...It was a little dated, (next in line for the upgrade I think!) like stepping back to a crumbling 90's in fact but we had a sauna (didn't use it) and and en-suite each so you know, we coped. Ha!


Day 115: Tuesday 14th September - Rapids! One of the great things about Centre Parcs is it's multi-faceted swimming pool. It's all flumes, hot tubs, plunge pools, wave machines and river rapids. Rad.


Day 116: Wednesday 15th September - Mark on his bike. Well, about to get on it anyway...The only transport here is bicycles or the land train.


Day 117: Thursday 16th September - Longleat Safari park!! I have wanted to come here for AGES, especially since I knew they have giraffes here. It is a little known fact that giraffes are my favourite of all the animals (apart from horses). I haven't seen any for real since a wonderful trip to feed them at Bush Gardens in Florida about 10 years ago. One day I will see them in their natural habitat I hope but for now these kind of safari parks will have to satisfy my giraffe fix...I took so many pictures of today, I couldn't pick just one, so here you have a giraffe and a greedy deer:



Day 118: Friday 17th September - The road home. Alas, all holidays have to come to an end and here we are making our way home across Bodmin Moor...


Day 119: Saturday 18th September - Show Time! Not one for a quiet life I agreed to ride lovely Pia in a dressage competition the day after we got back from holiday! Here I am in the horsebox with my dressage glad rags on (my coat isn't dirty by the way, I think it is a strange reflection on the mirror...!). It was a successful day despite Pia being a little on her toes and we chalked up two wins.


Day 120: Sunday 19th September - Exit. It was our friend Kim's birthday and we went to the pub where I spied this sign with it's odd wording!


Day 121: Monday 20th September - Morning stroll. Another shot from atop my Lauder horse!


Well, I think that's enough for now! I will update this here project again in a few days. I will show you new jewels tomorrow my friends...

29 Project and some free ship shopping!

Hey! Tomorrow I am setting off on my hols...A bunch of us are heading to the End of the Road festival in Dorset's Larmer Tree Gardens and then Mark and I and our friends Lucy and Simon and their little girl are going on for a few days at Centre Parcs too, which I imagine will involve lots of bicycling and throwing ourselves down the river rapids, ha!

So, because of this, all orders placed from now until the 20th will ship on the 20th asap and in ship shape first class fashion. In the meantime you can get yourself some free ship shopping! Just enter the code FREESHIPSHOP at checkout...


So, here's the latest installment of the 29 project...

Days 108 - 110:

Day 108: Tuesday 7th September - Making jewels...stocking up etc with these pretty bits n pieces...


Day 109: Wednesday 8th September - Mark and I took a trip up to North Cornwall to go and visit his Mama. She's off to Australia for 4 weeks next week to visit Mark's brother and his wife Natalie and their new baby, Morwenna. I'm very jealous! Anyway, this moody looking shot was snapped at twilight on a humble Nokia...I quite like how it came out!


Day 110: Thursday 9th September - Today. I was trying to pack the tent for the weekend after giving it an airing and the kitties decided it was all great fun...cute but quite the hindrance!


This will be my last post for a week or so...As usual just before I go away I am bursting with ideas which I hope to be able to crack on with when I get back. Lots of projects I wanna get going!!

I hope you all have a fab weekend and good week next week...