Lately...

Tiny snake

Pasty in the park

Homemade bird deterrent

Mackerels

Pressie from dear friends

Triffid


A few pictures from this last week or so. I saw my first grass snake, a little baba one! My friend found it just hanging out in the car park at the stables. It is quite a rarity to see one since they are notoriously shy and apparently even play dead if they are disturbed. Clever things they are...

Mark and I also set to work de-weeding our field of a garden. Neither of us are very green fingered (I am the woman who managed to kill a cactus after all, yes, I am THAT BAD at this stuff) but I actually quite enjoy the slash and burn approach to gardening that we have developed. I discovered a strawberry plant in the undergrowth and made a bird deterrent for my other strawberries. There is a cheeky blackbird that keeps munching them before I can get to them. Not any more, ha haa!

The plant in this last picture is amazing...we found it amongst the weeds. It kind of looks a bit 'Little Shop of Horrors' before it opens, but then it flowers this beautiful flower that lasts for a day before all of the petals fall off. The bees love it! - E D I T: Turns out that after a little investigating (and the brilliant plant knowledge of my friend Gemma) that it is an Opium Poppy. Mystery solved...

In other news I have some very limited edition pieces that I am adding the the shop at the moment such as these butterfly pendants...have a look in the shop to see more...

I can't resist...

I have been ITCHING to show you my new work for AGES...and I can't hold back anymore. So here's a peek at one piece in a whole pile of newness:

CAT FACE!


This guy and lots more will be available soon!

Botanicals

Here are some works in progress! I am developing new things, very pretty things which I hope you will like...




In other news: My Big cats scarf is now available in a brand new beautiful dove grey colour, I love how the blue pops against the grey. It comes in the usual square and rectangle shapes so you have a choice of styling, have a look see HERE!




Also, what has happened to our summers? This unsettled weather is getting boring now...

Pictures of a week (or so...)

Here are some pictures from the last week and a half or so. Pia and I went to a competition where we had a win and a second (super pony!) and as well as making new things for the shop (more on that soon!) I have been getting back into my painting. I go for long stretches where I don't paint much and concentrate on other things and then all of a sudden I just have to do something! What is coming out now is a little darker than previous work and there is a little peek below...

I hope everyone has had a good week...don't forget that the mid season sale is running in the shop until the end of June. I have added some new items to it since it started, some discontinued and sample tees and some more of the gorgeous Agate Pendants, of which there is only two left! See and shop HERE.

(Also, apologies if you have been in the shop lately and things have periodically been a bit slooow...my beauteous beau of a web guy, Mark, is onto the server people for me and will hopefully have it fixed soon.)

Heart Petal:

Me sat on Miss Pia...

Panoramic Pia

Summer Sunset

Bright Pink!

Swans and their Cygnets

Floral sketching..

Got a little sale going on...

How was everyone's weekend? I had a good one...my beau Mark came back from a week away cycling up a mountain in France and Miss Pia and I went to a dressage show where we had a win and a second place. What a good horse she is!

If you are a subscriber to my newsletter you will have had an early bird heads up and already know that I have a mid-season sale going on in the shop! I have lots of new things on the boil and need to make some room for them, so I am having a little clear out...lots of items are up to 30% off and some of the existing sale items are further reduced...


Also, did you see that the Fuchsia Equus Scarf was featured on ITV's This Morning show last week? How exciting is that?!

Anatomy of a Sketch...

Just playing...

Shots from the last week...

How has everyone been? So while the 29 project is over I still want to post photographs of things I have done and seen here, it seems a lot of you like them and since I have the soopa new camera it seems silly to stop doesn't it?

So here are some pictures from the last week or so including beautiful wallpaper at The Cornwall Spa Hotel, celebration bubbles, a self portrait testing the new tripod, make up freebies from 17 cosmetics (LOADS of 'em!) , days by the sea and cats...lots and lots of cats...

Apologies of you aren't that fond of cats. It is a bit cat heavy here, but they tend to be more willing subjects for new camera playing than most people I know...














I have lots of new ideas I am working on at the moment which is all good. I will post progress pictures and such as I work on things...I feel like ideas are coming together well right now, which is only ever a good thing and I am excited to show you! Things have to arrive in the post first though which is always a test of patience...more soon I hope!

...and the winner is...

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Bonbi Forest survey! Your comments and answers are all very insightful and have given me lots to think about and work on and I really do appreciate all of your very sweet comments and suggestions.

There were so many of you that took part, well over 200 of you, that I have decided to offer up two vouchers to two lucky winners who will each be receiving gift certificate codes to spend at their leisure...hurrah!

Obviously since it was an anonymous survey I don't have the winners actual names to congratulate them, but using the power of Excel spreadsheets and the trusty Random Number Generator, the winners are the fabulously email named daisycakemonster and emmaclaireleedham.

Well done you two, I shall be in touch shortly with your vouchers!

Sorry for the wordy post here...I will put up a post with pictures for your perusal soon...

Les Fleurs...

Tomorrow Mark and I will have been married for a year...we have been sent some flowers from his wonderful mama!


Thank you to everyone who has taken part in the Bonbi Forest survey so far. I am amazed at how many of you have, and there has been some really insightful and inspiring responses, thank you! Don't forget that you have until Tuesday night to take part if you haven't already. You can receive a £5 off code to use in the Bonbi Forest shop for your efforts, and entry into a £50 voucher prize draw...hurrah!

29 Project: The finale!

I am posting this LAST 29 Project update a little later than I had hoped for a reason that only became glaringly apparent to me when I edited the last few pictures and the very last one was only day 364...Surely there should be 365?!

Somewhere along the way, around the Day 188 mark I got a little confused and doubled up my day numbers, there are two day 188s on this blog and day 184 has been marked as a second day 183 on Flickr, whoops!! thankfully all the dates are correct and I haven't missed any days out, but how on earth did I manage that?

ANYWAY, so it's over! A year of photographs and amazingly I only missed taking a few pictures which I replaced with drawings or things I had seen that I found interesting. I think there were 4 missed picture days in total, not bad going for me! I have enjoyed doing the project, and looking back over it, it has reminded me of things I have experienced, made, done, enjoyed, cried at and stressed about, as well as forcing me to take note of the seemingly mundane aspects of life, or things I see every day, just so I'd get a picture on those days where not much of any note happened.

So here it is, the final installment of the 29 Project:

Day 359: Monday 16th May - Strawbs are on their way! After returning from ATP, Mark and I headed over to my folks house to see my brother who had returned from hospital in Belgium. My dad has lots of strawberries on the go which are well and truly on their way. I love fresh garden strawberries.


Day 360: Tuesday 17th May - Video Star. this is actually a still from a video Mark and I made to send to our friend Mr Jack T Cooper, whose 30th birthday it has been lately too. He had a big surprise birthday party thrown for him in Brighton, and all the buddies that couldn't make it were asked to send videos instead. What a nice idea!


Day 361: Wednesday 18th May - Garden Pretties. So sweet and I LOVE this colour.


Day 362: Thursday 19th May - Scruffy Snoozy Face. Clifford has taken to snoozing right in the middle of the floor in my parent's conservatory...


Day 363: Friday 20th May - First Married Birthday - This card came in the mail today (Mark's nan's writing, I can tell) addressed to me as a Mrs. It's not the first Mrs mail I have had by far, but it is the first birthday card...


Day 364: Saturday 21st May - Yay, Horse Cake! My friends and I celebrated my birthday a couple of days early (since the actual day is a Monday, boo.) and they made this AMAZING cake for me! After consuming some bubbles and lots of this cake, we headed into Falmouth where I got bought copious amounts of rum and mojitos. Ace!


Day 365: THE LAST DAY! Sunday 22nd May - Lanterns. So the last day of the 29 project and this 'exciting' picture is all I could come up with! It's in keeping with the rest of the project, yeah? Anyway, it was the last day of my 20s and I spent it feeling fuzzy with friends, doing a spot of weeding in the garden and hanging lights that I have been meaning to hang for ages...pretty normal really.


...and turning 30: So day 365 was the last day I used my old Olympus camera too as my wonderful beau, Mark, bought me a brand new shiny, soopa doopa camera for my birthday!! For various reasons I had known about it for a while, but I didn't get it until the actual day.
Here is me in Panoramic mode having a 30th birthday glass of Rosé on the ay home from the Lost Garden of Heligan. I had a lovely day, and 30 isn't so bad really!


I need to think of a new project now...It will be weird not doing this! Thanks for sticking with it and all your comments and likes over the course of the project. I do hope you have enjoyed it!

I wanna know what you think...

You may have already seen this if you subscribe to the Bonbi Forest newsletter, or follow me on Twitter or Facebook, but here it is again in case you missed it:

Click the pic to take the survey...Thank You!

29 Project Update: Days 351 - 357

Sorry for the lack of updates this last week or so...It's been a funny old time getting over jet-lag (up with the sparrows most days, most unlike me), worrying about my brother, and his girlfriend who is also very poorly too (Get well and come home soon Mo xxx), generally trying to get back into work, and then scuppering all that by whizzing off to All Tomorrow's Parties for the weekend!

Anyway, I am back on it now...I can't believe how few 29 project pictures I have left to take, my birthday is on Monday! I thought I would update you until the last week, and then you can have a complete last week in one go...

29 project: Days 351 - 357...

Day 351: Monday 9th May - Ginger fail. It almost rivals Carrotgate back at Christmas time where I ordered 3.5kg of carrots instead of 350g. I don't know what happened here, but I only needed 3cms of ginger. Woops!


Day 352: Tuesday 10th May - Sketching with Printing. I had cleared most of my admin from the holiday and I decided after so many weeks not doing much making at all, I really, really, really needed a day doing just creative stuff. So I played with some screens and some colours and sat down with some books and had a great afternoon.


Day 353: Wednesday 11th May - Miniature Forest. Loving the garden at the moment (though you may have noticed I always love the garden, it's just that this time of year is so special...)


Day 354: Thursday 12th May - ATP Fodder. The night before All Tomorrow's Parties festival and for once I am being organised about food, rather than stopping at Indie Tesco in Minehead right before we get into the festival and queuing at the checkout for ages with loads of other festival peeps buying beer and crisps and pizza.


Day 355: Friday 13th May - Shoot 'em up at ATP. We did watch some bands, but in between times there was some gravitating towards the arcade machines and bowling and hanging out in the chalet...


Day 356: Saturday 14th May - Quack Quack....and also between seeing bands we did some feeding the ducks...


Day 357: Sunday 15th May - Watching Bands. Well, I have to be honest and thought that musically this was the worst ATP I have ever been to (and I have been to a lot of them in the last 10 years). Despite that, I had such a fun time hanging out with some good buddies and it was a fun weekend. There were some gems in the line up, Beach House were my favorites and Actress and Omar S played some really fun sets too. I really want to go to the Christmas Battles/caribou one too this year...we shall see!


Right folks, the next 29 Project update will be the last...a week all in one go! I can't quite believe it has been nearly a year...