Donkey and Bird

these two are great pals 

and they go adventuring together all summer long

pick up a pencil

it's always fun to doodle!

chocolate bonbons

a little section from my sketchbook

Chocolate Bonbons

2013 moleskine diary

I love writing in a brand new diary, those crisp clean unused pages, and of course adding
some of my stickers both inside and out

Peanut Butter Cookies.....

My husband likes a few sweet treats now and again, and I like the sweet smell of baking wafting through the house (and making a mess in the kitchen). So I made him these peanut butter cookies, he said they were very nice indeed!
Who has been nibbling at this one!?!?
They are from one of our fave cookbooks: Vegan with a Vengeance, I found the recipe online here. I made mine regular size - so they would go a bit further.

mmmm Miami

remember my photos of Miami?
Here's a Miami page from my sketchbook, and lots of bright, sunny, tropical, happy colors, yeahhhhh.

So much snow

me and all of my little critter friends have been doing our very best to keep warm in the constant snow storms we have been having.
Right now we must have about 500 icicles around the house, I should take some pictures......

The letter P

I like to organize things and my sketchbooks are no exception, this page has the theme of any thing starting with the letter P.
Peacocks, Polar Bears, Plum Pie, porridge, pancake, pan, Penguins.........

Petrified panda in pajamas in a polka dot parachute - I have actually made a finished watercolored piece of all of these things which I will dig out and show you some time............... (its kind of old).

it's so autumnal

.......it's true it is so very autumnal, fallish & leafy outside at the moment......

Gosh is it really Wednesday already and almost November!?!?

I thought I would share a little seasonal picture with you, the background photo is a dewy cobweb we saw a few weeks ago on a drizzly wet walk.
And that's me in front mousing around, playing and collecting leaves again, these guys need some new friends!

sketchy scrapbook

a page from my trusty old friend, scrappy sketchy book. I like to collect lots of images from old magazines and then stick them in one place. Then I just cannot resist drawing and coloring on the same page.
I love packaging and can be a real sucker for a lovely bit of packaging and have been known to buy an item of food just for its packaging - not the contents!

I love all the packaging on this page:
Benefit make-up
Cricket cola
I always love visiting the Carluccio's delicatessen whenever we happen to be in London.

Sombrero

Another page from the gridded sketchbook.
Some of these designs have been published on cards and some bits for magazine articles, these are teeny sketches drawn with my teeny 0.3 pencil lead.
From me and that happy cupcake, have a great Thursday.

Sticky Glue

it's true, glue is usually sticky, but I remember at school they used to give us kid safe glue which was really useless and really not very sticky at all, the best thing about it was that it smelled like marzipan!
A page from old sketchy (click to see bigger).

Teacups in my sketchbook

Teacups - another page from my sketchbook

Rice and Tomotoes in my Sketchbook

It's been a while since I shared a page with you from this sketchbook. As you know in my world everything should have a little face, like these happy tomatoes which make me happy because we are getting close to tomato season.

Pencils

here's how some of my ideas start out,

these were for a range of cards for a UK client

There's bubble gum here too

I love these wrappers, I love the bright acidic colors

There's some gum in my sketchbook..........

I always remember going into the local sweet shop

I loved looking at all of the candy

in those beautiful tall jars on the shelf behind the counter.

If you are interested in that gorgeous Pomodori Font

it is one of Jake Tilsons 'found fonts' click here to visit his site

there's honey in my Sketchbook honey

I really do have the honey jar as a pencil pot

Cake Making - sketch

little ingredients

Ginko Friends

Heee hee......... these are my happy ginko friends
I just had a quick mess around with a ginko leaf scan
and what a jolly fun sport ginky turned out to be