Having fun with scrap designs...

This weekend I was totally enthralled with designing for scrap booking. I love these protea designs, taken from drawings I did for cards and journals. All the designs come in 12" x 12" pages. The colors are so yummy, bright and sunny!


OK now I need to take a break or I will just nauseate everyone with corniness.

I am photographing my stationary for the catalogue... and my Etsy Shop, time consuming work. I was playing around in Adobe and managed to work out how to import multiple pages at a time which will make it much easier going. My Etsy Shop is coming along and I am so excited about getting all my goodies up and on show.

In the meantime the adored husband is in Tanzania for a week and it was strange to be seeing him off for such a short time - 2007 / 2008 he was up there for 3 months at a time! So this is good.

Looking at scrapbooking

These 'cat from next door' designs are making an appearance as scrapbook pages. I think they look really amazing, playful and bright. I will keep you up to date as we go down this path!

Enjoy!

Winter Warmers and Cute Kids Cards!

Today is cold and rainy and grey, just the kind of day for a fire in the fireplace. I can feel it warming my back as I work... wonderful. Nigel and I have become real scavengers, no fallen tree is to big to be cut up and carted home. There is a real feeling of achievement in collecting all of those fireplace necessities that make winter so welcome, warm and toasty!

Have just been photographing my kids cards, prints and jotters for their catalogue page. I think they just look so cute and will be for sale on Etsy as soon as I have all the background details sorted.

A sneak preview of my kids page in my catalogue!

Some colour on a dull day

This stainglass art work hangs on my window, I saw it at a market and just couldn't resist, the colours are so beautiful. It is round and the size of an old LP, aparently it was the design proposal for a church window made by stainglass artists. I love the glowing colours and it is just the thing to brighten ones spirits on a winters day!

Still loving my garden...

This morning was so clean and fresh after the rainy, STORMY weekend. My garden was looking so fresh today, the veg is blooming in the tunnels, we have eaten well from it. Last night I made Spinach and Ricotta pies for the family - amazingly - no complaints.

Back to the garden, my pond has goldfish in it, there is a BIG daddy (or mommy???) about 9 second generation and now about 13 third generation. It is so relaxing to sit at the pond and just be. I hope that this mornings photographic offering will lift your spirits as much as my garden lifts mine.

I love my garden

Just had to go out there and draw... these lazy sunny days of Autumn are just to good to spend inside my studio!

What a blast!

January this year I was the first runner up - meaning I came 2nd - in the Pick n Pay Design a Bag Competition. It still amazes me how heart stoppingly great it is to see ones work... in public. It was a rush to see them in Pick n Pay, but undoubtably amazing to see a real live shopper carrying her shopping IN MY BAG !!!!!