Bjorn Wiinblad @ Luna

I managed to squeeze in a visit to one of my favourite shops in Nottingham today: Luna

Its full of a lovely variety of retro furniture and bits and bobs, you can buy online too!

They have a good selection of ceramics by Danish artist, Bjorn Wiinblad, I'm a big fan and some of his wall plaques are scattered around our home! (the pic above shows on named 'Juli')

I spotted on Jane Fosters blog recently that she was lucky enough to find some gorgeous Winblad prints at a jumble sale!!

Here's a snapshot of one...such an excellent find:

sneak peek

Here's a little snapshot of a new print I've been working on....

coming to an Etsy shop near you soon!

Surtex time!

My agent is currently in NY busy with pre-SURTEX meetings

and then will be setting up booth 324-326 tomorrow!

Its going to look a little different from usual this year as a lot of the artists (fattymoe, rahrahrepeats, pocketful of patterns and little red) have created these huge banners to hang down the length of the stand.

I had a really fun day creating my banner, great to do something at a different scale in a different format.

Fingers crossed for all you surtex exhibitors that lots of sales are made and its the most successful show yet!

I'm a winner!

Through the post yesterday I received the print that I've won in the LilSonnySky giveaway!

I'm really pleased with it, it looks great! Thanks Lisa!

Lisa of LilSonnySky also sent these lovely postcards along with the print, I love the embroidered/appliqued bee especially.

To see more of Lisa's great artwork check out her blog and folksy shop

Baby Scrapbooking Collection

Scrapbooking seems to be such a huge business these days, especially in America.

Here's some designs of mine that have been used to create a collection for scrapbooking company, Momenta. Click here to see the rest of the collection.

and these are a couple of the original designs that Momenta created the Baby collection from.

On the Bayou

On the Bayou has been out in Mamas and Papas a little while now and is available to buy instore and online.

I really enjoyed working on the embroideries and prints for this range, and as always the garment designs at Mamas and Papas have done a fantastic job!

I really love the little puffball denim dress and jeans. My favourite I think is this layered top, its really delicate looking and pretty.

-PLEASE NOTE ALL IMAGES AND DESIGN BELONGS TO MAMAS AND PAPAS-

thanks PP

Its great to have a mention on Print and Pattern today about the work I'm doing for Surtex along with Lauren from fattymoe.

Bowie has done a link to my agents website....which is great!

but the website is really not so great....new one hopefully coming soon then I'll be sharing the link too!!

I've been working on a large banner for the stand at Surtex which I'm looking forward to sharing here this week!

Bargain butterfly

I recently spotted a design of mine in the girlswear section of Tu Clothing, Sainsburys.

It was pleasing to see how well it have been produced at the bargain price of £1.50.

My original design was in a variety of colours but Tu have converted it to a one colour print.

-PLEASE NOTE ALL COPYRIGHT BELONGS TO TU CLOTHING-

more winged creatures....

Hoot hoot hooray!

Here's a snippet of some birthday owls hot off the press ready for sale at

Surtex, booth 324/326.

MAC, Birmingham

I love Bank holidays!

Its been a lovely one with lots of catching up with newly engaged friends

and hearing about wedding plans!

The weekend kicked started on friday with pizza and a trip to the European Gymnastic Championships at the NIA in Birmingham.

The MAC (Midlands Art Centre) re-opened after a huge re-vamp on Saturday

so me and my dad went along.

Its certainly transformed, bigger and better than before with lots to offer, inc theatre, exhibitions, gigs, arts courses etc etc. Certainly worth a look if you're in the area. Another reason to visit is that its based in the very nice Cannon Hill Park.

The only thing I felt was missing from the new MAC was a shop...a lovely book shop would be perfect there. A Magma shop would be perfect!