Alien heads!!!

Ahhh, that's better...a lovely little painting session done and two
new Alien Head canvases completed.

New year's Resolution Complete...check

Well it looks to me like the "get cyber savvy, link your blog and Facebook pages, get going on Twitter and get blogging" Resolution gets a big fat tick from me!!! And we're only 12 days in to the year. Get me! Sooo imppressed.
Oooo, does this mean that my "stop procrastinating and just ruddy do it" Resolution is on it's way to be ticked too? How exciting.
Blimey it's quarter to one and I've STILL not made it into my studio to 'create' (this year in fact :-O ). Plenty of tidying and cleaning has been done (lots of lovely project sheets up and written on, plus marketing trackers and inspiration sections) but nack all creating. Hey ho, at least I've got the admin side of things fettled and now I can create at will.
I'm off now to make that steaming cup of builders tea and head on up there for a couple of hours before I go collect Gorgeous George from school.
TTFN and happy Tuesday to you all
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By George I think she's done it...

wahoo it works :)

Blog to Facebook

wow - got distracted way beyond books and painting - been trying to set up my blog so that it feeds in to my Facebook page...fingers crossed!
PS I know it seems like I'm slacking but actually this is on my 2010 Resolutions list!
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Paint or Read???

oo oo oo first entry to studio this year delayed due to Amazon delivery of lovely books...Softies by Therese Laskey and Cute Stuff by Aranzi Aronzo...paint/read paint/read??? Tricky decision...may need a cuppa tea to help me make it :)

Hello and I hope you are enjoying July and a smidge of sunshine & warmth!

I've been working on an order - I'm currently doing a Stars name canvas in a vibrant red with a light cream contrast - and it's looking good so far. Here's an example of a previous Stars...

I've also been working on some more "grown up" designs that could be used as they are or with names/dates on to commemorate a special date such as a wedding - thus far I seem to be going in the flower direction but that may change...

The sunflower isn't quite finished but the pics give and idea of how it will look

This is a design I did as a gift for a friend's wedding...the buttonholes were all hot pink gerberas! I made a matching Wedding Day card from a print of the canvas onto vellum, which was then stitched onto a textured, square, cream card.

There is a fabulous article on Etsy about one of the team's own wedding - some cracking ideas for handmade, bespoke bit and pieces...see here. All the colours and ideas are totally inspirational - makes you want to rush off and make something! :-)

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Promotion!

Blimey, this promotion lark is quite hard work - obviously not in a manual, calloused hands kind of way, just in a staring at the screen and now slightly dazed way!
So...I've created a fan page on my Facebook account, set up a shop with Coriandr and added all my news designs to my Etsy store...phew! And I've already got one interested party thanks to the FB fan page. Good work!
Ooo and I'm on the home page of Coriandr with my new listings - very exciting!
Cuppa time, me thinks...
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