Happy Mother's Day

- Mother's Day Card -

I am about to celebrate my very FIRST Mother's Day this weekend!! I did celebrate a little last year whilst pregnant. Well technically I was still carrying, feeding and looking after a baby, and my partner thought I was deserving of a little bit of pampering (too right) :D
This year my beautiful baby girl (with help from Daddy) bought me a beautiful 'Queen Elizabeth' rose bush and Mother's Day is not even till tomorrow - spoilt me!
Here is a card I did for one of the Mum's in my Mothers Group. I hope all you Mum's out there have a wonderful and special day!

- my little girl -

Screen printing workshop

- 'Babushka' screen and test print -

Good afternoon all. How was everyones weekend? I went along to a screen printing workshop with some fellow creative people - Bee from Little Beehive, her artist friend Jac and her creative little bro Benny. 

Kick and Screen is a cool, little studio in the backstreets of North Fitzroy. The lovely Eleanor taught us how to make screens and showed us the whole printing process. We even got our hands dirty too - Eleanor letting us use all of her equipment to make and print our own stuff! It was such a great day whether you want to learn how to make your own products or just for a bit of fun. I hope to make more screens and maybe do some cushions and tea towels!

Learning is fun, so much fun in fact that I have already enrolled myself in yoga classes and also a sewing course (for the tea towels and cushions). 

The Baby Announcement

Me and my Mini ME!

SHE'S HERE! 8 weeks ago I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl! I am so happy in my new role as a Mummy. Since I am starting a new chapter in my life, I thought I would spruce up the old blogspot. I hope to work on some creative projects during nap time and also get blogging again. Hope you like the new look!

One month to go!

Yipee.. only one month to go till I have this baby! I started maternity leave a week and a half ago and had my Baby Shower on the weekend which was just lovely. Now I am free to do crafty things for the baby and maybe get some new illustrations done for my etsy store.

Questionaire Meme

I was thrilled to be tagged by lovely Daria Hlazatova of  All Pencils of Mine Are Sugar-plums  to answer her questions!  I had a bit of fun doing this as you will see below :D
1. If you could sing like anyone in the music world, whose voice would you choose?
I would choose Stevie Nicks because she has a beautiful, unique voice and her songs are timeless. She is also a kick ass chick. I love belting out Fleetwood Mac tunes ahhh...

2. What fantastic creature would you like to have by your side? 
Falcor - The Luck Dragon from The Never Ending Story. He remindes me of my old persian cat Wally. He's cute, friendly, fluffy and he can talk. Plus you can ride him. What's not to love :D

3. Is there any book you can read again and again? What is it?
As much as I love reading, I don't really re-read books unless they are DIY or design books. I love books on true crime, biographies, the supernatural or psychic-medium stuff. Give me 20 years and I might come back and re-read some old favs.

4. Is there any historic/cultural event you'd like to witness?
Woodstock.  I would love to see it first hand, experience the atmosphere and the music would have been awesome!

5. What did you want to be when you were a child?
A mortician or a marine bioligist - I grew out of the latter but I still like the idea of working in a morgue or being a coroner. I use to work in Pathology - so I like that kind of thing.

6. Your inspiration comes from...
Inspiration is everywhere...other designers, illustrators and bloggers. I love period architecture, decrepit houses, interiors, gardens, fashion, collectables. Sometimes it the kind of day it is or an interesting documentary I've watched. P.S. Sorry Audrey Kawasaki for defacing (literally) your beautiful painting below.

7. Five things that improve your mood
Easy! Food, sleep, meditation, sun or a funny movie :D

I have tagged these wonderful bloggers:
1. Vilde at Journeys of Dreams
2. Kelly at Property of Kelly
3. Lakhsmita at Illustration Poetry
4. Bee at Little Beehive
5. Moira at Moira Millman
6. Shirley at Shirley's Illustrations
7. Tif at Dottie Angel


to answer these questions:
1. What words best describe you?
2. Do you have a phobia or something that terrifies you?
3. Describe your home decorating style?
4.What your favourite items that you own?
5. If you could go anywhere, where would it be?
6. If you could have dinner with any 4 people in the world (dead or alive) who would they be and why?
7. If you could have one super power what would it be and what would you do with it?


I look forward to seeing your answers on your blogs if you have the time x

La Petite Maison...

Hi All!! Last Thursday was the last day our exhibition. I had planned to take some brilliantly creative photos of my framed illustrations before it was packed up, only to arrive and find it had all been taken down 15 minutes before I got there :( Here are some photos and a overall picture of the illustrations I had on display.

Exhibition Time!

Hi Guys! Finally after many sleepless nights, I have finished all the work for our exhibition.  It's all being framed as we speak - how exciting! All up I managed 15 pieces - 6 large multi house illos and 9 single house illos. The Paper, Paint & Pixels exhibition featuring works by Bee, Imogen, Rach, Jeesoo, Renae, Lauren,  Porntima and myself opens next week. Details are below:

Paper, Paint & Pixels Exhibition

In September I am participating in a group exhibition - how exciting! There is 8 of us creative sorts which will be showcasing a mixture of photography, digital art, watercolour, acrylic, collage, pen, pencil and ink illustrations and art pieces.

I am personally aiming for about 18 pieces which I should be doing now rather than blogging haha! I am doing Inky Houses (surprise, surprise) but thought it was best showcased what I enjoy doing. Creating art is all about doing what you love right. Stay tuned for more details for our  'Paper, paint & Pixels' exhibition in upcoming posts!

Above are a couple of pieces I have been working on.