Back home!

We're back from our lovely holiday in Cornwall...if you don't like rainy days on a caravan site, this one wont be for you!! We did have some beautiful days too, but the Cornish coast is wild and changeable. This dramatic beach photo sums it up. We clambered down some steps carved into the cliff to get to this lovely beach at Gwiththian ...the girls loved the rock pools here and I found some stripey stones, which are my favourite for inspiration.

Away on holiday!

Cute fall animals

Heres my latest istock illustration. Im working for autumn/winter 09 at the moment for my textile design work, so this follows that theme. Is there a frog with a tongue like that? It may be a lizard, but nevermind, he looks happy enough!

Pottery

Every now and then a brown cardboard box pops through our door, and being addressed to my husband, I know hes got something from ebay! Here is the latest Poole pottery find of his, which I actually quite like! He loves to collect Poole and his other favourite is Troika.

Mrs eliots books

I love tea cups and tea pots and wanted to share a favourite artist of mine: mrs eliot aka Francesca Lannacone. Shes a London based artist who works in mixed media making little books as art works. Her lines are so pure and her work has an effortless quality to it. Very inspiring.

Little Owl

With my Mum here over the past couple of days, I've been inspired to knit, as she bought the girls up some needles and wool to teach them some knitting. Heres my little owl, maybe a practice one for my etsy shop.

Sketch book

I still like to take my sketch book with me when I can, although its usually a camera I use for ref collecting now. But yesterday I went to Kipling Gardens and sketched one of the many lovely trees there.