Make oven baked clay earrings
I bought some make and bake clay from Hobbycraft recently and decided it was time to make something with it. Bakeable clay is a polymer clay that hardens in the oven, the most popular brand of which is Fimo. I decided to make some quick and easy earrings as I had some silver earring backs … Read more
Hen do badges
I recently organised a hen-do for a good friend of mine. Looking online for some cute badges we could all wear on the night wasn’t particularly fruitful, so I decided to create my own. The original colour scheme was inspired by my friend’s wedding invites but I also created some variations to sell through my … Read more
Thame craft fair
I spent Saturday at Thame Craft Fair selling lots of my lovely goodies with my partner in craft Sam (who also happens to be my sister). We share a table at the craft fairs we attend and mix our products up into one big bunch of loveliness. We both love bold shapes and bright colours … Read more
Make a feature wall of your framed prints
A simple idea for displaying your framed prints or pictures, really easy to do and quick and hassle-free to update or change. I have a room in my house with a few coat hooks running along the top of the wall so I decided to utelise them and make a feature of some of my … Read more
Come Draw With Me at Leighton House
I had the chance to do some figure drawing in Lord Leighton’s studio this week. The class was part of The Campaign for Drawing’s Come Draw With Me event held at Leighton House in Kensington. If you ever have a chance to attend one of their future events I thoroughly recommend it. Leighton House … Read more
Hessian sack covered cork pin board
I recently re-covered my cork notice board as part of my effort to spruce up and de-clutter my workspace. An old hessian potato sack – found at a car boot sale last year and hanging around ever since – was perfect for the job. Simply cut the sack, or any other thick material, to about … Read more
Food photography – some recent adventures in the kitchen
Mmm, makes me feel hungry just looking at these photos. I took these this week whilst getting dinner ready, using a little digital camera – the Canon IXUS 70 – and some A4 sheets of patterned craft paper as my backdrops. They just needed a bit of brightening in Photoshop and there you have it, … Read more
Figure drawing, session 2
Some images from my second session of figure drawing in Oxford. After a few warm-up sketches, I did two drawings of the same reclining pose, from slightly different angles. I used charcoal pencils and colouring pencils like last time, but went even madder with the colours on the second drawing. I rather liked that. Two … Read more
March’s fabulous photo
This is my fabulous photo for March. I took the picture as part of a series of pictures of my workspace for a blog post on Nook and Cranny’s website (a wonderful shop in Liverpool that stocks a few of my prints). You can view the post here. I didn’t send this pic to them, … Read more
