Summer break

The shop is closed until the end of august and there are only a couple of things left on my work to-do-list. Wishing you all a great summer. Back again in September...

Ps. And before I forget: I have a new licensing partner that creates beautiful iPad and Kindle covers with my designs on. You can find them here...

Big traffic jam, little traffic jam

 

Me and Adam have had this little thought over the years to start a T-shirt label. Then the other day when I made my traffic jam illustration Adam said he really wanted it on a T-shirt. So I had one made, and I added a little one for the boy, who is his mama's biggest fan. They arrived today and the print was pretty good and the T-shirt of a nice quality. It has it's own DNA-code so you can track the shirt to see where it was made (they are all made in Europe). You can check out the website here...

Download a cake!

Whenever I have a long to-do-list I tend to make totally random things that have nothing to do with the tasks on my list. Often when I have accounts to do, or when I really need to order new stock, I bake a cake instead. I bake a mean cake, if I may say so myself. Me and my little girl both suffer with a milk allergy and Olive is also allergic to Soya, so we have to make our own treats. Lemon drizzle is high on my list of favorite cakes.

Today, whilst studying my to-do-list, I thought I'd design a Lemon drizzle recipe card first, and then I'll go and get the ingredients so I can bake it.

So, if you have got a lot on as well, maybe you should download the lemon drizzle recipe card (it's free!), and bake it yourself. It helps... Well... It's a good cake, that's for sure. And there is always tomorrow to do accounts...

ps. It's just for personal use, I am sure you guessed that...  

Sorry! You got here too late. The Lemon Drizzle Recipe Card is now available in the shop as a beautiful print that you can frame and hang in your kitchen. Hope you like it!

Life is a playground

 

Summer holiday is finally here! I have been working my flip flops off to get everything done before the kids broke up, but there is still quite a lot to do this next week. Oh well... The sun is shining and the kids are smiling. Today I finished my illustration for Lilla Rogers' Global Talent Search. We had to make a cover for a Journal and the theme was old fashioned playground items. I made a design inspired by snakes and ladders, but replaced the snakes with slides. I loved working on it, and I can't wait to see the other entries.

Happy Summer Holiday!

Creative friends

I have a very dear friend, called Marike, who I don't see often enough but is very much part of my life. We used to write letters to each other, from all over the world, in airmail envelopes with beautiful stamps. But then kids, work, life took over. She writes a great blog that is well worth reading/seeing and you can follow her on facebook as well. Today she posted a little illustration about a traffic jam (you can find it here...) and it made me think of the illustration above. I worked it out quickly this evening whilst cleaning the kitchen (not quite finished that job) and bathing the kids (they like me not being in the bathroom for too long, so they can splash around properly...)

Why? I hear you say... I asked Adam the same thing yesterday. Why am I doing all this? And his answer was: Because you love it. It's true. I do. I try to stay away sometimes. I kept myself away from the computer for two nights this week, but found myself on the sofa doodling page after page in my sketchbook. It's not about making money (though I am so glad that it does, and I am very grateful for that) it's about being creative. I am starting to believe that it's not so much a skill, it's more a practice. We are all creative, we can all draw, make things. But you have to do it, you have to stick with it. You have to show up every day, even when it's a bad one.

So this is what I did today. In between working and looking after the kids, I made traffic jam. For my friend Marike.

And now I will turn the computer off...

...and open my sketchbook again.