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For the next 3 weeks I am going to do a drawing Challenge. This has been inspired by Lisa Congdon's Creative Bug Class and Wit & Whistle's Blog posts. I’ll post 5 days worth of drawings at a time for the next 3 weeks. If you want to join in, hashtag your drawings #15DayDrawingChallenge over on instagram so we can see each other’s work! The Challenge is to draw the following: 1. Flowers 2. A pattern 3. Illustrate a word 4. A Fish 5. A cup of tea 6. A cottage 7. An animal 8. A Boat 9. Illustrate a recipe 10. The Ocean...

Last week we all travelled down to Cromer in Norfolk to visit my family. The weather was amazing all week and it was great to catch up with everyone. Here are a few pictures from our stay x The girls loved playing on the beach and running away from the waves. There are many flint stones on the beach which are seen pebble dashed all over the beautiful cottages in Norfolk. Lee enjoyed smashing them so the girls could look inside. We then travelled onto Cambridge. A city I love. We went to the Botanical Gardens which had lots of...

When I first realised that I wanted to start a small business,  I read as many books as I could. I also did alot of research on what everyone else was doing. There really is so much fantastic work out there it can be very daunting. However you never know until you try and everyone is going to bring their own unique style with them. This is what I LOVE. There is an awful lot of things I could cover in this post but I'm going to give you a quick breakdown of what I have found the most useful...

Hello, you may have noticed that I have not designed a Valentine's range. I decided to leave Valentines  and Mothers Day this year just so that I can concentrate on adding other cards to the range.  I feel like I am constantly chasing my tail to catch up with seasonal occasions. Therefore I have been working on Easter cards as well a Wedding and Engagement range over the last few weeks. Its been busy but things are coming together. Here is a sneak peek at what I have been up to...

The weather here at the moment is extremely cold and windy therefore I decided to make some heart warming soup. We have storm Henry approaching this afternoon with 90 mph winds. Lucky us! It just seems to be one storm after another anyway enough moaning, back to the soup. This is one of my favourite recipes and I normally make double the amount as I can't be bothered making it all the time. The ingredients are as follows: 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil 1 onion, roughly chopped 1 medium butternut squash 1 large potato peeled and cut into quarters...