New Years Resolution - No.25 Watch the love

We have so many birds in our garden, so many little love stories going on. No.25 is to be a spy on their date nights and watch their little bellies brew up little ones.

New Years Resolution - No.24 1920's stylee

Seriously behind with me resolutions, our studio is crazy busy this week.

Anyway enough of the excuses, no.24 is to be a bit more adventurous with me old hair and branch out from the boredom of straight hair and flapper it up every now and again.

New Years Resolutions - No. 23 - Fancy hat and a Ratatat

With all this glamourous munching and sipping I need to smarten my mug up with a posh hat and all that. Budget probably won't stretch to a spanky Stephen Jones spectacular creation but I will try and make more of an effort to wear one. I love them in the summer but it seems I only have a seasonal love affair with hat wearing, I shall venture out!

Ratatat - go check them out, they are a NYC duo that my boyfriend's band played with the other day

New Years Resolutions - No. 22 - Fancy Cup & Saucer

To go with those rather lovely biscuits I'd like to try a bit of sophistication and take a dainty hand to a vintage cup and saucer instead of my old mugs.

New Years Resolutions - No. 21 - Dodgy Jammy anyone?

Make more time for biscuits! I tend to work quite late in my studio and I need to stock up on rations, chewing the end of my pens doesn't satisfy my nutritional needs!

New Year's Resolution No. 20

No 20. is to go to the dentist more. I went last week for the first time in 2 years, pretty shocking, luckily I have pretty good teeth but I would like to keep it that way.

New Year's Resolutions - No. 19 - Organise my time better

No 19. is to organise my time better. I'm on it with organising my work flow but my personal life is pretty shambolic and I find myself running round like a headless chicken.

New Years Resolutions - No. 18 - Go to more events

So I did yesterday's Resolution last night; go to more work events. I went to a drinky doodle night, a pint of ale and a speed round of drawing, twas ace - though there were a few deaths via drowning, with the odd pint spillage.

Here's a portrait someone did of my mug, not bad but slight claw nose me thinks. I went with Ant aka BigABand, definately going to make that a regular thing, was a blast. I'm off out again tonight with a bunch of fine illustrators, to discuss which pen weight is best, I joke!

photos via someone ace that took them last night, I will update when I find out who. You can see more that I took on my iphone on my flickr here

New Years Resolutions - No. 16 - Woo

No. 16 is to stain those lips of mine every once and a while. I have a thing about lipstick, I would love to be the sort of girl who could pull off lipstick but I can't help but feel a little more like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman than the beauty that is Hepburn. I shall over come my fear of looking like a prostitute and give it a bash, hopefully I won't get any slow moving cars behind me!

New Years Resolutions - No. 15 - Fancy Dress

I'm a bit of a t-shirt and jeans kinda gal and even though I love beautiful shoes and dresses I rarely wear them. So this year I will find/create an occasion where I have to dress up all fancy! Though I doubt I'll slurge on this Matthew Williamson stunner, well unless I blag myself into the V&A design party again.

New Years Resolutions - No. 14 - learn an instrument

When I turned 21 my boyfriend brought me an amazing guitar, after a rather embarrassing episode trying to learn Postman Pat of all things I gave up, this is quite unlike me - I hate failing. So No. 14 is to not give up, a saxophone would be pretty cool, though perhaps I will start this resolution by picking up my beauty of a guitar first.

New Years Resolutions - No. 13 - Be more optimistic

So I'm having to catch up on my resolutions, last week was just so manic, a lot of late nights drawing away like a crazy person.

This one is to be more optimistic - 'the glass is half full'! (Yep a good whiskey is my favourite tipple)

New Year's Resolutions - No. 12 - New Lingerie

After 7 years with your boyfriend you get a bit slack, out with the grey and in with the pink.

New Year's Resolution No. 11

This is a double whammy really - 1: being that I need to get away more, I haven't been on a proper (I class proper as in back pack and a few weeks) for a couple of years. These week here and there aren't cutting it for me and I don't really class anywhere in the UK as a real break, well maybe Cornwall. 2: not to be such a perfectionist, I made myself do this drawing in 1 minute (well 1.05 seconds) and to just leave it be and be happy with it. There are bits that really drive me crazy but I also love the simplicity of it. Maybe I will do a series of 1 minute drawings too!

New Year's Resolution No. 10

I've had a blast today drawing a few animals for a commission, since they are pretty sparse in my portfolio (and I've been longing to draw a Bison for ages) these bad boys are No. 10! I feel a collection coming on.

New Year's Resolutions - No. 9

I have a growing collection of unusual lamp's in my flat which means I need a lot of random light bulbs. No. 9 is to replace them as soon as they blow, we have a tendency to walk around in the dark until the other one remembers to replace it.

New Years Resolutions - No. 8

I'm 27 and I don't drive, pretty lame! I grew up on a tiny island so that's my excuse.

New Year's Resolutions - No. 7

Learn to do the tango with some sexy Argentinian male dancer!

New Years Resolutions - No. 6

I unfortunately don't have any Grandparents, I only really knew my Dad's Mum, who was awesome but lived miles from anyone. I always felt terrible that I didn't pop round for a brew often enough, so No. 6 is to go hang out with some older peeps, soak up all their knowledge and become a master at bridge!

New Years Resolutions - No. 5

So yesterday was pretty stressful with a large work load and the sorting of my tax; I missed my posting which in itself has created No. 5.