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!

Baa Baa

In the midst of gathering up all my animal friends that are trotting through the pages of my sketchbook. This fine fellow is having his fur finished off and is starting to get a little cheesed off with how long I am taking.

New Year Resolution to follow shortly.

Nordic Giants Through a Lens Darkly

My music genius lover is in a spectacular band called Nordic Giants with another lovely fellow Dai. They do huge instrumental tunes which are synched with incredible short films (they work with Shorts TV). This one is shot in a barn in Wales and edited by my fine fellow, it's one of many epic tunes they have, go check out the others here there all as ace!

Oh yes we will!

I came across this illustration the other day and I've had it as my screen saver, it's a great morning boost when I turn my laptop on, so I thought I would share it with you guys. Check out Julia Kostreva's website for more of her rad work!

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.

A fine purchase indeed!

Check out these beaut's that just arrived in the studio from the marvelous Tonwen Jones! That is a spectacular pose if i ever did see one.

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.

A thank you

This is for the awesome Charlie Davis who has done me another (of many) favours! Thanks love your ace! (last giff for a while I promise)

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!

Oh yes please, these will be mine.

What a fine pair of shoes! I can't quite get over how amazing they are, I was trying hard to just show one pair on this blog but I loved so many I had to make a selection. The whole ethos of the company is brilliant, using fair trade materials; the soles are made from used tires! Love that. Go have a gander.

I found these babies via this ace sweet blog. Kempt has a beautiful writing voice and great taste, another place to get lost in for hours with a nice cup of tea.

Testy testy

Someone has asked me if I could do them a giff animation and this is a super quick little testy, the tail is wrong but it makes me quite excited.

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.