London Vintage Wedding Fayre!

Yesterday me and Amberin had a stall at The Vintage Wedding Fayre at the Camden Centre displaying wedding stationery (Crimson Moonshine)

We were next door to a florist called Ivy, Pip and Rose who had such a gorgeous display and at the end gave us a couple of bouquets to take home! Wonderful!!

and the lady behind us who is The House of Vintage Weddings & Accessories got me to try on one of her dresses. Who knew cardys look good with a gown?!

It was a fun day! Lovely to see reactions to our designs. We'll be at the Vintage Wedding Fayre in Bath, 16th November next :)

Les Enfants Terribles The Trench

Went to see The Trench at Greenwich Theatre last night and it was such a beautiful lyrical piece of poetry and incredibly moving and horrible all at once! The puppets in it were spine shudderingly frightening! Especially the beast that appears to Bert when he's trapped in a tunnel. The beast I learnt is called Gary. So here's a quick doodle of him!

The dressing up box...

Jolly Postman doodle!

Butternut Squashes off the allotment!

So proud of my squashes! Then my friend Elli said how she draws faces on them and my other friend Clara said how this would make it so much harder to eat them! Ha!!

So then I had to doodle!

@Daily__Doodle Flat Stanley!

Oddly enough Flat Stanley's on at Polka Theatre here in Wimbledon for the next 2 weeks! :)

Best dressing up so far...

There's a dressing up box at Polka Theatre, and this has been my fave combination so far.

They Draw Horses Don't They? Exhibition!

I was a winner of a competition set by Inky Solutions a Brighton based printers to win 500 postcards and all you had to do was enter a picture (or as many as you liked!) of a horse you've drawn. I really wanted to win them postcards for promos to send to publishers and went to town drumming up support!
 Steve the chap behind Inky Solutions then set in motion putting together an exhibition of all the entries and it all came together last night. Unfortunately I didn't make it til late, but manage to meet Lydia Monks and Guy Parker Rees and my old Southampton Uni chum Shelley!
 There's now an online shop where you can buy merchandise from the evening too!
Was so lovely to meet Steve whose been behind it all and catch up with Shelley and meet two illustrators I also look up too off the old twitter! :)

(see if you can spot my horse!)

Lydia Monks lovely Unicorn 

Shelley Wilsons gorgeous Zebra

Guy Parker-Rees' dancing ones!

And this cute number by Amy Rogers :)

And yours truly! 

Grandad Me and Teddy Too sketches!

Sat in on the first show of Grandad, Me and Teddy Too by Sarah Argent at work yesterday, and doodled these whilst  I had some down time whilst the workshops were on in the evening at Polka!

James and the Giant Peach poster for the Courtyard Theatre!

www.courtyard.org.uk/events/james-and-the-giant-peach/ You can book tickets for the Courtyard Youth Theatre's production of James and the Giant Peach! Was a lovely project to work on :)

Dummy book making at Caterpillar Books #day3

I learnt today that the material behind Mr.Pumpkin head is called the flange.

Yup!! >_< Tee hee hee!!

Dummy book making at Caterpillar Books!

This is my week this week! Me and Amberin are helping make dummy books at Caterpillar Books for Frankfurt Bookfair! They are SO LOVELY here, lotsa offers for tea and choc and biscuits :) 

@Daily__Doodle Ballerina Bear

sketchbook bears!

Some bear sketchbook doodles!

Raa!

Inspired by Little Angels We're Going On a Bear Hunt which is on at the children's theatre I work part time at! :D 

Indy ref!

I have to say, I do hope we all stay together....has anyone thought as to what the Union Jack will have to be if the Scots say Yes? I think a weeping Lion and Dragon would sum it up!

Quick Shrew envelope doodle!

He's off to Amsterdam!

Mary Anning

Here's a sample for a book that I didn't get, it was for a book about Mary Anning, (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) who "was a British fossil collector, dealer, and paleontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made in the Jurassic marine fossil beds at Lyme Regis in Dorset, a county in Southwest England on the coast of the English Channel, where she lived. Her work contributed to fundamental changes that occurred during her lifetime in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth".

James and the Giant Peach character rough sketches

100 cats at Aside-Bside studios

Popped up to North London after the Protein Dance performance and had a look at the 100 Cats show up in Hackney! I could have bought it all! Here's James Davies with his amazing sculpture! 

Loved Ekaterina Trukhans cat pics :)

Protein- Windows in Progress

Saw this on Saturday in Covent Garden, it was so funny!! It was based on Zeus and Prometheus and Pandora. Look it up, I loved it! www.proteindance.co.uk

Pugs doodle!

Titus Andronicus (Peckhamus) on top of a car park!

Saw Shakespeares Titus set on the top two floors of a car park in Peckham last night! http://www.thetheoryofeverything.co.uk/ Titus isn't one of my fave Shakey's, really would love to know what was going on with him when he wrote it! But the performers were amazing, there were a handful from The Drowned Man, and having seen them at that a number of times you know you're in for a treat, especially Sonya Cullingford. Ed Warner and Rob McNeil. I think I'dve liked more of the beatboxing/parkour element that it bills is happening, and immersive it isn't, it's becoming a bit of a buzz word I think, but I'd definitely recommend it. The view across the London skyline is spectacular, and you can have a nibble and some meantime brew up at Franks Cafe on the very top! :)

#30secondbear

Poppy

Think its finished! I was asked to do a pic for a friends friend who've just had a little girl called Poppy :)

Sneaky peek of a sample I'm working on!

Off the allotment!

Got a huge haul off the plot this weekend! The corn was super tasty! And can't wait for the squash to ripen :)