Annabelle's Mobile

During my maternity leave (before Annabelle arrived) I made her a birdy mobile. I wanted it to be bright and colourful but didn't want it to be too girly! It is one of the best things I have done-she absolutely loves it! Made out of felt and fabrics-hand sewn.

I'm Back after a 3 Year Hiatus!

So here goes... Here is my first blog post since leaving university- about 3 years ago?! Why the long break and did I stop arts and crafting during this break?

Well, it seems life got in the way- hard to find time to put myself out there and promote myself when so many things were happening!

Firstly I got married after university after 6 years with Dan. Dan is an animator and we met at college where we started our journey together in art and design! It makes for an interesting team- for a start we are not afraid of critiquing eachother's work! Hopefully, we can collaborate in the future.

Secondly, I started a new job fresh from graduating, with an engineering company. Not very arty you might think-well I compile manuals and sales literature so my design background isn't wasted. I enjoy it there, everyone is so lovely and it gives me the stability I have always craved from a career.

Thirdly, last year Dan and I had our beautiful daughter Annabelle. Life hasn't been the same since.

So I am currently on maternity leave and rediscovering my love of all things arts and craft. Annabelle inspires me a lot. I currently make a lot of things for her!

I am mainly back because I recently found an interest in papercutting- Thanks to Paper Panda- www.originalpaperpanda.blogspot.com. Louise's work is so amazing and so awe-inspiring that it pushed me towards doing my own. I participated in a competition that Paper Panda held and somehow won! I will put on a blog entry in a minute showing my entry. Hopefully this can be a place where I can show the development in my papercutting as well as the other hundred hobbies I seem to have!

Annabelle's Christmas Stocking

For Annie's 1st Christmas, I made her a stocking! Sorry about the poor photo of it overall, I should have taken a better picture of it before it went up in the loft! Will try and dig it out (or should I say, get Dan to) for a better photo soon.

Animals vs Cities

The idea of this project was to explore nature and architecture- I love animals and I love architecture so the perfect combination! I tried to combine the type of architecture typical in certain countries and an animal associated with that country-some are national animals and some aren't. This was part of my final project at university and was part of the Creative Arts exhibition at Bower Ashton UWE campus in Bristol. It also formed part of our self funded university exhibition at the Rag Factory in London.

Parisian Cat

Russian Bear

London Lion

Beijing Panda

Nutcracker Posters

So.. I've been working on some mock posters for a 2010 ballet production of the Nutcracker... I'll set the scene if you're not familiar with the story... Christmas, toys and SWEETS! :) Interested in using negative space. This was part of my final project at university and was part of the Creative Arts exhibition at Bower Ashton UWE campus in Bristol.

The Perfect Peahen

Professionally printed children's book, just finished!! Here are the spreads, I've taken the text off of some of these images to display the artwork (not that there was much text there anyway!!) This was part of my final project at university and was part of the Creative Arts exhibition at Bower Ashton UWE campus in Bristol.

Bilingue Per Gioco Logos

Below are two logos I created for the website Bilingue Per Gioco and its subsequent Carnival page. It's a great website, providing support for parents with bilingual children. The second logo follows a flower symbol made up of split speech bubbles. It focuses on the idea of bilingualism as discussion.

Thankyou to Letizia Quaranta for commissioning me and for all her help. I hope we can work again soon!

Bilingue Per Gioco Logo

Bilingue Per Gioco Forum Logo