well my boy is still sick! so i have been stuck indoors for the week, luckily i've been busy with these designs, i've been playing around with the colours the 2 love birds are a surprise colour combination that i would never have thought of, go photo shop! i like the kitch colours, quite 1950's my fave era!

what do you think?

i have been struggling during the last few days to get these finished, my dear boy louis has and still is ill with a bad flu, i have been trying to keep him as happy as possible, it's times like these that i am so glad i work from home, luckily the weather is turning warmer, hence these sunny pieces of work!

Spring is here! yipee!

what a great day! i am pleased to say i sold heaps! the cup cakes where so popular and my fridge magnets, brooches and heart shaped wheat bags where popular too, we are already planning the christmas market. as you may know it will be summer here in new zealand, yes christmas in the hot sun! it may be hard to imagine. because of that we sometimes lack the real traditional flair that europeans etc enjoy. because my roots are in germany and my organising team are from britain, we are going to create a real christmas market, unlike eastbourne has experienced! the only thing missing will be the snow! ....that's a thought we could get it shipped in,... well perhaps not!

i am sorry about the lack of posts this week, i have been flat out backing, sewing and varnishing wooden plaques for the Market this weekend, phew... all done!

i'll let you know how it went, till monday...

thanks for the nice comments,i am still waiting for someone to use my patterns for such things as wallpaper, it's always fun seeing a single image in a pattern, it's quite surprising how it changes!

here are a few more of the pieces that i told you i have just finished,

thanks again for all your lovely comments, i enjoy waking up to them!

a few have asked me how come my work is so neat. well, if you do it as much as i do practice makes perfect! i use a scalpel blade not scissors as it allows me to make smoother curves. i achieve my huge selection of hues through painting my own paper. i think i have over 20 shades of red! one more secret~ i don't cut the circles free hand, i use a compass with a blade attachment.

im so excited, look what i found in our local second hand shop! i absolutely love old games,especially the colours.

phew! what a busy week, at last i have completed 12 new pieces, i'll send a few every day so watch this space! have a good weekend...

firstly, thanks again print and pattern for featuring my work!, it's lovely to know that a few more of you lovely people now follow my blog!

i am busy working on 12 card designs, i will have them finished next week, till then here are a few more home and studio shots.

hi everyone! i was about to clean up after a hard but successful day cutting for a new range of cards for lagom and i thought i'd send a few pictures of my work space. it takes quite a while to sort out at the end of each day, as i am accumulating more and more coloured papers!

hi! my friend ellen created me because she wants everyone to know that she also loves creating characters with movement, don't you think i would look cute in editorial magazines! i'm sure you'll be seeing more of me soon doing all sorts of fun things!

more summery pieces of work!

roll on spring! i'm tired of all the rain! i even had to make my chooks a house on our deck, i don't know why the silly girls wont hang out in their cosy coop, they would rather stand next to the back door, bedraggled and looking decidedly unladylike!

here are couple of characters i created a while ago perched in front of a cushion i whipped up this rainy weekend made of groovy fabric i discovered in a local junk shop.

all this retro has me inspired!

i took my boys and mum for a trip to the wairarapa a couple of days ago and found these fab record covers in a funny little junk shop, i just love them, what do you think!