Congratulations Paddington!



On being awarded UK's favourite animated character at the British Animation Awards. Long live bears in duffle coats!

give a hoot!


Happy world book day everyone! Hope you're all enjoying a jolly good yarn.

Edgar and Erma




Meet Edgar and Erma! These are my new character cushions that I am now selling at my etsy shop. The fronts are made from digitally printed cotton linen, and the backs are finished off with some deep purple quilting cotton. They would be happy as larry sitting on your sofa/bed/desk/shelf/dog basket.

Cheers!

Hurrah!




A very belated happy new year all! I have been hidden away for all of it so far being proper-super-duper-extra-very muchly busy, but can now finally and safely say that I have completed my firstest ever children's picture book! Woopa! I cannae give too much away yet, but it is being published by the very lovely and patient folks at Simon and Schuster, and written by the cleverest Claire Freedman. It shall very hopefully be out at the end of the summer (unless everyone hates it at Bologna. Then they will be used as very expensive frisbees and I will run away and live on the moon.)
So look out for "The Great Snortle Hunt"; coloured in especially for all the nice people who like woodland creatures and odd socks.
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See you all in 2012! x

B7 Living



For all my fellow Brummies out there: B7 living is a monthly online and in print magazine by Sutton Coldfield's Kate Hughes. This month's festive issue is a great go to for what's on over December in and around Birmingham. You can read the current and past issues here.

20% festive sale



Merry December everybody! To get in the full festive swing of things I am offering 20% off everything in my etsy shop for the first week in December. Hurrah! Just enter the code MERRYDEC at the checkout :)

You can visit my etsy shop here

Cheers all!

Poop poop!

A while a go I had the pleasure of working with the cracking folk at A Productions , illustrating a couple of the picture books for the CBeebies' show, Driver Dan's Story Train. These are a a few images from the episode "Sweetie's Garden" which was aired last Friday. You can watch the whole episode HERE (Masses of respect to the young chap giving the double thumbs up at 09.51!) :



I felt very smug to have my name read out by Peter Serafinowicz (whose name I can't say, but can copy and paste :)

NB: Despite illustrating a story about good housekeeping, I would like to stress that I am really one massively messy bunny...

Woodland Achievers



My brand new tote bags are now for sale in my etsy shop. Good for carrying about all those things that you need to transport that are small enough to fit in a 38cm x 43cm bag.

Printed by the good chaps at Get a Grip in Brum.

Dog walking



Surely I'm not the only one who actually quite likes this time of year? Nights drawing in, hot chocolate, and knitwear!