Inspiring India: Bloggers Challenge for Cox & Kings

I'm thrilled to have been asked to contribute to the travel company Cox & Kings bloggers art challenge.  Cox & Kings are the world's longest established travel company and specialise in group holidays and luxury holidays. They've asked a total of 8 creative bloggers to create an artwork inspired by India, which will then be exhibited at The Royal Geographical Society, London on 10th October.

I was really excited by the campaign, as soon as I think of India I think of all the beautiful decorative textiles, patterns and colours. I've started a pinterest board to keep track of some of my inspiration, I can't wait to get started and get a handle on some of those gorgeous lines and jewel like colours. All the artworks in the exhibition will go to vote for a ballot at the event, and the art with the most votes will win the challenge. Wish me luck!x

Here are some of my pins, click the picture to get to the original source.

Autumn Designs

Some autumny inspired designs to get me going onto other ideas. I can't wait for cosy evenings and crunchy leaves :)

ShipShape Studio Shop Online Launch Party

Hello! Just thought I'd share with you a lovely invite I received yesterday.The wonderful ShipShape Studio is having an online launch party tomorrow - I met Emily the Creative Director and co-founder on twitter a while ago and love all the things that she's involved with. The studio sounds like a really exciting place to be!

I love the design of their website, and the shop has some really lovely things, here's one of my favourite things to buy:

This beautiful print, Yellow Flowers by Emma Block (one of my favourite illustrators) is available to buy online now!

The online party starts tomorrow at 9am - 9am Friday, see you there!xxx

A few odds and ends....

A summery pattern I designed recently in the midst of all the rain....

Ian, Delilah and I went to see the Olympic Torch in Chelmsford this morning, despite generally be up at 5, being out the door so early was a whole different matter! We made it though, Delilah was pretty unimpressed, but enjoyed breakfast after.

My little sister won Gold at Hampton Court Flower show with her college group! Very excited for her, here's a cute little picture of her amongst her creations.

My mum is currently having a give-away on her blog, all you need to do is follow and comment to win these lovelies...

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend xxx

Warmth - Lionheart Issue 2

I was thrilled this morning to receive my copy of LionHeart Magazine, and as expected it's a delicious mix of gorgeous illustrations, sumptuous photographs and writing, all lovingly printed on wonderfully thick quality paper. Lots of my favourite creative people are featured (I'll have to do a more in depth post soon), I love the beautiful cover illustration from Natasha Thompson. I designed a pattern for the inside, outside and outer cover.........

It really is such a lovely magazine, it's already inspired me with lots of patterns ideas and I haven't even looked through it properly yet! Am going to savour it slowly over this week :) You can buy Lionheart online here: http://www.lionheart-mag.com/