Alie's Flowers, Sophie's Photos

Morning! Hope everyone's having a good one, I am, I have baby in a sling taking a very uncharacteristic nap in the day, tea in flask (a shortbread biscuit or two) and these beautiful photos to look at! My sister Alie's flowers look just so lovely in these amazing photos by the wonderful Sophie Booth. Sophie did our wedding photos and has a lovely new blog here: http://www.sophieboothphotography.co.uk/apps/blog

And Alie's floristry adventure continues here: http://www.alieblackman.blogspot.com/

I absolutely love all the colours and the feel of the pictures - I almost want to get married again so I can book them both!xxx

Tractor Girl Blog Feature

I was very pleased today to see my work on the wonderful Tractor Girl website - am so excited as the blog features all the types of things I love, pattern, textiles, art and even baking! To visit the website please go to: http://tractorgirl.com.au/

Sorry this is late but.........

A belated Merry Christmas!! With all this baby business I haven't managed to have much time to blog but I really hope that everyone has had a wonderful time in the last few days. We have had the loveliest first Christmas ever with our little Delilah...

She seemed to take all the festive activities in her stride and is currently taking a well deserved nap now it's over! xxx

LionHeart Magazine......it's here!!

I've been meaning to blog about this for a while now - and the wait is finally over and I have my hands on a copy of the brilliant Lionheart Magazine, and it's just as wonderful as I had hoped! Much more like a beautiful book than a magazine the paper is gorgeously thick and sumptuous and the print is lovely, I'd completely fallen in love with it before even reading it! I absolutely love the cover by illustrator Gemma Millie, it really sets the tone of the issue, really delicate and beautiful.

I love Helen Martin's writing anyway (the editor), but it's even more special seeing it in a magazine - I'm so so proud to be included in it, thanks so much Helen!! It has lots of really interesting articles, gorgeous illustrations and just lots and lots of loveliness! It's really so inspiring I would thoroughly recommend buying it - http://www.lionheart-mag.com/

I designed 3 patterns for the magazine which feature in the inside cover and back of the magazine, I was so excited to design for it and even more excited to see my patterns printed in such a wonderful magazine! Here they are:

I also designed a pattern for the website, I'm really pleased with how it looks:

You can buy the Lionheart Magazine here: http://www.lionheart-mag.com/buy-lionheart

My My My.... Delilah!

Ok so you may have noticed the lack of posts for a few weeks, and it's all down to me going from this:

...to this! On 31st October I had the delightful, delicious, delectable Miss Delilah Heather Coote! And she's everything we ever wished for!

I wish I could describe how amazing she is, and how everything in our lives completely changed the second we had her, but I couldn't even come close to how wonderful it all is (sorry for the sop but it's entirely true!). Isn't she a beauty??!

Thanks so much to everyone who sent me lovely messages and cards, we really appreciate it so much :-) xxx