March 2011

we had our first family holiday in a place called Watchet….lots of fun was had!

My sister Zoe has a new dog called Hoshi - here he is from the back…

It’s the end of an era! Our limited edition ‘Love doing nothing’ donkey print has nearly sold out. We have sold 49 of the 50 prints…………….And to CELEBRATE, we have decided to give the last one (number 50) away for FREE (yes ...that’s free)!

The Booktrust Best New Illustrators 2011 are: Joe Berger, Claudia Boldt, Katie Cleminson, Chris Haughton, Alice Melvin, Sara Ogilvie, Levi Pinfold, Salvatore Rubbino, Viviane Schwarz, and Kevin Waldron…

i LOVE the smell of tomatoes… and basil… (I made a yummy tomato soup a la weekend)

Two of our cards are featured in March’s issue of Progressive Greetings magazine… this is in the trends and inspiration feature - - [The beach donkey, from the Beach life range published by Alice Palace]http://alicepalace.myshopify.com/products/the-beach-donkey-ap400

Our ‘Best cook’ apron is featured in the Not on the high street Mothers Day mailer… We were invited to a meeting at the noths offices in Richmond this week as one of their top selling partners - and we got some free sweets - i love jelly bellys!

Creative Review magazine are offering a portrait done by world-famous illustrator Paul Davis - an part of an auction to raise money for Comic Relief… i’d like to win!

on my walks today i continued my obsession with taking photos of birds! [although this looks a bit like some sort of propellor, it is in fact a seagull taking off from the top of a rugby post]

i like this photo that i took over the weekend as i think it shows the end of winter and the start of spring…

I’m slowly going through the older Alice Palace designs - now we are so old (Alice Palace has been going for almost 7 years now!) there are LOTS to show that once were and are now out of print (but could potentially make a big come back!!)... This is number ten and is called ‘Gunner dog’...

The Cravendale milk advert on tv at the moment is hilarious!! it envisages a world in which cats have thumbs…i LOVE it when they all start clicking their thumbs… and at the end when it says… ‘Well, JOG ON kittys!!’