I will be taking part in the Totterdown Arts Trail this weekend – If you’re in the Bristol area, it’d be great to see you round my gaff!
More info about the trail can be found here – hurrah!!
ANOTHER exhibiton…
November 17, 2009 by birdfaceLovely little mini person :)
October 26, 2009 by birdfaceLook what I made!!
Introducing my new baby daughter, Jet:
Not bad, eh? (especially considering she was made almost exclusively out of cakes and biscuits!)
Well done us 
Amsterdam Arts Fair
October 25, 2009 by birdfaceAs if having a baby and exhibiting in one arts fair in a month isn’t enough…
…Fans of The Dam may be interested to know that I will also have work in this year’s Amsterdam Art Fair from October 29th until 1st November!
More info here.
Shame I’ll be too busy at home learning about baby poo to be there in person! 
London Affordable Arts Fair
October 18, 2009 by birdface
If any of you crazy London types are out and about this weekend, I have some of my paper entomology artwork in this years’ London Affordable Arts Fair (HURRAH!). The show will be at Battersea Park from Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th October. More info can be found here.
I am being represented by the Cube Gallery from Bristol. Check it out if you can!!
A meeting with The Art Tart…
October 17, 2009 by birdfaceMy friend Rose Popay – also know as The Art Tart – did a painting on my big fat tummy today down at the (very nice) View Gallery in Bristol.
Thanks Rose!!
The image is from this months’ Hoochie Coochie event – coool!!
Personalised Cards for M&S
October 15, 2009 by birdfaceA while back I created a series of characters and patterns called Hello Friends!
I just found out this week that some of the designs have been included in the Marks and Spencer’s online personalised greetings card service, which can be seen here.
The following cards have been adapted from my design work:
And here are a few examples of my original designs for this project …
More from this after the jump…
Knitted bird mobile
October 9, 2009 by birdfaceHere is a mobile I made for our friends who have just had a little baby girl:
Pattern is from here.
Welcome to the world baby Calla – hurray for you!
Commission O’Clock
October 8, 2009 by birdfaceIn the interests of cutting things ridiculously fine, I agreed to take on a commission for some artwork last week. Here is the finished piece, fresh back from the framers:
I am really pleased with it – sometimes it’s so great to get a commission on the go as it’s a good chance to do something a bit different that you perhaps wouldn’t have thought of before…
This client wanted something that would look good in her living room, so she brought me round a sample of fabric from her Marimekko curtains which look like this and we talked about how she has a few things that are covered in gold leaf.
All the butterflies are colours to match in with the curtains and I added in one large butterfly in gold leaf for good measure – lovely!
Owly
October 7, 2009 by birdfaceDidn’t you get the memo?
Having babies is sooooo hot right now…
Just finished this this morning for baby Lily Boo, who was born last week.
I made it from an Amy Gaines pattern that I bought from her etsy shop here.
The Nursery!!
October 4, 2009 by birdfaceI have been looking forward to posting this for aaaages…
We have just about finished the nursery at home now – YAY! There are a couple of other bits that still need sorting out – but essentially it is all done and I am so pleased
I designed the tree mural and cut it out of black and green flocked sticky-backed plastic. It took blummin’ ages to sort out – but I am really please with how it looks now. We don’t know if we are going to be having a little girl or a boy yet – so we have ended up with a woodland theme in grey, green and black. Here’s the original drawing I did of the wall for the planning and some of the details:
I found the light in Urban Outfitters – such a lucky find, it matches perfectly!
These fabric logs were made by genius woman Deena Neimat from Nashville, Tennessee. They can be purchased from her Etsy shop here. Thanks so much Deena – I LOVE them! The woodgrain fabric she has used is from the Joel Dewberry Aviary collection. I bought some more of the same fabric in lime green to make a new matching bumper for the cot.
The little woodland elf was very kindly knitted for us my my friend Becky. He doesn’t have a name just yet, but he has agreed to take up the position of nursery coordinator – thank goodness someone is here to keep things in order!
Our families all live quite far from us here in Bristol. Him indoors did an excellent job of taking everyone’s portraits so the little one can be surrounded by people who love them whilst they are snoozing away
Our moses basket has been handed down to us by my sister-in-law. My mum made a new cover for it in polka-dot with a green bobbly edging – so cute!
I reupholstered this egg chair we had and re-modelled a standard lamp to match – they are both completely ridiculous, but hey, what you gonna do? It made me want to cry reupholstering this chair. I have decided that I will never re-cover an armchair again. The end.
I made some little leaves from felt and embroidered them with the veins to cheer up the curtains.
The picture in the frame here still needs to be changed – there is artwork for this still in progress… I promise not to start pushing the baby to start working until it is at least 6 months old – by which time it will have been sponging off us for long enough and it can start earning it’s keep!
This room used to be our spare room and office. Before pics can be seen here.
Now all we need is a baby to put in it – eek!
