Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving!

What a few weeks!
Busy teaching and also the excitement of my feature in Martha Stewart.
Lots of lovely commission to get done for Christmas gifts.
Everyone of them in the USA!!!

Made some nice new creative friends and definitely plenty of canine loving folk!
So thanks and a Happy Thanksgiving to everyone State side and beyond.

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Officially in there!

So I found out the other day that I have been included in Martha Stewart's Holiday Gift Guide 2011!!!
How exciting. Who'd have thought it?! : )

I only knew that I had been included after I had 2 e-mails asking about illustrations and saying where they had seen me.

Quote 1: "Martha Dec. issue page 66 under gift guide........you are by far the best of the choices - clearly have a feel for the soul of the animal..."
Quote 2: "Okay, I just found your website via Martha Stewart Living (congrats on that by the way!) and I am IN LOVE with your work!!!! I would like to commission one, possibly two of your pieces for Christmas gifts"
*head swells, slightly blushes*

All very lovely and unexpected.
One of my first ever customers went and bought a copy, scanned it and sent me the piece so I could see. Thanks Carol, very sweet of you!

Listening to this, isn't calming me down!

The other artists included are:
Anne Watkins
Martha Szabo
Noisy Dog Studios

Sunday Night Doodle.

After a lovely weekend in Bath a sketch to bring me into Monday.
A lovely few days of relaxing, walking, talking and seeing an old and wonderful friend!
Conversations about Crocs, journalism and JLS over drinks and crisps, really nothing more pleasant, believe it or not!!
Thanks to Steve, Lara and Sam for a fabulous, yet simple Saturday night.

Today saw me setting up my Mantelpiece for the exhibition which opens tomorrow, going for a run along the canal and generally learning how to relax! (Something that has not been a default setting of mine!)

The Horrors and The Pointer Sisters, two things I've listened to today!

A beefy bulldog for friends in England and The States. x x x

Stuff Bath!

So next week sees the happening of Stuff Bath.
Of which I have the delight of taking part in.
The Mantelpiece is the exhibition that I will be featured in.

I've seen a few of the other artists displays and if you are anything like me and like being a nosey bugger, then it's definitely the exhibition for you!
Come along, it starts 7th November.

This is a good list of people, and I'm included. Shucks x

Shai Akram, Fabien Cappello, Peter Clark, Kerry Curtis, Custhom, Darkroom, Blue Farrier, Amanda Goode, Andrew Haythornthwaite, James Jarvis, Sam Johnson, Sara Jowett, Tracy Kendall, Jenny King, Claire Loder, Ptolemy Mann, Michael Marriott, John Miles, Karen Nicol, Marcus Oakley, Flora Roberts, Nigel Robinson, John Taylor and Donna Wilson.

Bye for now.