So little days left.

It's been a while since I posted anything...I do apologise!

This is just a short note to tell you I will be going mad trying to get everything finished in time for the Christmas Exhibition. I'm starting to panic about my Children's book as I can't seem to think of how it's going to look...plus I have to rearrange my animation, meaning I have to scan my dogs again...pfft..takes a while to do.

Today i'm going to bake a lemon drizzle cake (for the Christmas stall)and sortout my animation and get my bum in gear with my Children's book.

So much to do...

I did some fun experiments last night with tea and flour and ink...messy but fun.

Shall post some pictures soon when I have any time!

Dirty Dog Sneak peek.

Here is one of the many sketches/ideas for my children's book. At this point the dog( Jess) has found her way into a sweet shop bin and has been covered in sweet wrappers!

Dirty Dog.

I know it has been a while. I still need to upload my animation, but as usual the internet keeps playing up. It still needs editing so when it's sorted you shall see my masterpiece!

I just wanted to show you all the fish heads I painted yesterday. I'm really proud of the outcome. It was so much fun to paint them. I was excited all morning yesterday to get them started and here they are!


The fish heads are going to be in a children's story i'm writing about a dirty dog. This is the dog of inspiration for this story. Her name is Jess. I will upload more sketches and photos when I can.

I won something I did!

About a month or so ago I entered the Up and Down competition. All I had to do was say why I loved the book Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers...and I was so happy and suprised to find that my entry won! I was one of the lucky 15!

Today was the day that me and James drove down to London. We got to HarperCollins a bit early and we had a sitdown in the reception area. It's very white inside the building with books and pictures about the place. I'd love to work there. We then got taken to the room to meet Oliver! We all sat down and was introduced and then we were recorded saying: "UP AND DOWN!!!" whilst holding the new book...I got to stand next to Oliver!:D He then signed the book for us and was so nice and asked about me doing illustration and wished me luck.



After being cheeky and getting him to sign a few other books I got to have a photo with him...well...yeah...^ Ignore my horrible face! Ha!

Then each of us went up to the top floor and read the new book whilst being recorded. I of course went red and made a few mistakes but Laura and the camera woman (feel bad for not remembering her name!:/)were really nice. We also got given a goody bag! It contained Oliver Jeffers books, print, poster, height chart, postcards and activity sheets!weee...and some other books: Paddington Bear, Mog, Tobias and the Super Spooky Ghost Book and A year in Bramley Hedge books.

It was so nice seeing a small part of London and going to such a well known publishers. Everyone was really nice and I feel really inspired...so I must get some beauty sleep to dream up some wonderful ideas!