Cards and cows

I've done a spring collection of cards.  Some are Valentine-appropriate. Some are cow-themed. Some are dumb. Hey ho. If you wanna buy them, go to my etsy shop. Please buy some! I paid all my money to the tax man.

I like you loads

Happy LOVE day.  I'm your biggest fan!!!

Cats, cards, peanuts and porridge

Hey Cool Cats! Are you making it through the week in good spirits?  Despite it being super cold and frosty here in Manchester there's been some beautiful blue skies, which never fail to make me want to smile and dance.  What have you been up to?  I've been here packing up your orders and designing a few new products for you to see.  There's still a few of the oldies but goodies hanging about:

(My man got made to model aprons at the weekend.  I think he did a great job, hey?  Turns out taking 5 MINUTES BREAK from watching golf on the tv didn't cause him to keel over and stop breathing...)

Speaking of tv, if you happen to be in the mood for something way more entertaining than grown men knocking their balls across the garden, there's a new show which I worked on last summer with a really awesome animation agency.  It's called Let's Play and it's for kiddies.  I got to draw the backgrounds for the different worlds that the characters visit, alongside two other illustrators chosen for the job.  The animators turned our illustrations into awesome 3d scenes for the real-life characters to walk around in.  You can see my handiwork next week on Tuesday, the 'Doctors' episode is on at 10.30am/2.30pm on CBeebies (SKY channel 614).  You'll see all of the pretty backgrounds I drew.   Then the 'Farmers' episode is on Wednesday at the same time.  There are 26 episodes in total, and I am pretty excited to upload some of the artwork onto my website for you to see.

In the meantime, if you're in need of Valentines Day cards, there's plenty in my etsy shop including these foxy foxes who are also stocked at Bowery on Otley Rd, Leeds.

And I guess you'd also like to hear my Janathon update! So Monday my hips were feeling a little angry with me after my 14 mile jog on Sunday.  I did some leg stretching and a lot of walking but as it was a recovery day on my training plan I did just that.  Tuesday at run club I did 5.8miles worth of tempo running, and yesterday involved a super sweaty 90 minute Bikram session.  I got my 3 mile run out of the way this morning before my egg breakfast... I beat my 5k pb on today's run, so I guess that means I get to celebrate with chocolate covered peanuts.

I'll leave you with a photo of my chocolate protein porridge from the other day with apple, flax, sunflower & pumpkin seeds, linseed and cacao.  I'm much better at drawing cats than I am at making porridge, and I'm not very good at drawing cats.

VALENTINES CARDS there I said it.

I have a pack of miniature LOVE cards now for sale.  I think they're brill.  There's four cards in the pack, because I know you have multiple lovers deserving of nutso Valentines cards.  x

True Love

If you're looking for a non-crazy-psycho youtube video-way of expressing your feelings to the one you love next week (although I'm all for it) here are some ideas: 

1. You make me happy card From letterhappy
2. Coaster set from Arthouse Meath, £8

3. Coffee Mug by YouAreLove Creations, £12.90
4. Mouse patch from Hannah Zakari, £6

5. Black and White needlepoint loafer from By Paige, £128
6. Groundhog pinchpot from Tigerhead designs, £7
7.  Nice Goose print by Tosya, £9
8.  Something nice (pretty much everything is nice) from Santoki Vintage

Please be careful out there, Valentines Day can get pretty hard core... I for one am going to just stay in and watch tv or just go on the internet. (see you sentimental losers laterrr!)