Old moodboards

A couple of my moodboards.

Back...

...... I'm back with a brand new adventure (Vanilla Ice fans, you know what I'm talking about, right??). I'm on a bit of a workshop mission at the moment. I did a shoe customisation workshop at Jam Jar Beads last weekend, it was a lovely morning and went well, so I am planning some more and adding some new workshops to the list in the next week or so, so keep checking back for more details if you fancy crafting up some crazy styles.

I'd love to hear what ideas you think would be great for crafty workshops and what sort of workshops you love going to too?

Ooh! I almost forgot, Yvonne (owner of fabulous Jam Jar Beads) and myself were on Radio Sheffield last week promoting her shop and my workshops, we were both so nervous, but it was fairly painless, guess it gives us experience for when we are rich and famous and sitting on the This Morning sofa (he he!)

Halloween Spooktacular ....

Have lots of fun this Halloween. I made these last year, they are pretty rubbish but I like the shape of the ghosts - got to work on much better version for next year.

...even more

of my patterns.  I promise that's all for now:) I'm hoping to be able to take on freelance surface  pattern work and provide work for licencing soon - just need to make the patterns look a bit better and master illustrator a bit better! More prints below.

...some more

... of my recent patterns.

I've been working on some patterns ....

I've been trying working on some patterns for surface design recently.  Its something I love doing and I'm going to be trying to post more in the near future.  Unfortunately when i upload the images, the color tends to dull a bit for some reason - If anyone has any suggestions as to how to overcome this, please do let me know:)

Inspiration ......

Images above from Flickr - click on image to see list of designers

Since I began regularly looking at other blogs I have noticed some really lovely mood boards and sketchbooks.  Here are a couple of my attempts at mood boards - over the next few days Im going to have a look at other peices various inspirational sketchbooks, journals and mood boards etc. If you have any lovely mood boards or journal entries on your blogs, please leave a comment.

My First Screenprints

My first screenprints, done today, the first of many I hope!