Invite only

My husband designed all our invites/menu/order of service etc for our wedding, including the tea towels we had printed as invites.  The idea for doing the invite as a tea towel came because we wanted something a bit tongue in cheek.  Chris saw a lot of the tacky memorabilia that was bought out to celebrate the wedding of  Prince WIlliam and Kate.  We  came across old tea towel designs from previous royal weddings and decided to do our own which Chris designed and then got digitally printed.

We had a rough colour scheme of yellow/white/grey and pink which we used in the printed materials.  The little bird pegs I made by cutting out bird images from an old bird book and gluing them onto wooden pegs.  I made lots of them for the wedding so guests could pin up their messages and pictures to us at the reception (we had a table with an old fashioned typewriter and an easel with pens and paints for people to type, write or draw messages for us.

Salty Sea Mouse

My wonderful boyfriend designed this super book cover for my imaginary children's book as a Christmas present. I once told him that I was going to write a children's book and the first title that came into my head at the time was 'Salty Sea Mouse does it Again' - very silly, I know! Especially since it sounds like a sequel and I've no idea what it is that poor ol' Salty is going to do!) But my boyfriend's illustration for the book has made me want to write my first children's book about Salty the seafaring pirate! (I've since come up with an equally inspired title for the, as yet unwritten prequel, Salty Sea Mouse- Adventures on the High Seas)

Felt Mistress

My boyfriend recently commissioned the super-super talented Felt Mistress to create some hospital/medical inspired characters for a photo-shoot he was doing for work. Once the shots are signed off I will share them here, but for now, I thought you might like to see some of the amazingly detailed work that Felt Mistress has created. (A lot of these characters are over 1-2 feet tall!)

Photo shoot for Sheffield Institute of Art and Design

New pics from the work my boyfriend, Chris Wilkinson has been working on for the new Sheffield Institute of Art and Design brochure. Its worth checking out his flickr site as the colors seem to go rather dull when I uploaded these.  He created the concept, design, styling and objects for the photoshoot (the workshop and light components were made by the art technician at SHU).   The photographer is the up and coming Tom Jackson, who has worked on some fantastic projects. Other images from an earlier shoot for the brochure are a bit further down this page.

Photoshoot

The colour has gone really dull for some reason when I uploaded these - check out much better versions of the images here.

Sorry, for the lack of posts recently, I have been so busy with my new job, preparing for a huge workshop which I did on Thursday (more on that later) and have recently come down with a very nasty lurgie - so I'm feeling pretty sorry for myself today!  Apart from being busy and ill recently I have been helping out with a project my boyfriend has been been working for the Sheffield Iinstitute of Art and design's prospectus for Sheffield Hallam University.  He came up with the concept and designed and made the objects for the photoshoot - I made the fabric words and helped with that shoot and I helped him make the cardboard letters which took us about 20 hours to do - gluing 80 layers of card for each letter!  Tom Jackson, a young and talented photographer who has set up in the last year and already worked with the likes of Tado and Peter & Paul, was the photographer on the shoot.