busy week

We photographed the trays and cutting mats yesterday, friend and photographer Heather Hobhouse made sense of my collection of tasty props and backgrounds. I am really looking forwards to the results later this week. And my seven day sale continues in both shops which along with a new wholesale order meant hasty reprinting of some designs on Monday. I usually love printing in the summer because everything dries in an instant on the washing line but persistent rain means nowhere to dry screens and prints so my studio looks like this.

Use this code SEVENDAYSALE for 25% discount in my easy and online shop, sale ends on Friday.

and a happy new year!

2011 is coming to an end and the mahonia is flowering in the garden to welcome in 2012, sending out wafts of scent when I brush past. Santa brought me a swish new Lumix camera for Christmas and although I did my time in the darkrooms at college, photography was not my favourite subject. So I aim to work my way through the manual. I have yet to get beyond page one, point and shoot, but I am hoping for better images and less Photoshop in 2012 (new year resolution no. 1!)

Happy new year to all out there, I am hoping for good things and happiness for everyone in 2012 x

new images

Two exciting parcels in the post today, one beautiful Poole casserole dish that I won on ebay and a disc of images from photographer Heather Lewin. Heather and I spent a very busy day last Friday photographing roddy&ginger products for my website and publicity. Heather was brilliant to work with and the shots are lovely, I can't wait to use them. 

bexhill on sea

On Saturday I escaped London and spent the day in Bexhill on Sea with my daughter who was researching for an A level photography project. We visited the splendid modernist De La Warr Pavilion with it's amazing staircase, ate fish and chips in a cafe with ice cream coloured anaglypta wallpaper, and crunched along the beach photographing whatever the tide had left behind; including the rather sad stuffed elephant.