Giveaway

Apologies AGAIN for neglect again, been an extremely busy child!
But to make up for it I am having a Giveaway which is being featured on the Etsy Chatters Blog

http://etsychatters.blogspot.com/2009/05/lets-meet-dingsinsainity.html

The giveaway is simple all you need to do is:

1) leave me some love on the link above!

2) Write about in on your blog!

For your chance to win a print of your choice from my Etsy shop!

Simple :)




Some new work to show you too... after dinner though...

Neglect

I know I know, I have said before, I shall stop taking unexpected blog brakes, but I shall this time, now I have sorted everything out with the new job and may actually spend some time at home on my day off, I can put things back to they're rightful ways with my Etsy shop, blog and my studio haha.

Today I went out shopping for supplies with my Mum. I didn't really but anything interesting, but I did get some cotton canvas which I have been wanting to print my art prints onto as I have read great things about it and it made the prints look fabulous, I think I shall revert over to this medium, if not entirely, it will definitely be available for all prints.

We also had coffee in such a strange, quaint, slightly cheap and nasty coffee shop

I got to visit the lovely little dolls house shop too and go into a partly old fashioned sweet shop and get some lovely sweets.

A new piece in my shop tonight too, a piece I painted a while ago but have only just listed:

Look Into My Eye Print

Finished

I finished the custom painting this evening and I'm very happy with it:

It's being packed as we speak to get shipped out to its new home. I have grown a lot more found of this piece than I ever thought I would, I am a bit sad to see it go but it's going to a lovely home so I am happy!

I found it fascinating to see all the strange corners I find inspiration from, on this occasion I am referring to the Emerson quote!

That's all for tonight, very tired and lots of packaging to do :)

My First Day...

... to go out up the city, without crutches, alone. Something that has seemed so far away for a while now but I am finally getting back to normal :D

And a good day it was, I found out about some money I can get to support me while I get back into work gradually which is nice to know! I also was bad and did some shopping, whoops.

As always I got some CDs:

I also got some fab trousers:

good eh?


and I booked another tattoo, finally got the sketch done in about 15 minuets last night, after weeks of struggling and yielding awful results!

I thought I'd show you some more progress of the custom piece too:

More custom pieces coming out, so look out for them!

This afternoon Jenny and Matty came round which was lovely, Matty has got to such a cute age now he is talking:

the boys having fun :)

That's all for tonight, I am super tired!

Customs Customs Customs and Trades Trades Trades

Well as I'm sure you can guess from the title trades are really popular on Etsy at the moment and I am currently involved in 4 or 5 trades which is great, quite a few of them are custom pieces too, which makes me smile very much!

The one I am going to talk about tonight is the custom piece I am doing for Hardyharhar on Etsy is a custom painting for her daughter's birthday and she gave me free reign all bar it incorporating a crow and a mushroom. At first it seemed challenging (but that's good) and its been so much fun, I've gotten so into this piece.

Here is the progress so far...

You can't see the pencil detail in this photograph but I'm going to leave you wondering until the next progress photos :)