Some things I like today:
• hats
• music from the 80s
• sitting in the street
• delivering post
• cycling in groups
• candy sticks & fake tattoos

Labels: visual diary

So does a sunset swim in the sea, cycling & tiffin.

Yesterday I worked so hard that I forgot to eat lunch. Then I came home to discover some delightful pieces of post (including the postcard above from my mum). Good times!

The lion is a find from Art Junky on Sunday. It's by illustrator Jung Eun Park.
---> take a look at her website.

Labels: art junky, lion, post, tea

Out with June, in with July.
I'm quite relieved.
I'm not sure what it is about June but I had a pretty rotten time last year too...I hope this is not a pattern that will continue to repeat.
(Surely not).

All change tomorrow though!
Good times ahead please.

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Today involved ice lollies, cake, cocktails & canapes, a little bit of cycling, a paddle in the sea, a man on a surf board and a floating mystery.

Now I have pink arms and feel a tad guilty for enjoying myself so much.
Tomorrow I will do plenty of homework, and then some work work & that might balance it out.
I'm also going to get up very early for a swim.
This may not happen, but if it does then I'm going to swim at least 1km.
Good plan? I'd say so!

Labels: visual diary

Yesterday on my way to the shop I spied many cyclists doing the London to Brighton bike ride. None of them looked very happy, but that may have been because they were on Lewes Road.
Lewes Road doesn't make me very happy either.


Rosie, Yumi and I have decided we're going to do it next year.
And I'm going to smile all the way. Even when we're struggling over Ditchling Beacon.

Labels: bicycle ride, brighton

My favourite ever holidays were in Cornwall when I was younger, driving around in a bright orange camper and cycling on the camel trail.
Once my dad wrote my name on a stone and put it high up in the cliff wall in Port Quin - I wonder if it's still there...

Labels: dad

Yesterday I took Yumi's feng shui advice and slept with my head at the other end of my bed. Apparently having your feet facing south leads to a better night's sleep.
I'm not sure it worked.
I still managed to wake up before my alarm, at 7am, on a saturday! (bad form). I'll try it again tonight though as maybe it takes a bit of getting used to.

Today I am off to the Achromat gallery in Brighton, which is run by my friend Sam. It's exciting & shiny & new & there is a performance on at 2pm! (Do come along if you're around!)

In other news, apparently it was national shades day yesterday. I'm not sure I actually wore my sunglasses during the day but I'll make sure to wear them a lot today to make up for it.

Labels: gallery, sleeping, sunglasses

I think yumi says it best.

Labels: beach, breakfast, deckchair

It's national bike week at the moment.
Today I got a free breakfast and a bike pump - good times!
Have a peek here for other bicycle events happening in Brighton this week.

Labels: bicycle, illustration, paper

Today was the day of the naked bike ride.
I did a drawing from memory (as it felt rather wrong to sit & sketch the real event).
It was an interesting sight indeed - the highlights being a naked penny-farthing rider & a striptease from a unicyclist.
One man asked if I'd like to take a photograph of him to show my friends.
I declined.
I think my friends will thank me for it.

Labels: bicycle ride, drawing, nudity, visual diary

Yesterday I felt a bit lost.
Then I put on my pigeon hat, went to the fishing museum & drank rather a lot of wine.
I also ate strawberry shortcake without the strawberries & made plans to visit some dachshunds.
Today I feel a lot better.
I don't even mind the fact that my head is pounding.

Labels: visual diary

Marmite is not my mate.

Labels: food, illustration, marmite, paper

This last few days I have:

• Finished my mum's blanket.

• Made many cheese straws and eaten almost none quite a few.

• Cried in too many places: in pubs, in cafes, in cars, on peoples shoulders, in front of the man who came to fix the boiler. It really must stop soon.

...or maybe I can find a career that utilizes this newly found skill?

• Walked and cycled and swam and walked and cycled and walked some more (and still found myself waking at 6am).

• Welcomed a cat into my home, and let him leave again (that last bit was hard).

• Made a plan. A plan to stick to.

Now my head feels like my desk looks - a bit messy and mostly empty.
Hopefully next week will be different.

Labels: blanket, crochet, flower

A photograph for my mum, who will get the biggest hug in the world on sunday.
Enjoy your trip to Kew Gardens!
Lots of love xxx

Labels: birthday

I've just calculated that including today I have 100 days until my final MA hand in. That's doesn't sound like enough to me.
So the above image of my desk is probably going to be my view for the majority of the next 99 days - hopefully with much more work piled up as time goes by though.
PANIC!

Labels: masters, work

Colourful bits & pieces:
• New lunchboxes!
• Birthday card.
• Egg laying hen card from the Museum of Childhood
• A lovely handmade postcard map (very much appreciated!!)

Labels: colourful, food, handmade card, presents

clocks, anger, crosswords & dogs.

Labels: drawing, visual diary

I love bank holidays, and this one was exceptionally wonderful.
I wish it didn't have to end.


Amongst many other treats we managed to squeeze in a bit of drawing at the Tate modern where there were some nice bank holiday events taking place (including this).

Good times!

Labels: bank holiday, drawing, london, lovely, museum, trip

LET'S CELEBRATE ! ! ! !

handmade cards • a forgotten banner • some beautiful, but very VERY sweet cupcakes

Labels: birthday, cake, cards, decorations, handmade card

Have a look at this lovely bird - it's the wonderful work of Richard Phoenix and there's plenty more where that came from.

I'm doing a printmakers trade-off with Rich at the moment. He kindly requested one of my lightbulb screenprints and I jumped at the chance to swap it for one of his pieces of work (I hear he's got some wonderful screenprints under his belt). As a taster he gave me this postcard of one of his oil paintings, which is pretty special in itself.

He has also done an amazing painting of Rosie which I hear he sold this weekend at one of the Artists Open Houses - great news!

Labels: bird, painting, swap, swaps