the last of a bad bunch

These are the last of my Bad Bear range. Eyebrows McPhee, Patches and Louie the Teeth. Available in my Plum Pudding shop now. They are a fierce looking bunch, but really quite small and harmless and creating them was a great exercise in trying to make my illustrated cartoons come to life.

Now that I have finished my Bad Bears, I have decided to go back to creating softies that are cute in the more traditional sense of the word. So that will be next weekends work, little bunnies which are white, fluffy and innocent!

the creative stuff

The nice thing about working from home is that you get some down time. OK, normally I could be doing some marketing, filing or research, but sometimes I feel like doing something a little more creative, and today it's this illo.

Lately I have been thinking that it might be good to produce either some digital prints or paintings of my drawings and sell them in the shop. So that's an idea for the future of Plum Pudding, I just need to get a bit more down time!

village scene 5

The weather has improved so much here lately, its as if summer has begun in Autumn. We have embraced walking in a big way lately, doing 10-15 miles most Sundays. It's not all hard work, we take a picnic (with fat creams cakes), and the rug, and have a bit of a lie down and relax too.

The lack of blogging does not reflect a relaxed state on the sewing side of life. I have been sewing up a storm, and hoping to get my final Bad Bears into the store very soon.