Today we took a friend for a walk.
As you can see by the extreme cropping of this photo, dogs really are hard to photograph. This was taken with one hand on the camera, the other reaching inside my pocket for a little doggy treat.
Having a dog on the end of your lead really enhances your walk, you soon forget how far you've walked, or how cold it is out, not to mention what awaits you in the studio when you get back to work.
They are so happy to be out, it just makes you smile.
New in the shop this week, after an industrious Saturday of sewing - four cheeky, plump little bunny softies.
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 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!
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.
The latest bad bear to join the gang is Dracula!
He is inspired by the book I'm reading at the moment, The Historian, written by Elizabeth Kostova. It's a interesting read about a young girl who, after discovering her fathers' dark secret, travels across Europe to find history's most legendary fiend, Dracula (insert your own scary laugh here).
My version of Count Drac is obviously a cuter, more lovable one, with no scary pointy bits or yukky smells. Soon available in the plum pudding shop.
Twichells. (Nottingham speak for lane). Taken on a walk around the village at lunchtime.
