Desk of the day 18/5/13

I love seeing other artists and crafter's work in progress shots, and I'm always posting mine on instagram, but sometimes I wish I could take more time to take proper photos of what I'm working on. So, inspired by Cart Before the Horse who take the most wonderful work in progress photos, I've decided to start posting some better quality photos of the things I'm currently working on.

This isn't technically desk of the day, because it's yesterdays desk. I've been working on these Adventure time dolls for a while now, today they're finally ready for me to add the details and varnish them!

As you can see, the matryoshka photo shoot soon turned into a Tofu photo shoot. He's such an attention seeker!

All of the characters here are copyright of © Cartoon Network (except for Tofu, he is a real life cat!). This is just my own fan art & I am not associated with Adventure Time or Cartoon Network in any way.

Work in Progress & an Instagram catch up

It feels like it's been forever since I did a proper catch up post with pictures. Here's what I've been working on lately, and a couple of pictures of Tofu thrown in for good measure! He's such a little hansy man.

1-4. Some work in progress on my latest projects. So excited to share the shoes with you! They're one of my fav themes yet.

5&6. Tofu enjoyed playing Hobbit Monopoly, his favorite thing to do was to sit in the middle of the board and knock over everything. And a picture of him being a silly cat as usual.

7. Miss Chopstitch sent me a photo of the Russian Dolls I painted for her on her shelf <3

8. I finally made room for the awesome Jeff Soto toy that Ash got me for my birthday. I love having it in my studio, it's inspiring me so much right now.

9&10. Playing around with some designs for the blog & patterns.

11&12. Oh gosh, I'm so so in love with my new Lazy Oaf socks. Especially when combined with my Vegan docs!

Instagram Update

This is mainly a post with about 100 pictures of stupid dogs and cats haha, but that's pretty much been my life lately. I can't complain, a day spent with braindead Effy is always a fun one (and I mean braindead in the nicest of ways, she makes up for her stupidity in love and enthusiasm).

Tofu has settled in nicely, he still refuses to make friends with the dogs though so I've been taking them out for extra plays to make up for the fact that they get hissed at by Tofu lots. The grey cat is my boyfriend's cat Mojo, he's the coolest dude ever.

I've been trying to make more time to draw, for some reason I've been drawing lots of happy shorts lately. I don't know why.

This Friday I got to meet Paul foot! He's one of mine and Ash's favorite comedians. He let us lift him up and pretend he was our child. I hope when I have children they're as funny and silly as Mr. Foot.

Introducing Tofu

I'd like to introduce you all to the newest member of my family, Tofu! He showed up as a stray at my mum's work about two months ago (we think he may have arrived on a mail van so could have come from anywhere in England!). A couple of weeks ago it started getting a bit cold for him to live outside of the mail centre, so for now he's staying with us until we find his old family. Or if we don't find them, he now has a forever home with us.

It's been over 6 years since I've had my own cat and I must say, the house feels more complete with one! It's so lovely to be able to fall asleep listening to the purring of a content furrball. I love having a little buddy sat on my desk while I'm painting or blogging, although he hasn't quite figured out that the keyboard isn't a bed yet!

We think he's not much older than 1 or 2, he's still a playful little fella. He's very talkative, and will give you a little "hello" mew when he walks past you. He's still not sure about the dogs, Effy is a little upset that he hisses at her because she so wants to be his friend.