Nibbled cupcakes. A little mouse has eaten some of the icing off these! 
This is Sylar, my friends little Pomeranian pup. He is such a cute ball of fluff!
"Flight" by nicoeraephotos
These are two little snippits of my desk and some of the images that are inspiring me at the moment. I love eastern delights, the colours, fabrics, jewels, and beautiful painted faces. There is a skirt which I have my eye on from Boden , their clothes are beautifully simple and stylish with bursts of colour. I love my Mark Rothko postcards, "White Center" is the one I have chosen for this week. And my retro radio, a gift from a bestist buddy who was shoked and appalled to hear I didn't have a radio in my bathroom, so much so she gave me this! Needless to say I can't bring myself to leave it in the loo, so it sits beside me on my desk.
I would like to Introduce Stefan (in rusty orange and green), and Erika (in wine, cream and pink). These are the 2 newest editions to the Yibble family. I have decided not to have fabric arms and legs stitched on, this way when I use my tablet and pen to illustrate the stories they can be doodled limbs and can be more flexable. 
This meant Anneliese had to have an op. She is now legless, but consoled by the fact she has a family now! I am still brimming with ideas for them but have some other less creative work on at the moment, so their adventures are limited to my joural at bedtime!
I have not forgotton about Stefan, he is just still a work in progress. I have lots of ideas now, with bo's help, for the land of yibble and some adventures. We are thinking a recycled land, where all their finds (our discarded items) are transformed into wonderful useful or decorative things! More to follow soon. 
Look what I found on martha stewart today, if only I have the time!
1. Print off the templates.
2. Cut around one of the templates and guides showing folds and cuts.
4. Cut out template.
6. Stick your 2 pieces of handle material to your 2 pieces of card using cellotape. I went for 2 rectangles of 2cm by 4cm.
7. Turn over your 2 pieces of card and stick 2 pieces of double sided tape to each.
8. Peel off tape and stick rectangles with handles to inside of front and back panels.
9. Put 1 piece of double sided tape on printed side of tab.
10. Fold tab around to meet opposite side.
11. Fold in bottom panels.
12. Stick 2 pieces of double sided tape to outside bottom panel.
13.Peel off tape and press panel down firmly.
14. Your finished handmade gift bag! 
I would like you to meet Annelise, she was born last night at 9.56pm and isn't she cute? She is the first real, live Yibble! I have been wanted to do some more sewing for a while now and keep looking at the beautiful pile of fabric and decided I would create a Yibble and see if that helps me focus on stories/ doodles ect. She is made of linen from namolio and she is stuffed with a cushion I got from a thrift shop. I have spent some time today working on the first of many "Yibble Adventures". And tonight I'm going to watch a movie and make some more of the family.
Got some lovely new earrings I'll be adding to the shop over the weekend so pop by for a wee look. And I'll let you into a little secret too, I'm getting ready for an etsy spring sale! More details coming soon.
I went to one of my local thrift shops the ther day to hand some things in and could not resist these 2 little jars. I haven't decided yet what I'm going to put in them, but my bo has been full of useful ideas, his favourite being one for collecting his tummy button fluf! Somehow I just don't think so!
A big hello to all you new visitors to my blog and thanks for enetring my competition. Keep your entries coming, you still have another 16 days to enter. (I know it seems like ages away!)
"Spreading the Love" was inspired by all the new friends I have made in blogland!
Well here is my first ever blog competition to celebrate my 100th post which should be coming pretty soon. I started this blog on the 1st October 2007 and oh my, I have learned soo much and met a bunch of wonderfully creative and inspiring people. The reason I decided to start one was that I had found a couple of other designers had pages and I got great pleasure reading what they had been up to and seeing little snippets of their work. So I decided I would do the same! It has been such a delight making contact with people all over the world and forming electronic friendships, Flickr, and of cource you showed me ETSY! So thank you! My business is now growing much faster and wider than it was with just my website and I am motivated on a daily basis to create something new.
Tonight's Yibble inspiration came from my bo bringing me a small bunch of dafodills. We were out visiting my bestist friend and on the way home he nipped in to get some bread and came out armed with flours! What a man, this is so special because it's not really his thing, he prefers to buy me a plant that will last for years not just days. But he said they had been reduced to 30p and he couldn't resist.
Now less of the soppy stuff, I have decidied on my competition so pop by tomorrow evening for more details and how to enter.
Just finished this bracelet as a little commision and wanted to let you see. I love the cubes of rose quartz with the large gunmetal beads, pink and jet are one of my favourite colour combinations. I think I'll make another one up for the shop this week.
Well I decided I was going to spend some time today making up some inspirational collages for the wall that my desk faces, and here is one of them! Chocolate delight. I have mentioned before how much I love food photography, anything from cupcakes to beautifully styled sandwiches! I think it all started during my final year at art school. My specialism was knitted textiles and one of the schools sponsors was Rennie Yarns. They set us a competition, to use their yarn in an creative and unique way for a display for them to take to an International trade show.
I decided on knitted and felted chocolates and I came 2nd! During my research I spent a lot of time photographing chocolate, reading books on it and it was at the same time that the film "Chocolate", with Jonny Depp and Juliette Binoche was out in the cinema! This is where it all began, I don't really like eating chocolate, but love the smell and how amazing some of them look.
It is coming up to my 100th post so I'm going to run a little competition, I haven't quite decided on the fine details yet but more to come very soon, and I have some very special delights for prizes!!!!!
new earrings in shop
"Love Me page......" by fleamarketstudio
You have to head over and visit Blaze, she has a wonderful blog with sneeky peeks at her illustrations and inspirations and today she has just listed Penny Playlists in her etsy shop. What a cool idea! You can go along and buy one from her shop on the condition you bring someone new to her blog, so head along and introduce yourself! 
