the finished article... Beakys baby quilt

so here is the finished baby quilt that my superhero mum made from one of my designs...
now that is real love and craftmans-ship and patience all rolled into one.

picture for tess

suprise.... another cloud bunny!

orchard ad in japanese magasine

It is a full page ad in Japanese magazine called Kinokuniya
and was produced on behalf of Orchards special sales team.
Thanks special sales team for using my cover illustration from picture book "Don't Dip your chips in your Drink Kate!"

LIMELIGHT LARRY poster!

oooh it has shiny foil on it too
in real life it glimmers and everything!

picture for eve

so what.... i like bunnies!

last day at my studio

all of this pegged up chaos and scruffy smudgey artwork has now been dismantled as i have left my lovely studio
(sniff sniff)
but now i get to work in my garden shed studio again
(yey!)
there are cats and squirrels and everything pottering about in the garden which is good
(and slugs too sometimes unfortunately)

"don't dip your chips in your drink kate!" launch in sheffield

Everyone who went to the launch got to gobble up one of these yummy looking cakes.
mmnn.... why didn't I go again? what a fool.
one of those cakes had my name on it I am sure.

here is Caryl Hart (the author of the book) reading the book.

this HUGE poster with fabulous colour in cakes that the children at the launch made is now on display in the Sheffield Library.

You can see more photos of the party and other fun bits and bobs on Caryls blog

Limelight Larry goes to Frankfurt!

Show off Limelight Larry is the star of my new picture book which will be out next year ....
He forced Orchard books to put him on the front of their Frankfurt Bookfair booklet.
(He doesn't realise how lucky he is).

I hope he didn't make a nuisance of himself at the bookfair and that he made lots of friends. (fingers crossed!)

what we did at the Smile! event (polka dot theatre)

here is just some of the fun bits and bobs we did that day...

we all coloured and snip snipped

we read the book and talked about what makes us smile (gazing at clouds, chocolate cake, funny jokes and watching dogs run about)

then i was starstruck and met the lovely Roger McGough (that made me smile by the way)
he signed his new book for me, and I signed my book for him (crumbs... fancy that!)

... ah, what a nice day (and what a pink cardigan)
i do hope that everyone else had a nice time, thanks for comming!

what a BRILLIANT place the Polka Dot Theatre is.
So much fun and creativity in one place.
I must go there again soon.

ooh what a pleasing window display at the Owl Bookshop Kentish Town

crumbs.... what good company I am with-
I had better behave myself

10 rabbits (20 ears)

new book out!

some paper cutouts having a look round the book

i have made some crafty cutouts in preperation for my SMILE! event at the Polka Dot theatre in a few weeks.

leighs polka dot theatre event

lovely mention of colins american alter-ego BORIS on Izze's book blog

Rating: 4 kitty purrs.



I find a bird on every page! (This is only partially true, there are a lot of birds).
Boris is a cat, he "leepy" (sleepy)
He in a box.
"We not want this cat!"
NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!
Boris be sad.
Mr. Marshmallow eat only fish!
We ever not have a cat, he would eat "Oviler" (Oliver is Izze's fish).
Then he find a lady!
She sooo happy!



Izze loves the art, the collage style.

Vegan note: Mr. Marshmallow eats fish from The South Pole. Boris wishes he had fish, because he was hungry.

I think Izzes description of the story is the bees knees.

SO pleased you like my book Izze...
Boris is very happy that he has found a friend like you!

http://izzelovestoread.blogspot.com

presenting the shrunkled shrinkydinks!

my, haven't they shrunked?
they were smaller than i thought, so i had to add buttons and beads (always a wise decision)

shrinkydink broaches

here are some shrinkydink broaches i am making.
mmmn..... shrinkydinks
this is before the melty shrinky ovenbake....

design for beaky baby quilt

my clever mum is going to make this design as a real live patch work blanket!
i will show the the finished article when it is made!

"smile" and"colin and the wrong shadow" out in paperback in the shoppy shops NOW!

hand lettering from my new book limelight larry

it won't be out till next year though.... boo hoo.

what's on your washing line?

oh look, on mine there seems to be losts of nice tissue paper textures i have made which i will use in my new Sunny McCloud book.
but who's that lurking in the corner?...

only me.... more about me later... shhhhh!

booktrust interview

to read the booktrust interview do clicky here

sigh.... always charlie and lola, well it is a great show.

smiley SMILE review!

clicky here to read a lovely review for SMILE!
on the writeaway website

Colin on YouTube

SMILE! on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_-Jie7sjQg
my smile! animation has appeared on youtube!

phewee that's better

oh dear me....

wonkybroaches instead of boring old business cards

ooh, they look a bit like war medals.
is that a good thing?

this big fat one is for me

hair scrubbling

an illustration i did for a long story i scribbled down

stripy colin

look at this lovely stripy colin that Poppy Hodgson made.
it's a good look i think.

mmmn... cake

a gaggle of sunny dolls

rustled up by clever clogs sanna for orchard books

mr honeycomb

he likes
- following sunny mccloud about
-playing (well, winning) at cards
-nibbling dad's flip flop (the flop one)

messy desk

i love pegs.

mon llibre part of the san jordi celebrations in barcelona

see coco books for more photos