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Category Archives: Illustration

It’s all go….

12 Comments Posted by Diane on April 25, 2010

Yet again I have to apologise for a long absence, I’ve had a very busy couple of weeks. I finished the website I was making for a friend who makes polymer clay jewellery. It’s my first e-commerce website called Al-Andalus Creations, it went live last week and he has started selling the jewellery and it [...]

Birthdays, Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Crafts, Design, Digital art, Handmade books, Illustration, jewellery, paper arts, Photography, Shopping, web design, Weddings Al-Andalus Creations, birthday, Dorset Cereals, Spin a Yarn, tomatoes, websites, wedding album

Where there’s a Will….

14 Comments Posted by Diane on February 7, 2010

I’ve just returned from Stratford on Avon. It was my sister’s birthday. A BIG birthday made all the more disconcerting because she is my younger sister and the less reminders I have the of how old I am, the better! I made her an album for her birthday, which involved the inevitable trawl through old [...]

Birthdays, Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Calligraphy, Design, Families, hairstyles, Handmade books, Humour, Illustration, paper arts, Photography, Places, Travel As You Like It, River Avon, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford on Avon, swans, William Shakespeare

Procrastinating champion of the world

18 Comments Posted by Diane on January 14, 2010

I’ve got the ‘January, weather is rubbish, Christmas is over, summer is ages away, everyone’s in a foul mood, too much to do, I’m on a diet, can’t stop procrastinating’ blues. You know the feeling. I’ve even resorted to re-using this fab cartoon from last year. In fact, I have just done a quick search [...]

Blogs, Books, Christmas, Humour, Illustration, Movies, Photography, Silliness Homer Simpson, procrastination, Spider Pig, Stephen King, The Simpsons, Under the Dome

Festive guzzlings…

5 Comments Posted by Diane on December 30, 2009

Christmas has been a very ‘moveable feast’. It started with a whistlestop visit ‘oop North’-ish to visit my family which was fun. They were all terribly organised and handed over Christmas cards. I hadn’t even written mine as I had lost my address book, I might have missed some folk off my list :-( All [...]

Christmas, Families, Food, Humour, Illustration, jewellery, Places Christmas, diets, Mylo Design, New Year, Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes

All quiet on the Western front….

20 Comments Posted by Diane on December 3, 2009

For a change it’s all been quite quiet chez moi. Lots of web design and coding going on – I hadn’t realised that eCommerce was such a complicated thing, so that has been keeping me glued to my Mac day after day. Just as well as the weather has been dreadful – torrential rain and [...]