Much of a muchness

Things that make you go 'hmm'…

Category Archives: Illustration

Bah humbug! Again.

22 Comments Posted by Diane on December 12, 2008

Took the pooch to the beach yesterday and arrived just as the sky turned black and it started to rain. The upside was there was a beautiful rainbow – well two actually and I managed to get some photographs. I came home looking like a drowned rat with the added bonus of a sandy wet [...]

Christmas, Dating, Families, Humour, Illustration, Pets, Photography, Places, Silliness, Uncategorized Christmas, Facebook, Javier bardem, New Year's Eve, party, unlucky 13

Art for art’s sake

13 Comments Posted by Diane on December 7, 2008

I have been really useless at keeping my blog up to date this week. In my defence, I have been really busy finishing a website and a blog for a paying client (hurrah!) and also updating an old website so I can show it to potential clients as part of my portfolio. I almost feel [...]

Art, Colour, Cool links, Illustration, Interesting facts, paper arts, Places Henri Matisse, John Constable, Mark Rothko, Picasso, Rodin, Seagram murals, Tate Modern, The Haywain, The Kiss, The Snail, Three Dancers

Kids. Don’t you just love ‘em?

19 Comments Posted by Diane on November 13, 2008

There is a new show on the BBC on Saturday nights called ‘Outnumbered’. I remember watching the first season and thinking how amazing the child actors are – I think they improvise the script. It is so well observed and really does depict family life (at least as I know it!) The little girl, Karen, [...]

Blogs, Families, Humour, Illustration, Silliness, Television, Uncategorized, Videos BBC, children, letters to God, Outnumbered

Quel méli-mélo!

24 Comments Posted by Diane on October 22, 2008

So the pooch is called Milo. I was embarrassed to take him to the vet for a check up and have to confess he was unnamed, so we finally bit the bullet and picked a name. Why Milo? Well, mainly because my friend Jenny, suggested Snowy (who was Tin-Tin’s dog – as in “Hergé’s Adventures [...]

Birthdays, Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Cool links, Handmade books, Humour, Illustration, jewellery, Pets, Silliness, Videos birthday, Cartier, Falkiners, jewellery, Meli-melo, Shepherds Bookbinders, Snowy, Tintin

Back to the real world…

21 Comments Posted by Diane on September 21, 2008

It already seems a long time since my holiday. I have spent the past week faffing about trying to fix my internet connection which has been sporadic at best, dropping every couple of minutes at worst. #2 son was here and his connection was fine, so it was obviously my laptop which was the problem. [...]