feeling festive yet?

polka dot robin [or berry christmas!]

I'm working out a Christmas card design based on my cupboard folk art birds. I've produced homemade cards before, but this year I'd like to do something a little more elaborate in design and get them printed up. As usual though, I've left it a bit last minute! This is the rough, which going to try and produce completed artwork for this week (between pet portraits and the puppet festival design work...).

one down, three to go...

Maddie's portrait.

hold on to your sombrero...

My fabulous assistant just picked a name from the sombrero.... and the winner is...

Giovanna

Print will be winging it's way to you soon! Thanks to everyone who left all the lovely comments. I plan to have another celebratory giveaway when (if!) I ever have 50 followers...

rain, rain, go away....

Thought you might like to see how my home town looked at midnight last night... We had a month's rain in a few hours, causing both rivers to burst their banks and invade the town centre (that is actually one of the main roads, not a river!). This has never happened before in living memory, perhaps we should be worried and maybe now it's time for our great leaders to take climate change a bit more seriously? I wish I could say I had faith in them to act! Luckily, for me at least, I live up the hill...

New roughs over on the Growing Boy.