something new

I really liked the way all the little calico squares looked for the badges, like tiny little cameo illustrations. I thought they might work on purses and I'm pleased with how they turned out.
These ones are available in my madeit store: pocketcarnival.madeit.com.au

Thanks to:
Frankie magazine for publishing a little article about Pocket Carnival on their website (cheers Frankie!). You can see it here.
My immune system, for finally making me better.

No thanks to:
Me, for my terrible, awful, astonishingly bad record keeping throughout the last financial year, and now I am trying to do my tax and it's bad. Really bad.
My computer, for going so so slowly the last couple of days and possibly needing to be replaced (please no).
The flu.

last drawing class

I had the my last drawing class on Thurs - I wasn't sure if I was going to go as I'm still not feeling quite 100% and I hadn't drawn anything, so on Thurs morning I sat down and did this little fox (version 2). I wanted it to have a bit more depth so I did some shading - the ink goes on brown if you use it thickly like with a pen, but is a lovely red when it's mixed with water.

Then at the class I tried some more colours...

I used black ink to draw the fox & the rabbit, then a bit of brown ink & blue watercolour to add depth for the shading (and some nice blue stripes on the rabbit). I'm pleased with how it turned out but sad the class is over!

finally...

phew... finally i'm starting to feel better! i'm a very bad sick person, i have been SO bored these past few days, i have watched an extraordinary amount of terrible tv and dvds and worked my way through a bit of a stack of books and magazines. and drank about 3 litres of orange juice by myself.

my head's still a bit woozy, but here's a photo of some potatoes i picked from my garden!

and another badge

hope you're all well!