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I’m not the most patient person so it’s been quite hard telling myself that building up a business from scratch is not going to happen overnight. The biggest problem being that when I set up as a freelance graphic designer, it did literally happen overnight. There were a few dry spots, but for the most [...]

So the theme of this week’s Folksy Friday is ‘Festival’ in honour of Ben & Jerry’s Sundae on the Common which is happening this weekend on Clapham Common. We’re going tomorrow for the first time with child.  This is more of a family-friendly festival, or used to be, so the theme is more bunting (I [...]

n. – The quality or state of cohering, especially a logical, orderly, and aesthetically consistent relationship of parts.
Yes I need some of this. This is what’s missing, it’s so obvious when I look at the collections of designers who have it. Here’s who’s inspiring me to be more coherent:
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Charlotte Macey Textiles:
Beautiful linen homewares with [...]

I’m hoping to keep up with this every week. This is my second one so that’s a roll for me. This week’s theme is ‘hungry’ because I’m hungry:g

Hungry Bear Plate from James Ward
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Chocolate Cake Coin Purse from Dinky Daisy
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Alice in Wonderland ‘Eat Me’ Cake Toppers by Crafty Pagan Designs
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Apple and Pear Card [...]

I officially back from maternity leave to my freelance business, little bulldog design, a couple of months ago, but you wouldn’t really know it as not much in the way of work has come in. I blamed it on the recession for a little while, but it quickly became apparent that my clients had either [...]

This is my first go at Folksy Friday and in honour of the beautiful day we had today I’ve chosen a few sunshine-themed handmade items:

Click on the photos to view their other lovely items. Here’s to more sunshine.

owl bum, originally uploaded by joannevc.
I’ve never been very good at keeping up this blog and over the past 8 months I haven’t been very good at keeping up with much of anything except a certain little boy. But it’s time to get back into the swing of things albeit a different set of things. [...]

I wasn’t too sure about the Tate Modern when it first opened. I think that was because I was still very much in love with the Pompidou in Paris, which is still my favourite museum. So on my first visit to the new Tate Modern, shortly after it opened, all I did was compare it [...]

Yeay my work website is finally up! www.littlebulldog.co.uk thanks to Jeff. And we didn’t even really have that many fights over it. It doesn’t have all my work on it. Mainly because I can’t put up any of the stuff I’ve been working on for the past couple of months because it’s still ongoing. Secondly [...]

Here’s what I did last night while watching Spooks and distracting the dog with a squeaky ball during the fifth night of fireworks. So you see it is possible to throw a squeaky ball, follow an increasingly convoluted terrorist plotline and make a very amateur stuffed bear. Don’t look too closely because I sewed his [...]