Blueprint is nearly here!

One of the reasons that I have not been blogging etc. is that Cinnamon Joe Studio has got together with eleven other studios to hold our very first show in New York City in May this year. There is quite a lot of work involved, as you can imagine to holding a show in your own familiar area, but then add the pressure of doing it in another country.....

Anyway, here is the information. I created this poster advertisement which went into Art Buyer magazine and Total Licensing magazine.....

Something Nice and wonderful!

Part two of today is relaxing....

I was sent some really beautiful images the other week, which I am only now able to share.
Camelot Fabrics, is a wonderful company based in Canada that produce exciting fabrics for making really cute quilts, clothing and toys.
I am fortunate to be one of their guest designers. It's very thrilling to design a range of co-ordinating patterns that then materialise into fabric format. But it is even better when they create product for their catalogues and shows.
Here are images that Camelot Fabrics kindly sent to me of the fabric ranges that I created for them.

Back Again.....for a while.

Life takes over.....

So I haven't been keeping social media up to date as much as I would like. There has been so much going on with Cinnamon Joe Studio and life in general, that finding a spare hour here and there just hasn't happened. 

The only reason that I am here today, typing away, is that my train of thought has been completely messed around. I seem to be more creative first thing in the morning, so that is what I do, I create as much artwork as I can before my concentration goes. The last remnants of my creative thinking are spent on emails and then, it is a complete switch of.

So, what has happened today to eradicate my artistic tendencies?

Well, we have had 20 tonnes of rock delivered, deposited on our so-called front lawn, we live in a home that is over 270 years old, the boundary was a beautiful old dry stone wall. Unfortunately it was held together by ivy. We had to knock the wall down to start again. That wasn't actually too disrupting, the 6 wheeler came, tipped, dumped the stone and left, leaving deep saturated muck treads in the grass.

Next, a bright green and yellow John Deere tractor arrived with a forklift truck at the back of it. More mud, some broken branches and a few more tracks in the ground....the best was yet to come.

The delivery of 48 grade A railway sleepers.... in a side opening 33 foot long lorry that couldn't get around the lane to deliver....

Oh! The joys of living in the countryside....

I had a farmer driving behind me as I walked up the lane to discuss how the delivery was to be made. (The farmer drives around the fields at the back of our house to check on his sheep and cute little lambs, (they are at that stage, where they are escaping through the fences at the moment and are in our garden)).

Thankfully, my nearest neighbour was home and offered the use of his land so that the lorry driver could reverse and the forklift driver could get the load.....

20 minutes later, job is done....

Once everyone had left and I had had a coffee, I went to see another neighbour, who had some damage done to her property by the sleeper delivery lorry....ugh!

So, you see, not in the mood to create, as creating is an emotion.

I've attached some pictures of said components, needed to rebuild  our dry stone wall and put an edging on our lawned area, before we can even think of planting etc.....

See, no wall, just the original stones in disarray,lots of lovely muddy tracks and more rocks....

Fabulous old railway sleepers, I love them!