Do you believe in fairies...?

Well the horrible cold took longer than anticipated to shake off, but I managed to get my first items on etsy and finish off the skill swap cuts, yippee!!

Ok so fairies first...
Cut from amethyst coloured Canford paper, both of these cuts were then mounted on silver Canford paper. There were a few skipped heartbeats when it came to mounting, I can tell you! But I (and they) survived thankfully.

The overall designs included a child's name and date of birth, the fairies are original designs drawn by me.

Also got around to listing a couple of items on etsy, a felted scarf and a silver necklace, although I need better photographs of the latter, maybe a job for this afternoon.....

Currently I am working on a Scandi style family tree papercut commission design, eeeeeeek! I had been hoping to work on a family tree but hadn't expected a request so soon, not that I'm complaining *wink*

So mainly I'm muddling along at a snail's pace, my usual speed when working around Tali, lol! But always welcoming enquiries without advertising, in fact I has two enquiries in two days for babywearing illustrations, it's so nice to be wanted!

Sari xxx

Legal Alien

Phew, what a week! We have spent the past week in London for the small one's therapy and it is like a different planet compared to our little dot on the map. We have managed to come back with colds which has got to be on par with a naff t-shirt *lol*

I didn't get to blog before we went, but I can assure you I was busy doing a bit of this.....

.....which was a test cut for a skill swap design. And I was waiting for these.....

.....all the way from the USA. Plus a few other pots bubbling away in the background.....lips sealed mysteriously!!

I have also started to do a bit of drawing on Tali's iPad while she has a nap, I really need to invest in a better stylus but I'm really pleased with this sketch that I managed to draw from from a photograph yesterday;

The drawing is of me and Tali with our lovely Indie. The app is Paper 53. I can see myself doing a lot more doodles in the future, it is certainly a much easier way to draw when you have a child curled up asleep on your lap!

Now my head is more or less back to normal (albeit a little stuffy) I will finally cutting two skill swap pieces and designing a family tree cut, as well as tending to my bubbling pots *wink*

Stay tuned!!

Sari xxx