Hello 30s - Day 303 - 312

Here is the nest installment of the Hello 30s Project - Still playing catch up I'm afraid!!!

Day 303:

It is always exciting to get party invitations. My friend Lyd, managed to make her own while juggling a very busy design office!


Day 304:

I ordered a photo book for my mum's 60th. While I was waiting for it to arrive, I thought it might be nice for her, to also have a dvd version to accompany it, so I had a little play in iMovie.


Day 305:

 Tagliatelle with walnuts, bacon, broccoli and lime juice - yummo!


Day 306:

The decorating continues!


Day 307:

The problem with all the decorating, is that I wasn't able to get on with much work, the only room that was left unaffected by the chaos, was the kitchen. So I baked, and I experimented, here I was adding food colouring to salt, and baking it. I was left with some lovely pastel shades... I'm not sure what they would be useful for yet, but I'm there is something!!


Day 308:

My Mum's photo book arrived. That is my mum when she was a girl (on the right), with her twin sister. The photo book and dvd were well received, I made my mum, my auntie and my sister cry - in a good way... I think :)


Day 309:

Boyfriend and I went along to the Rural Life Centre in Tilford, Farnham, for a Rustic Day. It is a lovely place, and there was plenty to see, and plenty of stalls to look at. Unfortunately, we hadn't realised that it would be £8 each to enter, and what with it being in the middle on nowhere, there was nowhere to find cash, so we couldn't buy ourselves any treats :(


Day 310:

I painted a bus for my dad, it wasn't very good, but it is so hard to find cards with buses on! 


Day 311:

Meh! I don't think I need to explain this one. All you need to know is that, yes it should be simple, yet yes, I did have one little issue, and yes, it led me to being put on hold for 15 minutes, and having to talk to a monotone man, that didn't even answer my questions directly, so I had to ask the same thing several times, just to get him to clarify - I was fuming!!! Still, it is over for another year!


Day 312:

Doodling little ideas!

Hello 30s - Day 289 - 302

It's back! Hello 30s! I have finally given out all the cards and presents, that I have taken photos of, so I can now continue with my daily photo challenge, without spoiling any surprises, yeay!!! I do need to get a wriggle on though. The project ends this month, and I already have over 50 photos stored up, that need to be posted. Spit Spot!!

Day 289:

Candied walnuts! I made these for a salad, possibly the tastiest salad, that I have ever eaten. 

It was also possibly the unhealthiest salad I have ever eaten. 

Ho hum! 

These walnuts were so yummy, that half of them didn't even make it into the salad. I found the salad on Shutterbean, make it, it has sweet sugary walnut goodness AND caramalised onions! 

Day 290:

Drawing chickens. Did you see the last Hello 30s post? The one where we looked after chickens? Well that gave me an idea. I had taken some photos of the chickens, so decided that I would try and paint them, for future sister-in-law's (Sandra) birthday. I haven't had to draw or paint anything in a while, so practice was needed. 

Day 291:

I also had to practice painting chickens (on paper silly, I didn't paint any real chickens). All I have at the moment are watercolours, which I find quite difficult to use. I am an oil, or acrylic kind of girl, a bit slap dash, and heavy handed. 


 Day 292:

Meet Floss. Yes she is a bit of an odd little chicken. She was a runt, that should have been for the chop, but Sandra saved her. Floss sometimes get a bit confused, and thinks that she is a cockerel. 


Day 293:

After an hour long walk, and feeling quite disappointed, that I had remembered to take my camera along, but had found nothing of interest to take a photo of. I came across these two swans, and their healthy brood of cygnets, right by my house. 

Day 294:

My Precious!! These are my thumb rings, I love them. They have been lost for so long. I had desperately searched high and low, in a Gollum like fashion, and had just about given up. That was until we decided to do some painting and decorating in our bedroom, and moved everything out. 


 Day 295:

As I mentioned above, painting and decorating, which, as always, turned the house completely upside down. 


 Day 296:

I went along to the first UK Handmade Surrey Artisans meet up, and as well as meeting some lovely creative ladies, I also came away with a stash of cake and biscuits - can't complain ;)


Day 297:

Oh the excitement! You know how it is, when your days are being governed by DIY, it just isn't THAT exciting... but parcels are exciting, even if your parcels are full of door handles. It certainly breaks up the monotony of door painting.


Day 298:

More cake!!! I had taken a cake along to the meet up, boyfriend was a bit put out, so I had to make him another. This is how I know, that this vanilla pound cake is quite good, as boyfriend isn't usually a big fan of of sweet things. Oh, and anyone that thinks vanilla pound cake is a plain cake, shame on you!!! 


Day 299:

Going through the family photos. This is my Mum and I... not that she is going to appreciate me putting this on here. I had spent the day getting her birthday present finished and ordered. I was lucky to have this photo, it was one of a group, that I had sneaked out of the house on one of my last visits. Even trickier was sneaking them back. My folks are planning on moving, and everything is packed away in boxes. I had to hide an envelope on top of a wardrobe, and tell my dad where to find it, so he could put them away. Very James Bond!


Day 300:

The Arty Street Party in Reading organised by Jelly. I went along with the lovely Anna from UK Handmade (and Sakura Jewellery) to help spread the word about UK Handmade. Had a great day, meeting lots of wonderful creative people. :)


Day 301:

It's those door handles again! Honestly, black door handles, hard to find and expensive. (Wickes and Homebase both do some, but do any of them do a matching bathroom privacy lock - noooo!). Oh and you see that door, that was brown... and now... it's not :)


Day 302:

Birthday card for Sandra. As well as painting chickens, I also made a chicken card. You can probably see a theme developing... it is a good job she likes chickens really :) 


Right, only so much blog you can put in one post, there will be another update soon! :)

dawn bevins design on Envelop

This week (well I started last week) has seen me joining to Envelop. A Belgian site, that lets artists and illustrators, upload images of their work, so that they can be applied to a range of homeware products, and made to order. I am very excited, I can see me ordering a ridiculous amount of aprons and oven mitts! 
I have a few items in my shop now, and hopefully there will be some more soon. It takes a little while, as each file needs to be adapted to each individual product template, and then needs to be uploaded and checked. You can find my shop here :)  dawn's shop on Envelop


Look out next week, as I will be starting to update, the nearly finished, but long absent 'Hello 30s' project! 


dawn.x

Swing! Swing!

Here is another new little illustration, using another Zombie Kitteh - They are beginning to get everywhere!

This time, Zombie Kitteh is quite small, but there is a lot more going on, as far as a scene is concerned. I thought it would make a nice change :)

As always, he is available as a print, or ipod case, or laptop case/skin in my shop on Society6.

Thanks for looking :)

Free Post!

Just a quick note, to let you folks know that Society6 are offering free postage worldwide until Sunday! There is oodles of great work on there, by lots of great artists, if you fancy treating yourself to a print, or maybe an ipod or laptop skin.

Ahem...

For example:

Or maybe...

Or maybe even...

My Society6 shop can be found here. :)

Also, I'm still taking those daily pics, for the 'Hello 30s' project, you will see them - promise! Hopefully before the year runs out on my birthday! Eek that is almost a month, 31 is hiding just around the corner!!

Bouncy Zombie Kitteh!

Hello. It has been a while, I'm sorry. The Hello 30s project is still in full swing, but I have hit a snag. I made the rookie mistake, of taking photos of birthday related craftiness, you know, cards and such... and now I am waiting until said things have been given out, before I go posting pictures of them everywhere. Things should have been given out by now, but you know what they say about the best laid plans. At some point, hopefully soon, you will be bombarded with images. It is actually really exciting, as I have only got just over a month to go, before the challenge is completed, it is a bit frustrating, that I can't share any more with you right now - oh well! Soon, I promise.

In the meantime, I have given you a look at my latest zombie collage instead, 'Bouncy Zombie Kitteh'. Who doesn't love a space hopper right? :) As with the rest of the collages, it can be found on Society6.

Hello 30s - Day 274 - 288

Please prepare yourself for many, many, photos. I was away last week, and failed to take my camera cable with me, so I have had to store over a week's worth of photos on my camera. It is time to get up to date!

Day 274:
Boyfriend was out on a bike ride, and I was left on my lonesome. What do you do in that situation? You make homemade rice pudding of course! I had been itching to try it, since seeing this recipe on Joy The Baker. It was very tasty, and was worth making, just for the amazing smell of butter and milk cooking. Honestly, it should be some kind of law, that people have to smell hot butter and milk every day, everyone would be happy :D

Day 275:Little cake slices for the Hansel and Gretel illustration.

Day 276:
Teeny tiny candy corns.

Day 277:
Tea. Sometimes you just need tea. I drink a lot of tea, but on this day I NEEDED the tea. I think it was something to do with, having to redo all those candy corns, for a second time!

Day 278:
I know what some of you might be thinking (I'm talking to you mum!) - not another photo of cupcakes! These, however, were special cupcakes, they were accidental cupcakes. I was making a spiced pound loaf cake, except it wasn't supposed to be loaf shaped, it was supposed to be bigger, so I had lots of mixture left, and voila, cupcakes (and some yummy cake batter for me to snaffle with a spatula) :D

Day 279:
Travelling to Suffolk in the evening. Motorway travel can be pretty dull, but there was some beautiful sky going on.

Day 280:
We were staying at boyfriend's, brother, and sister-in-law's house while in Suffolk, for a low cost holiday, while they were away. We were looking after the garden, and the chickens. I found the whole thing very educational, I now know a lot more about chickens than I did previously.

Day 281:Our garden for the week.

Day 282:
Why, hello Mr Wallbanger!

Day 283:
We stopped of for a drink at a riverside hotel in Beccles. It was very relaxing, sitting in the sun, watching the boats go by. I like the fact this one was called 'Putt Putt'!

Day 284:
Roman Fort. Very cool! It's a fort! And it's Roman!!! Cool!

Day 285:
The gardens at Bury St Edmunds. Immaculate, and incredibly colourful.

There were also some abbey ruins...

... and houses built into abbey ruins - which, lets face it, is very cool!!

Day 286:Dramatic skies over Southwold. I liked it here a lot! A really nice pier, that was classy rather than tacky, a little exhibition of work by Rolf Harris, galleries, and antique shops.

Day 287:
Back home, and this is our new bottle (on the left), that we found in an antiques shop in Southwold. It was straight in front of us, as we walked through the door, and the colour and texture, match our other bottle exactly. It was also the irresistible price of £5!

Day 288:
Our pepper plant seems to have grown even more over the last week. I think they are jalepenos, how do you know when to pick them off, I was thinking that they were about ready?