boxes of delight

last saturday I printed 100 boxes for New House Textiles - the plan is that if one buys three of my rather delightful tea towels (if I do say so myself) one will receive them packaged in a handprinted box - how marvellous and what a lovely christmas gift it would make for ones chums. The scheme isn't up and running yet (possibly as they're tucked away in a bigger box at the print studio) but I'll announce it when it happens, it's bound to be mentioned on their website (newhousetextiles.co.uk) too. whooooooo

boxes on the rack

boxes in a box

voila - l box, with pink wafer and hello general spoon

alternative uses for tea towels 1

here we have my friend Melanie's cat, Oscar, looking a little cross at being woken up from a mouse-filled-dream snooze on his freshly laundered Charlotte Farmer tea towel (it is a tester tea towel but he's still a lucky blighter to have such a luxury blanket)

croissant et le grande pants

busy busy week last week...here's some of what I've been up to, it involved croissants and pants (and its not everyday you get to say that) it was for the Bloomsburystore catalogue which should be out soonish. back to drawing things this week - hurrah!

I've got a website - oh yes!

spent the weekend printing flyers so that I can finally mention that I have a website - oh yes I do...

I went for a posh kong to announce the good news.

so if you do happen to find yourself with some time to spare why not take a look...its...

www.charlotte-farmer.co.uk

little book and box-in-progress

ones blog posts feel a bit scrappy at the moment, I'm at the beginning of projects so have nothing finished to show, but there are exciting things to come...I'm definitely going to pursue the mulitlingual miaowing cats, maybe I'll try some dry point etching...hmmm...but not just yet.

anyway until I spend the weekend printing here's a little book I just got from Howies featuring 2 drawings I did a couple of years ago that they've finally used (but not the ones I did over the summer - who knows where they'll turn up)...

...and here's a box-in-progress which I'm planning to print for New House Textiles...it will be limited edition and available when someone orders a few tea towels at christmas (it's a-coming)! More details on how to get one soon.

(once again apologies for the messy desk - one day I'll live somewhere with lovely floorboards and my photos will be more glamorous).

miau maiou meu - ideas

meeeeeeow - I'm inspired by the new Ikea advert, with all the cats, I wonder if they really did let them lose in a store at night or if it's camera trickery...I hope it's not...

I've got lots of cat drawings that have been waiting for a home, so what you see here is the start of an idea. The Thai version of meow meow has to be said in a high pitched manner apparently

and here is a sneaky peak at another project I'm working on...more details in a month or so...shhhhhh it's a bit hush hush-ish

bonjour

I've been en vacances in france, while we were there I saw this shed planted on top of an old mill, which gives me ideas for some photocopying fun...as mentioned in my notebook! I transferred more drawings onto a nice stripey mug before the trip too. ooh. yeah!

before viewing the following...please excuse the state of my desk!!