Oh HELLO Spring!

Oh my! Hi. I'm so busy and have so much to share I don't know where to start!!! I went to Cornwall for Easter ~ totally in love with Falmouth. I want to move there!!

Still juggling home life and my art ~but loving all the new opportunities my work is bring me! Some very exciting things coming up soon ~ but here is a flavour of what's been going on!

DENY ~ so many new designs and so many new products too! Awesome new style bling boxes, mirrors, magnetic boards, outdoor pillows ~ exciting stuff!
And I was lucky to be artist of the week recently too!

SEW MAGAZINE Issue 48 ~ my spoonflower puffins were made into a beautiful bird watching set

F8 ~ Big annual spoonflower contest with Robert Kaufman. I made the semi finals with my hip hip geek design :)

This was from a while ago, but the awesome Lay Baby Lay featured one of my polka dots! 

Loads of new designs in my spoonflower shop (fabric / wallpaper / decals / *NEW* gift wrap!)

I may not be very good at keeping my blog up to date.... but I'm on facebook daily ~ check me out there!

Sharon xxx

Busy busy busy!

It appears I am pants at blogging.
But I am very very good at being busy!

DENY have awesome new products available today (with more on the way), you can now buy shoes with my artwork! My spoonflower shop is getting more and more scrummy, I have a new ENVELOP shop (which is Europe based so I'm thrilled about that). And more very interesting projects in the pipeline...

Probably the best place to keep a beady eye on me is on my facebook page :)
Here comes the Spring!
Sharon xxx

Happy New Year!

I've not posted for a while... the run up to Christmas is such a busy time for me ~ and I got the dreaded 'zombie virus' too so ARGHHHH! But all well and happy for Christmas... which was just wonderful.
I hope you all had a great time ~ 2013! Wowie. Time goes so fast! I've started the year with a few major decisions.... more drawing and designing ~ less 'making' for money! Though I'm keen to start sewing more for fun.... clothes and stuff for me!
Bespoke sewn personalised things can still be ordered through my website ~ but not through notonthehighstreet.

So Valentine's Day is next on the list! Check out a new pillow on zazzle and a lovely lolly pop graphic on society6 :D

New venture with THE KASE ~ my designs are in 5 shops in Paris at the moment ~ they will be online soon! And some of my art can be found at the wonderful Modern Mural too.

BUSY BEE!! Anyway. I'll be back soon I promise.
Happy New Year and lots of awesomeness to you xxx

Breast Cancer Awareness Month on DENY

I've created a design ~ RIBBON LOVE ~ for DENY's awesome research fund raising campaign. Do check it out! Thank you xxx
 

pyramid jugglers or lavenders (craft party FQ)

Etsy are having a Craft Party Global Celebration of Meeting and Making on August 24th, 2012 and, in the spirit of the event, Spoonflower are holding a contest to create a crafty party cut & sew project that fits on a fat quarter!
I wanted to keep it simple.... and used a mix and match fabric combination to hopefully please most folks (and suitable for hand sewing too). Each FQ kit will make 8 pyramids! I've used some of my fave patterns (none of which have been entered into any previous contests).
I bought a whole yard of poplin (4 FQs) so made lots of pyramids!

My hubby ~ great juggler! I'm rubbish! Though I'll be making some Doctor Who jugglers when I get a spare minute or three so perhaps I will learn!
Find the fabric kit on spoonflower here :D xxx

ps. NEW ~ scrummy bikinis and board shorts? oh yes....

Arilicious Pomegranate Patch Tote Bag

This weeks spoonflower contest is POMEGRANATES.... well, I had fun with my design 'arilicious'. Hand drawn in ink and then messed about with on the computer to make a groovy repeat and watercolour effect. Yummy colours! So I made some coordinating spots. I received the swatches this week. Printed on linen cotton canvas and fabulous! I made a patched little tote bag with them for a spoonflower / Craftsy contest. Here are the swatches I used ~

And this is the little patched tote I made (click to give me a ♥) ~

It's a really simple bag and I don't have a pattern or measurements (it's versatile ~ I use the same method to make larger across body messenger type bags). But here is a general guide.

Cut 24 x 4" squares, arrange, patch together (I zig zag overstitched). Lightly interface. Cut front side true. Right sides facing, sew front and back together and overlock. Sew across bottom corners at 90 degrees to give a flat base. Repeat process for lining. Sew the snipped corners of bag and lining together. Turn bag body right side out. Press over the tops of lining and bag so they are level. Cut handles to suit (4 times wider than you want them) just like bias binding ~ fold into middle, fold again and sew edges. Insert between fabric layers of the bag and pin (central to the patch seams). Then sew three times around the top (overstitch a little over the handles). Done! Cute bag!

I really love this design ~ so much so I submitted it to DENY where it looks fab on their products! Sharon xxx

today is a GOOD day...

HURRAH!

my mum's birthday ~ happy birthday mum!

phone cases on Amazon

19th in the spoonflower motorcycles contest with BIKE (natural)

I made 100 promotes for the first time on society6!

todays BEST award on zazzle with a pillow design!

....and the cherry on the cake ~ DENY ~ woo hoo!

phew. I am such a happy bunny!!! :D

Sew,Mama,Sew! Giveaway!

Giveaway time! I’m participating in Sew, Mama, Sew’s May Giveaway Day. Comment below to have a chance of winning my popular pinky girlie owl plushie kit OR my boy boy or christmas version if you prefer!! Super easy to make ~ full instructions are given on the fat quarter. A FQ will give you one double sided big owl, one double sided little owl and an extra front (I used that to make myself a pin cushion!!)
I'm happy to ship internationally as I'll have it sent from spoonflower direct to your door!

As for what you have to do to get your mitts on a scrummy owl kit ~ just tell me what you've made that makes you most smiley... and which kit you'd like if you win!


Be sure to check out the Scrummy Things facebook page ~ I'll reveal the results on May 27th on my facebook page and by email too :) Please be sure to give a valid email address!
Please comment before 1am May 26th (GMT) or May 25th 5pm (PST).

Best of luck! I'll get my kidlets to do some random trampoline bouncing to pick the winner. Last name on the trampoline wins ;)
Sharon xxx



THANK YOU all so much for your fantastic comments! We have glorious sunshine here at the moment which is great news for my kids and their trampoline task! I'll take some pics.... and announce the winner as soon as possible :)

BIG congratulations to ELNM ~ I will be sending an email shortly!
Thanks to all that entered :) Sharon xxx

The Untempered Schism

Well, just in case anyone was in any doubt... I LOVE DOCTOR WHO! And this weeks spoonflowers 'hand drawn' contest allowed me a fair few hours (cough) of fun.... entirely drawn in ink, scanned and then repeated on the computer!

 

I'm still waiting for my yard of canvas.... (hurry up postie!) but this design can be seen on fabric and on cool cases, art canvas and cards on society6. 

 

And I would LOVE it if you voted for me and my favourite mad man in a blue box!!!

Spoonflower contest

I'll post a fabric pic as soon as it arrives :D xxx

Fabric8 contest ~ FANTASTICAL STELLATA

Super thrilled that I made it into the top 100 entries for the Robert Kaufman Spoonflower fabric design contest! To make top 8 and have the chance to do a whole collection around this I really need your votes. Please click through on the picture ~ there is a contest link after the blurb on the fabric8 page. You can vote for as many as you like, a vote for my fantastical stellata (by scrummy) would be hugely appreciated!

Like the design and want it on STUFF rather than fabric?? Check out zazzle and society6! The fabric will be for sale very soon.

Crossing my fingers.... it took weeks of very very late nights to get this just as I wanted it. I hope you like it too :)

Sharon xxx