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This week I’ve slowly been signing my way through a reassuringly hefty stack of endpapers. Apparently it’s a new fancy way of doing things - signing the endpapers rather than the first page. These are all off back to the factory where the
Aaand I give you the last piece in my @waterstones Burial Plot tea set - a Venus fly trap mug. Here, too, is the tea set as a whole. I haven’t lingered so long on a set for a while. Each piece took me a few hours to paint, done during my daught
Aaand now for the penultimate piece in my @waterstones tea-set, 3 fish swimming amidst hooks. This is my favourite mug, both for the image and for the extra nice shape of it, perfectly hand-fitting. The image of hooked fish recurs a few times in The
Here’s the dinky milk jug in the @waterstones Burial Plot competition, painted with pineapples. It’s one of my favourite pieces 🍍 As Bonnie settles into life at Endellion, she comes to understand the family – the eccentric Mr Mon
And here is the third piece in my @waterstones tea set - a teacup with Endellion House painted on the side. After Bonnie’s trick goes wrong and a gentleman lies in a pool of blood at her feet, she needs to disappear. Crawford secures her a posi
Next in my @waterstones competition teaset is this little sugar bowl painted with fob watches. Bonnie and Crawford survive on wicked tricks: robberies and ill-gotten gains from the burial ground that adjoins the inn where they live. But one evening
I think this is my favourite teaset I’ve ever made and it’s going to have to be physically wrenched from me. I made it for a competition for @waterstones - all you need to do to enter is preorder a copy of The Burial Plot from them, and i
Huge thanks to everyone who has pre-ordered the indie edition - I’ve been blown away by the response and apparently a lot of bookshops have been increasing their orders. Which makes me SO happy and grateful and this is why pre-orders make such
🥁 🥁 🥁 HERE IT IS! I’ve been absolutely pinching myself over the most gorgeous cover of The Burial Plot (and pictured is a special indie edition, more below…)! A cottage on fire. A spider spinning its web. Two men fighting. A woman, h
Here’s a little peek at the teaset I made for The Burial Plot - I’ll share more when I know the details of the competition and it’s running ☺️ I’ll be cursing the winner - it’s the prettiest thing I’ve made and it
Monty, Goose, Monty-Mog, bestower of the best cuddles, my favourite jumper-lurker, the best boy, we loved you so so much. 💔
Oops turns out my son posted this for me…! I finally finished the chair for Esme. When I made Arthur’s I wondered if there’d be another named chair and if so what they’d be called. Here she is! With a snail deer I saw posted
I finally got my camera working so I’m afraid I’m subjecting you to my craft projects. This is the stocking I embroidered last year for myself but finally got round to sewing together. Parent robins plus Arthur chick in the nest, and I st
This quilt has been such a labour of patience and time over the last year, and there was many a time when I wondered why on earth I was bothering. It kept me company and exasperated me during my entire pregnancy and finally, gloriously, I finished it
Here it is - Esme’s finished stocking. Sewn in little pieces, a nap here and a nap there.
Delighted to welcome a new member to the aquamarine family 💙💙💙
Look what today’s post brought! 🔥 It never fails to astonish me that a very hazy word document can, after rounds and rounds of rewriting and replotting and polishing, be parcelled into such a lovely object. It’s a book, people! A real bo
If you fancy snuggling up with a dark winter treat, The Doll Factory is 99p on kindle for all this month ♥️
‘Bird!’ I still don’t think Jonny has forgiven me for the largest, most glorious piece of Victoriana that turned up one rainy afternoon when The Doll Factory filming had wrapped… Louis’s painting of Iris, just as I desc