Meant to blog about this before it happened but you know me.A fabulous xmas card printing workshop at the amazing Spike Island and run by the fabulous Simon Tozer and Chitra Merchant.
Pheww.I have been making,making ,printing,a bit more making and now i m exhausted.Take a gander at my notebooks,flying birds and wooden brooches.Oh and framed goccos.£35 for a framed gocco.Superb.
Screen printed lovelies to adorn your clothes.A snip at £9.50 and come in a lovely screenprinted paper box !
3 birds ready to dive bomb you in the living room.£25.Marvellous.
Notebooks to write endless to do lists in.These weigh in at £9.50 i believe.
Yes yes yes.My work has made it to M and S.Back in April 2011 i was approached by Marks and Spencer to illustrate their Easter confectionary for 2012.It was highly top secret but now it s out there i think i can spill the beans.Impressed to say it was in the stores on January 2nd.Way to go M and S.
I particularly like what they ve done with me rabbits.Obviously i had to sample each chocolate item and i m pleased to say it s of an extremely high quality.Thank goodness for that.
More packaging to come as they roll it out gradually towards April.
Hmmmphhh...lovely children s tv presenter Steve Backshall has removed his single status from his facebook page indicating that he is no longer single.That s him above ,topless and brandishing a moth.Goddamnit -first Daniel Craig gets married and now this.
Dearest followers.I have let you down badly.How can i even call myself a blogger when i blog so infrequently?I am shocked and dismayed but worst of all i ve let you all down and let myself down in the process.Now i will promise something rash such as blogging everyday from the New Year but i think i ve done that before and it was a disaster. So followers,please bare with me.....i will get better !
I have been very busy in the last couple of months.Preparing for an arts trail,christmas shows ,and life in general.
Above,The One That Got Away.Dark blue heron with a slippery fish.
Owl with a scowl,note the lovely use of lettering beneath him.
Owl number toowit totwoo -get it ?Please feel free to visit my little etsy shop or contact me by email for purchases !janeormes@blueyonder.co.uk.
The buffets; they were to be my downfall.My record was 4 desserts but they were small,mind.
After struggling in a 110 degrees of heat i ordered Ruby a large coke in the Coke store(shaped like a coke bottle obviously) and this is what arrived.We didn t know whether to drink it or paddle our feet in it.
yes,it s the Eiffel tower ofcourse.In the Venetian hotel and casino you could go on a gondola and get married.In Caesar s Palace you could see the Trevi fountain.In Luxor you can walk round the great temple of Rameses .You can win a car on a slot machine.And you can see Celine Dion every night of the week.Barking mad .
We went to Sequoia National Park to see huge trees and black bears but only actually saw their droppings.I had previously watched several Deadly 60 s with the lovely Steve Backshall to prepare myself for meeting these bears.(look as big as possible-no difficult after all the peanut butter-throw rocks at it s body-don t run).I did learn from the lovely Steve that they have an amazing sense of smell which is why they would rip the top of your car off to get to one tiny crumb of bagel stolen from the Bellagio buffet the previous night..
We visited the aquarium at Monterey which was a visual feast.Tanks so huge they had massive shoals of fish swimming in mesmerising circles and glinting like jewels.
There had to be stacks of campbell soup tins !
Evidence that we never got the hang of living out of a suitcase.We may as well have just tipped it all out onto the floor every day.
