Introducing Smudged It's Forget-Me-Not alphabet. Last weekend A painted the flowers and I put them together into letters, so it's a real team project. It's strange how you picture a project in your head when you're just starting out and somehow in the process of creating it it evolves into something different. Happy Monday! ...

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Isn't it weird how when you start a project you get completely absorbed and determined to finish it. Ok some get left by the wayside, or paused half way but generally single-mindedness wins through and TADA you finish. That's how I feel right now having spent this entire week working on an illustration /print project. I even have the square eyes to show...

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Kicking off our new weekly illustrations posts, which we hope will add a splash of colour to your Monday's A has painted a watercolour wedding bouquet. Happy Monday! ...

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How is there only one week left in February? A has spent the last few days painting away as... drumroll please... we've decided to start posting a new illustration every Monday, so look out for our first artwork post tomorrow. Soon we will have been in our house for a year and the renovations are still going on. With the mdf we bought...

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Wow that title sounds melodramatic, but for me my relationship with my skin has felt a little like a roller coaster relationship; we've had our ups and downs, trials and tribulations, on the way to understanding one another. Basically up until the age of 18/19 my skin was pretty prefect, I had the odd spot but it was generally clear and wasn't something...

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Not much beats 4 o'clock and afternoon tea. A quintessential English pastime that is really still quite new; it was only brought into fashion by the Duchess of Bedford in the 1840s who always felt a bit peckish around 4pm. We don't change into our long gowns, hats and gloves, as she and her friends used to do, for tea time but I...

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I made a GIF!! Well L helped, telling me which keys to press. It took almost as long to scan in and Photoshop the series of watercolours as it did to draw and paint them. I have a new appreciation of how much time goes into animation. Monty only has to hear the keys in the lock and he is at the door....

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The decluttering and purging trend has truly taken hold, however when it comes to clothes it's all very well getting rid of everything that doesn't spark joy but what about the practicalities of actually building a wardrobe you love? Enter the capsule wardrobe.  Now I feel I should preface all of this by saying that I love shopping. Having studied fashion at university...

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As Monty has contributed to our header (yes, that paw print is his) and featured in our first GIF, we felt he deserved his very own post and introduction. Born December 2006, in time for Christmas, Monty only came into our lives the following March when L found him. Determined to have a dog, she had saved up the money herself and on...

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This week I (Alison) have been playing with watercolours and working on more drawings of Monty, re-drawing a few times trying to get them looking right. Also studying calligraphy, repeating the alphabet in different styles and mark making - a brilliant way to spend Friday and Saturday evenings! The DIY continues, slowly but surely. Sometimes it feels very slow. The walk-in cupboard was measured...

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Over the last few weeks mum and I have been busy working on illustrations and designs for prints. It's been great fun to crack out the pencils, watercolours and just have fun being artistic. Sometimes everything feels a little too serious so it's been lovely to go back to exploring our creativity. What do you think of my watercolour dungarees? They make me...

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No better way to spend a Tuesday than making illustrations of L's crazy sprocker, Monty... captured using water colours and an ink pen. A x ...

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So the last week of January is over and the saying "the day's are long but the year's are short" has never felt more true. How can one month of 2016 be over already? This week we tried some more vegetarian recipes, a particular success was the butternut squash risotto. A finished The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, an enjoyable thought provoking read...

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