All About Me

A work colleague and good friend Jennifer Farquharson has just launched her own range of handmade greetings cards. Jennifer says her "All About Me" cards are unique, hand made and lovingly created to give you a greeting card suitable for all occasions. Each of her individual designs are inspired by 'Me" but without the ego. She has just opened her folksy shop here and you can check out her Facebook page here. I love them, so cute and some really nice colours and paper combinations - nice work Jen!

Over a Year - Shame on Me!

Well it would appear that i have neglected this blog for over a year now - how did that happen?

A lot has happened in the last year, too much for me to talk about on here and probably most of it pretty dull day-to-day life stuff. Who knows maybe i can resurrect the blog a bit and start posting (hopefully slightly more regularly than once per year).

So a quick pic to get us started again - Meet Sam. Our  little miracle Sam was born on 19th April and is amazing, pretty hilarious and I cannot quite believe how lucky we are to have him. x

Dream Of Silver

It has been a while since we have welcomed a new designer to our RLR family but today we are so pleased to announce that we have some gorgeous new products by Dream Of Silver added to our Jewellery section. I cannot get over how cute these silver studs are and am finding it really difficult to pick a favourite - at the moment I think it would be the hedgehogs but the Scottie dogs are a close second. The little birds have a festive feel to them too and as the Christmas department is also up and running I might just need to get them added to that section too. Take a look at the full Dream of Silver collection in the shop here.

Winter Images - Part 2

So I decided to try out another image - still needed a bit of help in the Photoshop department but I managed once I got going! Penguins in scarves and mittens - what else.

Winter Images

From Halloween to Christmas in one easy blog post! 

I really need to brush up on my photoshop skills, I love to draw and really want to add colour to the background of my scanned images but the steps in between are all very foreign to me! My very patient husband tries his best to help me get somewhere with photoshop but I am a complete nightmare and freak out whenever he tries to show me anything. Anyway this is the outcome of this afternoon's photoshop trial - I quite like it and am going to get a few printed up to see how they look in card format. As for re-creating this process again using Photoshop - hmmm I'm pretty sure I'm going to need to ask for help yet again!

Happy Halloween

Illustration by Anna Brinded

Just saw this really cute Halloween illustration on Illustration Rally which reminded me I haven't put any Halloween images up for you to see. I have had no one round at the door guising tonight which means I have just sat eating lots of chocolate all night - not too shabby!

I will add my own Halloween drawing under this soon - was going to do it today but the weather was so dull that it wouldn't have photographed well....... just in case you are wondering what it is going to be, i have drawn a bottle of Skele-gro (one of my favourite film props of all time).

Here it is....