I made.....

A mini magazine for borrowers! Contents: Recipes (half a carrot soup, one-block of chocolate sauce, onion ring stew) from the finest borrowed ingredients - Real life stories ("I came face to face with a chicken!") - A property guide (the quietest country houses with ample room under the floorboards. and no pets.) - A guide to doll's house borrowing (furnish your home: nearly perfect proportions!)

Three days to go til hand-in day! And surprisingly, I'm quite sad to be moving on from the Borrowers. It has been a challenge, but this project has been very handy. I've been experimenting with screen-printing and this week felt like a breakthrough, i love it. I've also made my own interpretation of the text, a twist I'm quite happy with. And and and...i have found my love of font! It is fun. So off i go to draw more pretty lettering and get all up in the print studio's face.

p.s. little bird cards were a mini success too...could be possibilities for my summer craft fair/selling mission...?

my doll's house doodles

I've been all about the doll's houses this week. Busy painting my own one with my sister, and doodling many a mini version. I'm working on some illustrations for The Borrowers, but am getting totally obsessed with the one tiny section of the story that involves the doll's house. What is it that makes tiny rooms so appealing?! (Also concentrating this week on putting my developing Photoshop and tablet skills to the test!) 

This is some of my work so far for my MA studio work. The brief is to make an activity pack to go with the first book in The Borrowers series by Mary Norton. I'm enjoying it a little too much! I'm at the stage now where I need to just START MAKING THE FINALS. Sounds easy eh? You would think so...