this Saturday!


I'm going to be representing Lizzy and selling a few things myself. plus I get the fine company of Miss Lindsay Grime for the day, who'll also be selling her wares. brilliant. hope to see you there!

coco-loco!


on Sunday, Lizzy and I put up this window display for Coco of Bruntsfield (my local/best in the world chocolate shop)... taking their Tattoo themed chocolate box as our inspiration we went all 1920's tattoo crazy. Lizzy made Claude (the most dashing tattooed man I've ever known) and I had an altercation with a swallow - we slept on it, reached an understanding in the morning and all became good...


p.s. working for a chocolate shop pays good dividends!
p.p.s seriously. BEST chocolate shop!
p.p.p.s. thanks to Kirsten for inviting us :)

here comes the summer...


here's my 'new' 'studio' (/bedroom)... you might think it looks suspiciously similiar to my old one and you'd be quite right. BUT! look at the glowing new desk top and drawers. drawers are useful things eh? though it might help if I could remember what I put in each one... this new set-up has made a huge difference to my frame of mind and I'm sensing a new era of creativity around the corner... in fact I can just see it's nose poking out :)

pictured are...
- Sacré-Cœur print - my new Lizzy Stewart acquisition and the bird further down is her too
- Norge print by Gavin Potenza
- my Charley Harper calendar
- deer screen print by the super talented Sally Hancox who incidentally is flying to San Francisco today (jealous? yeah, me too!)

these are a few of my favourite things.../people...

thanks to my good friend Jeremy I am no longer a gocco virgin... to celebrate the fact that my Oh! Deer prints are just about through (there's one left here), I've gone and done it again. but this time a more modest 18cm x 24cm gocco. 50 of them. I will photograph them tomorrow in daylight and get them up here and on Etsy. yep.

and now Lizzy!

to all the people who read this in and around Leeds (don't all shout at once), you should go and see Lizzy's new exhibition at the art college on Blenheim Walk... next to the cafe to be precise. the private view was 5 hours ago (sorry) but continues until the 26th. Lizzy has worked so so hard and produced some amazing work. I really hoped to make it down, but with trains more expensive than planes these days...

and finally. tonight I rediscovered Danna Ray (who i originally stumbled across a few months back)... I cannot quite find the right words to express how much i LOVE her paintings. sigh.

cake mix...

Lizzy loves bears. i love Lizzy and baking cakes. throw a birthday meal in the mix and naturally this happens...



this is the first cake i have ever made that was supposed to look like something (other than just a cake that is). my lack of expertise in the discipline resulted in an abundance of various leftover sweet stuffs (shucks) and a nearly comatosed Verity from the unavoidable sampling during the 'editing' stage...




jaffa cakes, cola laces, minstrels and a flake made the cut. tea cakes and giant buttons gave it their all but were not successful this time around (fret not buttons, you'll be given a happy home!). natex savoury spread also, thankfully, did not make the cut - if it had it's unlikely this would have happened...



carnage = success

land and sky...

Miss Lizzy Stewart and Master Christopher Bettig request your company...



opens TONIGHT until the 27th Feb - if you live in Brizzle, or close enough for a little jaunt... all signs point to amazing

about Lizzy...

i'm not going to go into it all (just google Samantha Beeston if you like). instead i want to give Lizzy some attention. so this is just about her - ABOUT TODAY





the last image is availble to buy as a pretty stupendous screen print here

IMPORTANT MESSAGE - you didn't draw these, Lizzy Stewart did, so don't even think about it... we've got big hairy friends with teeth and claws and we're not afraid to use 'em