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Have had a new sample peacock wall decal printed (finally!) and can’t decide between vivid, near fluorescent new colours (above 1) or more ‘adult-like’ hues of previous version (above 2), bearing in my all previous versions – as far as I know –  have been bought by women for themselves. Advice please! Which would you prefer? Everyone who comments before August 15th will be entered into draw for a Tiger and Jungle sticker set (below) on the 16th.

As I was writing my last blog post my Zemanta related search facility brought up these fab German stamps from the early ’60s and ’70s that ‘NobbiP’ kindly uploaded to Wikimedia Commons:

The 40 mark stamp gives the impression that the real moral to the Red Riding Hood tale is this: ‘don’t go on a booze run for your gran’.

Anyway! As a result I’ve spent the last hour excitedly browsing through all the amazing Fairy Story related stamps that have been printed. Visual heaven:

Snow white’s wicked queen. She looks like a dance teacher…

‘The Wolf and the 7 Kids’? don’t know this tale. Wolves get worse press than Piers Morgan, and less deservedly.

Love the text design on this ‘Snow Queen’. This looks like the bit where Gerda gets waylaid by the witch. 1972

from 1974.

Hansel & Gretel: probably my favourite. Really a cautionary tale about what might happen without the welfare state. Really. Starving old ladies, see?

Have just updated a couple of things on my Etsy and Folksy shops, including a new Red Riding Hood listing – with blonde hair!, and some photos of my new Spanish donkey Summer print.  Looking at them next to each other, I think I must be principally obsessed with the trees. That’s where the work seems to go into.

My Peacock prints are now available on a luxury textured watercolour style paper, crisply printed in fade resistant, archival inks. Am really happy with the results.  Available singly from From the Wilde. Available as as pair on Etsy and Folksy from this evening.

these four: clockwise from top left: Beautiful Skin; Laura Kate Draws; Xenia Taler; Wonderful Rubbish

Clockwise L to R: Sally Boyle at From the Wilde; Giniber; Urban Outfitters at Society 6; Sanna Annukka at Radiance

Clockwise L to R: Gothic Crow; Frerk Muller at Shelf; Sally Boyle at From the Wilde; Happy Doodle Land

Magda Piwowar at Beetroot; Toika at Iittala; Donna Wilson at Soma Gallery

Clockwise L to R: Isak; Felt Me Up Designs; Faye Power at From the Wilde; Skinny Laminx

As I’ve been uploading this epic post (of some of my favourite bird designs online) I’ve been listening to the near constant football rattle of a couple of magpies outside. Touch ironic: they’re the only bird i DON’T like. they can’t sing, they can barely fly and they seem to spend most of their time harassing smaller birds and eating their young. talentless bully-boys…

Its a double dazzler! My prints and cards have been invited to another online party (retailer!), so the prints got new, more upmarket – dresses/DJs (paper stock!). (Not that there was much wrong with their old clobber. Its just that now they’ll be wearing a lovely textured watercolour paper). www.fromthewilde.com/shop launched Wednesday night. Its the creation of the lovely Helen, a woman who knows and cares about art and craft. Here’s a selection of current goodies:

left to right; top to bottom: gingerbread men by Chain of Daisies; porcelain Puffin plate by Faye Power; Looped Yellow Choker by Tanvi Kant; Tree Twig brooch by Beansquare Extraordinare; L’il Lovelies Owl by Ark Designs; ‘Emaki’ print by Fay Martin

and some of my A5 prints and cards, printed on watercolour paper in archival, fade resistant inks, £8 and £1.50 respectively… now on fromthewilde

Bit short notice I know (just unearthed the sponsor form from pile of ‘recycling’) but am doing a Midnight Walk on Saturday in aid of Saint Michael’s Hospice in Harrogate. All profits (£2.50) from my pick and mix printable cards to the charity. Available through Folksy and Etsy sites. 12 designs to choose from.

It’s very popular to photograph and share your creative workspaces on the web and without exception they’ve all looked massively enviable to me: tidy, organised, colourful and most importantly – inspiring. hmmm. They make me feel pretty inadequate. This is partly why I’ve never taken a picture, but also because I’m kind of homeless, so I cart my computer  between at least two places, and leave a mess of scribbles and dribbles in both. The awful truth. Brace yourself:

Unlike Gwyneth Paltrow, I have no stylist… and i use a hard-backed envelope for a mouse mat. The canvas in the background is by the Hollybank Artists; the Tracy Emin style ’situational art’  is by me.

Below: the beautiful gold screen-printed postcard is from Japan. My friend gave me a set that had been left on her hotel pillow. Nice touch. I’ve never stayed in a hotel where you’d find anything more than a resting spider on your pillow… I bought the illustrated handmade cup at the Earth & Fire Ceramics fair at Rufford Abbey. The porcelain cup with the eucalyptus is by Anne Kari Ramberg which I bought from Contemporary Ceramics in London. The cards and peacock print are by me, and are available online at From The Wilde

Well, the header’s said it all really: there’s a one day 11% discount sale on Art and Accessories today on Dawanda, tenuously in celebration of the World Cup. Ha!  Relevence? Anyway, nothing to complain about. I’ve included my prints, in celebration of those who are NOT interested in the World Cup so far but will probably start getting into it by the semi-finals. Happens every time.