SallyWag

Perhaps followed by the Cupcake Challenge at Mojos, discovered courtesy of Ruthie Macall… Sam and Sally, who run the fairs, have also started a designer-maker event called 100% Handmade. There’s going to be another in the pretty tourist town of Ilkley on March 20th. The last one was fab. Vintage style tea and cakes, music bunting and plenty of people: like something straight of out Darling Buds in May!

Yo! Just uploaded some new digital prints on to etsy, folksy and dawanda (thank you Google Translate!). I was beginning to think about Spring, hence the Lowland windmill and tulips (by way of that nursery song about the mouse living in a windmill in old Amsterdam. he is not wearing the clogs because he’s letting them air, in case that was bothering you…). Of course, its started snowing again so i may be thinking about Spring but everyone else is thinking about how they’re gonna get there car out for work tomorrow. I thought some lurid retro colours for the farm cottage print. Anyway, I want to start on some darker subject matter soon… hmm

apparently some of my illustrative stationery designs (which I don’t think I can show you) are now at the New York International Gift Fair, which is very exciting and a first for me. I’ve never been to New York but my digital creations have. Lucky virtual bastards.

I was contacted by Amy Knowles of Barnsley Civic Gallery about being a stallholder at the new LOVE CRAFT fair. If you’re interested in a table contact email amyelizabethknowles@gmail.com or phone the Civic on 01226 327011, no later than Valentine’s Day. The tables are FREE! (“all we ask is that your work is completely handmade or your own design, high quality and presented in a visually exciting way”).

LOVE CRAFT: Saturday March 20th

I’ve just finished a mini-print design based on Little Red Riding Hood. I’m going to do a larger, darker, more complex version to include the wolf, his face hovering over the woods like a malevolent god!  Actually I quite like wolves… Anyway, I’ve two versions, one in traditional colourways – red coat! green trees! – and another ‘alternative’. Alright, so its an old European fairy tale, but does she always have to be white? And that cape: would it be less iconic (sexual in undertone) in blue? hmm. As for the woodcutter: who needs him?!

alternative bedtime story: http://danny.oz.au/danny/humour/lrrh

my prints: available on etsy, folksy and dawanda

Hi all! I have stacks of very pretty professionally printed greeting cards I’d like to sell wholesale. There are 16 delicious designs available, principally floral /scenes (be great for florists),  size 12.7 x 17.8cm; complete with appropriately coloured or cream envelope; blank inside; individually cello-bagged. Any mix. Minimum quantity 50 cards. Anyone interested can email me at sally@sallyboyle.co.uk. Go on. Its nice to be wanted

Smaller quantities are available to anyone in my etsy, folksy and dawanda shops. If you don’t see a quantity you require, just drop me a line.

Am very out of flowers, and very into buildings. Here’s a capital collection. So many I don’t quite have the street spirit to list them all here, but you can click on them and they’ll take you to their homes.

process pics for siamese wall graphic SO FAR… i know what you’re thinking: what a mess! why do you think i don’t normally show them! aint finished yet…

Its a Smiths lyric, of course,  from ‘there is a light that never go out’ – i think! … sigh. its been a long time since I listened to those dodgy old cassettes on my sellotaped walkman, the ones I taped over Kylie and Jason after my taste ‘matured’.

Anyway, I’m going to load this on to etsy as a hi-res printable print for Valentine’s Day, but I’ll send you the link for free if you leave a comment, join my mailing list, or follow my random inanities on Twitter…just say hi really… it can get lonely in cyberspace.