Red, Turquoise, Indigo

Night Sky with Pines & Cranes (bottom), Evening Sky (top left) and Morning Sky (top right).

I’ve been working on some new colours for the Pines & Cranes pattern. At the bottom in this image is the original - Night Sky with Pines & Cranes - and I've added the red version 'Evening Sky' and turquoise version 'Morning Sky' to the spoonflower shop!

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and see you in 2017! I'm looking forward to lots of new projects and good stuff for the shop; how about you, what are you looking forward to in the new year?

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Forest & Sea is 6!

Six years ago today I started this blog! I've learnt so much along the way by joining in with online contests, making my designs available for sale and finally last year opening a shop. Thanks so much if you've been reading about it and commenting here, it's really made a huge difference to me. I'm so glad Forest & Sea is going strong six years on and that I'm still learning and enjoying it every day!

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♫ Tweet ♫

More Instagram posts! Just click on the title under each image if you're interested to read more:

Bird Carving | First Impression

Patchy Prints | Black + Gold

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Ink!

Hello! To catch up here with some of the projects I've been working on over the last few months, here are some photos from my Instagram page. Just click on the title below each picture and it'll take you straight to the post if you'd like to read more about it :)

Tea Bags | Family Cards

Rubber Stamp | Paisley Linen

Medieval Woodcut INK! | Wash Bag

Handmade Handles | Birds & Bees

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Palace Garden in New Colours!

Hi! I think this might be the longest I've left between posts here; we've been so busy this summer! Good news is that our old falling-down house isn't so falling-down anymore. We've worked on almost all the things we needed to, including the living room which was one of the biggest jobs, and at the weekend we ordered new sofas! This was so exciting for me because we've been using an upstairs bedroom with an ancient sofa as a living room for years. Click here to look at before and after pictures of some other work we've done on the house and read about being plastered here!

More good news: I've updated and proofed the Palace Garden repeating design with the new colours I came up with for the original tiled version of the pattern a while back. Here they are on the cotton twill fabric (which is lovely and my new favourite) from spoonflower:

Palace Garden | Aubergine

Palace Garden | Lapis Lazuli and Jaipur Pink

Palace Garden | Cinnamon and Indigo

If you'd like to order this pattern on fabric, wallpaper or giftwrap, these colours are available in my spoonflower shop here.

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Here are some of the March pictures from over at Instagram: rearranging vector elements from this journal design - windmill sails at sunset - a print for spring and last but not least.. Pines & Cranes has made the Spoonflower Hot Sellers list :)

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Pines & Cranes Night - Large Scale

I've had a request through Spoonflower for this design on a larger scale so if you'd also like to make a throw or a bedspread with this pattern then Pines & Cranes - Night (large scale) is available here!

Update 30th March: This design made the Spoonflower Hot Sellers list this week - many, many thanks to those of you who've ordered some!

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Pines & Cranes - Night

I made a new pouch with some of the Pines & Cranes Night linen. Of course the Piepster wanted to know what exactly was going on on her mantelpiece :)

Have a brilliant weekend and a lovely Christmas, whatever you're up to!

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✶☽ Night and Day ☼☁

Pines & Cranes - Night

Pines & Cranes - Day

Details of Pines & Cranes Night...

...and Pines and Cranes Day. Click for a better view!

New in the shop: Pines & Cranes in the new nighttime version and a daytime version to match. They're based on a previous design which I had printed in a new colour with added texture for some pouches.

I can't decide which I like best; do you have a favourite?

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Palace Garden: New Colours

Some lovely new colours for Palace Garden! From the top: indigo, aubergine, cinnamon, lapis lazuli and Jaipur pink; available here.

22nd September: Thanks Spoonflower for featuring the little pouch here!

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Summer Doves

Summer Doves; a summery counterpart to the Snow Doves. You can find them over here!

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Sunshine

It's been a long time coming but we've had some lovely weather this week and lots of sunshine! It's great to have the windows open, everything smells so great. We're finally getting plenty of leaves on the trees and I've been working on this this week..

Black Bird, Silver Birch

Black Bird, Silver Birch details; click for larger view.

I thought it would be good on a small scale for lots of uses so I've uploaded it as a swatch to the Spoonflower shop where you can order it on linen, silk, cotton or wall decal!

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Illustration Friday: Wings

Misty mountains for this week's Illustration Friday. To see all the other 'wings' illustrations, have a look over here :)

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Snow Doves Gift Tags

Snow Doves with stars and mistletoe.

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Snow Doves Gift Tags - details.

Hello! This is a new version of Snow Doves with brown paper, stars and mistletoe for Spoonflower's gift tags contest. To see some excellent gift tag designs and vote, click here!

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Snow Doves on Grey

Another version of Snow Doves, this time on a grey linen background. It's available for order if you'd like some (on cotton, linen, silk, wallpaper, decal, or wrapping paper!) just click here!

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Snow Doves in Cranberry

Snow Doves in Cranberry

No, not a recipe! A new and festive design for this contest over here. It's also available for order on 10 different fabrics, wallpaper and it must be that time of year again peeps because spoonflower have introduced seasonal gift wrap!

Forest & Sea wrapping paper, to be found here! 

By the way, there will be free shipping on everything at spoonflower on November the 15th! Hope you have a happy weekend :)

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Woodland

The doves and sparrows from a few posts ago were going to be for this new calendar. In the end it took an entirely different direction than I first intended and this is the result:

Woodland Calendar

Woodland Calendar Details

I'd love it if you'd take a minute to vote for me over here. Or if you fancy one for yourself, you can find it here!

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Doves & Sparrows

A couple of sketches from my latest project:

I can hopefully show you the finished thing by Tuesday. Have a fun weekend!

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Forest Garden

I ordered some proof swatches from spoonflower a while ago - for some reason it takes weeks and weeks for the post to get to Europe from North Carolina but they're finally here. First up in the shop, as requested, Forest Garden!

Forest Garden

This one's based loosely on the deciduous forests of Asia and I've decided to donate 10% of all commission earned on this design to BirdLife International. They work with local charities all over the world preserving bird habitats and thereby improving global biodiversity. Forest Garden is available on 10 different fabrics here!

I hope everyone's enjoying their last little bit of summer in the northern hemisphere. Wouldn't it be great to have a house in both hemispheres so you could have summer all year round?

Forest Garden sample on cotton.

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