Bookends: Tigger & friends go on a journey

Still too hot, so progress is still slow... Also, I've been completely unsure about what to call the second book, and what to put on what will be a back cover.

Finally, after a trip to Waterstones this weekend, and checking out the children's book section for inspiration, I decided to do a horizontal stripe of the characters crossing the back of the book. But obviously with a couple of small additions...

This lead onto the book being named as "Tigger and friends go on a journey", and I've made up a short story description to go with it.

Obviously it's still got to be painted, but painting is easier than the underlying inspiration!

Bookends: Pooh and Brother Bear

Recently it seems to have been far too hot for doing much of anything, but this evening I finally got my arse in gear and painted the picture on the front of one of the fake books that will become the uprights of the book end stands.

I was going to try and replicate one of Arjan's real t-shirts, but I think that might be unnecessarily complex, and likely to go wrong - so it'll probably just stay like this.

Booties in use

I've just been sent a picture of my friend's baby wearing the booties I made for her. They look ridiculously cute, and I am correspondingly ridiculously pleased.

Does baking count?

My entry into the work "Bake off" charity event. It's not actually a competition, just please donate cake which people can donate money to eat.

Bookend stands

Now that both Pooh and Tigger have been painted on both sides they've also been treated to a coat of spray varnish and put to one side.

And so we've started thinking about the stands for them. What we've decided we'd like to do is make the uprights look like books; one by Arjan, one by me.

Arjan's taking Pooh's side, and the book will have the title "Pooh and Brother Bear".

I've combined some images, and traced them onto the front, hopefully it'll all work out when it comes to painting it!

Birthday board - finished!

Everything has been varnished and assembled, so whilst the birthday board is not hung, it is completed.