Fancy Powder Rooms

On Saturday I went to see Lucky Elephant at Carnivale in Whitechapel, they were really good: definitely got me in the mood for summer. Lulu and the Lampshades were supporting, excellent to see a predominantly female band doing so well, love their use of house hold objects as instruments.
As well as good music the bar had unisex toilets(!), with fabulous modern sinks set in old fashioned dressing tables.

Cupcakes are out...

...Whoopie Pies are in!

Borough Market

Whilst wandering around Borough Market last week, Alex and I spotted this familiar face.
Check out Charlie's meat blog here

Cuban adventure

At the moment I'm designing some wedding invitations, and the couple are staying in The Church Street Hotel for a night, before they jet off on their own Cuban adventure. It looks wonderful.

Windows

I went down the Walworth Road yesterday to look in the charity shops, and came across this eye-catching window display at The Salvation Army. Encouraging shoppers to recycle, they're offering an incentive scheme: buy a bag and we'll give you a £2.00 voucher for your next shop.
In my mind the window display cleverly sums up this, and the whole ethos of the shop, very effectively.

Childhood musings

We're having our loft done, whilst sorting through endless piles of my 'work' from primary school, I came across a poem I wrote when I was about 7. I assume the inspiration came from this photo, as it's attached to the writing.
Here it is word for word.
My teacher must have thought I was a nut job.

Once upon a time there was a lady called Caroline. She had lots of bottles, she went to the bottle bank, she came back with no bottles.

She had her lunch, she had some soup, after that she went to her sisters house. They had a biscuit and a cup of tea, her sister's husband died, Caroline comforted her. She went home.
When she got home she had a glass of beer, her husband came in he said you're drunk.
She fainted, her husband took her to the ambulance, the ambulance took her to the hospital. The doctor said, it's alright, you have just fainted.
The End

If I could sing...

... I'd sing like Poly Styrene from the X Ray Spex.
Her effortless drawl is superb.

Bestival

I've just booked Bestival! Can't wait.
The theme this year is Fantasy, I might go as Fantastic Mr Fox. Definitely staying away from any kind of face paint: the green didn't come off for days.
Looking forward to seeing Wild Beats, LCD Soundsystem and Archie Bronson Outift.

Paper Cuts

As I mentioned in the previous post, I've been doing some paper cut outs.
Haven't quite figured out yet how I'll use them in my work, but there's got to be a way.

Fisher FC

A few weeks ago my friend Jude asked me to do an illustration for his website: Fisher FC. To be used on the community page, it had to represent the team's former proud home: Bermondsey, and their new shared grounds in Dulwich. After playing around with some paper cut outs, I settled on this version, using a combination of hand drawing and drawing with a tablet.

Last week I went down to one of the matches, and jolly good fun we had too.