Posts by Sal
Placemats that look great in a colourful kitchen or neutral scheme!
Looking for placemats that will look good in a colourful or a neutral kitchen? Here’s why my illustrated letter placemats rest easy in both settings: Our illustrated placemats look fantastic with the glazed earth ware espresso cups I bought back from Provence this week. Why? Because they share the same colour palette as French illuminated…
Read MoreMy bespoke illustrations always benefit from a break!
Dear Reader, When a friend invited me to walk the deepest Gorge in the world, I could not imagine how wonderful a detox adventure it would be! Zagoria is a nature lover’s paradise: sun, colour, new plants, new friends, bears and wolves. I managed to empty my mind of stale matter. I return with a…
Read MoreA spring fair
I rarely attend Spring fairs, so it was a fun to be at the Winchester GOLD garden fair yesterday. I so enjoyed it. Spectacular venue, lovely people , a sunny/showery day and everyone was out to shop. Lots of orders for NAME PRINTS – themed ones, ”zooming around,’ ‘In the garden’ , ‘On safari” ,…
Read MoreHAPPY 2023 and here’s to the wandering walrus.
The workshop opens again today – Having finally got rid of my Christmas cough, Jan ’23 feels energetic and positive! So here is a new coaster I created at the request of Wilfred. I hope he liked his walrus! Did you read about the walrus who landed on some bay on the East Coast of…
Read MoreOur new themed names are zooming around!
Hi Those of you who have visited my stall at a Christmas fair this season, will have seen my new themed names and are wondering why they are not yet on line – truth is I am so busy, just haven’t had time and websites are not my forte! so here is a photo of…
Read MoreThe Crown
What were you doing, 2 weeks ago? perhaps like me ,the car radio alerted you to the Queen’s deteriorating health? A text of a sad face from a french friend – (she was your Queen, to Les français, she was the Queen) told me it had happened. The nation has watched and partaken in the…
Read More‘Grief is the price we pay for Love’.
We all have our story to tell of the Eve September 8 th 2022. I raced all day , sorting stock for fairs, ensuring all at home done as I prepared to join my 3 fabulous sisters on a trip around Scotland visiting childhood haunts. A text from a French (!) friend of 3 sad…
Read MorePersonalising your print!
Good morning! We have so many windfall apples, already, they remind me of EDMUND who lives on an apple farm and asked for a tractor, his spaniel, a pheasant and loads of apples to decorate his name ( well, the person ordering it did. ) He loved it! Have you a personal story to illustrate…
Read MoreA new print has just sailed in!
It is a beautiful, sunny but very blustery day here in rural Oxfordshire. The puppy ( well, 9 months now) and I have been hacking back an over grown kiwi tree as I am terrified it is going to pull the trellis it is now much (was) larger than and land on someone. Our daughter,…
Read MoreAn Indian summer? –
The heat is still with us, having disappeared for a while – but it is rocketing hot here! So I decided, be it late in the season, to launch some old friends , painted before my now 27 year old daughter was born. I’ll call them Seville, as she spent some time there learning the…
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