Posts by Sal
Personalising 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…
Read MoreA story letter print for Hetty
Here’s a recent story letter print I created for Hetty . It is fun creating these, each is unique in choice of illustration, name or adding a date. Hetty was happy with our happy hen and hound decorating H in our coral lettering and requested it be personalised with a date and her full name.…
Read MoreNarwhal and nightingales
What a lot has been happening – the greatest good being we can now have a decent hair cut and the zoos and pubs and restaurants are open! A new N WILL SOON APPEAR ON A PLACEMAT – my N for narwhal. I was asked to draw a narwal by a customer – great addition…
Read MoreAlphabet letter M is for mice and mackerel under the mistletoe
From Cape Wrath to Cornwall, many know the excitement of rowing into a shoal of fast moving fish, casting a line and within minutes, hauling aboard a line of mackerel. Mine were caught on the west coast of Scotland, where the oystercatchers cry and the warm winds from the Gulf Stream do blow – at…
Read MoreThis is the story of Lydia.
Today I am posting a name to celebrate all the girls on the home front during WW11 and to show how I can customise a name with a story through illustrations to make your name print very personal . Lydia is an old family friend who worked for Churchill during the war , biking from…
Read MoreOystercatchers, oars and pheasants from afar.
I never realised till blogging these illustrated alphabet letters how many feathery friends appear, which seems ironic as here we are in lockdown , not flying anywhere, not even to Paris! Here is letter P for pheasant who flew into Britain, courtesy of the Romans, in the 11th Century.. How on earth! My pheasant is…
Read MoreChoose which R for your personalised print or a placemat to suit Rory, Rafferty or Rosie
It’s useful having two different illustrations for this very popular letter, R. Rory, Rafferty, Rosemary all have two Rs so both illustrations can be used in one nameprint. I never repeat an illustration on a name print. As you can see. Both illustrations appear as placemats, so choose the one that best suit the person.…
Read MoreAlphabet letter S is a speedy Spaniel on a placemat and a coaster…
On this sunny day, here is the alphabet letter S is for Speedy Spaniel on a placemat and coaster, so together they make a great gift. I hope he’s self-isolating like the man skiing on his sofa in a what’s app that has been circulating! My father gave this spaniel, Benjie, to my mother to…
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