My piggy design!

Hello again everyone,

Here's a photo of one of my recent favourite designs which has been made into a card. It was featured in Cross stitch collection. Isn't he lovely!

Have a nice evening everyone.

Jenny

Design featured in Cross stitch collection

Hi everyone,

I hope you're all well and that all of my UK followers have been making the most of the beautiful sunshine!
Here's a kitchen design that I produced for the wonderful magazine, Cross stitch collection.

Hope you all like it!

Jenny

My new artwork

Hello again,

Just a quick post before I hit the sack! I decided that I may as well upload my recent artwork onto here. I've recently discovered a love of using coloured pencils and I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm hooked! Here's a couple of my coloured pencil drawings......

This is a drawing of my youngest daughter, Heidi. Heidi really dislikes having her photograph taken which I think is pretty evident from this picture! It took me around 20 hrs to draw and I used polychromo and pablo pencils with a bit of pen for the sparkly areas of her dress and tiara. Heidi chose this photo because she 'looks like a princess'......Oh, how right she is!!!! I especially enjoyed working on the hair on this drawing but the less said about the tiara, the better!

This is my eldest daughter, Isabelle. Isabelle loves having her photo taken and immediately demands I take her photo whenever she spots that the camera is out! This drawing is from a photograph I took of Isabelle at the Leicester space centre. The reason I chose to draw this particular picture was because it was one of the very few photos were she was completely unaware that I had the camera out! I much prefer to work from a photo that hasn't been been posed for, I tend to find that they look much more natural. This one took around 15 hrs and was drawn using polychromo and pablo pencils on stonehenge paper.

Hope you all like my pictures anyway.
Now I'm off to bed so I have plenty of energy for more drawing tomorrow!
Night folks.
Jenny x

Cross Stitch purse featured in Cross Stitch Collection magazine

Hi everybody,

Hope you're all well.
As usual, I'll start this post with an apology for not updating you all with any new posts for a while! I've been super duper busy with new commissions, child care, school runs.....you get the picture! Anyway, I just wanted to create a post to feature this gorgeous purse that the talented team at Cross Stitch Collection team made from one of my cross stitch designs. Isn't it lovely! It was in issue 150.

Be back soon.........   :  )

Jenny x

Yum...cake!

Hello. Just thought I would post this yummy looking cake on my blog! It's from the lovely magazine, Cross Stitch Collection, issue 241. If you're a new follower, you'll be in with the chance to win this and other magazines.  :  )

My recent life drawing sketches

Hello again. I'm so pleased that, since living in Leicester from April 2014, I've finally got my act together and found some lovely life drawing groups! I've really been missing life drawing although I must admit, I am finding it a bit of a struggle to get back into the swing of things! Here's a selection of my sketches, they range from spending 5 - 20 minutes for each drawing. I think you'll probably agree that there's plenty of room for improvement so it's practise, practise, practise!! :  )

Cross Stitch Collection 245

Hi everyone. I realise it's a little belated but, happy new year! I hope you all have a wonderful 2015.

Here's my latest design for Cross Stitch Collection, I'm really proud that it's made the main feature on the front cover!