The end is nigh!

It's been a hectic few weeks! I finished all my exams and now uni is over for good and I have very mixed feelings about it all. It's exciting as this means I can  finally start saving for some travelling and i'll also be going back to work for my old boarding school where my official title will be "Boarders Mistress"!!  I can't help but find that a little hilarious but i'm looking forward to getting some work experience in something other than retail. That said i'm gonna miss London and the people i've met here... London's the sort of place where you can just randomly have a wonderful day out, out of know where and going to live in a boarding school in Belfast will be a big change.

But you know, life changes, things move on blah blah blah blaaaaaaaaaaaah and i plan to have an awesome last few weeks here. After a busy few days of being ill and having a friend over before he frolics off to Kenya to save some orphans I finally got a around to some drawing. I'm doing a swap with a friend of a friend who is drawing a McEnroe inspired Capybara (CapEnroe!) and Bear in pants is what i'm drawing for her in return. I also started to play around with some illustration ideas, I think my little drawings would be nice for kids so I thought I'd bring the Alphabet in on some of them... I think i'll keep it up but they could use some improving.

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Soooooooo... it's been a while...

(via: Electric Kitsch Facebook Page)

(via: Electric Kitsch Facebook Page)

Wow I feel so awkward, like a boyfriend who hasn't called in say, I dunno 6 MONTHS. I'm sorry blogger, forgive me but barely anyone reads this thing so I really think that we can get through it.

Anywho, I decided a while a go to cool it on the whole card making thing so that I could focus on my degree (hence the tumble weeds lately)... But then I got a text from Vicky telling me she was going to open a pop up shop in East London and she asked if I could provide some drawings for it. Quite frankly I just had to do it because a) I had been thinking of adding illustrations to my shop for a while and b) I've always wondered how my stuff would fare in the real world compared to the Internet. So I drew some stuff and it turns out that taking a break from drawing various animals in pants and jumpers was a good idea because I'm already a little bit behind on revision but I'm going to make up for it today I promise (she says whilst procrastination blogging) but at the same time getting back into drawing again and selling illustrations was a good idea because I've sold a few already yaaaay!

I went up to the shop, called Electric Kitsch and it's great! I got an awesome fox tote bag for me and a turtle pillow for my boyfriend from Y.H Clothing and an elephant badge from Matin Lapin for a friend.

So the plan from now on is to slowly start drawing more often so I can provide some more illustrations for Electric Kitsch and then to get fully back into it in June once I've finished all my exams. Hopefully another blog post will come sooner rather than later!

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P.S. To East London types! Find Electric Kitsch here:

Unit 10, 750-760 High Road Leytonstone

E11 3BB

So bloody productive!

I dunno about you guys but my weekend was very Northern Irish and therefore very brilliant! My best friend came to visit and won over my housemates with her ability to tell you what's wrong with your eyes just by looking at your glasses. Then I met up with my neighbours from back home and had a touristy day out in central London which was fun but also frigging exhausting because it was the first time in a while that I had to walk for longer than 3 minutes to get anywhere -my uni and my job are ridiculously close by to my flat you see- and I'm now a bit concerned about my extreme lack of fitness.

Needless do say I doubt this weekend will live up to last weekend, especially with uni work piling up...

ANYWAY! I was super productive last night and made a bunch of cards! Just need to buy some envelopes and find a better place to take pictures (these ones are the very few decent ones) then I'll put them up for sale, here they are:

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It aint all bad...

Let me be really honest about why I haven't posted much lately. Basically, it's because I've been moping around a lot due to the fact that I'm going through my first break up and rather unsurprisingly, break ups are shit! I don't want to go into a lot of detail as I feel like that it would be a little crass but I have been very up and down lately hence the lack of blogging/drawing.
It's not all been terrible; I've never studied so much  in my life... not that I think that I consciously chose spending time with my then boyfriend over studying. It's more that now that I have more time to myself  I think to myself  "well I might as well go do some work."
My friends and family have of course been the best, even just by listening to me whine down the phone and  just generally being cool people, just a couple of days ago a friend and I managed to piss ourselves with laughter at how terribly we handled each others break ups, it was quite therapeutic. And there is of course my Aunt, who's house I went to for some serious moping because moping around a flat you've just moved into with people I didn't know too well did not appeal to me. I'm sure having a crying mess of girl around the flat wouldn't have been particularly comfortable for them either! (That said, when it comes up they are very sweet) I seriously do not know what I would do without my Aunt so close by!
I've got a lot of reading done too, since I got back I've read two "Twilight" books (try not to judge me), "The Perks of being a Wall Flower" and the "Hunger Games". Now I'm reading "Sputnik Sweetheart" by Haruki Murakami to try make up for the fact that I read two twilight books.

I was supposed to open my Etsy shop on the 24th of September but because a mixture of feeling funny, not having space in my room for a desk and being back in full time education, it's still closed for them moment. Now that I have one major and very difficult essay out of the way, hopefully I can get it opened soon!

A few days ago however, I did do some drawing at the library -  here's some new ideas I've had for Christmas:

I'm pretty happy with the bear Christmas card at the top and the giraffe one at the bottom, but I'm not so sure about the middle one though. I like the idea of doing a card meant for someone who was born on Christmas Day but I just think I need to make the bear in the card itself needs to be a bit more obvious about it.

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Hello again...

After sitting around and watching 25 million episodes of SNL, I decided to return to reality!
So here I am, back in London. I'm all moved into my tiny room (which isn't as tiny as I thought it would be). I've just been getting back into the swing of things, going to class and hanging out with my new housemates. I'm living with 3 boys! Gross! but I think it'll be a nice change to always living with girls... if slightly more disgusting.
I ended up doing a last minute craft fair! I texted Vicky to let her know I'd be coming down to visit her at her  stall at FUSS market and she told me I might as well bring some cards down, so I did! Luckily I made some over the summer. It went well for a last minute sort of thing, made an extra bit of cash which was handy as i hadn't got my student loan by that point. I love FUSS market, it' always has a lovely atmosphere and  it was also nice to catch up with Vicky AND to make it even better they allowed dogs in, good lord they were cute.

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