Over the years, I’ve made lots of friendship via blogging. Damian from Dorkboy Comics is one of my internet buddies and we still keep in touch when we can.

This week I received a super cool package from Damian. A comic illustration featuring Little Mo which he drew last year. My first ever Action Mo!

and a 2010 Dorkboy calendar, I love his quirky humour!

Damian has kindly given me two calendars and I would like to share his art with my blog readers!

If you would like this awesome calendar, just leave a comment on this post. Leave a nice message for Damian too! A lucky reader will be drawn and this unique art calendar will be posted over to you as a present! Cheers!

Hello 3.30am and I’ve finally finished an epic artwork. A magazine illustration for the Mental Health Division, Department of Health WA.

I thought I’d share some before and after pictures with you. This was what I roughly sketched and sent to the client BEFORE:

And after colouring and touching up. This is AFTER:

As you can see, I tend to go crazy with details. And I also tend to experiment with as much colours as possible.

Sometimes it drives me nuts and it makes me wonder why I even bother. But sometimes I like the challenge.

I think this blonde sweetheart has sort of made up for the late nights:)

Many of you have asked how I made my little house shelf. So I’m sharing this tutorial so that you can make your own.

You can make it to any size, and you can prop it up in your work room or your kid’s room to display children’s books, magazines, letters or anything you fancy:)

Outline your house on the wood. Mine is an MDF panel board from Bunnings. It cost $11.50. It’s sort of ‘medium’ in thickness. Not too thick and heavy, and not too thin either. My father in-law helped me cut it.

We used two pieces of wood and a hinge to make the stand.

It’s easier to make the stand when the house is flat.

We glued wood moulding to decorate the border of the house. You can get lots of different patterns like flowers and vines. They come in a long strip. I chose a simple pattern called rope. They are all available at Bunnings.

We made two basic shelves. We outlined on the wood first.

Then we glued and nailed the shelves on.

The fun part is colouring the house. I painted mine white because I only had white paint at that time. But you can colour yours in something colourful and stick plenty of fun stuff on it!

One of these days I might re-paint mine..in stripes or polka dots maybe:)

I made new packaging labels for my postcard pack. They include a bit more description such as:

- Made in Western Australia
- 100% recycled
- To and From messages

Now you can write your loved one’s name when you give them a pack of Mo cards. I think it makes gift giving more fun and cheerful:) No more ordinary Birthday cards.

Available with my Garden set and Beautiful Day set. Enjoy.

Sending these cuties off to the printers to be made into gift tags. See any favourites yet?

I started drawing them when I was writing this post. I had to put the project on hold during the wedding but now that it’s over, I am slowly catching up with all of my drawings and colouring (just about).

I would really like to turn them into Mo badges and Mo magnets too. I am doing a few test runs here with some of my materials before I share them with you.

I like cozy cafes with fresh bread and pastries.
I like menus written on chalkboard.
I like girls in aprons.
I like my coffee milky.
I like sitting by the window.
I like people-watching from the window.
I like the word ‘old fashioned’ and will most likely order an ‘old fashioned apple pie’ than a tiramisu.
I like bread take away in a brown paper bag.

Photos of our blue and orange wedding, captured by our photographer Jen Regan from Anna Rose Photography.

Have I said how amazing her magic fingers are? Yes I have:)

Thank you Jen for spending the day with us! You can see more of our wedding photos here. And the art gallery we got married in.

Gah! It’s finally over and we can go back to our quiet lives! One of the scariest things about getting married is coming dressed up and being conscious about the fact that everyone is looking at you! I really hope that I didn’t look too out of place with my dress choice. Truthfully it was the only white dress that I could afford for our handmade wedding. I dressed it up with a flower headpiece and orange shoes. That’s it!

The night before our wedding was pretty crazy. We spent many long hours at the art gallery setting up the tables and chairs and doing all the decorations by ourselves. I roped in mum to iron all the table cloths and got my friends to fold the paper napkins. Rich also decided that we should have blue bubble bottles instead!

The flowers were a different drama altogether. The florist rang up to say that the flowers we ordered wouldn’t arrive for the wedding so we used what they had left in the shop; orange mokara orchids, red and yellow James story orchids and orange calla lilies. As for the vases, I just made do with what I had lying around my house and in the art gallery. Truth be told, I was starting to think we would never get any rest! By the time I got into bed it was 3am and then the alarm clock woke me up 2 hours later for the wedding!

As it turned out, everything was so fun and the wedding really reflected our personality and our handmade spirit. We didn’t order a wedding cake so we got everyone to bring a home made dessert to sweeten up our day.

We’re just so glad to spend the day with our closest friends and family. I’ll share more pictures once they are ready!

Jennifer Regan from Anna Rose Photography took some couple portraits of us before the wedding. We had so much fun. You can see more of our photos here.

She must have magic fingers…and my man looks good too!

Check out her beautiful work on her fan page. She’s pretty amazing.

Hello! Today we spent the day making paper lanterns and hanging them up at the art gallery. Luckily my brother in-laws came to help us and we got the job done pretty quickly.

These blue and orange paper lanterns for our wedding are so budget friendly and they came in a big pack. Oh and I bought them from ebay too. Can’t beat that right? I think they look pretty cute side by side.

Tomorrow I have to arrange the tables and flowers…and we should be good to go on Sunday!