Ok, just one more. We’re parked up in our home-on-the-road, Liberty the Great, in Te Awanga in the Bay of Plenty. It’s an awesome campground, right on the beach, and we’re loving the feeling of impending summer. There’s a legend in these parts of a beautiful woman called Pania who lived in the ocean, and fell in … Continue reading Bonus Drawing # 101, Pania of the reef
SO here it is, drawing #100. It’s taken me 231 days to get here, as opposed to my proposed 100, but I’ve stuck at it and made it through to the end. I’m good at having ideas and starting things, but not that awesome at getting them finished, so I’m pretty proud of myself. Some … Continue reading Day 100: The deepest sleep
Mr Mermaid, his tail sweeping through the air, whacking the ball out of the court, accidentally looks uncannily like my husband.
Last year I did some quick t-shirt designs for Thomas’ beach volleyball team in Hamburg. They’ve asked me to come up with a design again this year, and I’ve had fun coming up with designs for king and queen of the beach.
A friend got in touch recently to ask if I could do some lettering for a teatowel to be given out at a family gathering. She wanted a casual calligraphic look, which I managed to put together within a tight timeframe and budget. It was an interesting process working on a handlettered piece with this … Continue reading Day 96: Bounty
Feeling inspired by the flip in seasons, I thought I’d have a go at a repeat pattern. Very simple – not terribly well planned or executed, it was still fun. Another thing to add to my list of stuff I’d like to learn more about!
I’m not sure how accurate this portrait is, but I really enjoyed chatting with Brian, so thought I’d give it a go drawing a picture of him once I got home from Hamburg.
The conference was set in an historic church in Hamburg, MC’d by a guy dressed as a monk… drinking a beer, operating a Mac.
One of the handful of women at So Coded the other day sported the most amazing binary code tattoo. So awesome was it, in fact, that two of my fellow geeky speakers proceeded to spend about 5 hours trying to decode it. I’m not sure if they succeeded.
When you’ve flown right around the world in under a week and a half, day and night, wake and sleep, standing and falling all sort of blend into one.
Back when I used to co-produce World Sweet World Magazine with my husband, Thomas, our motto/ tagline was “Make your day”. I’ve been meaning to do a handlettered version of it for a while now, but have never gotten round to it. So here’s a first draft – there are things I’d like to change, … Continue reading Day 89: Go ahead, make your day
I’m in Hamburg, Germany at the moment, here (pretty mindblowingly) to speak at the developers conference, So Coded, about my life travelling and working in a bus. Hamburg is pretty much as far away from New Zealand as you can get, so the whole flying/ waiting/ flying/ waiting/ flying/ waiting/ flying process took about 30 … Continue reading Day 88: Long haul
I was in hospital recently with my son (for some tests and yes, he’s fine). I felt for all the weary parents who would just manage to doze off to the sound of beeping monitors and whimpering children, only to wake as a quiet nurse slipped past to whisper to the mum behind the adjoining … Continue reading Day 86: Hospital sleep
Letting a child struggle to do something without interfering is one of the challenges of parenthood. Seeing this 2 1/2 year old get into his ‘jamies by himself is a pretty sweet reward though!
Living in a housebus is great, don’t get me wrong. And I do love the admiring glances we often get. But sometimes, when we’ve been staying in a parking lot instead of a campground, I do get a little bit over hipsters peeking through the window of our home as they make their way back … Continue reading Day 82: Privacy
Every time I cut my children’s hair, I swear I’ll never do it again. Hairdressers are there for a reason, I tell myself. Then a couple of months and two shaggy boys down the track, those scissors start whispering to me again, and my fingers start twitching….