Pattern Gift Idea Tapestries

An abstract pattern, reminiscent of seeds / feathers / leaves / flowers in soft pastel colours on grey.

A pattern created from illustrations of apples, pears and leaves, hand drawn with colored pencil crayons.

A painted pattern of delicious unhealthy stuff in pastels and primaries.

A little fox with a lot of balloons. : )

A cute pair of green olives that love eachother very much.

Dinah loves her mommy! : ) Actually, I think Dinah was about to bite her mommy's ear and was momentarily (marvellously) distracted... Capturing this moment kind of made my day. Camera Model Canon EOS 500D Shooting Date/Time 2011/02/03 01:48:19 PM Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/640 Av( Aperture Value ) 2.8 ISO Speed 160 Lens EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM Focal Length 100.0 mm

It gets brighter and sunnier with every day over here in the Southern hemisphere. In the mood for some summer. : ) Hand drawn with ink pen and coloured in Photoshop.

A bright, boho pattern in blush pink, tangerine orange, blue, indigo, mint green and black on a cream background.

Hope you like it!

Grey, white and indigo shades of marble stone in an Art Deco style collage of tiles, with textured yellow / mustard edges.

I have an old wooden table that was painted white in the far distant past, now it peels charmingly and is worn and weathered. I only wish it really had these doodles of mine all over it, that would be great. This is my digital imagining of how it might look. : )

A second colour version of my Friday floral tangle.

This is a drawing that Tane (8) did for me, and that I coloured by hand and in photoshop. They are (from left to right) Tane, Grace, Perrin and Mila, my lovely daughters. Grace has asked for this as a T. ( :

Pretty pastels. : )

Oil on canvas - 60 x 80 cm This is the only other painting I did in December - a very non-serious exploration of colour and shape - for the sheer joy of working with oil paint again after all this time. : )

Sugar and spice and all things nice... Christmas is coming! : )

A border print bohemian doodle in soft, radiant shades of pink, blush, peach, golden yellow, mustard, orange, cream and red.

We have this ancient, white-painted, falling-apart table in our old farmhouse, I photographed it and overlayed it with a hand drawn doodle star pattern of mine.

Marshmallow pies... mmmmm. : ) Canon EOS 500D Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/250 Av( Aperture Value ) 4.5 ISO Speed 100 Lens EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM

Inspired by the antics of "George":http://www.redbubble.com/people/micklyn/art/4750125-1-george-on-white and "Somerset Rose":http://www.redbubble.com/people/micklyn/art/4813890-1-somerset-in-sepia our new kittens. Hand drawn and coloured with pencil crayons. Here they are, asleep in eachother's arms after a hard day fighting off evil balls of yarn with ambitions of world domination...

It has actually been raining in my garden all day - so lovely and so needed. This pattern was created from a single, hand drawn, ink doodle.

... Insert Pea Here! Inspired by the children's fairytale, The Princess and the Pea. ( : Hand drawn, scanned and coloured in Photoshop CS2.

This is what my now 2 month old baby boy does... sleeps 'til he's hungry and then eats 'til he's sleepy. : ) He is a PODGE!!! (and soooo cute!) Hand drawn typography, coloured in Photoshop.

A pattern hand drawn in pencil. The teal version. Last one, I think.

For the love of colour! : )

I can sit and doodle all day, the hours just disappear. This is a hand drawn doodle of mine, with added butterflies. : )

I love folk art. : )

I spent a lovely afternoon yesterday, with a new pencil, clean paper, mellow music playing and flowers on the table in front of me that my six year old picked for me in the garden. This is what came of it. : )

A colorful holiday doodle squeezed in between crazy bouts of baking, endless loads of laundry and much merry-making, celebration & feasting. Happy Christmas, everyone!

A hand drawn daisy doodle - at least when I draw them they do what I want, not so much when I try to photograph them. : )

Hand painted watercolor hexagons, flowers, leaves and dots in rainbow shades of blue, pink, green, magenta & orange on navy.

: ) Little Levi, 8 and a half months old now (time flies, huh?) chewing on a box, as babies love to do ... Matchbox shot with: Camera Model Canon EOS 600D

....is so darn difficult to shoot - she won't keep still for a SECOND. However, I did my best and here she is. She delights me daily with her antics and her magical character entrances all who come into contact with her. My daughter, Grace (6), dressed in the beautiful bougainvillea that flourishes outside my bedroom window, which continually calls me to take photographs of it. Having said that, how many bougainvillea pics can you possibly take before everybody is bored silly? (and I've done quite a few...) So I thought I'd do a different take on bougainvillea, although I'm not great with photoshop.

One of my beautiful daughters dancing... taken using a Canon 400D, using natural light. This image was also taken further by my friend, wonderful artist "Karen Scrimes

Delicious, sweet, fresh AND good for you. :)