Blowing away the cobwebs.

I realised I hadn't blogged for a while and things have been busy. I'm still deciding what to do about my blog and how to take it to the next stage, so please excuse the huge gaps in between each post!

Whilst things have been busy, nothing too exciting has been going on and every time I go out I forget to take my camera! I promise to go and explore my new place to call home with my camera next time, so for now I leave you with a picture from Sunday when the Boyfriend took me to see some car event at Brands Hatch. It was such a gorgeous say and I was pleased to be able to wear my new rayban clubmaster's glasses all day long.

So far

So far my new job and home is going really well. I really like my knew job, it's something I have always dreamed of, what I really wanted to do and I really do have to pinch myself when i leave work because I just can't believe I am there. When I am at work, working on these great briefs and seeing what everyone else is getting to do, I just take it with a pinch of salt and only when I come home, I think wow.

I wish I could tell you all about the gorgeous things we're all designing but since we work for far ahead, although for christmas 2011 it's hard to say anything without giving it all away! I hope you can understand!

I haven't blogged for a while now, but I have been thinking about it and thinking about what I can now do now i'm not selling like before. I hope that my blog can brings fresh, lovely things, a feast for the eyes, perhaps some DIY projects and just things I see and are inspired by. Today I will leave you with some pictures of Celia Birtwell's new season at John Lewis. Looooove her stuff and I'd really love the white top.

Bye for now!

Mouth watering.

This blog makes my mouth water!

A gift for you

Here I have a little gift for you! It's a vintage telegram, which once was a telegram to congratulate my mum & her brothers birth. I scanned this in an cleaned it up so we can all have some telegram love so you can just take it off my blog and get writing a telegram to your friends!

This wonderful design of birds and owls is a by Barbara Jones, who designed all sorts of other wonderful illustrations back in the 50's & 60's.

Also, I hope you're liking my new blog layout, I decided to go back to "draw glue glitter make" since I now have my She Draws shop, but also my freelance illustrations as Laura Figiel and this will be a great grounding for inbetween both these projects. I think it has given me some direction too as i'm a bad blogger :(

P.S I'm giving lots of goodies away with sales in my Folksy shop for very nearly reaching 300 sales. I'm just two away and I will be giving goodies away with sales upto 300 but also a few after to keep the buzz! There are some tshirt bargain too.

Double award

I was kindly award this Kreativ Blogger award by both Edwina Simone and Crafty Jemima. Thanks guys!

Although the rules are to pass this on, I won't be since all the people I would nominate have already been awarded and therefore it can all get a bit overwhelming. So this now is dedicated to anyone who wants to be nosy :).

Ok so i'll do 14 things about me, here goes:

1. I love the Time Team. Tony Robinson is just great.

2. I believe hands say a lot about a person and I especially don't like it when people have extremely dry hands!

3. I can't stand fussy eaters. I am not fussy at all and I have even taken to peas from not refusing them even though I didn't like them.

4. I'm not a big novel reader, but I do like adventures :)

5. I have camel coloured hair. If I say it's brown I sound like an in denial ginger, if I say I'm ginger I sound pretentious. Can't win.

6. I have to have a drink of tea in the morning and at around 4 in the afternoon or else hell breaks loose.

7. My boyfriend is half Greek.

8. I've not had a filling in a tooth yet, touch wood got the dentist in May.

9. I drive a VW red Lupo.

10. I have a old fashioned Eiderdown which I have on my bed at all times, even in the summer. I am mad.

11.  For some strange reason a lot of people think my name is Lauren, especially my boyfriends friends who continue to call it me.

12. I hate wearing socks.

13. I used to be the editor of a Parish magazine.

14. I love charity shopping and have found a Hugo Boss skirt and some Ray Ban's in the past.

I hope you enjoy the silly facts about me!

Felt balls.

I made some felt balls with my college kids the other day. I would show you but I saw this tutorial and they're way cuter than mine! I might even have a go at making this charm myself.

Katherines blog is just fab in everyway go check it out.

My Globe.

I thrifted this fab globe a few weeks ago from a charity shop after i'd been on a half day business course. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it as i'd seen nearly every other fab blogger own a globe, but never found my own and suddenly it was staring me in the face. Yay!

As you can see it's also a light, which just added extra achievement to my find. The light fixture was broken though and it burnt a bit of the shrink plastic before I realized, but this evening I taped it up with a bit of white insulation tape since my gluing attemps fail.

I feel happy now :)

New advert

Hi everyone,

This is just a quick post about the blog advert swap I did a while ago as now I am She Draws I need you all to be so kind of swap it to my new advert.

It would be really great if you could just take the advert straight from here and them link it to www.shedraws.co.uk. Many thanks!!

Advert swap.

Would you like to swap shop/blog adverts? If so;

1. Take either one of my ads, which ever suits your blog style best, put it on your blog and link it up to www.glueandglitter.co.uk.

2. Then email me your advert to Laura@glueandglitter.co.uk and state the site you would like to link it up to. My prefered blog advert sizes would be 210px X 110px or 150px X 150x. And then I am all ready to add it to my blog, simple!