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.

Laura Figiel - Designer/illustrator

I have often been asked to do some small designs and illustrators for people and more recently I have been asked to do some more exciting projects, so I thought it was time I pimped myself a bit more and get an online portfolio of my work for you all to see!

www.Laurafigiel.co.uk

My She Draws shop is filled with some of my illustrations but there is still a lot more to me and so this portfolio website should give more of a idea of what I can do.

It's still work in progress as I have lots of design work and illustrations to finish and add, but please get in touch if you are interested in any design or illustrations.

Thanks all!

Some quick questions.

Hi Folks,

Sorry for not being around too much on the ol' blog.

I've been doing lots of shop cleaning up behind the scenes and i'd love it if you could help me out with some questions to help me improve my shop even more.

Just click on the image above and it should sent you to the questionnaire.

Thanking you all!

On deck.

I wish the weather would stick to the boating kind so I can wear more of my deck shoes :)

Coming sew soon.

Having a sew

My regular blog readers will know that a few months ago I bought myself a mini John Lewis sewing machine and many of you emailed and commented to see how it was going. Well anyway after a while I finally got it out and did something serious with it and decided on customising a top I hope in a fab colour.

The shirt was a bit like this to start with (please note not my image, but silly me didn't think to take a pic of before).

My shirt is quite a thick cotton material that had a tie at the top but kind of sat weird due to the weight of the fabric, unlike the one above. Anywho, it was a great colour and too good to give away so I though I would take the tie off and add a collar. The collar was created from an old lambs wool/angora wool top that had shrunk in the wash so it was snipped up and whizzed round the machine on a zig zag setting.

It was close to being finished, but not quite so I decided on Teasemading it up. Sami, from Teasemade very kindly created me some hand stitched buttons in a Grayson Perry fabric and matching raspberry thread. She is so super and it all matches perfectly.

Here is the final thing!

Can you see those cute little button fellas?

I should also add that for a sewing novice it was a super machine!

Ladies & gents

It's taken a while but I finally have some more ladies & gents tshirts in the shop!