Valentine's Day and a Website Re-vamp!

I hope that you all had a fab Valentine's Day last weekend! Unfortunately I had to work all weekend which was a bit rubbish! But after returning from a meal to celebrate one of the hubby's friends birthdays on sat night, he surprised me with an early Valentines present of a dozen red roses! Cue a few tears from me partly because I am soppy but mainly due to the fact that it was totally unexpected, plus romantic gestures do not happen particularly often even on such days! I found it even more touching that not only had he made the effort, but that he said that he had to search high and low to find some that were not frost damaged after our recent cold snap!

Valentines was then properly celebrated by us after I returned from work on Sunday when we had our usual M&S meal deal, which seems to be becoming a bit of a tradition these days! This consisted of a starter of tai fishcakes cooked by myself with a lovely sauce, a main of rump steak coated in peppercorns and peppercorn sauce cooked by my hubby and served with rosemary potato's and mixed veg, then a dessert which consisted of a heart mousse which was half milk chocolate filled with salted caramel and dusted with glitter, and half white chocolate with a passion fruit and sponge filling. We also had a selection of heart chocolates on the side, and then finished it all off with a lovely bottle of white wine. Then my hubby also presented me with a lovely card and chocolate bunny, so all in all it was a fab evening and I was spoilt rotten!

Apart from celebrating Valentine's Day the last few weeks have mainly been quiet and just filled with work at my retail job, especially with this week being half-term. I did however get the chance to pop out on my lunch break to visit a new baby shop that has just opened within the town. It was full of so many gorgeous little outfits and items that I just had to buy a little something for our Niece that is due at the end of the month! I don't normally buy pressies before the baby's arrival, but on this occasion I just couldn't help myself! I bought a gorgeous little floral baby grow and some peter rabbit milestone cards, which were beautifully gift wrapped for me in a little box. To top it all off I also won a 20% discount on one of their scratch cards to celebrate the opening of the store, plus I just had to take one of the gorgeous bunny balloons that they were giving out despite fact that I am not a child! You can see the balloon and bag below sitting in our work staff room, along with the beautiful gift box.

In other news if you follow my Bobby Bunny & Friends Facebook page you may have seen that I have recently updated my website which had been a little neglected and needed a bit of tlc! The actual content and style hasn't changed if you are looking at it on a laptop, but I have now made it phone and tablet compatible which looks much slicker and is easier to navigate. It took me most of my day off to do last week, but I am pretty happy with the results.

I hope that I find you all well and that none of you were badly affected by storm Imogen that passed by particularly the south of the UK last weekend. We had some pretty high winds and torrential rain when it hit us, but luckily the worst of it hit at night and there wasn't anymore damage in the area other than the odd fallen tree and a slight bit of flooding on some of the local roads. Luckily the weather has generally cheered up on the whole this week, with some much colder and frosty but sunny days. The nights are also starting to noticeably draw out a little now and it's almost not dark when I leave work now!

I also hope that you have all had a fab week, and that you enjoy the coming weekend! I am very much looking forward to this weekend and next week, as I am off of work from now until a week Tuesday! So I am hoping to get loads of jobs done around the home and with my illustrating! Thanks as always for visiting. x    

Website Goes Live!

I hope that you all had a lovely day both on Tuesday for Pancake Day, and yesterday for Valentine's Day. Today I am pleased to announce that my website has finally gone live! I was hoping to get it up and running for Tuesday as I mentioned in my last post, but unfortunately the server has been down for the last few days so I was unable to get access to it, plus I also came down with the flu so Tuesday was generally doomed as launch day! It's just a basic site for now but I am quite pleased with how it has turned out, and I hope you enjoy browsing it.

 

I have also joined the world of Pintrest this week and set up my own account, which is something that I have been meaning to do for a while now. As well as this you have probably noticed that I have set up a new Navigation bar on my blog too, so Bobby Bunny and Friends are officially taking over the web!

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend; I am out for a hen night which I am very much looking forward to. I just need to dose myself up and make myself well for it, but I am feeling much better today anyway. Have fun and I hope the weather is good for whatever you may be doing! x

Visitors From Oz & New Website Image 2 - Bobby On Phone!

Morning! I hope that you all had a lovely weekend, and wrapped up warm! I had a pretty busy one, spending Saturday in Brighton meeting up with the hubby's family which was nice. Then on Sunday we went over to my parents, as my Godmother and her family who are currently over from Australia were coming to visit.

It was so lovely to see them all as it's the first time they have been over since they emigrated nearly six years ago. I think that the weather has been a bit of a shock to them though after being in 40 degree heat, and especially for their boys as they were only 3 and 6 when they moved and don’t remember allot of the country, and certainly haven't experienced snow or temperatures like this before.

It was really weird seeing the boys so grown up now and with ozzy accents. But they all looked really well and, even though we hadn't seen them in all in such a long time as soon as they arrived it seemed like it was only yesterday since we had last seen them. Like it often does with good friends, no matter how long it is since you have seen them that connection doesn’t go.

The day went very quickly and it’s a shame that we won’t be seeing more of them while they are here, as I know that they too would have liked to see more of us to. But they are only over for three weeks and have a lot of family, friends and sightseeing to do in that time.

However seeing them again has really refreshed my want to go over and see them one day when we can afford it.

In other news I have finished my second Bobby Bunny image to go onto the Contact page of my website, as you can see below. So my website should be ready to go live tomorrow! Have a good day x

New Website Image - Bobby Holding Welcome Sign!

As I mentioned a few posts back I have been busy building new website to promote myself as an Illustrator, and it is now very nearly ready to go live. So this week I have been working on the finishing touches, which are a couple of images that will be placed on a few of the pages. One of which I have just finished ready to go on my homepage as you can see below, and the other I will be able to share with you in a few days.

I hope that your week is going well and that the weather is looking up where you are! We have a very chilly breeze at the moment but do actually have some sunshine, which feels quite alien after the weather of late! x

Website & Logo!

This week I have been busy creating a new website to promote myself as an Illustrator. I did have one after I graduated but it was only very simple and became a little dated, so I shut it down just before I started this blog.

This time round I wanted something where I could have more freedom with the look and style of the website as well as having links to my blog, Etsy shop and Facebook page, when they are eventually up and running! So I am being a little more adventurous and building it myself this time almost from scratch! I am gradually getting to grips with it and it is looking good, but it is very time consuming. I spent the best part of an evening trying to get a button to click the other night. But like I say it is coming along now and should be ready to launch within the next week or so!

In other news I have also been putting together a new stand alone Bobby Bunny Logo, to be used on the back of my greetings card designs. I have still used the same image of Bobby dragging his blanket in pyjamas, but wanted something that would also incorporated my name but still go with my blog banner. After a bit of playing about with different text and image placement to see what worked best I came up with the image below, any comments as to what you think of it would be welcome.

I hope that the weather hasn't been too bad where you are. Here we have had some lovely crisp sunny days but no snow as of yet, however that may change by tomorrow. When it comes to snow I’m still a bit of a big kid, and as inconvenient as it can be I still like the magical feel of waking up to see everything pure and white. Have a good day and wrap up warm! x