Week Off!

Sorry for the slightly longer absence than usual, I had a busy old week last week. Starting last Saturday with the hen night that I mentioned in the previous post, where twelve of us went up to Brighton in a Hummer Limo dressed up as pink ladies due to the fact that pink is the bride’s favourite colour. We all had a great girl’s night out, and I am very much looking to they're movie themed wedding at the end of next month.

Apart from this the rest of my week was taken up working full-time at my retail job, as the schools were off for half-term so we were relatively busy, which didn't give me time to do much else let alone drawing. So after all that this weekend just gone was a pretty chilled literally! We have had few lovely sunny almost spring like days recently, with some beautiful sunsets now that the days are starting to draw out. But over the weekend it has become very grey & bitter again, with the occasional snow flurries.

 

Now onto this week, and as you can see from the title of my blog I have the week off! Yay! So I am hoping to make up the lack of drawing blogging last week and get allot done, including tiding the flat & doing other mundane things that you never normally get the time for. I know that the week is going to fly by so I really do hope it's a productive one, and I hope that you all have a lovely week too! 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

An Appeal!

Some of you may already know about this if you read Julies blog over at Little Cotton Rabbits but for those of you that don't. There is a little place in Lancashire where a couple have set up an Animal Sanctuary for Saving Rare Breeds. They take in neglected, unwanted or abandoned farm animals and horses and are working towards opening an education centre to teach the next generation to care for these animals properly.

Unfortunately though as the project is self funded money can get tight and at the moment the owners Stephen and Tracey are having a particularly tough time, having have lost allot of their animals over the past week or so to a mystery illness.

So to help cheer them up a few blogger including myself, are trying to get them the most votes in a competition on Facebook to win £5,000. If they were to win it would enable them to them finish their new Animal Hospital, plus it won’t cost you a thing! All you need to go to the following link: http://www.facebook.com/FeelGoodPark?sk=app_440439032678865 add the app, like it and then place your vote for Saving Rare Breeds.

The competition is run each month by Animal Friends Insurance and they choose four charities to win a cash prize. Saving Rare Breeds are 3rd out of four this month, and there are only a few days left to go now. I know that there are allot of good causes out there but if you can spare the time to help I know that they would be very grateful. x

Snowy Walk!

Well as I hoped we, along with the vast majority of the country did indeed get snow! In comparison to allot of other places though I think that we got off quiet lightly here. We have probably had about 5-10cm max since last Friday, enough to build snow men and go sledging but not so much that it's caused too many major problems. It has stayed with us for most of the week and only really started clearing in the past few days with the sleety rain.

Though inconvenient for many the snow has given me the perfect opportunity to go out on some country walks and capture some snowy photos. I love photography at the best of times but find it extra special and magical in the snow! I particularly love wildlife photography so I went out to find some animals in the snow, which as you can see below I succeeded in. I saw robins, squirrels, a song thrush, and bunnies playing in the snow! (Trust me to find the bunnies!) I also saw a Jay bird which I have never seen before, but was rather peeved as it was in prime position just as the batteries in my camera ran out, just typical! I hope that you like the pics, I know that there I quite a few but I couldn't decide which ones to use!

A Lucky close-up shot of a Robin on a branch, and the church where I married looking pretty in the snow!

I took a photo of the lamp post because it reminded me of a snowy Narnia, and the picturesque river.

An old sign with a pretty backdrop and one of the squirrels that I saw playing in the snow.

Again these scenes reminded me of Narnia, and felt quite magical.

Pretty ice patterns that had formed on the pathway and more of the snowy river.

An ethereal looking tree in the snow & icicles that had formed along the side of the river's waterfall.

The tree walkway, and the area by the train tracks where I found the bunnies playing.

It was lovely to see the wild bunnies playing in the snow. They were quite skittish and easily spooked, but I manage to get gradually closer overtime to get these shots. I was quite pleased that I saw them relaxed enough to get the pictures I did, washing their paws and reaching up to get food from the bushes; as this is behaviour that I haven't seen in wild rabbits before.

I hope that wherever you are that you are not snowed in and that the snow is causing you too many problems. Keep snug 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

Happy New Year!

Wishing a very Happy New Year to all of my readers, and I hope that you all had a lovely Christmas too! I can’t believe that it was nearly two weeks ago already it really did fly past.

Over here at Bobby Bunny headquarters we had a nice quiet Christmas with my family Christmas Day, and the hubby's Boxing Day. Unfortunately I didn't really get much of a Christmas break apart from these two days as I was back to work, but it was better than nothing. It would have been nice to spend more time together with the hubby since he had a longer break but both he and his family have been ill since Christmas Day, so it worked out quite well as I have been trying to avoid the lurgy!

I do like a new year, it really does give you that feeling of a fresh start and gives you that bit more motivation to change things within your life. I don’t tend to make New Year’s resolutions as I find that they get broken to easily, I prefer instead to make goals for the year and this year I have many. First and foremost I really want to continue to push my Illustration and hope that one day it will be my day job. I really do feel a bit stuck in a rut at the moment on the career front having been, between college and higher education in the same retail job since I was 16. Some days I feel more positive about it than others, but I knew that it was never going to be easy profession to get into. At the end of the day it's a dream that I have and I know that I won’t be happy until I have achieved it, or at least had a good go at achieving it!

Secondly both Mark and I would love to be able to be in the position to move into a rented house this year, as we really are growing out of the flat and would like start to think about having a family. We would love to get a mortgage but that's just not a realistic prospect at the moment. I have many other goals, but as to whether they will happen or net remains to be seen. But either way I hope that 2013 will be a good year for us all, and that if you have any goals or resolutions that you achieve them too! X

All Wrapped Up!

So Christmas Day is nearly upon us! Usually by now my presents would be bought, but despite my best intentions they are normally hastily wrapped at the last minute. This was no truer than last year; having just got married Christmas was a bit of a rush. So this year I thought I would be organised, and give myself time to wrap them in the loving way that I have always intended to. I know that they are just going to get ripped open, but I do enjoy giving a nicely wrapped present.

Being quite into the whole Scandinavian Christmas craze that’s going on over here at the moment, I fell in love when I saw this lovely Christmas wrap pack in M&S. It came with all the traditional paper, ribbon, tags and cute stickers that you can see below. I am rather pleased with how it all turned out, and am looking forward to giving them all to my family & friends.

I am hoping to have the time to blog again before Christmas, but if I don’t I wish you and your families all a very happy and peaceful Christmas x

 

Christmas Designs 3 - Bobby Wrapped In Christmas Lights!

So today I have had a rare weekday off of work, which has given me time to finish off the last of my Christmas card designs for this year. My final design features Bobby Bunny this time wrapped up in Christmas lights and quite frankly looking a little confused. Once again he is sporting a little knitted Christmas jumper. Well it just had to be done! I hope that you like, and that all of your Christmas plans and shopping are coming together, only 11 days to go! Have a good evening x