My Little Pony

Being the awesomest little sister ever, I decided to make this cute little 80's style My Little Pony card for my elder sibling's 25th birthday (I figure she likes random nostalgic stuff like that sometimes)

I did it in a mostly vectorised style using coloured paper and glittery card and added a couple of details with ballpoint pen because they were too tiny to cut out card bits for it and the pony looked creepy with no eyes.
During my research, I had to pour through some of the worst animation my poor eyeballs have witnessed in a while...

I'll say it again: thanks, internet.

There is a Place...

"The electricity is on a 50p metre. When it goes out sometimes you lie in bed by candlelight and talk about places when you were young, haunted places where you'd seen the other side."

Laura Oldfield Ford, Savage Messiah, Walsall special from the free exhibition There is a Place... at the New Art Gallery, Walsall where I was lucky enough to attend the private view with a friend. Found the zine that Laura Oldfield Ford produced while searching though my sketchbooks in my bedroom. Felt touched by these words.

OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS GIANT MOTH!

I have an unreasonable phobia of moths...AND THIS MOTHERFUCKER HAS A WINGSPAN OF 20CM AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Easily the worst thing I have seen all week. Thanks internet

Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way

Made me happy to open my curtains.

Hard hitting daffodil facts that I did not know until I read about them on the almightly truth that is Wikipedia:

1. They are poisonous
2. They are used to make drugs to combat alzheimers
3. They symbollise wealth and good fortune in some eastern cultures and are associated with Chinese New Year.
4. They symbollise vanity in the west. Or Easter. Or Wales. Or Unrequited Love. I'm not entirely sure.

Based on the academic assumption that wikipedia is made up of horrible unfounded rumours and baby seal clubbers I'm just going to stick with "they made me happy this morning"

Don't mistake originality for passion

Rue Des Cascades

Much love to be had for Yann Tiersen. When I play piano I pretend I'm a hybrid of him and Amanda Palmer. The reality is not quite so grand, but a girl can still dream.

"Love is love, and there will never be too much." Fiona Apple