Snap Snap: 18/11/16

A long overdue update on what's been happening in the last few months....

- I chose my wedding dress! Read more about our wedding plans here.

- On the hottest day of the year (in September) we were at Thorpe Park! It was mid-week so very quiet and we had a great time with minimal queuing (and made good use of water rides to cool off!) 

-Could she be any cuter?

- We celebrated 5 years together and exactly one year until the wedding!

- As part of our anniversary celebration we met Catherine & Andy from White Stag Weddings in Greenwich Park for a special engagement photo shoot. See the full set here.

-We've visited a few wedding fairs and had lots of fun trying out photo booths!

-My 'Yesterday' notebook was featured in Natural Health Magazine this month.

- I also visited Chosen wedding fair with two of my lovely bridesmaids, and had a Facebook video call with the Maid of Honour (she lives in Florida!)

- We had a day of baking for a family get together. I made bake-wells for the first time and I must say they were pretty good! I'll be making them again very soon.

- She decided cuddles were much more important than my work :)

- We went on a lovely 3 day cruise to Bruges to celebrate Jamie's Grandparent's 50th Wedding Anniversary.

- 3 days of photoshoots getting ready for the launch of Bea & Bloom

- Bea & Bloom officially went live on Monday morning!

- It was birthday on Wednesday, so I of course had cake for breakfast.

- We spent the day in London and wandered round Borough Market, Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Camden Market, Leicester Square AND Covent Garden! You can probably guess form the number of food markets we visited that we ate A LOT that day!

I'll be back soon with some new illustrations to share!

Snap snap: 23/01/15

I've been working hard again this week and haven't had the time to take as many pictures as I'd have liked to. As well as continuing with the new card range, I've also been working on a little project for a lovely client, illustrating some French monuments.

I've also been getting distracted by reading again! This week I finished Gone Girl, and have made a start (and very nearly finished) The Language of Flowers. I'll be posting another recap of what i've read at the end of the month.

Here's a few of the snaps I did manage to take this week:

- Working on a fun cat-themed design.

- Still going with the Diary doodles!

- Doodling floral accents for my designs.

- The scanned and coloured version of the cat design. You are purrfect!

I'm aiming to order the new cards some time next week, so it really won't be long now until they're up in the shop! Expect to see a few more sneak peeks over the next week or so!

(@EmmaMargaretIllustration)

Snap snap: 28/02/14

- I've been getting a lot of use out of these inks the last couple of weeks.

- Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.

- Designing Snow White.

- Jamie bought me these lovely flowers at the weekend.

- More designs for Snow White.

- Drawing at my desk. This is one of my favourite drawings form the week.

- Adding colour to the illustrations.

- This gorgeous thing is turning 4 today, I'll be making her some doggy biscuits for when I see her next weekend.

Snap Snap: 21/02/14

- My cards are now being stocked in Re:So, the student run shop in the Marlands Centre, Southampton.

- Drawing bunnies for my project.

- I like the ones with one bent ear.

- Cadbury's highlights fudge hot chocolate + a little coffee = a very tasty mocha

- The birds have been my favourite animal to draw so far, I love drawing all the patterns in their feathers.

- On my desk this week.

- I've put some of my work up on the walls.

- I put some movie poster postcards up above Jamie's desk and so moved around some of the other decorations that were there in the process. I love this little area above the chair in the living room.

Snap Snap: 14/02/14

My week in photos.

- My work on display at our Interim exhibition at uni.

- Once upon a time.... (my favourite piece of work form the week).

- Cakes in Primrose Hill on the way to the zoo.

- Drawing Reindeer.

- My favourite animal at the zoo.

- My sketches from the day.

- Developing the drawings of reindeer for my fairytale project (all of the regular fairytale characters are going to be animals instead of humans).

- This lovely book arrived to help me with the project.

P.S. Happy Valentine's day!

Snap Snap: 07/02/14

- On my way to visit my family for the weekend, my Dad sent me this with the words "I am waiting here patiently please get here soon woof woof!". Made my day.

- Blogging on the train.

- A shopping trip involved lots of pretty patterns.

- I spent the day at home with Beabea on Friday and was pretty jealous that she got to sleep all day.

- On our walk at the weekend.

- Started making notes for my new uni project.

- At uni we were told to draw anything we wanted to for 20 minutes, this was the result.

- The best part of doing a project on fairytales is that I can watch Disney Movies and call it research.

(If you want to follow what I'm up to at uni you can do so here.)

Snap Snap: 31/01/14

Its been a very long time since I shared a "Snap snap" post with you. My Instagram (as well as all my other social networking sites) got a bit abandoned during Christmas and into the New Year... and then of course it got forgotten about completely!

Hopefully this will get back to being a weekly feature very soon, but for now here's a little update from the first month of 2014:

- Inspirational words on my desk calendar.

- The first doodle of the year.

- I'm really loving candles at the moment and have bought quite a few. This pretty owl candle holder was a Christmas present.

- Continuing my love for inspirational quotes.

-Working on some new ideas

- Sketchbook pages.

- Research for ideas for my new uni project

- Trying to get better at drawing hands.

- A few days spent working on my new website.

- A package of cards being sent off to my newest stockist.

- A little bit of shopping. It wasn't intentional that the clothes matched the nail polishes!

- Planning the next 4 months of my life.

How has your 2014 been so far?

xx