{University work}

I have been creating some booklets of my summer work for university and I finally finished my five booklets today. I hand cut them, hand stitched them, and even made a small box for them to be kept in. I am really pleased with the final result and feel quite proud of them as they show all my achievements from this summer.

They include:

Booklet 1 -
My personal summer illustrations.

Booklet 2 -
An A-Z of digitally illustrated birds, accompanied by hand drawn typography.

(I will have a giveaway of one of these Bird booklets soon!!)

Booklet 3 -
Experiments i did in illustrator that were to be used for the rebranding of the Student Guide

Booklet 4 -
Cover designs i produced for the Leeds Guide Student Guide.

Booklet 5 -
Layouts i produced for the magazine (that actually got printed) while at my work placement.

{new layout and blog overhaul}

I have really wanted to give my blog a new look as when I first started it I picked a simple template and just got going. After blogging for over two years for university and having blogged for mrYen a few months, I have read many blogs and seen so many interesting layouts, designs and templates that I feel I really do need something that suits my style more and something that i feel comfortable with to show my images and text in a way that i feel proud of. I would also love anybody reading this to comment more (I need to do the same on the blogs that I read) as I would like this blog to be more of a two way communication. I originally intended this blog to be a place where I record my creations and promote my shop, but I feel as though I need/want more of my personality and personal life here. I will be putting these changes into effect and will also only be having a {Feature Friday} twice a month instead of weekly. On another note, while changing my blog layout and having my blog down for maintenance last night i lost a blog follower and ten twitter followers! On the up side....... my Alice in Wonderland PaperCut Quote was featured on Etsy's front page!