So I came across a white butterfly with red spots in the garden and it inspired a print run....

A red print run

So many things to cover, such little time, since moving to a wreck of a house (good location decent sized garden.... but house falling to bits, untouched since the thirties) and spending every penny and spare moment doing it up ourselves, from gutting it down to the foundations at up to the roof tiles, electrics, central heating, windows, doors, plastering.....the list goes on and on - and of course the garden......once a bare patch of lawn, lawn and more lawn, two years of double digging in good ole london clay soil, planting bamboos, cycads, tree ferns, palms, specimen grapevines, acers, wisteria, olive trees....I now have the start of what will ow be my final tropical garden, my previous homes ive had to sadly leave behind established gardens, so I kept lots of the specimen stuff in pots and now its time to put everything in the ground. My passion though must be the fernery....lush emerald green fronds unfurl shaded by magnificent dicksonia antarticas and thuggish gunnera, soon I`ll be walking underneath their huge canopy leaves...
And of course my love of buddhas...

spring is here...I think

So spring is in the air.... and my garden is coming to life....

Printing late again!

There are some days you know you shouldnt do much and this was one of them - started printing and it just didnt happen - smudges, badly placed arrangements on the fabric (I do it all by eye and work freehand) resulted in a batch of seconds - never mind, one print did work and its a good blowsy floral :)

New Blog

So this is my first post on my brand new blog....I figured it was time to join the crowds! Its Sunday and Ive been printing all week trying out new patterns and colours.... now I need to choose which ones work together as sets..