New Adventure

I am sooooooo excited, I can now reveal that I'm working in collaboration with the fantastic Believe Creative Studio and as if that wasn't enough...... this collaboration means that my patterns will be winging there way to Paris, as Believe CS are going to Indigo Paris (the place to go for surface patterns and designs) Believe Creative Studio will be on Stand U49 in Hall 5.

Needless to say I'm more than excited to be working towards this amazing opportunity.......

Doodle Seagulls

This week's pattern design comes courtesy of the seaside.

I love the seaside, as much as I love camper vans! The colour, the noise, the smell of the sea - I love it all.

Inspired by the Washed Shells colours from the fantastic Design Seeds and the insane seagulls in St Ives.....

Just having a mess around with the design on another pikadoodled bag....

Beetle Mania

Having purchased myself a lovely new Wacom Bamboo, there is no end to my doodling now, and I don't have to scan the doodles in either - I can just keeping on doodling!

In the same vain as the camper van doodle pattern I created a couple of weeks ago (post Sunday 3rd June) I went with another national favourite - the V-Dub Beetle.

The colours are heavily based around the colour of my aunty's original beetle, that I remember being shoe-horned into the back of, along with my brother and cousins... I think we were in Llandudno, but that's by the by.

The Beetle Mania pattern is a tribute to all the lovely old beetles tootling around still....

Doodle Boats...

Recently we had an exercise on the Surface Pattern Design course I did, to design patterns aimed at boys - if you look around all the shops, there really isn't a great deal of designs targeting boys, it's VERY girlie!

In saying that, having visited the Lego shop recently, there's lots more Lego for boys than girls - life's way of evening things out?!?

I don't have kids, but have a vague recollection of my brother's room when he was a kid, and by the time he got to 9 patterns had to go! So I figured my design is for the younger ones. My pattern is based on a nautical theme, and using colours for season S/S 2013 (so I'm told by t'interweb!)

Blog Hopping

As this blog is all brand spankingly new, I thought it would be a great idea to be part of the fantastic Passion for Pattern bloghop (see the link in the sidebar to start from the beginning).

I'm guessing if you're here, you've been bombarded by my incessant tweeting, or you've hopped over from the lovely Sandee at www.beautifullivingblog.blogspot.co.nz who's also part of the Passion for Pattern bloghop. After my blog, get yourselves over to Tammie's blog at  www.tam-me.com and keep following the fantastic blogs.


I'm in overdrive for my doodling this week, so I'm hoping to be turning them into quite a few designs - but today's design is for a bag aimed at kids (big and small) and is a favourite of mine, simply because it is covered in camper vans - who doesn't love a camper van....

I would by something from a shop that had bags like this - just to get a bag!!!!


Happy hopping :)

Doodles away...

Ok, here we are, a new blog, about doodling!

Well, doodling and designing!

Having finished the Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design course (looking forward to getting my graduation button for the blog soon) I am on a mission to get my doodle design onto shopping bags - how much more beautiful would your Zara bag look like with doodles all over it? Or your Hummingbird Bakery bag?

For today, for the first blog, I've kept it simple.... A simple doodled line drawing, that makes a plain old white bag look much nicer...

So the mission begins *cue mission impossible tune* to doodle-design the retail world :)