Tuesday 31 May 2011

Fresh from HAY festival

My first time at HAY Festival this weekend. It's such a beautiful setting in Wales. Sadly I missed Rob Lowe's appearance but did see Paul O' Grady and famous artists Gilbert and George who were immaculately turned out as ever.
Thanks to ALL the people that came
to my event! We had fun drawing some crazy things and reading from Tom Gates.I was SO impressed by the DOODLES they all did.
Got a great live Twitter review  from the telegraph journalist who came to watch me too (PHEW!).

Off to Bournemouth Eastbourne and
Glasgow next.

Review from the Telegraph on my event
Fantastic doodle artwork from Danni
Hay Festival tents and shops

Martin who drove me promoting Tom Gates!
Isobels drawing

Phoebes doodle!
 
 
OMG 1970's style dinner that Alex
(from Scholastic) had.
It was Thai curry with pineapple!

Glan yr Afon- GORGEOUS 
Bed and Breakfast in wales. 
Right on the River Wye. 
Stunning.









PUPPIES!





Our lovely host Caroline with
the puppies from
the B+B


Having homemade cakes and tea in the garden
 





Green hills of Wales 

Doodle chair at HAY.


My pal Adam (Stowers) birthday.
Adam will be at
HAY this Thursday promoting
his FANTASTIC book

SILLY DOGGY.













Thursday 5 May 2011

ALIENS!

STRATFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL.


 Let me explain..
The children at 
THE WILLOWS Primary school
Stratford told me what to draw!
I admit, it's risky business sometimes..
...but we ended up with 
these aliens.

-Two triangle heads
-Twelve eyes 
-Hairy tongues
-Heart lips 
-Eight hairy legs with squishy feet..
(you get the idea.)

Did some DOODLES with the 
older kids for Tom Gates too
And read from the book.


The children asked some
great questions about the
books. And also how
old I was. I asked them 
to guess...(risky again.)
It ranged from 34- 85.










River Avon
Our oldy worldy hotel



Lovely Hannah from my
publishers Scholastic
(we worked very hard honestly!)

Tuesday 3 May 2011

Stratford Upon Avon and more shoes...

Am off today to Stratford Upon Avon to 
visit a couple of schools 
and do Tom Gates workshops and read a bit.
I've been practicing my DOODLES and other things. 
Will also be attempting to make an 
ALIEN with 4-5 year olds should be fun. 
I'll post pictures of results..


Made these paper flowers to decorate the house for Easter.Very easy to do. Will post how to soon if anyones interested..








vintage gold sandals
Fabulous bag...
Got these last weekend
at the Brighton Market
Bootsale.
BARGAIN £3.00 each,
it was rude not to really?