a taste of whats to come!

It's the long weekend over here in Western Australia so I'm off to do some research in Borrunup Forrest for my upcoming exhibition.

I will leave you with a taste of whats to come next week though... Pigeon Pie's new website!!! As of next week I will be a multi business owner, Pigeon Pie will continue with all my wedding, stationery and poster designs and Emma Miller Design will also launch and cover all my freelance and publishing work. Confusing? Not really, I'm sure you're all smart cookies.

The website has been driving me crazy as I've been learning all about javascript and css and other coding nightmares. I'm so glad I'm not a web designer, I'm also glad I'm too cheap to hire one and not just for the learning benefits. My piggy bank is fat with my saved pennies. I could almost do a Scrooge McDuck money dive into my silver coins... mostly because nowhere accepts 5cent pieces anymore... I don't know why? Wouldn't you want to be paid your wages in 5cent pieces?

So enough babble, happy weekends everyone and see you next week!

a big thank you Ana!

You guys may have noticed that my blog has looked a bit different recently... perhaps a little bit fancier? I think so anyway. Well all this fanciness is thanks to Ana from Blogmilk! I was lucky enough to enter a competition on her blog and win a blog layout from her fancy designs that she sells here. 

So in honor of Ana's awesome coding and design skills I'm dedicating my newest Thank You card as a tribute (a non hunger games, deathy type tribute).

You can buy the card here

camping

A group of us went camping this weekend just gone and despite it being -0.1 degrees in the night it was fantastic, I think it was made even better by being cold because I got to wear track pants and my wooly hat with a giant pompom. The group of us went back to honeymoon pool in Western Australia, I got to see some incredible bird life, eat good food and sit around the campfire with good friends. I spent the end of Saturday night giggling like a school girl with a girl friend as we heard some other campers right behind our tent getting acquainted  in a rather 'intimate' way, apparently they were unaware that linen offers no sound proofing... at all.

My Pentax is still in the shop getting fixed but I still got to take some pretty pictures with my point and shoot, it's just so odd looking at a screen not through the little view finder hole. I got to see some pretty amazing stuff though, including the shot above of the tree tops which is actually the reflection in the river, it was so still it was incredible! I'm so blessed to live somewhere that I can still go camping even in winter and to have a group of friends that enjoy nature. So hopefully these shots are pleasing to the masses and by masses I mean family (hi Mum and Dad!).

big week makes fat pigeon

It has been a full on start to the week, I'm so excited to have two stores stocking my full range of cards here in Perth this week. It's going to be a few days of screen printing, printers, folding, sticking and envelope licking to get the order filled but it's pretty amazing to have this opportunity. I should get my home group praying more often!

I'm glad I got to go to yoga and have a walk around the lake before starting work today because I haven't stopped for the last 12 hours and it doesn't look like there will be much of a break tonight... except to watch the voice, because I have to get my priorities right and if reality TV isn't a priority, then I just don't even know what kind of world we're living in...

happy birthday

A happy 3rd birthday to my precious little nephew, Scotty! I enjoyed the cake and marshmallows and seeing you with all your boating enthusiast toys.

I'm gutted I didn't get to take any photos today as my camera is still MIA but it was a fun little party to round the weekend off.

crazy

Its Monday yet again, how is the time going so fast this year? I've been super productive this last few weeks and here is a taste of some of the new designs that are going to be drip fed into the pigeon pie shop over the next wee while.

In really exciting news, we have just purchased a fancy new, extra thick and cushy rug so my drawing pose will become even more comfortable over the coming months. No more bunched up rugs as I sit in childs pose drawing... ah, the luxuries of adulthood...

If your keen on this print you can purchase it from HERE

did you know?

Did you know that turtles can breathe through their butt? Did you also know that it was my birthday yesterday? I'm 27 now which practically grown up.

I had such a fantastic day, it started with a giant snicker doodle cake courtesy of my talented husband - which is now almost gone, some pretty fabulous tickets to the ballet, more cake (the orange one and the mini EMMA cupcakes were made by my coworker Miranda - she is one talented lady!) I also got a whole suitcase (a small one) full of flowers! I felt like I was living the high life yesterday, I was so spoilt... I still don't have my camera so I can only share a few snap shots from my phone. For those that know me, we also had  a volley ball win, they were even a division above us!

I'm off to a comedy show and dinner tonight, it feels like a birthday extravaganza! Happy weekend!!!