Hello, hello and hello!!! I've a had a 'mummy day' today with the last day of half term. Had my first try of sushi... It was nice... The kids didn't think much of it though!!

I've also had a great discussion morning on the workings of Marley's World and I have a whole list of things to do with my blog, and books! Firstly I REALLY need to properly be-friend the dreaded TWITTER! I'm not going to lie... I hate it! I've never gotten on with it and still hardly understand a thing that people 'tweet' about, it's all so confusing. But I'm making it my mission to get to grips with it and make Twitter my BFF!

On another note, my blog is going to have a COMPLETE makeover soon, so watch this space!! Eek

The books are OFFICIALLY for sale!! They are listed in the Etsy store or can be bought in a few clicks through the paypal button on the top right!! Easy peasy!

 Each set comes with a hard gift box complete with gold foil logo! There is plenty of room for other books that are due in the series too.

The books are all arriving tomorrow!! A week ahead of time....so excited!! I need to get organised with packing them all ready now! Today I have set up Marley's own paypal, and spent over 2 hours uploading all the book files to be officially copy written. Whoop!

Here's a pic of all the proof copies with the posh gold foil printed gift box :)

All 7 books are now uploaded to print, at last! Hopefully in about 3 weeks time I will have all the boxsets ready to sell-whoopeeeeee!!
I have more stickers being printed to go with the world map posters I had made, these will be sold alongside the boxsets. I can't wait :)

Wow hello world!! It's been a loooooooong time since I even LOOKED at this blog!! Been away for a while popping out babies, going back to work... Etc etc. BUT!!!! Marley's World is in the process of being printed!!! YAY!!!

Back in 2010 I started designing the dinosaurs for Marley's Dinosaur World... I got about half way through and had to stop-I was about 6-7 months pregnant and sooooo fatty fatty that it hurt to lean across a table to draw :/ Then nothing got done for ages-you know, with having a tiny person taking up all your time!! ;)

Last year I FINALLY started it all up again, fully edited ALL the pages-had a proof reader check them all over- then edited the pages again... And again... Ahhhhhhhh... Until finally I found a company to print them with!! Waaa hoooo!!

So all the previous images on the blog-the texts have all changed now... Ignore them, haha!!

Competition time!!! Illustration Gems Hand-painted vinyl wall stickers has reached 500 likes on my page!! So, so happy so wanted to run a small comp to win a sticker of a character/design/animal of your choice!! The vinyl will be approx A4 sized. No cash alternatives. Winner will be announced on this blog AND on my FB page and will have 48 hours from the time I announce them to reply to me with what they would like painted. If I don't hear from you, another winner will be drawn.

Just comment below this post with your answer and a contact email. The winner will be drawn at random on the closing date...This will be 20th June 2012 (my birthday!!)

To enter comment below with your favourite cartoon character and why :) Simples! Don't forget your email!!

Go!!

Ok, so I've been away for a LOOOOOONG time due to other commitments (my ikkle home run business of hand-painted vinyl wall stickers!) So Marley is waiting til I get some spare time to sketch more dinos!!

www.facebook.com/illustrationgems is my FB page...to which I'm setting up a competition from- Using Marley's blog to run it (Have to keep the Zuckerberg happy by not breaking FB comp rules! ) Next post will be the comp :) x