Birthday Round Up: Books and Boots

Plants and Places by Angie Lewin

It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago (seems to roll around very quickly these days). In terms of celebrating we kept it pretty low key as we have a lot going on all of us. I had already been treated to my new phone (the fabulous Samsung Galaxy Note3)  by my Luke, BUT I also got a new pair of Dr Martens (they are gorgeous), and a couple of books, one of which I bought myself and one bought by Luke. However, it’s not often I spend money on myself, and really only happens on my birthday. These days the majority of my money is spent on my daughter (naturally). Check out my boots, aren’t they awesome!

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Inspire: Mariano Fortuny

Stenciled rose silk dressing gown by Mariano Fortuny

As a young student whilst midway through the final year of my Diploma in Art & Design (completed prior to going to Uni), one of my tutors (Tony Southall) introduced me to an artist and designer of the 1900s’ called Mariano Fortuny (1871-1949) . Now, Tony was specifically showing me the couture of Fortuny and his signature piece, the ‘Delphos’ dress as my dissertation included Greek Mythology and design, and he thought I would be interested.

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Spoonflower Fabrics II

Spoonflower fabrics II

A few days ago some more swatches arrived from Spoonflower. All have printed well so all four are now available to purchase from my own Spoonflower Shop. Also, I was very happy to discover that one of my ‘Sea Theme’ prints from the last batch has already been purchased.

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Spoonflower Fabrics

A few days ago I got my swatches from Spoonflower for some designs I wanted to make available to sale. I am quite pleased, apart from one not featured here (colours not right ) they have turned out quite well. Now, these illustrations were not originallyy created as textile designs, I just uploaded them as I wanted to see how they would look. But, I will be working on some designs soon specifically for fabric. Luke’s favourite is the top left design ‘Sea Inspired II’,  he states he wants a shirt made from this fabric.  So, here they are.

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Creative + Passionate + Inspired

Lorrie Whittington is an illustrator and designer-maker living on the south coast of the UK with her family. Her focus is drawing, design, photography and ceramics. Lorrie specialises in hand drawn illustrations and more recently hand made ceramic ware. She loves the countryside, the beach, books, music and chocolate.