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I’ve just put a wash on, and forgot to put the clothes in the machine that I actually wanted washed. Thus defeating the purpose of putting the washing machine on in the first place. Has anyone seen the undo button? I’d like to restart the afternoon please.

Today is the Sarcastic One’s birthday. So a big Happy Birthday oh Queen of Sarcasm. Have a lovely day.

Before I went to bed last night I did some editing on the Littlest Plague Doctor. His hat brim has got bigger (doesn’t look so much like one of those bucket hats now), and I reshaped his face a little bit to make the ‘beak’ on the mask more prominent.


 
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The weather outside is bloody awful. I am sat right by the window and there’s gusts of wind and rain pelting against it. I am glad I am indoors and snugly warm. Currently have a blanket wrapped around me.

Here’s some work in progress. The Littlest Plague Doctor. Aww. I usually do a sketch in Photoshop, drag it into Illustrator to do the main elements there, then drag it back into Photoshop to scribble out some ideas like a background - or in this case, a background and some balloons. Then it’ll be back over into Illustrator to add those ideas to the overall picture.


 
I received my first Moleskine from my brother-in-law as a Christmas present last year. I started it on the first of January, and did think (because of the speed I was filling the pages) I would need a new one at the end of February. This was not the case.

With fourteen days to go (excluding today), I still have over ten pages to fill. I probably won’t complete them before the year has finished, but that doesn’t matter. I will probably get a new Moleskine at the beginning of the year, so that one will be waiting for me when I finish this one. I also want to get Wreck This Journal, to keep me busy in the following year.

My Molkeskine has provided me with much creative fun. Not only have I filled it with doodles and photos, but it has also become somewhere I can stick stuff I want to keep that I otherwise wouldn’t know what to do with. You know, things like ticket stubs for days out you don’t want to forget. Cuttings out of magazines that contain awesome stuff etc. It has therefore not just been a sketchbook for me, but also a scrapbook, a journal for my art as well as notes from everyday life.

The following pictures show my Molskine bulking up (though not to the point where it’s impossible to close… yet). A letter to my father. Three pieces of Resident Evil fanart, and a diagram of my husband using his Mii character as representation of what he looks like.
 
For a while now I've been trying to get my head around doing repeating patterns. It's always frustrating to design something, only to find out that when you come to use the pattern, none of the images line up. This afternoon, I think I've crossed a milestone. Finally, finally, I've created a pattern using a simple repeating bumble bee design. Hooray!
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So How come I finally figured it out? Well I had some help. From Redbubble. More specifically, this tutorial that takes you through the whole process. It's easy to follow, so give it ago and have fun!