Chocolate coins for breakfast

I really like the days after Christmas.  I like that most people are off work, there are good films on tv and that it is ok to eat chocolate coins for breakfast.  I'm kind of sad that these days have come to an end now.

We took our tree down yesterday.  I wanted to keep it up for longer but Henry said it was bad luck.

^some of my new toys.  Pink flamingo, lindt bear, moomin clock, the christmas tree headband I wore on Christmas Eve when we went to Brunos house and did secret santa and went carol singing, new perfume, new hoop earrings from Henry's mum, glow sticks from Erin,  a mini chair from my sister...

Christmas this year was really nice.  I saw all my family (apart from my sister who is an air hostess and had to fly- we missed her) Christmas day was spent running round the house trying to do a treasure hunt that Henry had set me to find my presents. It was an incredibly hard treasure hunt and literally took me hours! Anyhow the prize was worth it.  It was the black and white shiny bag I had been wanting for ages and inside the bag was a silver box with a tiny grey seal in it that Henry had made himself!  (seals are one of my favourite animals by the way)

I just love it.

Hope Santa brought you everything you wanted this year!  What was your favourite present?

Paper Queen sequence

So this is something I've been doing for uni lately.  We've been working on visual sequence.  It was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be to create a story with no words.  But anyway here's my sequence.  See if you can understand what's going on!

This is as far as I have got with the sequence so far.  It's about getting up in the morning on Christmas Eve and continuing from here,  the two characters are supposed to go and start doing christmassy things like decorating the tree and baking cookies for Santa.

 I've never done cut out illustration before and I am very much enjoying it but not sure that it works as well as my other stuff.  What do you think? I'd be grateful for any opinions!

More Paper Queen

Here are some more test images of the paper Queen sleeping in her boudoir...

And taking breakfast...

(boiled egg and soldiers)  I did this other version too but I think I prefer not being able to see all of her face.  I need to work on my faces and expressions anyway.

And then she stretches at the sunny window...

Enjoy!

It's good to be Queen

Crowns.  

I love them. 

More than a lot of things. 

The bigger and velvetier and glitterier the better!  

I also love drawing them.

If I was Queen...

I'd wear the silver and red crown to breakfast,

(which would be scrambled egg and smoked salmon on toast)

I'd wear the green crown whilst in my palace gardens,

I'd wear the gold and red crown whilst walking the corgis,

I'd wear the purple crown for state occasions,

and the pink one in bed. 

Which crown would you pick to wear?