Hi peeps! Just stopping by to thank you for all your support re. the copycat issue. As I do not wish to waste my energy being negative (I have FAR too many CREATIVE things I need spend my energy on!) I will not be taking the copycat matter any further. I think the copycat 'designer' should be aware of a couple of things though - Mister Fox has been around for years, and he also sits
Argh!! It appears as though Mister Fox has been the subject of yet another RIP OFF! A dear friend of mine pointed out this 'co-incidence' to me this evening (thanks for the tip-off dudette!) Do you guys think the foxes in the design by 'Annabelle Trends' look strikingly similar to my Mister Fox?? Or am I being a bit silly about it? In any case I feel angry and rather disappointed, especially
Hi lovelies!! How's things? Just a quick stop to let you know I have a new canvas print available now over at Happy Spaces yippee! Giddyup horsey! Have a fab Wednesday xoxo
I'm STILL smiling because look what arrived in my inbox this afternoon! A very talented young lady who has done some AMAZING drawings of French Kitty and Miss Foxy! How good are these? Brilliant!! This has just made my week - no, I think it's just made my YEAR! I'm so excited about them I just had to share them with all of you (with the permission of Miss Talented, of course!).Happy
Hi lovelies! I'm having a big clearout so I can make way for some new stock - so ALL Little Beehive cards are now just USD$2.00 in the Little Beehive Etsy shop - that's less than half price! I've also listed two new 8"x10" art prints (pictured). They are hand signed, open edition prints and are available for USD$20.00 each. AND new packs of bookplate stickers - there are three different packs,
Heelloooo everyone! How are you? I know it has been a long time between posts - eeek the time has gone so fast! Anyway - our little bug turned ONE last week and we had a bit of a celebration on Saturday. A lovely day with friends and family and food and fun! When we were kids my mum used to bake our cakes and dad would decorate them with illustrations of our favourite toys, drawn to
Download my free printable cupcake wraps here The 'We Love To Illustrate' girls and I have each created a different Easter printable paper craft that you can download for FREEEE yippeee! We've gone a bit mad with the cute bunnies this month so hop on over to the We Love To Illustrate blog and grab your SIX yes SIX free printable papercrafts :) Have fun! xo
How are you all? Feels like a while since I last posted - I've been hanging out over on Facebook a bit though, so come join me over there if you haven't already! Bit of a personal post today. I have been debating whether or not to post this but you know what? I'd like to share this pic of my beautiful mum with you all coz I think she really is a beautiful mummy :) It's her birthday today. She
Hi everyone! Phew things have been so busy, but it's been great! I had a market stall for Little Beehive at GrassRoots Community Market on the weekend and it was great fun :D Lovely to meet so many nice people - customers and fellow stall holders alike! Can't wait until the next one in May. In other news - our lovely Araucana has started laying us the most GORGEOUS blue eggs! Aren't they special
Hello lovelies! Just a quick stop to give you a little preview of two new art prints that will soon be available in the Little Beehive Etsy shop yay! Fox & Tiger going for a bike ride in the country, and Kitty & Bunny riding a pony through the forest. I'll let you know when they are available :) Have a top Thursday!
Numurkah on Sunday. Photo: ABC News What a weekend! Not the relaxing weekend I had been looking forward to... rather a more dramatic and eventful one! We arrived in Numurkah, a little country town about 4 hours drive north, on Friday afternoon. When we arrived the creek that runs through the town was looking full and running fast. By Saturday morning the creek had crept even higher and by the
Howdy all! How have you been? Are you doing anything ace on the weekend? I'm looking forward to a weekend away with Marty and Elora yay! We're having a bit of a Strong family get-together in the country town where Marty's grandparents settled after the war. They had a dairy farm up there. I've always thought I'd like to be a dairy farmer but I'm sure my romantic notion would be blown clean out
The random number generator says the winner of two mini prints is..... comment number 16! Congrats Polka Dot Daze :) Please email me with a postal address and your choice of two mini prints - bee[a]littlebeehive[dot]com[dot]au Thank you ALL so much for entering the giveaway and for following Little Beehive on Facebook. You all rock! Stay tuned for another giveaway in the not-too-distant future.
My piece for the Valentine's Blog Hop MWAH! Happy Valentine's Day! My very lovely and talented artist friend Chris Chun has organised a fabulous Valentine's Day Blog Hop and I'm really happy to be a part of it. Chris has rounded up some of his artistic friends and we have each created a Valentine themed piece. We have all added links to each other's work so please have a look at the other
Go to my Spoonflower shop here Happy weekend everyone!! Just a quick note to let you know I have three new fabrics in my Spoonflower shop - 'Kokeshi Dolls' plus two co-ordinating prints to go with it, a sweet little mini blossom print and a plaid. I have more fabrics on the way REALLY soon and will let you know when they are available yay! Photo courtesy of Cottonlicious Also - check out
Download your FREE Valentine Card HERE Hi lovelies! Thanks so much for all your comments so far in the Little Beehive print giveaway. If you haven't left a comment yet be sure to do so before Feb 14th to be in the running to win two mini prints of your choice :) With Valentine's Day just around the corner, the girls and I over at We Love To Illustrate have each created a FREE downloadable
Howdy friends! I've finally created a Facebook page for my Little Beehive brand and to celebrate I'm hosting a GIVEAWAY - yippee! You can win TWO of my new mini prints, the choice of designs is up to you! You can view all mini prints in my Etsy shop. All you have to do to be in the running is leave a comment under this post and the winner will be picked using a random number generator on
Howdy friends! I've finally created a Facebook page for my Little Beehive brand and to celebrate I'm hosting a GIVEAWAY - yippee!! You can win TWO of my new Mini Prints, the choice of designs is up to you. All you have to do is 'like' Little Beehive on Facebook right HERE. Then leave a comment underneath the giveaway picture and you are in the running. I'll pick a winner using a random number
What's your fave band? Do you listen to lots of different types of music or do you have a style that you stick with? I like all sorts of stuff. Today while I work I'm having a bit of a 90's mixtape kinda day! Lots of rad bands pumping out the jams while I work like Pavement, Weezer, Pixies, Custard, Super Furry Animals, Ween and these dudes - They Might Be Giants. Thought I'd share this rad
Download your FREE lunchbox notes here Howdy all! It's back-to-school time here in Australia, so for this week's Mum's Business article I've created some FREE printable notes you can hide in your kid's lunchbox for a nice surprise at lunchtime! All you have to do is print them off, cut them out, write a little 'Love from Mum (or Dad)' if you wish, and pop them in the lunchbox. My mum would
We've been eating our rainbow carrots and spuds mmm! Bean and pumpkin flowers turn into.... Beans! And (baby) pumpkins! Waiting for blueberries to ripen. And we've had a HUGE big bumper crop of strawberries this year mmm! I've frozen enough for a huge batch of jam and I think we'll even have enough to make sorbet too. Little green crab apples and cumquats starting to ripen. My Summer
Blue Wyandotte bantam Gold Pencilled Wyandotte bantam Lavender Araucana, she will lay pale blue eggs Oh yeah! Something I've been wanting for a LOOONNNNGG time - chickens! We built a nice big chicken coop AGES ago and I've been so busy I just haven't had time to fill it with chooks, until now - yippee!! Say hello to our three lovely ladies... we have two little bantams of the Wyandotte
Happy New Year lovelies! Did you have a nice Christmas and New Year's Eve? I hope you all had a rockin time. I had a rad time! Christmas was extra special, being Elora's first, and New Year's Eve was a nice laid-back evening with some good friends and a fabulous bottle of Tasmanian champagne - yummy! Anyway - just a quick link to my latest Mum's Business article - 'Pimp Your 2012 Diary'. Thought
Happy Holidays to you all! Thanks to each and every one of you for making 2011 such a fun year in bloggy land!! I wish you all a VERY Merry Christmas and a FAB New Year! Let's hope 2012 bring us all much happiness and plenty of fun times. Cheers everybody! :D xoxo
Ello! I'm really excited because my fabric arrived from Spoonflower... fabric for making baby bibs! These little bibs are ready to be cut out and sewn together with some terry towelling to make cute and absorbent bibs for messy little bubbas :) I'll be launching these early in the New Year - yippee! Hope you all had lovely weekends and are relaxed and ready for Christmas xo
Bravo for you and love ur attitude! :)
Karma will kick them in the butt Bee!<br /><br />Ps: I now have my very own copy of P&P2, so Mr Fox is sitting proudly in my study :)