Another Threadless Design

I've finally come up with another design for Threadless. A night to sleep on it, and then I'll see how it looks in the morning before submitting. Any feedback would be welcome! I also need to come up with a cunning title...

A New Project: Illustweeting!

I came up with an idea last night, as I was drifting off to sleep, to do a little illustration every day and post it up here on my blog. Not that original, you might say. My brain said that too. So I carried on thinking "What could I draw? What theme could I have?" and "tweets" popped into my head. Well, it wasn't the first thing, but I shan't bore you with the precise cognitive process of a sleep-deprived illustrator who'd eaten cheese before bed.

So, thus is born my new project - Illustweeting! I can't promise it'll be every day (the proposal has already been met with raised eyebrows), but I'll try my best to come up with a quick sketch that illustrates one tweet per rising and setting of the sun. It's really just a bid to draw more, and the good thing about a tweet is that with 140 characters, you've got a ready-made caption!

Here's the first, from a tweet yesterday:

And the tweet: "I marvel at how my dad leaps into action when faced with taking down the xmas decorations. Putting them up is quite the opposite! Humbug."

Comments welcome! You can follow me on Twitter here if you aren't already: www.twitter.com/loupeajeux

Happy New Year! Now Back To Work...

Happy 2011 everyone! I hope you've all had a wonderful Christmas and are filled with renewed vigour for the year ahead.

After a little interlude of baby boots and bonnets, it's time I put this blog to some good use, and reintroduce it to its purpose - documenting my illustration work.

I learnt a lot during 2010. Some of those lessons, in fact most of them, were hard. I learnt, unfortunately, that energy and productivity have a proportionate relationship, and without much of the first (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome paid me an extended visit) the latter was somewhat affected. My patience, willpower and fervour for life were tested immeasurably, in ways perhaps that only fellow CFS sufferers can understand, however over-the-top that probably sounds. While I tried to retain a sunny disposition, both for friends and my own sanity(!), periods of last year were very bleak indeed, and I'm hoping more than anything that 2011 is going to bring with it some sunshine to break through those clouds!

To aid, or perhaps create, said sunshine, I have compiled a comprehensive "Lou's List" (uh oh) to get things off to a good start. Some things are continuations of last year's work (illness aside) and some are new ventures that I'm quite excited about. This all sounds rather mystic, doesn't it? It basically boils down to me putting what energy I do have into pursuits that will repay me with more smiles and more pennies.

First stop, greetings card designs. I'll leave you with my first few with the promise of more to come - I've entered these into a Tigerprint competition, so fingers crossed!

© Lou Peajeux 2011

© Lou Peajeux 2011

© Lou Peajeux 2011

© Lou Peajeux 2011

© Lou Peajeux 2011

Things I Would Buy My Baby... If I Had One

Right, well, call me sad, call me strange, call me a teeny-tiny bit broody and you'd be right on all counts. I've come across lots of cute baby wares on my travels across Folksy of late and I thought I'd share with you my definitive list known as:

THINGS LOU PEAJEUX WOULD BUY HER BABY IF SHE HAD ONE

ALL of these hats from Little Seed at the most reasonable price ever! (I may have to buy one of those Xmas pudding tea cosies...)

This bonnet from the lovely lovelykins.


Some very cutie booties from Hannah's Handknits.

Squidgy pumpkin boots from jojasca! (You may notice a theme here with pumpkins...)



This gorrrrgeous little pixie polka dot hoodie and strawberry skirt from ragtagg.

Some snazzy little trousers from Lily & Boo.

And last but not least:


Owl baby grow and booties set from With Hugs And Kisses!

Now I'm off to take my medication...

Time For An Update

Hello all! I haven't blogged for a while so thought it was about time that I posted an update seeing as the year is nearly out!

Well, I attended a good Christmas craft fair a couple of weeks ago in Cambs. Here are some pics from the day:







Quite a good day, although I have a lot of stock left over! This can now be found on my shop and includes:

THREADLESS DESIGN!

Hello dear followers. I know I have not blogged for an absolute age, which may make it a bit of a cheek to suddenly appear when I need your help, but... I NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE!

I have had a t-shirt design accepted into the voting stage for the glorious Threadless. If I win I get dollars and prizes, which I can't tell you how much I could do with after the year I've had. I'm assuming I can change the said dollars into the more useful British Pound, but if not, I will branch out into the medium of collage. I jest. Anyway. Here's my design!:


Please vote for me HERE! Would really mean so much and give me a great boost after so many months of trying hard and feeling like I'm getting nowhere.

Big appreciative thank-yous,

Lou Peajeux

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Teapots Galore!

I've been painting teapots of late. Teapots + illustration = a winning combination I think! I hope you feel similarly. Here's the two that I've listed on Folksy:

A couple of blooming beauties! I've got another to list today. And one tomorrow. Keep your eyes peeled!