It's someone's birthday on Saturday.

My little Bella Primrose is all grown up and turning 2, and I know it's what everyone says but it really has gone fast! 

I thought I'd freshen up her bedroom a little, I made some sweet little flowers to put on her wall:

I made a rather smug looking little rabbit because we now have a pet rabbit called Posie and Bella is obsessed with rabbits! 

Last year around Bella's first birthday I made a print called 'Bella likes...' with all the stuff she liked doing on it. The plan is to update this every year and this is her new one!

'Poudu' is what she calls Posie and we love it so much, she makes it sound so french!! 

Here she is, my little beauty, almost two. Sigh, I just love her!!

shiny and new

So I've given the blog a bit of a makeover.

For about a year at least I've not really felt like i knew how to make the blog my own but after having a proper go at tweaking bits here and there i have finally created a blog that feels like me! To be honest it's all been a bit of a headache and I even started a new blog somewhere else because I thought it might be easier to customise with a whole different blog company but it niggled me to abandon my little blog here so I decided to knuckle down and I think I finally understand lots of the different things I can do with it to make it my own!

And my aim is to change the header (the thing at the top) as and when I feel like it because I get bored very quickly! This rabbit at the top is a little nod to Easter. Now I know Easter isn't all about rabbits but I didn't really want to draw Jesus!

One day, one day, I will regularly update this blog and work really hard at getting it off the ground. But for now, this will do. But thank you, you faithful few who actually read this and stick with it, it means a lot!

DIY: little book tutorial

Today was rainy and grey and me and Bella needed something to amuse us. So we made little books to draw and colour in and i thought that maybe some of you would like to do the same so here is a tutorial in 10 easy steps that i have made for your DIY pleasure! 

It really is great, kids just love small things and you can make a whole set of them...

a happy accident

A lovely lady from church gave me a bag of fabric that she wouldn't use anymore, and one piece of fabric in particular caught my eye, this beautiful red-purple stuff that I *think* is Liberty fabric, although I could be wrong!

So i made this dress, lined it with one of Nick's old shirts and sewed on one of the shirt pockets as a pocket...

So that was all fine but then I was chatting to my sister on Sunday and she said she'd seen some nice reversible pinafores in London and I thought 'hmmm I wonder if this dress is reversible too...'

and ta daaaaaaa, it totally is!!!

The way I'd sewn the lining happened to be suitable for turning inside out so I of course could not leave it at that so have just sewn on a little cat pocket and some buttons at the top and hey presto!!!

And Bella loves it, she thinks the cat is real, this is her stroking it!

^ look up ^

so take a little look at the top of this page and you can see the new jenyabucklemyshoe logo! what do you think?! 

i want you to meet some friends of mine...

I used to draw all the time, i would constantly be doodling little characters and make little stories for them, but since i went to uni, and then had Bella, i was just a little bit too SERIOUS to be doodling such silly things. But the other night i found myself with a pen and paper and drew some little people-i just LOVED it, i couldn't stop! i have lots of sweet little characters just WAITING to be shown off!

I've only had time to do 2 of them properly but HERE THEY ARE on some little cards all of their own!

This is Clara, look, she has a heart on a piece of paper and all she wants to do is give it to someone and make their day! 

And this is Nora! She is holding a bright balloon and she is totally ready to do some celebrating!

ahhh look at them!! they just REALLY want to be bought and given to someone special!

Please do buy some from my shop, go on, you know you want to!

Xx

A Pack of Cards

I absolutely love love love doing typography, i think it's one of my fave things to do.

So i decided to make some cards with words drawn on...

Look at the lovely brown  card and sweet round corners!!

Go on, go to my shop and buy some, there's a special deal when you buy 5! :)