Sam Martin is an artist who loves being in the great outdoors and this is obvious from her artwork which features the Lake District and lots of flowers. I bought a collection of her cards while shopping at Cherrydidi. Green Mist, Whinlatter. Window to Borrowdale Autumn colours on Derwent Water Blossom & Bluebells in Grasmere […]
Originally from rural Cambridgeshire, Jo settled in the Lakes after years working & travelling overseas. Frustrated after long shifts working in pubs & cleaning toilets, she decided that there had to be more to life. She picked up a paint brush & began working in a corner of her tiny staff flat… A few years […]
In the April 2023 edition of Nero’s Notes Medium Subscription we got the landscape creative block from Made by Endless, a tear off notepad with a grid dot layout. Unlike most notepads – this one is in landscape which makes it the perfect desk pad. However, when I received the product the pad was not […]
On a recent visit to the Lake District, I discovered artist Jennifer Guest whose artwork features scenes from the Scotland, the lake district, wild swimming and wildlife. Jennifer’s passion is drawing. The colour goes down first, using ink and coloured pencils, which are great for blending. The drawing goes on top, going over the line […]
I recently backed the “Sacred Beasts Enamel Pin Collection” Kickstarter by graphic designer Georgina Swift of Swiftterly. There are two different colour variants to every pin, dark and light version. There enamel pins are available in the following designs: I backed the Waterproof Vinyl Sticker Set which included 5 stickers of my choice. I went for […]
I recently had a mini-break in the Lake District and while I was there I went to Keswick and went to the Derwent Pencil Museum. Keswick is the home of the first pencil, and the museum tracks the history of graphite and the pencil, includes the story of the real “Q” and his secret WW2 […]
Erika Borbely is a visual artist and illustrator and creator of Erika’s Whimsical Art. She creates plantable seeded greeting cards, flower seed packets, perpetual birthday calendars, whimsical wooden jewellery and ornaments. I recently bought a couple of her plantable seeded greeting cards which are made with plantable flower seed paper which can then be planted. […]
For those of you based in the UK. Time is running out to use up your old non-barcoded stamps. You have until 31 July 2023 to use your non-barcoded “regular” stamps. They will not be accepted for postage after this date and you could be subject to a surcharge. Alternatively you can swap them for […]
I recently backed Pick-me-up’s from FableWood. The kickstarter campaign added a number of new characters to the FableWood collections of magnetic animals including: All the large Pick-Me-Up’s consisting of two parts (head and a base) you are able to freely animate the large Pick-me-up’s as you like. This way you can obtain exactly the expression […]
I have backed a number of campaigns from Evy Benita. This time round I backed the Froot Frogs Enamel pins and stickers which includes a number of different froot frogs: Stretch goals included tadpoles Product Details: You can buy your own stickers, pins and other goodies on their website.