Armadillos!

Nine tiny Armadillos

Yippee!!  I knew Armadillos were the next big thing...the first flock are off to sunny Australia with a couple of other friends.

Just wait, 2014 will be the year of the Armadillo - cushions, tea towels, wall decals, bunting and matching slippers and you were lucky enough to see it here first....

New prints

 Gulp

I've had a bit of a flurry!

Lots of ideas that have been sitting in sketch books have managed to get out recently....

Nine tiny armadillos

I'm not sure why I wait until a really busy time of year to suddenly HAVE to do new lino cuts, but maybe it is to sub consciously remind myself that it is not all about packaging and wrapping and standing in a long queue at the post office, that the plan all along was to make lino prints.

Cat on its brain, it's going to rain, again...

I've listed several new prints on Folksy and Etsy, so take a look...

Now I can concentrate on the important things, like where to get some gold tissue paper from and whether the queue in the Post Office will take longer than the time left before school pick up (answer is always yes, however early I set off, is there a PO queue app that anyone knows of???)

we went to the zoo...

we went to the zoo today, which is quite a regular trip, especially on wet weekends...

today we saw some extra exciting things that we had never seen before...

huge snakes squeezing white rats (and then eating them)...'uuuurgh' said the watching crowd...

lion cubs chewing something with a lot of ribs...

but best of all - monkeys pooing on an armadillo.  Yep, monkeys pooing on an armadillo and no camera on hand to record the happy event.  Mr Armadillo seemed completely unconcerned!