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Meet Ben and Anya



A couple of weeks ago when it was a beautiful sunny day I had the pleasure of joining photographer Ben and his wife photographer Anya on a mini portrait shoot- me being the portrait model. It actually turned out to be more of a nature ramble with a little bit of photo-shooting as the weather was so lovely and we were all probably a little too relaxed for serious camera posing! Below is one of the portrait pictures from the reel. I also managed to sneak a few pictures of Ben and his wife- I find photographers are notoriously hard to capture but managed to get them with their guards down on swanpool beach.


Ben and Anya moved to Falmouth around a month ago from Oxford and are both working freelance so it's been great to connect with them and show them a little of what Falmouth has to offer.
Check out Ben's photography work  here and make sure you also visit Anya's website here.




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The wonderland fair - new event from petite pencil


This Saturday I will be taking part in the first Wonderland Fair - a new event organised by Cornish based blogger Petite Pencil. It runs from 11-3pm at The Old Cattle Market in Helston and will feature a variety of Cornish based businesses, selling all sorts of items from food to artisan bread, vintage, homeware, records and gifts and there'll be things for kids too! Find out more on Petite Pencil's Facebook page and blog. I'll make sure I take some snaps and show them on the blog too. See you there if you're in the area!

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New designs for Mellybee - Aprons




Is it me or did we loose a month? I'm sure last time I looked it was March and we were heading for Easter and now it's May?! Well I guess I better get on and tell you about what's been happening this last month.

I've been aiming to get some new things designed since the beginning of the new year and felt I needed  to put some time into coming up with new products to keep things fresh and interesting. So April has been more or less dedicated to getting my head down and working on new things!

One of the new products at the top of my list was aprons. Last year I frequently would hear 'I love your tea towels but do you do aprons?' so back in January I finally found a company that does sell in bulk quality cotton drill aprons with thick woven ties.


Here are some photos from the design process- I like to mock up in pencil then work in black ink before scanning and taking into illustrator to vectorize.


Here are the design complete with the colours that I felt would work best with them.
The designs are:



And here the aprons are finally printed and photographed.


The process from beginning to end has taken probably a bit longer than I would have liked but I'm glad I spent time creating a product that I'm happy to add to the Mellybee range. I've also got five new designs which I've already transferred to tea towels and I think would work pretty nicely on totebags too!



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